These activities are to be used on the first day of class to guage knowledge of the students and collect information about what students are interested in learning during the course.
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This is an extension activity after discussing cancer or lead into discussing about student choices. Essential QuestionsStudents will be able to to describe behaviors lead to skin cancer and how can it be prevented.Students will be able to explain the risk and reward behaviors.
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This activity can be used as an extension for unit over macromolecules or an application of the metabolism unit. The purpose behind this activitity is to really look at the foods and drinks we used to obtain energy and see of they do what they claim to do. The circle of viewpoints activity is built around generating a list of ideas/perspectives about a given topic and then using that information for a prompt to dive deeper into the topic. This activity is built in in 3 parts Background reading and brainstormingQuestions and Reserch Socratic Circle
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This is an introductory lesson that is a game for students to learn the basic vocabulary for sociology. The students can get into groups (no more than three people) and using the book, read the text surrounding the vocabulary words in order to use context clues to put them together. The teams have to get their words approved by the teacher before they can write it on their paper to insure that it is correct. I pit the teams against each other to foster a game like amostophere for extra credit. Everyway walks away with extra credit but obviously those that finish first get more than others. The definitions are my personal defintions rather than the ones in the book as that would be too easy. Standard: SS-Soc.9-12.14. Identify characteristics of groups, and the influences that groups and individuals have on each other.
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Our world history class is mainly focused on recurring world issues of the modern age. We jump around with topics but mainly stay 1945 - today, which the students really seem to enjoy. One of the issues that we tackle is world religions. Attached are also the slides for this unit are also attached so you can see content leading up to this summative. Standard: SS-WH.9-12.21. Investigate cultural advancements within societies with attention to belief systems, ideologies, the arts, science and technology.
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Students will use a music application to create a personal song. Song should have multiple tracks, instruments and between 2-4 minutes long.
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Students use specimens prepared by the teacher and try to decide if each one is living, non-living or dead. This may be done as inquiry prior to instruction or as reinforcement.
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Introduction to nature of science lesson for high school students. Covers law, theory, hypothesis and scientific method.
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This is a SoftChalk lesson designed to help students determine key features of a function such as domain, range, x-intercept, y-intercept, positive intervals, negative intervals, and intervals over which the function may be increasing or decreasing.
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This lesson is an introduction to learning to graph linear equations written in Slope-Intercept Form. It was written for the Beginning Algebra 1 student.
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Write Systems of Equations using Augmented Matrices
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This lesson reviews basic concepts and math skills that are used throughout a physics course.
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This is a SoftChalk lesson reviewing the figurative language terms simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, and symbolism.
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General overview of why and how to apply the triangle congruency shortcuts.
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This lesson provides review of chemical formulas, prior to introducing balanced chemical equations. Writing word equations is also introduced in this lesson.
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This is an activity for students to create their own I see/they see cartoon similar to what is in the book.
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This 10-minute video lesson looks at Newton's First Law (Galileo's Law of Inertia).
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Students engage in a competitive group relay to construct formal proofs involving triangles. New proofs can always be written to fit different curriculum and pacing.
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This activity encourages students to analyze center and spread of the number of chocolate chips in 5 different brands of chocolate chip cookies.
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This is the first lesson in a week-long, mini-unit contains four individual lessons. Through the course of all these lessons, students will be introduced to the concept of civil disobedience—people purposefully disobeying a law or protesting nonviolently about laws or social issues they feel to be unjust. They’ll read from, watch, and listen to three examples that address the issue: Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience," Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail," and the Teaching Tolerance documentary Viva La Causa written and directed by Bill Brummel.Activity Description: This lesson focuses on introducing, defining, and providing a basic example of historical civil disobedience using Henry David Thoreau's experience and an excerpt from his essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience."This lesson is designed to be used in a blended environment. Accommodations are listed for non-blended courses.Time needed for activity: ~45 minute class periodResources needed: Online discussion board(s) set up at either pinup.com or answergarden.ch; copies of the "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" excerpt (printed or electronic)
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