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Alex: How to Get the Most Out of Google Search

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Technology based lesson for a High School English class on how to accurately and efficiently research information on the internet using Google Search. Learners conduct Web searches on open-ended questions, and draw on their experiences...
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Alex: Taking Apart and Reconstructing Stories

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson is designed as a project-based unit plan that will take students through the narrative process from deconstruction to construction. After initial discussion, students will use the Interactive Story Map feature at Read Write...
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Alex: Greek Playwright Research Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through this lesson students research Greek playwrights, analyze their works, and explain how their works relate to the 21st century.
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Alex: Picture This!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan involves capturing pictures and identifying monocots and dicots. Learners will take pictures of plants and tell whether and why they are monocots or dicots. They will site characteristics of monocots and dicots to...
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Alex: Creating a Book Review Using Google Books

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Technology-based lesson for a High School English class, incorporating Google Books and Google Docs. Students will choose a book to review, read the book, research other reviews of the same book, and then use Google Docs to create their...
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Alex: A Comparison of Puritan Authors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is meant to directly follow "A Comparison of Puritan Authors and Their Viewpoints on God and the Devil." Students are introduced to the basic concept of Bloom's Taxonomy of Knowledge, and then asked to apply the taxonomy to...
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Alex: It's Greek to Me!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through this lesson, students will research Greek theatre by looking at ancient Greek fairy tales and children's stories. Students will create their own fairytale using Moviemaker software.
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Alex: A Journey Through the Trees

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The teacher will discuss the importance of trees with the students. The teacher will provide photographs of various trees that grow in Russell Cave National Monument and the surrounding North Alabama area. The teacher will discuss...
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Alex: American Revolution Lesson: The Regulars Are Coming!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this instructional activity, students will review information about Paul Revere and the American Revolution. Students will also determine facts and opinions about the American Revolution. After viewing primary sources, students will...
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Alex: Book Talks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity is designed to give teachers and students an alternate approach to the traditional book report. "Book Talks" enable students to read a book and create a photostory presentation. Students will give example...
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Alex: Invasive Plants

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Invasive plants are non-native plants that grow in an environment that has no native diseases, parasites, or predators. This allows them to grow rapidly and be destructive to native plants.
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Alex: Persuasive Strategies and Tuck Everlasting

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This lesson is a persuasive strategy lesson plan for Tuck Everlasting. It allows the student to incorporate technology in the development of an original thirty-second commercial.
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Alex: Who Bounces Best?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a cooperative learning, kinesthetic and presentation lesson. Students will use the computer to create graphs/charts to display data collected by counting the number of successful bounces when bouncing a basketball for 30 seconds....
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Alex: Get Yourself in Order!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A lesson that requires students to act out a sequence of events in the form of improvisation. Students learn to improvise and identify the sequence of events in a dramatization.
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Alex: Who Are You Looking At?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will develop a character by acting out the character for a partner. Students also will learn how to use descriptive language to develop and describe a character.
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Alex: Automotive Brake Service

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The proper inspection machining or refinishing of brake drums ensures quality brake repairs with little to no opportunity for returns for customer complaints. This lesson will teach inspection, measuring and machining techniques and...
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Alex: "Bursting With Math"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Using "Starburst" jelly beans to sort, graph and add.
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Alex: Personification With "Grass" by Carl Sandburg

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will be reading the poem "Grass" and identify the main idea and supporting details with a partner. Students will then write a poem using personification.
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Alex: How Much Does It Cost?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers will use an online mortgage calculator to determine the cost of financing a house over various lengths of time and at various interest rates. This lesson plan is excellent to include in a budgeting unit.
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Alex: Who Do You Think You Are?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners will demonstrate an understanding of character through improvisation. Students will imagine and clearly describe their characters through performance. They will relate a character's actions and emotions and create a setting.
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Alex: I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson teaches students to sing along to a cumulative song, maintain a steady beat while singing, and create movements that go with the song's rhythm.
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Alex: Marshmallow and Pretzel Sensory Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This language arts lesson applies hands-on materials to help middle schoolers apply the sensory details need for writing. It also incorporates writing skills for comparing and contrasting. In addition, students will utilize Thinkfinity...
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Alex: Inspecting and Machining a Disc Brake Rotor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The proper inspection machining or refinishing of disc brake rotors ensures quality brake repairs with little to no opportunity for returns for customer complaints. This instructional activity will teach inspection, measuring and...
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Alex: Character Web With Dust Tracks on a Road

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will read "The Inside Search," from Dust Tracks on a Road with a partner creating a character web.