SoftChalk lesson geared toward 3rd grade learners on the phases of the moon. Lesson developes student understanding of the relationship between the sun, earth, and the moon, and how together they cause the phenomena of the phases of the moon.
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Brief overview of decolonization in Africa from the 1950s - 1980s
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Introduction to community interactions for AP Biology.
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This is a set of multi-day lessons that help a teacher instruct students on creating family trees and using Ancestry.com's database to explore who they are and where they come from. At the end of the unit, students will create a presentation that explores and explains their culture of who they are and where they came from.
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A short tutorial for using Hardy Weinberg for AP Biology
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This lesson will teach you the difference between different investments, what they are and the risk involved with each.
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This is a soft chalk lesson that walks students through the challenge of developing a developing a turbine run on renewable energy sources. As part of the lesson, students learn why non-renwable energy sources must be replaced.
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This lesson discusses the nine elements of Digital Citizenship as identified in Mike Ribble's book, which is endorsed by ISTE. These elements help us organize digital citizenship so we can build an organized curriculum.
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This is a lesson on creating gmail settings.
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This is a reflection activity for students to help make budgeting more relevant to their future lives.
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Typically for when students have just finished a unit on the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution, this activity twists the traditional autobiographical six-word memoir to other people's biographies. You will ask your students to create six-word memoirs for the leading thinkers of the Enlightenment. If people like Voltaire, Newton and Diderot only had six words, how would they describe their accomplishments? In other words, summarize the life of a philosophe.”for more info:http://www.edutopia.org/blog/clarity-brevity-6-word-memoirs-jonathan-olsen
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This lesson will help students understand the difference between using debit cards as debit or credit and using credit cards.
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This is a technique to work on students questioning capabilities. We have used this in the past to introduce our Terrorism unit. The point of this is for students to build their questioning to new levels while working together. **This is an inquiry activity**Standard: SS.9-12.1. Create compelling questions representing key ideas within the disciplines.
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This lesson is to help students analyze aspects and features of credit cards to know how to determine which would be best for various situations.
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This lesson can be used to introduce students to the concept of different map projections that they might encounter throughout the year. It helps them to understand that there are many different ways to view the world and that certain views give them different information.
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A modified version of a Chalk Talk routine in which the educator provides a prompt for students to put forth ideas, questions, and further develop ideas of others in an effort to advance understanding in relation to a topic.
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This activity is utilized as a method for students to commuincate their current learning, progress their understanding, and then reflect on their current understanding of a topic and share what they now think and the connections they have built.
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This activity utilizes a Claim-Support-Question framework that allows students to draw on prior knowledge, investigation, and questioning. Designed to be placed within a Java context of enhancing object-oriented programming classes using interfaceses, students will analyze, implement, and support claims regarding three separate interfaces while moving between analysis and program implementation.
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This brief investigation has students observe the phenomena of fish illness in the Chesapeke Bay and make predications based on data on the cause of the illness and the connection to the greater environmental issue at hand. AP Content Connection: Living WorldB. Natural Biogeochemical Cycles (Carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, water, conservation of matter)
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