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Credit vs. Debit Educreation Activity
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson will help students understand the difference between using debit cards as debit or credit and using credit cards.
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Social Studies QFT
(View Complete Item Description)This is a technique to work on students questioning capabilities. We have used this in the past to introduce our Terrorism unit. The point of this is for students to build their questioning to new levels while working together. **This is an inquiry activity**Standard: SS.9-12.1. Create compelling questions representing key ideas within the disciplines.
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Credit Card Comparison Activity
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is to help students analyze aspects and features of credit cards to know how to determine which would be best for various situations.
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Exploration Unit Introduction: Map Projections
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson can be used to introduce students to the concept of different map projections that they might encounter throughout the year. It helps them to understand that there are many different ways to view the world and that certain views give them different information.
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AP Computer Science Activity: Chalk Talk - Why Do We Create Instances Of Classes?
(View Complete Item Description)A modified version of a Chalk Talk routine in which the educator provides a prompt for students to put forth ideas, questions, and further develop ideas of others in an effort to advance understanding in relation to a topic.
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AP Computer Science Activity: I Used To Think, Now I Think:
(View Complete Item Description)This activity is utilized as a method for students to commuincate their current learning, progress their understanding, and then reflect on their current understanding of a topic and share what they now think and the connections they have built.
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AP Computer Science Activity: Claim-Support-Question - Enhancing Classes - Interface Design and Implementation
(View Complete Item Description)This activity utilizes a Claim-Support-Question framework that allows students to draw on prior knowledge, investigation, and questioning. Designed to be placed within a Java context of enhancing object-oriented programming classes using interfaceses, students will analyze, implement, and support claims regarding three separate interfaces while moving between analysis and program implementation.
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The Human Genome Project - The Use of Genetic Screening Technology
(View Complete Item Description)This unit includes one week of lessons which immediately follow the Genetics and DNA units. The previous knowledge gained from these units, as well as a previous project where students researched and shared with their classmates a specific genetic disorder, will provide the background for students to participate in a debate about the ethical issues of applying information available through the Human Genome Project (HGP).
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Personalized Professional Development - Topic
(View Complete Item Description)Personalized Professional Development is a way to meet all educators where they are and seek to help each individual move forward at their own pace and toward self-determined goals.
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Personalized Professional Development - Research
(View Complete Item Description)Personalized Professional Development is a way to meet all educators where they are and seek to help each individual move forward at their own pace and toward self-determined goals.
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Personalized Professional Development - Integration
(View Complete Item Description)Personalized Professional Development is a way to meet all educators where they are and seek to help each individual move forward at their own pace and toward self-determined goals.
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Digital Citizenship: Traveling Safely
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson teaches children 3 rules on how they can stay safe as they navigate in the internet
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Activity: "Unpacking Standards"
(View Complete Item Description)This can be an activity to use with your colleagues in assessing your unit design with the new Iowa Social Studies standards or with students as an intro (or closing) activity for a "Atlantic Revolutions" unit. A teacher could use SS-WH.9-12.14. Compare various systems of government, such as monarchies, democracies/republics, empires, and dictatorships, and their methods of maintaining order and/or control.SS-WH.9-12.23. Critique primary and secondary sources of information with attention to the source of the document, its context, accuracy, and usefulness of sources throughout world historySS-WH.9-12.20. Evaluate methods used to change or expand systems of power and/or authority.or choose from: https://iowacore.gov/sites/default/files/k-12_socialstudies.pdf
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Political Revolutions: Which One is Not Like the Others?
(View Complete Item Description)After a unit or after viewing four Crash Course videos (French revolution, American Revolution, Haitian Revolution, Latin American Revolutions) students will prepare the following "presentation"(using Chalkboard Splash, YouTube,etc.) and create a version of the Sesame Street song demonstrating their content knowledge (revolutions) and 21st Skills (Collaborative Work, Compare and Contrast, etc.)
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The New Space Race
(View Complete Item Description)Pair this activity with a moon/space unit to engage students in evaluation and critical thinking about life in space.
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The Earth- Soft Chalk Lesson
(View Complete Item Description)Lesson created for student navigation to get a better understanding some of Earth facts concluding with some student activities to check for student understanding.
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Solar Oven Exploration
(View Complete Item Description)Student have learned about the Sun from the Sun, Earth, and Moon science unit. During the process of learning about the sun students research solar energy. It is hard to do hands on learning when talking about the Sun, however concepts learned can be applied to build a successful solar oven. When the solar over has been constructed, have the student test it out!
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Iowa Stories I
(View Complete Item Description)Real Iowans and how they intersect with history around the world. A community that no longer exists - Buxton, IA; sisters who exchanged pen pal letters with Anne and Margot Frank during WWII; Iowa's own "Rosa Parks" sits at a counter in Des Moines; Five Waterloo, IA brothers changed how the military assigns family in combat are just some of he stories of Iowa families. Stories that make Iowa history. In this two part course, you will be exploring these stories and sharing a story from your own family.
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Yeti Competition
(View Complete Item Description)Construct an apparatus which will lose the least amount of heat over the span of 30 minutes. We are only trying to stop/slow down heat lose, not add heat.
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Design your own Periodic Table
(View Complete Item Description)This activity is set as an introduction to the periodic table. Students will be organizing and categorizing objects or ideas of their own choosing.
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