AEA Template for Building Lessons
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Material Type: Lesson Plan
All resources in Prairie Lakes AEA
The Evolution of the Atom
(View Complete Item Description)A SoftChalk lesson describing the major historical experiments for the development of the atomic model.
Material Type: Reading
Lesson #1 Google Docs
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is an introduction to using Google Docs. In this lesson you will practice using tools, settings, & other features in Google Docs, as well as editing and adjusting the content and settings of a doc to prepare it for sharing and collaboration.
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Trig Ratios
(View Complete Item Description)This is a lesson to identify trig ratios and how to setup/solve the equations.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson introduces Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings for Storm Lake High School's Diverse Literature course. It gives background on the author, setting, and the book itself as well as introducing students to the window-mirror concept in making connections with literature.
Material Type: Lesson, Reading
Learning about Conflict in Literature
(View Complete Item Description)Students will move through this Softchalk lesson learning about the 7 kinds of conflict. Information can be found through text, videos, interactives, and an assignment at the end. A quiz can be taken at the end designed by you.
Material Type: Interactive, Lesson Plan
Analog vs. Digital Waves
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson follows the NGSS standards for reviewing analog and digital waves. Students will be able to review the differences and similarities of analog and digital waves. Students will also be able to review how signals sent as analog or digital waves are used.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Reading
Foreign Policy During 1880-1920s
(View Complete Item Description)Determine the relationship between the United States and eight countries
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SWOT Analysis
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this lesson is to identify the components of a SWOT analysis. Students will be able to define each of the terms for SWOT with business setting in mind. Once finished, students should be able to analyze a company and identify its SWOT components.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment
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Sentence- Phrase-Word- Understanding Theme & Big Ideas
(View Complete Item Description)This is an activity that includes student's own ideas and beliefs about the central ideas and important parts of the text. Students will also do a bit of writing to support their opinions. This activity gets at the heart of a text. I see this as introductory to deeper dives into theme. This lesson could be structured to be online or face to face. This is written as a class activity but an online discussion could easily be created after students had followed the protocol a few times and seen the discussion that results. This could easily work in many classrooms through high school.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Reading
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Chalk Talk Protocol with Hidden Figures
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson various quotes that are stated by characters in Hidden FIgures are written on chart paper. Students will use the chalk talk protocol to write explaing their thoughts, connections, and questions about the quote first and then respond to what their classmates have written. Students will move in small groups from paper to paper guided by a timer. After they have finished, students will discuss big ideas on the chart paper and then discuss and share out how this quote teaches us about the person based on inferences we have made with this activity. Do we think this what the author intended us to think? This protocol can be used for any book or topic in many subject areas. There will also be reflection as an informative assessment.
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Perspectives in Hidden Figures: Circle of Viewpoints
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson students will examine the characters in a chapter who happen to have differing view points. This is an important factor for success with this lesson. Students will analyze characters and actively express theiir perspectives on different topics and questions. Students will use their background knowledge,previous learning from the book, and make inferences about the characters. During the "discussion" students use their acting skills to be a partticular character and discuss from that point of view. They will justify the stance they take as they speak in character. This creates a great understanding of perspective and view points before moving into deeper dives about author's perspectives.
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Long Way Gone Lesson
(View Complete Item Description)This is a review activity after students have read chapters fourteen and fifteen in Ishmale Beah's A Long Way Gone.
Material Type: Reading
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Interactions Unit 2, Part 2 Anchoring Phenomenon
(View Complete Item Description)This would be used as a resource for generating a driving question board for Concord Consortium's Interactions Unit 2, Part 2 anchoring phenomenon.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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Projectile Motion Investigation
(View Complete Item Description)This is a virtual exploration into how launch angle affects the distance a projectile will travel. It utilizes an html5 PhET simulation: Projectile Motion.
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The Laramie Project Lesson
(View Complete Item Description)This activity asks students to think about prejudices before they begin to read The Laramie Project.
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How to Write a Ghazal
(View Complete Item Description)A brief background is presented on the ghazal form before assigning students to create their own poem.
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Claims, Evidence and Reasoning Review/Application
(View Complete Item Description)The NGSS relies heavily on students being able to make scientific claims and support them with evidence and reasoning. The purpose of this activity is to help students review CER within the science classroom and then practice applying their understanding of those terms to a mystery. They then wrap up the activity by engaging in a digital discussion with their classmates in which they evaluating one another's claims, evidence and reasoning. Note: if you do not utilize an LMS like Moodle, you could use the question and answer option within Google Classroom, or have the discussion in a face to face format.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Moving Air Effects
(View Complete Item Description)Helps students develop the idea of air pressure. How high pressure and low pressure affect the development of weather. This lesson explains the ways in which air moves, from a lot to a little, and the effects movement of air can have.
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Ratios in Real Life
(View Complete Item Description)This activitiy will look at different ways to write ratios and how we see and use ratios in real life.
Material Type: Activity/Lab