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Best Practices of Technology Integration Lesson Plan

Best Practices of Technology Integration Lesson Plan

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Students are introduced to the functions of state and local government. In groups, they research Michigan as their home state and one other state given to them and answer questions given to them in a packet. They discuss their answers as a class to reinforce the topics.

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11th - 12th

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