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Wind Turbines Project: Making Wind Work for You
(View Complete Item Description)Wind Turbine project to build simple rotors, and test for Gravitaitonal Potential Energy.
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Review Graphing Linear Equations
(View Complete Item Description)The lesson is a quick review of graphing linear equations in slope intercept form.
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Operant Conditioning Lesson
(View Complete Item Description)Overivew of Operant Conditioning (reinforcement and punishment)p
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Historia de los Estados Unidos 1960 Parte 2 de 4
(View Complete Item Description)Esta leccion cubre la historia de los Estados Unidos durante la Guerra Fria en los 1960s.This lesson covers the Cold War in the United States in the 1960s.
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Historia de los Estados Unidos 1960 Parte 1 de 4 de 1960s
(View Complete Item Description)Parte 1 de 4 1960sIn this section, we will cover the Kenny v Johnson presidential election and events that occurred in the first part of the 1960s.En esta seccion vamos a ver la election de Kennedy contra Johnson y othros eventos que ocurrieron durante la primera parte de los 1960s.Parte 1 de 4 1960sApuntes para completar al ver el video / Fill-in -the -Blanks notes to do while watching the videoApuntes / Notes
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Physical and Chemical Changes Demo & Reflection
(View Complete Item Description)Students will oberve nine systems performed by the instructor. They will then use the four indications of a chemcal change to determine if each system represents a physical or chemical change. Students will reflect on their learning using the thinking routine - I Used to Think... Now I Think.
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Genetic Disorder Research/PowerPoint Slide Project
(View Complete Item Description)Students will use effective research skills to find and select appropriate information to create a "poster" to inform others about a genetic disorder. They will use their research to create a single PowerPoint slide to be used as a poster or fact sheet that presents information about the genetic disorder they select. The slide will be graded on the information presented, neatness, and legibility. Students will then share their research in a Gallery Walk to learn about the genetic disorders researched by their classmates. As they read/listen to the information presented for each project, they will take notes and provide comments.
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Science of Reading Article ("What - So What - Now What" Activity)
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is meant for teachers to use during a professional learning session around the science of reading. Teachers will read an article and reflect on it using the "What, So What, Now What?" routine from Making Thinking Visible.
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Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science ("Sentence - Phrase - Word" Activity)
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is meant for teachers to use during a professional learning session around the science of reading. Teachers will read an article and reflect on it using the "Sentence - Phrase - Word" routine from Making Thinking Visible.
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How Do Kids Learn to Read? ("I Used to Think...Now I Think" Activity)
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is meant for teachers to use during a professional learning session around the science of reading. Teachers will read an article and reflect on it using the "I Used to Think...Now I Know" routine from Making Thinking Visible.
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Survive on Mars - Options Explosion
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson uses the strategy "Options Explosion" to guide students through a problem solving exercise. In this example, students have a new mission: to visit and colonize Mars.
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Iowa Agriculture - The 3 Whys
(View Complete Item Description)Students will explore the importance of Iowa Agriculture by using "The 3 Whys" strategy.
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Take a Closer Look at Our State
(View Complete Item Description)Add the General description for teachers to see. And resource added in the "Add Resource" will be for the teacher only.
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Vocabulary Word Activity
(View Complete Item Description)This quick and fun activity that can be used to get kids using clues for vocabulary words (or phrases) in a reading unit, science or social studies unit. Students love the game 'Hedbanz' so use it to increase their learning in a fun and interactive way. This activity reviews or practices word meanings, phrase meanings or even can be applied to numbers. Vocabulary
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Generating Deeper Student Thinking
(View Complete Item Description)This activity is intended to stimulate deeper student thinking in response to an image with questioning.
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Circle of Viewpoints - Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
(View Complete Item Description)Circle of Viewpoints helps students identify the different perspectives that could be present in or affected by what has just been read, seen, or heard. This routine relies on the ability of students to identify different perspectives that are presented around a topic. It will create greater awareness of how others may be thinking and feeling, thus reinforcing that people think differently about the same things. This activity will be a prewriting activity to set them up to write a narrative essay using the novel Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli.
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Symbolism in Literature
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson uses images and the "I See...and I Wonder" strategy to get students thinking about the bigger concepts that objects might represent. Students often see symbols as mere objects with only a face value because of the speed with which they encounter them. However, if we can encourage students to take more time to study an object, other concepts or meanings can come to light.This lesson uses images as an entry point to symbolism because they are less threatening than literature. The images provided are a starting place, but feel free to remix and use your own images.
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Testing pH in Household Substances (Predict-Gather-Explain)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will investigate the pH level of household substances by testing a variety of common compounds. Substances are tested with pH paper and placed on the continuum of the pH scale range of 1 to 14. After testing a solution, the student compares the strip color to the scale provided on the container and gives the solution a rating from 1-14. Using the determined number, the name of the solution is placed on the continuum. Students will find that household substances have a specific pH property which is a characteristic needed for the substance's use.
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Topic Selection & Expansion for Argument Papers
(View Complete Item Description)When students are assigned an argument paper of 7-9 pages for Composition II, they often struggle to gather enough research material to fill the required pages. This lesson is intended to help them expand their topics in order to write a good research question as well as to gather the appropriate amount of information.
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