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The Enlightenment: the 6 word memoir

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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

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Mark Augspurger

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Social Studies QFT

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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.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Kyle Lehman

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AP Computer Science Activity: Claim-Support-Question - Enhancing Classes - Interface Design and Implementation

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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.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Justin Lewis

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What's wrong with the fish?

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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)

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Kyla Burns

The Human Genome Project - The Use of Genetic Screening Technology

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This unit includes one week of lessons which immediately follow the Genetics and DNA units. The previous knowledge gained from these units, as well as a previous project where students researched and shared with their classmates a specific genetic disorder, will provide the background for students to participate in a debate about the ethical issues of applying information available through the Human Genome Project (HGP).

Material Type: Reading, Unit of Study

Authors: Ethel Gaides, Emelia Fleck, Beverly Tedeschi

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Activity: "Unpacking Standards"

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This can be an activity to use with your colleagues in assessing your unit design with the new Iowa Social Studies standards or with students as an intro (or closing) activity for a "Atlantic Revolutions" unit. A teacher could use SS-WH.9-12.14. Compare various systems of government, such as monarchies, democracies/republics, empires, and dictatorships, and their methods of maintaining order and/or control.SS-WH.9-12.23. Critique primary and secondary sources of information with attention to the source of the document, its context, accuracy, and usefulness of sources throughout world historySS-WH.9-12.20. Evaluate methods used to change or expand systems of power and/or authority.or choose from: https://iowacore.gov/sites/default/files/k-12_socialstudies.pdf 

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Mark Augspurger

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Political Revolutions: Which One is Not Like the Others?

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After a unit or after viewing four Crash Course videos (French revolution, American Revolution, Haitian Revolution, Latin American Revolutions) students will prepare the following "presentation"(using Chalkboard Splash, YouTube,etc.) and create a version of the Sesame Street song demonstrating their content knowledge (revolutions) and 21st Skills (Collaborative Work, Compare and Contrast, etc.) 

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Mark Augspurger

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Solar Oven Exploration

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Student have learned about the Sun from the Sun, Earth, and Moon science unit. During the process of learning about the sun students research solar energy. It is hard to do hands on learning when talking about the Sun, however concepts learned can be applied to build a successful solar oven. When the solar over has been constructed, have the student test it out!

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Elizabeth Whitver

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