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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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Multicultural Multimedia Holiday Project
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Why did and do people celebrate that holiday? How has the holiday changed? What aspects of the holiday have stayed the same? What makes that holiday meaningful/important today?
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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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Who Wants to be a Globainaire
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The purpose of this experience is to familiarize students with PowerPoint while studying for their regent’s exam in Global Studies.
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Funeral Rites Research
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Compare student's own culture/religious beliefs and traditions of death and funerals with those of another culture.
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Latin American Colonial Diary
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Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives
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The Nuts and Bolts of It
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Essential Questions: How is the development of the sciences and technology a response to societal needs? What has been the impact (short and long term) of scientific ideas, new technologies and discoveries? How do science and technology influence culture? Why learn about science and technology?
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A Nation Divided
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Curriculum on the Civil War era integrating US History and English 11 content areas (about six weeks). Unit has been applied to an alternative education setting with smaller classes allowing flexibility to combine students for certain learning experiences. May not be feasible in all educational settings, is adaptable. Rubric form the basis of assessments, which relate to tasks and activities, described for each week.
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Lizzie Borden Trial: A 19th Century Woman Couldn't
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To increase student understanding of the criminal justice system and the realities of the various job roles, I have chosen the trial of Lizzie Borden as the investigation tool.
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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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That's Your Side of the Story!
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The use of a debate offers a unique opportunity to discuss both sides of key issues and to sharpen student's oral skills.
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Banking
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Students will independently set up their own bank account
at the bank of their choice. Students will pick one of the following essential
questions and write a five paragraph essay answering the question. They will
include this in their presentation.
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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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American Music History
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This learning unit uses many experiences that tie together to help the students see the relationship between them.
It combines historical events in American history with Music and includes information how history
influenced music. It works well with classes of any size in social studies and music courses.
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Adult Criminal Justice System
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Upon viewing this PowerPoint the student will have an understanding of the
rights and protections a person who has been accused of a criminal behavior
has. This Power Point may be used as an introduction or a review. It may
be viewed in class or by individual students.
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Supermarket Smarts
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High School economics that combines math and technical skills to reach an economic conclusion.
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Political Parties
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In this learning unit, students will be studying a variety of political parties, philosophies, and their positions on key issues. The unit is intended to create an informed citizen equipped with the knowledge necessary to participate in our government and vote in its elections.
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