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ALEX Lesson Plans
Subject: English Language Arts (7), or English Language Arts (7), or Social Studies (7), or Technology Education (6 - 8)
Title: So, You Want to be a Citizen?
Description: Students work in groups to create a slide presentation in presentation software aimed at informing immigrants of the qualifications and steps in naturalization as well as the rights, responsibilities, and duties of citizens. Lesson is an interdisciplinary unit teaching publishing software.
Subject: English Language Arts (7), or English Language Arts (7), or Mathematics (6 - 7), or Technology Education (6 - 8)
Title: University and College Tuition Webquest
Description: This is a technology-based and interdisciplinary project incorporating mathematics, language, and technology standards. Each student will research on the university's website: location, the mission statement, historical and interesting facts, and the tuition costs (for which they will have to compute the median, range, and mean). Each student will use other Internet sources to find the distance from home. An expository essay explaining the importance of researching about universities and a PowerPoint presentation will also be requirements of the project.
Subject: English Language Arts (7), or English Language Arts (7), or Technology Education (6 - 8)
Title: A Long Way From Chicago: Web Search
Description: Used as an introduction to the reading of Richard Peck's book, A Long Way From Chicago, this lesson is designed to familiarize students with topics that help them to better understand the setting of the novel. Students search the Internet for information and present their findings to the class in an oral presentation.
Subject: English Language Arts (7), or English Language Arts (7), or Technology Education (6 - 8)
Title: Harlem Renaissance Unit
Description: This unit on the history and contribution of the Harlem Renaissance combines research and creative presentations in the form of slideshows, a timeline, and desktop publishing.
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Press Conference for Bud, Not Buddy
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Description: Students read Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, demonstrate comprehension of the story by involving themselves in discussions, and analyze the characters in preparation for a class '' press conference.''
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Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Proverbs: At Home and around the World
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Description: In this lesson, students work with proverbs from home and from around the world, exploring how these maxims are tied to a cultures values and everyday experience.
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Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Battling for Liberty: Tecumseh's and Patrick Henry's Language of Resistance
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Description: Students study Patrick Henry's '' Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death'' speech and the ways Native Americans also resisted oppression through rhetoric and action.
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Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: The Reading Performance: Understanding Fluency Through Oral Interpretation
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Description: Students discuss prosody, gain a new appreciation for literature intended for oral performance, and participate in activities that instill the value of technology in shaping their appreciation of literature.
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Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: ' Black Beauty'' author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
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Description: Through Sewell's novel, students explore the cruelty to animals and extend the discussion to current events, eventually presenting the information.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Proverbs: Contemporary Proverbs
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Description: This lesson challenges students to craft more apparent meanings for traditional maxims by updating proverbs from around the world and writing proverbs of their own.
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Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: National Public Radio began broadcasting in 1971.
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Description: Students make predictions about the content of some of NPR's programs, then listen to the programs and report on the contents and discuss with the class.
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Grade Span: 7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Dynamic Duo Text Talks: Examining the Content of Internet Sites
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Description: An Observation and Inquiry Sheet guides students as they analyze and compare their reactions to the value, engagement, and credibility of three websites related to Anne Frank and the Holocaust.
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Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Action Is Character: Exploring Character Traits with Adjectives
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Description: Students must '' become'' a character in a novel in order to describe themselves and other characters using powerful adjectives.
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Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Myth and Truth: The First Thanksgiving
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Description: By exploring myths surrounding the Wampanoag, the pilgrims, and the '' First Thanksgiving,'' this lesson asks students to think critically about commonly believed myths regarding the Wampanoag Indians in colonial America.
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Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Inquiry on the Internet: Evaluating Web Pages for a Class Collection
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Description: Students use Internet search engines and Web analysis checklists to evaluate online resources then write annotations that explain how and why the resources will be valuable to the class.
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Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Using Word Webs to Teach Synonyms for Commonly Used Words
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Description: Students use word webs to choose synonyms for generic adjectives and to learn to adjust their word usage for different contexts.
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Grade Span: 4,5,6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Building Meaning
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Description: Students take poetic license when they interpret William Carlos William's poem '' The Red Wheelbarrow'' to help create a poem of their own.
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Grade Span: 6,7,8
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