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GRADE
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STANDARD
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SUMMARY
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Anne
Frank Extension Research Activity |
6 -
9
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Language
Arts Literacy: Standard 3.1 & 3.2 Soc. St.: Standard 6.3 &
6.4
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Students
will create and present a PowerPoint presentation about the
holocaust. |
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Book
Talk Breakfast |
7-12
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Language
Arts - Standard 3.1
& 3.2
& 3.3
& 3.4 |
Students
rate their favorite personal reading books; teacher prepares a database of
highest-rated books; students write a persuasive summary/review of their
highest-rated book and present it at our Book Talk Breakfast. |
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Boolean
Searching on Electronic Databases
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8-11
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Career/Consumer Standards 9.1
Technology 8.2
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Students
will build "Boolean pizzas", on paper, by using the appropriate
Boolean operators to join their pizza ingredients.
Students
will use Boolean search techniques when searching an electronic database
or while using a search engine on the World Wide Web.
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Creative
Twisters |
3 - 9 |
Language
Arts 3.2 |
Students
will create tongue twisters |
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Critical
Reading for the SAT |
9
- 12
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Career/Consumer Standards 9.1 |
Students
will review Critical Reading tips, the 5 types of Critical Reading
Questions and complete practice questions for SAT.
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Family
Camping |
6-9 |
Mathematics:
Standard
4.1 Language Arts Literacy: Standard
3.2 |
Students
will be given an imaginary budget of $600 to buy all the camping equipment
needed for four family members including the student. |
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Figurative
Language
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6 -9
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Language
Arts Literacy
 Standard
3.2
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The
students will create a figurative language collage that will include
examples and definitions. The collages will be posted throughout the
classroom and will be used as part of a larger unit on poetry.
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Find Math in Newspapers |
8 - 9 |
Technology 8.1
Mathematics 4.4
Lang Arts 3.5
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Students
will compare used cars for sale found in newspapers or the Internet using
these categories: make, model, year, mileage and cost. |
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How to Locate Information |
5-12 |
Career/Consumer Std. 9.1
Language Arts 3.1, 3.4, 3.5,
Technology 8.1, 8.2 |
Students (working in small groups will complete a teacher
assigned webquest following the directions from the webquest |
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"How-To"
Paragraph To Class Cookbook
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5 -9
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Language Arts 3.2
Career/Consumer Standards 9.1
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Students select family recipes and turn them into a
procedural paragraph stressing a variety of transitional words. We made
transitional word walls, reviewed paragraph form, and used word
processing to produce our final copies. Paragraphs were finally bound
into a book and given as gifts to parents. |
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I
Remember |
3
- 9 |
Language
Arts Literacy: Standard 3.1 & 3.2 Social
Studies: Standard 6.3 |
This
mini-unit on the Holocaust provides students with the opportunity to
relate to a child that experienced the horror of the Holocaust. The
activities allow the students to bond with a child and understand some
children's thoughts and feelings as they experienced life in a
concentration camp.
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Lobster
Quadrille & Learning Styles
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7-12
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Career/Consumer Standards 9.1
Lang Arts 3.2
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Through
the use of a copy of Carroll's "Lobster Quadrille" and a survey
sheet students will self-examine their own learning styles.
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My
Mystery |
5
- 9 |
Language
Arts - Standard 3.2
Standard
3.5
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Students
will write a short mystery story using the elements of a mystery: setting,
plot, characters, clues, solution. |
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Original
Short Story
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6-9
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Language
Arts Literacy
 Standard
3.1 &
3.3
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The
students will use the writing process to write a short story. In addition,
they will illustrate the stories they write. Students will be given the
option of creating a totally original story, a modern version of a fairy
tale, or a story based on a picture prompt provided by the teacher.
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Pick
Your Brain
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5
- 9
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Language
Arts Literacy: Standard 3.1 & 3.2
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'Pick
Your Brain' can be used to review a specific skill taught like
cause/effect. Instead of just recalling events, students must recall
events and must write cause/effect sentences.
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Propaganda:
The Power to Persuade |
4
- 12 |
Social
Studies Standards 6.5 & 6.6
Language
Arts Standard
3.5
Technology 8.1 |
After
viewing various propaganda posters from World War II, students will make
their own Propaganda posters . |
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Through the Eyes
of the Explorers |
3 - 7 |
Social Studies 6.1
Language Arts 3.2
Math 4.5 |
Students
experience map-making first hand as well as read actual journal entries to
reconstruct a map that William Clark drew in 1805 using triangulation.
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Water Color and
Haiku |
3 - 12 |
Language Arts 3.2
Visual and Performing Arts
1.2 |
Students use
watercolor to illustrate a haiku poem they create. |
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What
Matters? Taking Notes from Varied Sources |
6-
12 |
Language
Arts -
Standard 3.2 |
Students
will use their notes to write a summary of an article, speech and a video. |
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GRADE
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STANDARD
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SUMMARY
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Addition of Integers |
6
- 9
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Mathematics:
STANDARD
4.1 & 4.5 |
The teacher will demonstrate how to use counters to add integers
and the number line.
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Comparative Shopping |
8 - 12 |
Language Arts: 3.1
Math:
4.5 |
Students will see the value of reviewing the advertisements and sales in the
newspaper. It will allow them to plan for purchasing items at best price |
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Family
Camping |
6-9 |
Mathematics:
Standard
4.1 Language Arts Literacy: Standard
3.2 |
Students
will be given an imaginary budget of $600 to buy all the camping equipment
needed for four family members including the student. |
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Find Math in Newspapers |
8 - 9 |
Technology 8.1
Mathematics 4.4
Lang Arts 3.5
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Students
will compare used cars for sale found in newspapers or the Internet using
these categories: make, model, year, mileage and cost. |
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Managing
Your Money |
5
- 12 |
Mathematics Standard - 4.1
Career/Consumer Standards 9.1 |
This exercise teaches students that needs come before wants and
if they shop wisely, there can be money left for their wants. |
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Math
thru History
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7 - 12
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Mathematics:
Standard 4.3 Social Studies Standard 6.
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Students will research 5
historical purchases or goods & investigate the cost at the time of
purchase versus the present day cost of the same purchase.
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Number
Sense And Estimation |
6
- 9 |
Mathematics:
Standard
4.1 |
Students
are given a task - to look at a copied sample of names and phone numbers
from a phone book, estimate how many names would be on one page, explain
their answer, and estimate about how many pages it would take to print
23,402 names. |
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Percents, Fractions,
Decimals and Ratios
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6 - 9
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Mathematics 4.1
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Recognize relationships between ratios, percents, fractions and decimals
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Scatter plots & Correlations |
7-9 |
Mathematics
4.4 |
Student will
use scatter plots to see if two sets of data are related |
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Through the Eyes
of the Explorers |
3 - 7 |
Social Studies 6.1
Language Arts 3.2
Math 4.5 |
Students
experience map-making first hand as well as read actual journal entries to
reconstruct a map that William Clark drew in 1805 using triangulation.
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Using
the Quadratic Formula
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8
- 12
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Mathematics
4.13
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Students
will be able to apply the Quadratic Formula to solve Quadratic Equations.
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Where Do I Fit
In? |
3 - 8 |
Social Studies 6.1 6.5
Math 4.3
Vis - Per Arts 1.3 |
Students will discuss and construct a visual model of how
they fit into a bigger whole |
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