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Student-made Web Pages...Show Off Their Work!
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Designed to teach students how to create a web page using Netscape Communicator's Composer and can be used by students in grades 3-12 to present their projects or research on their school's web page. Designed to be taught in a lab setting and will be used by the technology teacher in coordination with the classroom teacher.
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Women of Foreign Countries
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Identifying women's roles in foreign countries
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Parliamentary Procedure
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This lesson will allow the student to participate in a meeting that is run using parliamentary procedure.
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Creating a Web Page
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The focus of this unit is to create a web page.
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Greek Mythology: All in the Family
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Students will use the Internet and log onto an
appropriate website to gather information about a mythological character. Students will take notes that they will use to present their learning to their peers. Students will also locate an appropriate visual of their studied
character and will print a copy to be used at a later date.
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Area, Perimeter and Volume: from rectangles to box
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Students will design and build a pizza box from a single piece of cardboard. They will analyze its surface area and volume and justify why their design is the best for their product.
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Hero Research Cont.
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Project continued.....The Hero Project is an opportunity for students to research and write a research paper about an abstract idea: the qualities and characteristics of a hero. The focus is on the idea of heroism rather than on a particular hero. The project includes an emphasis on using computers to do research, to help organize information, and to present information.
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Her story: Women's Sports and Title IX
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Focuses on women and thier impact on literature and history.
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Yeas and Nays: Parilamentary Procedure
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Essential Questions: What internal structure enables officers of varied groups to conduct business in a consistent and orderly manner? Which international, national, local groups apply the principals of parliamentary procedure? What are the ingredients necessary for a smooth running meeting? What vocabulary is associated with parliamentary procedure? What are the established authorities on parliamentary procedure?
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Hamlet: What is the Question?
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This unit is primarily for an Advanced Placement group and is written to help them focus on the major elements of this Shakespearean tragedy.
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Collecting Poems Tied to a Short Story Theme
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What literary techniques and elements must a poem possess to be able to compare/contrast it to another piece of literature?
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Powerpoint Presents: Poetry
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Builds students' knowledge of poetic devices, exercises library research skills. They work in collaborative pairs to prepare/present oral interpretation/analysis of poem, biographical information about poet, enhanced by Powerpoint presentation. Integration of English, library, and technology skills provides evidence of having achieved several NYS Learning Standards. (ELA #1-Using Language for Information/Understanding: Speaking/ writing to acquire and transmit information; MST Standard #5-Technology-Using technological knowledge/skills to design, construct, use, evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.
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Mindgram Inc. - Communication Skills for the World
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The purpose of this learnig unit is for the student to develop an understanding of the communication skills that are needed to be successful in the world of work. By forming companies where each student has a specific position within their company. The unit will focus on teamwork, timeframes and communication in the workplace.
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What If It Happened to Me? A Look at the Disabled
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Essential Questions: What can I do well? How do society and disabled people relate to each other? How should parents of disabled children challenge as well as protect their children to help them reach their full potentials? What resources are available for disabled people? What rights, if any, should be denied to people who are disabled?
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Responsibilities of a Working Citizen
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Designed to align/integrate study of computer applications with acquisition of vocational knowledge/academic knowledge. Students use basic computer applications in as word processing, database, spreadsheet, desktop publishing, and presentation capabilities to demonstrate knowledge they acquire about themselves as potential employees, new perspectives on the workplace, and understanding of how academic knowledge is used in the workplace.
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Going My Way
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Geography/Writing/Adventure Education
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You are the Star!
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The purpose of this learning experience is to give the students the opportunity to be a participant of an online course as well as the tools to use a digital camera.
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Roofing; Sales: An Art of Persuasion
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The unit consists of content, activities, simulations, and learning experiences focused on building sales and customer relations skills. This unit was originated in a School-to-Careers model classroom and uses a combination of school-based learning, work-based learning and connecting activities. For those wishing to apply this unit within a more traditional setting, a work-place shadowing experience can be substituted for the internship experience to help students make the necessary connections. This unit uses knowledge based and project-based learning.
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Teacher's Cheat Sheet: Good Research Papers!
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For teachers of any subject: this is a guide to
assisting your students in developing thier
research papers. A soup to nuts description
applicable in any subject!
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Lost Lyrics of Love, Lust and Losers
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Provide students with a connection between poetry and the "real world".
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Business and Industry Operations
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Students access various technological resources, will utilize Microsoft word to publish word processing documents for electronic forms of communication: business letters, outlines, reports, and memos. Presentational software (PowerPoint): create mini slide shows and one page documents for class presentations. Students access Internet to research topics for their Leadership Program presentations. Technology is an integral piece this unit, and an ongoing tool utilized in this entire program on a regular basis.
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What's Growing at the Tips of Your Fingers - In ad
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This experience creates a learning environment that allows students to connect the worlds of laboratory microbiology and health care infection control. Its purpose is to enhance the awareness that science is an integral part of the students' career technical education program.
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Haircutting
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The students will have a better understanding of haircutting terminology, rules, tools, and techniques.
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Muckraking Literature
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Students will learn of Mark Twain's phrase "Gilded Age" in reference to the late 19th Century in America.
