Helming the Ship, Climbing the Staircase: Poetry Research and Information Fluency – 7850
Summary Instead of giving students a poem and walking them through analyzing it and/or giving them a worksheet to complete in a whole class lesson, …
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Express This, Equate That… What’s the Difference?
Summary Students will work individually to research and then in small groups to collaborate and discover the difference between an expression and an equation. Research …
Unit Price Field Trip – 7648
Summary How is math used in everyday life? One great example involves shopping. Students learned about unit price in Math and in Independent Living class. …
Pathway to College – 8361
Summary Students were taught how to model a project with a mathematical graph and find important information from it – called a critical path. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_path_method …
Gallery Walk: Getting Rid of Boring Presentations – 7845
Summary Have you ever been bored to tears watching as student groups endlessly present projects? Even the most exciting, most differentiated projects get boring …
Matter Cooking Show -7481
Summary In this cross-curricular lesson driven by an authentic task, students were able to explore the changes of matter, identify ways to gather information, and …
Making Music: An Audio Comparison
Summary Students will work in groups to create an original sound recording. Students will then compare the recording process with that of a professional musician. …
How Can I Describe My Utopia?
Header Image: New Harmony, a utopian attempt; depicted as proposed by Robert Owen Summary Each student is to design an ideal city of his/her own and write …
Planet Saving Environmental Engineers-7202
Summary “Global warming, a hole in the ozone layer, toxic waste, widespread pollution. Environmental issues are not something that we should just sweep aside. The …
Visiting Vivid Virginia-7204
Summary You are the marketing director for a firm that represents Virginia Tourism. Your task is to select a region of Virginia and provided facts …