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La Presencia Escondida: Spanish Speakers in Our Community

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students effectively operate a digital camera and conduct basic interviews with Spanish speaking people in Spanish. They conduct in-depth interviews with interviewees in English, if possible, and transcribe all or portions of the...
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How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers K - 4th
Students discover gardening by documenting plants grown on school grounds.  In this botany instructional activity, students utilize digital cameras to capture images of plants on photo hikes which are turned into a slide show....
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Inventive Thinking - Future Inventions

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners create marketing campaigns. In this technology skills lesson, students keep a log as they build prototypes of their inventions. Learners then script and record video commercials to sell the prototypes.
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Density

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore the meaning of density. In this density instructional activity, students use interactive whiteboards to review definitions regarding density and compare the density of selected objects.
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A Cleaner Today for a Greener Tomorrow

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine recycling efforts. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students trace recycling efforts and script a skit regarding incandescent light bulbs' effect on the environment.
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The Illustrated Bill of Rights

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners shoot Bill of Rights videos. In this Bill of Rights lesson, students film digital segment that illustrate the meaning of the first 10 amendments. Learners integrate the video clips into PowerPoint presentations.
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Rhyme at Circle Time

For Teachers K
Students study the importance of clean hands and practice the literacy skills of listening, matching, auditory discrimination, vocabulary, and rhyming. They illustrate their rhyme chart with drawings or photos taken doing the different...
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Cave Art

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore cave art. In this Neolithic Age lesson, students get into groups and research a given topic. Students create a poster with information and visual aids. Students then look a pictures and watch a DVD about artifacts...
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Living / Non-living

For Teachers 1st
First graders shoot photographs of living and non-living things. In this living and non-living organism lesson plan, 1st graders discuss the attributes of living things, take digital photographs of living and non-living things, and...
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Invasion of the Germs: We Fight Back!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners fight off germs. In this technology skills lesson, students create claymation videos with accompanying podcasts that educate others about the H1N1 virus and methods to fight germs.
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Hero Highlights

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students create documentaries. In this Vodcast lesson, students in high school interview elementary school students regarding highlights of their lives. High school students create Vodcasts of the interview sessions.
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Advertising

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students complete a product analysis as a study of advertising. In this advertising lesson, students discuss advertising by putting up 10 product logos with the name of the products taken out. Students see how many products they can...
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Digital Black and White Photography

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students take black and white photographs. in this photography lesson, students discuss photographers and the effects they use. They take their own photograph and manipulate it in PowerPoint. 
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Story Telling

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice story telling. In this story telling lesson, students work in groups to read a fable and divide it into a beginning, middle, and end. Each member takes a section and practices retelling it with vocals, gestures, and...
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Heads or Tails? Studying Regeneration in Planaria

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students view a video on stem cells and regeneration.  For this investigative lesson students complete a worksheet while viewing the video.
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The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Students read the story The Day Jimmy's Boa At the Wash and put the event boxes in order from the beginning to end of the story. In this sequencing lesson plan, students do this on the computer.
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Big Hat People

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate visual arts by reading a children's book in class. In this collage lesson, students read the book by Keith Haring titled Big and discuss the themes and settings. Students discuss how adjectives are used to describe...
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Waddle You Know About Penguins

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study the similarities and differences of the seventeen species of penguins. They investigate habitats and how these habitats are suited to each species characteristics. They see how animals adapt to their environments.
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Comparing Cultures Through Symbols

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine symbols used by the Plains Indians. Using examples of African art, they discuss what symbols they use that relate to the Native American symbols. They compare and contrast the two cultures and discuss as a class to end...
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Primary History: Children of World War 2 Extension Activity- Daily Life

For Students 6th - 7th
In this World War 2 worksheet, learners choose to complete one or more of the three listed extension activities. All activities pertain to daily life of children during World War 2.
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Job research for a job pamphlet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use a variety of resources to research a job that interests them.
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Order, Order

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students use pictures to identify items as ordinal numbers. In this ordinal numbers lesson plan, students use the words "before" and "after" to identify the pictures as well.
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Baby Talk

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Pupils read the story Toilet Tales and discuss the importance of using grown up words and not baby talk words. In this speaking lesson plan, students discuss how they are now in school and use appropriate language.
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What is Your Issue?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students discuss and debate critical political and social issues facing the United States today.

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