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Bridge Design
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This learning experience is integrated into Mohawk Central Schools Mathematics Course II curriculum in the laboratory setting. Students having developed a physical model using geometric concepts will use the Interactive Physics program to redesign or improve their designs. Additional components include a demonstration of computer skills, writing skills, and interpersonal skills.
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Business Letter
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This learning experience is integrated into Mohawk Central School’s Business Computer Applications Class, using a computer lab setting. Students will develop a career survey designed to obtain data about work skills, occupations, and course work. A business letter designed to entice a response from the reader will accompany the survey.
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Remember when....????
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Students will research a decade in the 20th century and will prepare a research paper and a PowerPoint presentation.
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Author Brochures
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The purpose of this experience is for students to gain better exposure to authors of literary works. This will be achieved through construction of a visually appealing tri-fold author brochure using Microsoft Publisher and Internet research.
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So Much Can Happen In A Night!
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The purpose of this unit is to familiarize students with Shakespeare’s comedy. Most students only get exposure to either history or tragedy. The theme for this unit is humor and its relevance, as well as Shakespeare’s impact and relevance on our world today. The unit takes approximately 4-6 weeks of 42 minute classes.
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To Be Or Not To Be...
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This is a unit focusing on Hamlet. It contains in depth analysis of the plot, themes, and characters.
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Reflective Yearbook
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3-5 week unit in Creative Expression; a 20 week elective; taught in a self-contained class with approximately 23 high school seniors. Class periods are 42 minutes long, meet 5 days per week.
Asks students to develop voice through collection of reflective personal writing, visual representations, selection and analysis of music that represents mood and tone of their writing. Culminates in an oral presentation of each student’s choice of writing(s) and explanation of lyrical connection.
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The Unraveling of a Poem
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Students will focus on poetical analysis with the goal of understanding the theme of a poem.
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Frederick Remington: His Life and Times
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Document based research, Internet Research project studies on Frederic Remington, planned and delivered in collaboration across standards areas.
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Frederick Remington: His Life and Times
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Essential Questions: What is the correlation between America's art and it's foreign policy? Can one artist control an entire nation's perception of an era? Is the Internet a useful research tool? Does art imitate life? Are American culture and politics related in any way?
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Career Exploration/Job Shadowing
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This unit is designed to guide students in making career decisions. They will begin by examining their interests, matching their interests to a career, exploring how to attain that career and finally job shadowing a person in that occupation.
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Letters to the Government-Powerpoint
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The students become active participants in their government.
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Good for Business?
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Global Studies students will examine an
assigned country guided by a series of worksheets
and exercises to determine; (1) if Oneida Limited
should expand its market into this country and (2)
if the student would like to represent the company
in this country. Through a series of data collec-
tion and examination exercises the students gain
insight into how to use the gathered information
for decision-making in the culminating writing
activity. Additionally, the unit gives students
an opportunity to see how the content of Global
Studies is relevant in today's inter-dependent
business world.
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West Side Story: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
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This unit focuses on encouraging students to appreciate and understand the musical West Side Story by analyzing the musical from different perspectives. The unit prepares Band and Voice class students to expressively perform West Siode Story at a public concert and English students to write a critical essay comparing the musical's plot to the plot of Romeo and Juliet.
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Enhancement for Supermarket Smarts and Power Point
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This lesson will provide the student with a user friendly manual to assist him/her in the creation of their own Power Point Presentations. This lesson will also provide the teacher with additional ideas on how to enhance the Supermarket Smart Unit.
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Spoiled American Dreams/The Great Gatsby
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An era that typified the American Dream was the 1920s, "The Jazz Age" or "The Roaring Twenties," period between the optimistic expectations following the end of World War I and the bitter disappointments of the Great Depression, skillfully conveyed in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. Activities in this unit will focus on the positive and negative aspects of the 1920s, especially regarding personal success, found in The Great Gatsby. Cultural and economic highs and lows of the decade will be explored to put the novel and the ethical questions about success in a contemporary light. Designed for an honors/advanced 12th grade English class to complete in forty forty-minute classes.
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Process Writing with Powerpoint
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English students combine a process essay and speech with a Powerpoint presentation
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Celebrate the Arts
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Advertising Design Class, students are expected to complete assignments using different mediums, and will understand the roles a person in the Advertising Field has, includes meeting deadlines, being creative, working toward a specific goal and presenting completed projects in a professional manner. Students are upperclassmen, most have had some art courses and been introduced to the basics. Assignments are challenging, but allow students to succeed and see personal growth, allows students to create an Advertising Campaign in which they are able to support the arts program, creating T-shirts, designing posters, billboards, and videotaping commercials created from original storyboards. Theme of this campaign is "Celebrate the Arts."
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Ceasar II
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The program itself has built into it an overall usage of the learning standards. By the students interaction with the game, they will interact with each other as they work together to build an empire. They will be adhering to the standards without being aware they are attaining this goal. This reflects best practice in that all the students are engaged in learning are creating their own best learning environment, they are meeting standards, and there is a tangible end-product.
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Revisiting Salem
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Literature based: the unit will begin with a series of free response journal entries designed to encourage students to consider issues such as freedom, fair treatment, tolerance, and authority.
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