AEA Template for Building Lessons
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All resources in Great Prairie AEA
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4 C's Activity for Biology Cancer
(View Complete Item Description)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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Energy Drink - Circle of Viewpoints
(View Complete Item Description)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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Geometry Collinear, Coplanar, Opposite Rays, & Intersections
(View Complete Item Description)Lesson covers collinear points, coplanar points, opposite rays and intersection of two lines, two planes or a line and plane.
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Google Account Basics
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson takes students through the importance of changing Google passwords, changing their Google passwords, formatting an e-mail and organizing their Google Drive.
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Nature of Science Softchalk
(View Complete Item Description)Introduction to nature of science lesson for high school students. Covers law, theory, hypothesis and scientific method.
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eReading with the VB Destiny Discover Library Catalog
(View Complete Item Description)Find out how to login, access not only what is available in print, but discover how easily you can be reading eBooks and listening to AudioBooks from MackinVIA through our catalog.
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Entrepreneurship: Choosing a Business
(View Complete Item Description)A lesson about how entrepreneurs identify sources for new business ideas, recognize different business opportunities and identify their own personal goals for starting a business.
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Science of Reading Article ("What - So What - Now What" Activity)
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is meant for teachers to use during a professional learning session around the science of reading. Teachers will read an article and reflect on it using the "What, So What, Now What?" routine from Making Thinking Visible.
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How Do Kids Learn to Read? ("I Used to Think...Now I Think" Activity)
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is meant for teachers to use during a professional learning session around the science of reading. Teachers will read an article and reflect on it using the "I Used to Think...Now I Know" routine from Making Thinking Visible.
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Vocabulary Word Activity
(View Complete Item Description)This quick and fun activity that can be used to get kids using clues for vocabulary words (or phrases) in a reading unit, science or social studies unit. Students love the game 'Hedbanz' so use it to increase their learning in a fun and interactive way. This activity reviews or practices word meanings, phrase meanings or even can be applied to numbers. Vocabulary
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Generating Deeper Student Thinking
(View Complete Item Description)This activity is intended to stimulate deeper student thinking in response to an image with questioning.
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Survive on Mars - Options Explosion
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson uses the strategy "Options Explosion" to guide students through a problem solving exercise. In this example, students have a new mission: to visit and colonize Mars.
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Iowa Agriculture - The 3 Whys
(View Complete Item Description)Students will explore the importance of Iowa Agriculture by using "The 3 Whys" strategy.
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Lego Engineering Simple Machines
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson will give beginner Lego-builders a fun introduction to gears and how they function. If used in a classroom setting, there is also a video about the History of Lego and an activity for students to free-build the flag of Denmark in honor of the company's beginnings there.
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Ashurbanipal's Library
(View Complete Item Description)Students use a source text from IEW's Ancient History-Based Writing Lessons to write a two-paragraph essay about Ashurbanipal's Library from a keyword outline. There is also a linked art history video from OER Commons entitled "Palace Decoration of Ashurbanipal" to give more interesting background on King Ashurbanipal.
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Mathematics Fluency Support for Grades 6-8
(View Complete Item Description)This document provides opportunities for students to gain fluency in middle grades math. They are aligned to the Common Core Standards.
Material Type: Assessment