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The Imaginary Field Trip |
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Career Technical Education,English Language Arts |
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Students will create PowerPoint presentations that showplace their creative and technical skills. The presentations will show an imaginary field trip that students went on in the past. For example, students could create a PowerPoint explaining how they travelled to South America with the rest of their class to visit a rain forest and do some bungee jumping. They would use photo editing tools to manipulate photos found online to make them look like they were actually in the locations described via text and pictures.
At the end the PowerPoint presentations are shared with the class. ... |
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Less is More: How to Teach Students To Take Notes and To Understand What They Read |
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Mathematics,Science,Arts,Physical Education,Foreign Languages,Career Technical Education,English Language Arts,English Language Development,History-Social Science,Interdisciplinary |
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5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 |
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In the primary grades boys and girls learn decoding skills, but in the upper grades students are supposed to transfer their ability to sound out words into the comprehension of those words. As subject areas departmentalize in these grades, teachers feel inadequate to teach these reading comprehension skills. Many teachers of middle and high school students “assume” that their students already know how to take notes from readings, films, and lectures. They also “assume” that students understand main idea and detail and can pull out the most important information from text or lecture. Often this is not the case. Many students, even into college, will copy or underline everything in a text or try to reiterate word for word what a lecturer is saying. This unit is a series of lessons that can be used with any informational text to teach students that by writing key concepts, reviewing, discussing, and elaborating, they will discover the real importance of taking note... |
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Mad Lib An Interactive Internet Lesson |
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Career Technical Education,English Language Arts |
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Students will make up "Wacky" stories using what they know about the parts of speech. It is important for students to know the parts of speech in order to write sentences to communicate ideas so that everyone can understand. This will prepare them for writing their own stories and other writing assignments. This lesson will reinforce the parts of speech and how they work in a sentence. Students will type the part of speech that are requested into the blank lines and then click on to see their "Wacky Web Tale". Then students are to print out their favorite tale to hand in. ... |
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University of Texas Library Online |
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Mathematics,Science,Arts,Physical Education,Foreign Languages,Career Technical Education,English Language Arts,History-Social Science |
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6,7,8,9,10,11,12 |
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The home page of the University of Texas Library Online provides links to pages with information on the library's extensive resources. These include the digital library services, exhibits, current library news, and news archives. This resource is referenced in the EDSITEment lesson titled "I Hear the Locomotives: The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad."... |
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Robert Cottingham: More to It |
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Arts,Career Technical Education,English Language Arts |
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4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 |
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum created the New Media Learning Environments project to make the museum's collection and other resources readily available to K-12 students and educators. "Eyeing America" is a Coast-to-Coast virtual tour with pop artist Robert Cottingham. In this section, the museum uses the artist's approach to explore issues in everyday life related to visual perception. Visitors may learn how artistic decisions affect perception. This introductory page compares Robert Cottingham's lithograph "Starr" with the original photograph from which he worked.... |
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Robert Cottingham: Excerpt from "Homecoming" |
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Arts,Career Technical Education,English Language Arts |
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4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 |
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum created the New Media Learning Environments project to make the museum's collection and other resources readily available to K-12 students and educators. "Eyeing America" is a Coast-to-Coast virtual tour with pop artist Robert Cottingham. In this section, the museum uses the artist's approach to explore issues in everyday life related to visual perception. Visitors may learn how artistic decisions affect perception. This section discusses a detail from William H. Johnson's "Moon Over Harlem" to demonstrate how context informs our interpretation of an image's meaning.... |
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Introduction to Construction |
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Career Technical Education,English Language Arts,computer (word processing/research Optional) |
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9 |
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Students will learn to write letters requesting information using the Theme of Introduction to Construction. Students will be introduced to some of the building trades by using a video (note: guest speakers and experts of the trades could be used instead of video). Students will take notes using a guided note-taking worksheet.( If guest speakers are used then questions should be developed by the students for the presentation. The guided-note taking would still be required during presentation. After being introuced to the trades, students will be required to provide relevant questions and seek more information through a letter writing activity.... |
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Imagination at work with the green screen |
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Theatre,Career Technical Education,English Language Arts |
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5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 |
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Students will create storyboards and then film skits in front of a green screen while following the proper rules of lighting, etc. Later the videos will be edited in the computer to replace the green background. ... |
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