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Bunnicula
Students create a dictionary of vocabulary after reading a story. Individually, they create a story web making sure to include all of the basic story elements. They also create a timeline and write a book report of all important events.
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Jorge Luis Borges and His Life
Students use the internet to research the life of Jorge Luis Borges. Individually, they complete a worksheet noting the important facts from his life and the books he published. They identify words they do not know the meaning and...
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Spiders Have Too Many Legs, Study Finds
Learners explore current events by answering study questions about an article. In this arachnids instructional activity, students read a recently published article which discusses the importance of spiders and their 8 legs. Learners...
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Friends, Romans, Countrymen...
Students research an important person or place from Ancient Roame and communicate their findings in a report that includes a map and illustration. Students may publish their reports online.
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Minding the Media
Students reflect on the fairness of rating movies, television, radio, books, magazines, Web sites and other media. They submit their own entries for a media rating guide.
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Degree Confluence Project: At the Intersection of Geography and Technology
Students participate in a Longitude-meets-latitude project comes together on the Web!
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Lighting Our Way
Students read a variety of web-based articles to explore the history of human understanding of light. They investigate light waves and read about the work of Albert Einstein.
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The Classroom Easter Egg Hunt
Students work cooperatively to discover hidden Easter eggs in the classroom using prepositions of location. They record the location of the eggs on the worksheet found at the included web link but do not move it so others can find it.
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Leading Lives
Students explore a field of knowledge through the life of a leader in that field. They write a high-quality biography of the leader of their choice. In the end, publishing of the biography is completed on the Internet.
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A Venetian Carnival
Students read and analyze the story, The Cask of Amontillado, for basic comprehension and to find ironic meanings. They then do research to find why the season of carnival is celebrated around the world, and they view various Web sites...
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Lesson 6: PowerPoint Presentation
Students design a PowerPoint presentation that expresses the adverse effects of smoking. In this PowerPoint and smoking activity, students examine a student PowerPoint exemplar before creating one of their own following the given...
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Stone Figurines
Students analyze visual arts by examining images on the Internet. In this figurine lesson, students research Keith Haring's artwork on the web and identify his body movement artistic style. Students utilize soft stones, carving...
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Pop Art People
Learners research art history by creating an illustration in class. In this popular art lesson, students identify Keith Haring by researching information on the web. Learners draw people in different athletic poses and mount their...
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Haring Inspired Drawing and Sculpture
Young scholars research art by identifying the work of Keith Haring. In this sculpting lesson, students utilize the web to examine sculptures and drawings in the style of Keith Haring. Young scholars utilize sculpting wire, foil,...
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Energy Inspiration Document and Website Production
Seventh graders conduct a web quest to find information on types of energy found in US. In this earth science lesson, 7th graders investigate the environmental consequences of using these resources. They develop a creative presentation...
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Letter W Pictures
For this letter and word recognition worksheet, students study the various images and color the pictures that start with the letter W. Students color the images of the wagon, wolf, watch, windmill, whale, watermelon, web, walrus, and...
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Learning To Identify Insects
Students utilize the Internet to locate a variety of insects. The pictures located are compared and contrasted and placed into a book which is published by the class.
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School Newspaper Unit
Young scholars assemble and format their stories and layout their electronic newspaper.
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About Me
Students develop their English and technology skills by having them write about themselves--their family, their home and neighborhood, their interests and hobbies, their education, and their future plans. They produce an electronic text...
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MP3-Ring Circus
Young scholars explore the meaning of copyright and copyright issues surrounding the use of downloaded music.
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Pioneers Heading West
Young scholars brainstorm, analyze, compare and contrast,
and illustrate accomplishments of pioneers of the west. Students identify and interpret the Pacific Northwest pioneers. Young scholars present their final projects to the class...
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Extremely Personal Narrative
Seventh graders practice the skill of writing a personal narrative. They bring in an object that is related to themselves. Then students discuss the importance of the items and then write a personal narrative about the objects. As an...
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Designing Scavengers
Students write a headline that captures the most important aspects of the People's Design Award. For this design lesson, students are introduced to The People's Design Award and collaborate to create a headline for a newspaper article....
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Globalization Comes to the Table
Learners, in groups, research the issues surrounding one of several controversies involving food and globalization. Then they debate their position and show a PowerPoint presentation at a mock summit meeting.