This lesson will allow students to select and share what details are important on a topic. Groups of students will research a topic and then discuss and determine the top 25 important things someone should know about the topic.
Students will discuss the definition of a biography and determine what elements it contains. They will research a famous person and create a web graphic organizer with key achievements and personal information from their life. Peer feedback will be given on the web creation and then an oral presentation will be given.
Students will read books / ebooks and then act as a critic by evaluating and expressing their opinion.
Students will watch movies and then act as a critic by evaluating and expressing their opinion.
Students will research and learn about the process the industries use to get food from farm to table.
Students will learn about career choices.
Students will use the POWER Library resources to locate images and to complete a worksheet on disasters.
Students learn how newspapers got started, what components are necessary for creating a good newspaper, and what is included in the basic structure of a news article. They will examine historical newspapers from several eras and then compare them to today's newspapers. Students will then take on the role of a journalist and write a news article about a hot topic or current event.
This lesson will introduce students to an important event that took place on this day.
Participants will use the resources in POWER Library to locate and retrieve images to illustrate a specific topic or subject using a Pecha Kucha.
The Tuskegee Airmen played a pivotal role in World War II while battling prejudice and segregation to African Americans. This lesson will allow students to research and examine various primary source documents to learn what contributions the Tuskegee Airmen made to American society. Students will listen and read about the Tuskegee Airmen through research and videos while providing evidence to various guided questions. The students will then create journal entries as to what it might have been like to be a member of this famous group on their first day of training and on their first flight mission.
Students learn about primary, secondary and tertiary colors.