Independent Living Career Project – 5313
Summary After completing a survey on the VA View Career Clusters website (http://www.vaview.vt.edu/68/) to determine each students’ interests, a career from the VA View webpage …
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Advertisement Commercial Project
Summary Once the class has finished their unit on introduction to news broadcast, journalism, and advertisement, the class is assigned an advertisement project where students …
Media Literacy and PSAs – 5308
Summary As part of the Media Literacy mini-unit, students had previously gathered data and learned about the different types of media (billboards, commercials, newspaper ads, …
Cosmic Research Project
Summary In this lesson, while participating in novel study activities, students brainstorm and identify topics related to or mentioned in the novel Cosmic. Examples of …
Supreme Superhero
Summary In this lesson, students study characterization, conflict, and theme as they read a variety of superhero material and then craft their own comic book …
Traits of a Good Citizen
Summary The object of the lesson is for students to recognize and demonstrate the character traits of a good citizen. After a discussion of what …
WHAT’S UP WITH THE CABINET – 5307
Summary This lesson can be taught as an extension activity to the National Government Unit or with the Executive Branch Unit. After the class has …
Coaching Salaries and Excel – 5304
Summary Students, grouped in twos, researched the salary agreements for a college coach of their choice. The contract data of the coach they selected had …
Road To Revolution
Summary The students are instructed that they are reporters and have to report on one of eight key events that led the country into and …
BRING THE XTERRA GAMES TO VIRGINIA – 5309
Summary In this project, students worked in groups of 4 and were presented with the task of convincing the representatives of XTERRA (classmates) to have …