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Native Country
Presentations
ESOL students research their native countries after surveying the current
knowledge of American students. Then they create PowerPoint presentations
about their countries and present them to others. Standards 4,
5, 6.
Agricultural
Revolution
See Social Studies section below.
Choose-Your-Own
Adventure
See Computer section below.
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Math
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Symmetry
PowerPoint presentation allows students to see, by the use of animations,
the differences between a reflection, a translation and a dilation.
Standard 3.
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Science
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Interactive
Slide Shows
Teachers create interactive PowerPoint presentations to help students
learn about various topics including phases of the moon, types of chemical
reactions, graphing basics, and review for the 8th grade
assessment. Standard 3.
Chemical Energy
Students research a chemical element on the internet and draw an atomic
model using a drawing program. Standards 3,
4.
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Social
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Ancient
India
Students search the internet for information and images to create a
HyperStudio stack about ancient India. Standards 4,
5.
Ancient
Egypt
Students participate in several interactive web pages from the Royal
Ontario Museum to learn about archaeology, hieroglyphics, etc. Standard
3.
Agricultural
Revolution
Using Inspiration, students take notes from a published article. They
write essays from their Inspiration diagrams. This helps them learn
about note-taking, paraphrasing, keywords, and topic sentences. Standard
3.
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Art
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Music
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Physical Education
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Jump Rope for
Heart Presentations
Students record pedometer data during PE class. They create PowerPoint
slides shows with information about the activity and graphs comparing
steps/period by grade, gender, and class size. Standards 3,
4, 5,
6.
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Graphing Nutritional Information
Students study food labels from a variety of foods, compile
data and create graphs to display their findings.
Career Choices
Students use CareerZone
(a Web site from the New York State Department of Labor) and other career
exploration sites to complete a career research project.
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Computers
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Class Brochure
Students interview teachers via e-mail and create a brochure. Standard
4.
Graphing
Students record data about their daily keyboarding progress in a
spreadsheet and create a graph of the results. Standard 5.
Choose-Your-Own
Adventure
Students create an outline for a choose-your –own adventure
story in an Inspiration diagram, and then create a web site of that
adventure using Microsoft Publisher. Standards 3,
4.
Using
Help Screens
Students are introduced to using Help features of software or hardware.
For example, they learn about the Dell Optiplex GX260 system user’s
guide by completing a worksheet based on an online version of that help
document. Standard 1.
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