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Computing Costs
Seventh graders calculate the out-of-pocket money needed to purchase a discounted item taxed at a certain percentage of sales tax.
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Invertebrate Research Project
Learners keep a scientific research notebook on an invertebrate detailing its behavior and responses.
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Staff Kids
Students participate in a group game to help them identify notes on both staves by using words.
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FREE STANDING STRUCTURE
Pupils demonstrate basic construction skills by building a free standing structure. They compute the cost of the structure.
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Career Explorations
Students use a variety of resources to discover their personal goals, interests, aptitudes and priorities. They apply these interests to course selection and career choices.
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Which Household Cleaners or Soaps Work Best Against Bacteria?
Students experiment to determine the efficacy of various household cleaning products and soaps as antibacterial agents. They work in groups to complete this four part lesson series which includes identifying household bacteria,...
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Christmas Shopping
Young scholars work in teams in teams of two and they have a hula hoop which represents their shopping bag and two hockey sticks to gather presents. They use the other side of the gym that has bean bags and fleece balls, which are...
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Human Foosball
Learners practice passing and kicking a soccer ball. In this passing skills lesson, students are split into two teams and practice making passes to their teammates. There are different variations included in this lesson, such as adding...
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Island Hopping
Students collaborate to play a game. In this island hopping instructional activity, students face obstacles and imaginary situations in which they have to problem solve in order to complete the task.
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Volleyball Recall Poster
Learners create an artistic promotional poster to assess retained knowledge of volleyball terms used during volleyball unit.
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Stocking Up
Eighth graders are trained to be brokers and to buy and sell stocks. Each group is allotted $1000. Team members work together within their groups to build a stock market portfolio and track the stocks they own.
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The Acoustics House
Students study how drums produce sound by building and playing a simple drum. They measure the diameter of their can, then mark a circle two inches larger in diameter on their piece of plastic with the marker or chalk, and cut out the...
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Novel News
Learners, working in groups create a newspaper based on the events that take place in a novel. Groups complete sections of the newsletter based on criteria and publish it using newsletter publishing software.
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Sign Language
Students create short video tutorials on various American Sign Language signs. This lesson is a six-day project that begins with internet research and ends with student self-evaluations of project results.
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Data Collection in Archaeology
Students research different types of rock art and categorize it into basic groups, classify Powerpoint Images according to interpretation, enter findings into Access template, and interpret results after comparing information with rest...
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Encouraging Writing Through Combined Photos
Students practice writing skills through using photography to help create a writing prompt. They investigate how images can be used to create new ones that related to each other. This is similar to making a collage except now the images...
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Machine Technology
Young scholars work in pairs to manufacture a product for a potential customer. They interview potential customers and collect data. Students develop a customer interview profile. They manufacture drill drift part to customer's...
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A Symbol of Myself
Students explore their own uniqueness. In this "getting to know you" lesson, students create a clay symbol representing their own personality traits. Students write a short description of the symbol and why they chose it.
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Homelessness
Students study homelessness and the associated vocabulary. In this homelessness lesson plan, students work with a classmate to determine the definitions of words that are associated with homelessness. They attempt to define the words and...
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Budgeting and Travel
Students plan a trip to the Olympics. For this middle school mathematics lesson, students are given a worksheet describing the cost of necessities for their trip. Students are given a balance and must purchase airline ticket,...
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Survey of Spanish and Latin American Artists
Tenth graders explore the art work of Dali and Picasso. In this Art lesson, 10th graders analyze various pieces created by these men. Students write a description of the painting they were assigned.
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Measure Up!
Students examine parallax and angular measurements. In this investigative lesson students calculate distances of objects and map their results.
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The Great Race
Students identify the mean, median and mode of collected data. For this statistics lesson, students collect, graph and analyze data using central tendencies. They work in groups to collect data on a robot through an obstacle course.
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Saving the Bald Eagle
Students plot on a coordinate plane. In this algebra lesson, students identify points on a coordinate plane and graph lines given coordinate pairs. They create a model as they study bald eagles and their growth and decay.