Challenge Grant Learning Interchange
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One step operations has been covered and in the intensive math class, designed to help students work effectively on the FCAT, the next unit was Geometry. Basic use of formulas for...
Subjects: English/Language Arts, English/Languages Arts
This unit will promote student exploration, understanding, and empathy toward the Ibo of Nigeria during the pre-colonial and colonial periods (approx. 1850-1900) by examining their...
This unit is intended to help students understand how all things, living and non-living, are interdependent. Students will also explore how humans have direct impacts on the eco-ba...
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Literature
The purpose of this unit is for students to demonstrate understanding of why communities require laws that protect the rights and properties of others and form basic ways to resolv...
Subjects: Languages, English/Languages Arts
In this lesson, students will learn how to rewrite sentences when there is both a direct and indirect object in a sentence using the proper pronouns. As they will soon find, when c...
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Social Studies
After reading the story Meet Samantha from the American Girl (historical fiction) Series students will further study and compare the lifestyles of people living in the Turn of the...
Since students are fascinated by television shows and movies involving crime detection, using a forensic science approach could be a motivational tool for engaging students in the...
In this lesson students reseach in pairs, the necessary components specific to a given animal. These components must take into consideration, the space, food, and shelter for each...
Subjects: Languages, English/Languages Arts
Even before the lesson starts, we will have covered the following basic parts of speech:
In this unit students will discover the many ways in which organisms on Earth are classified. Students will understand the importance of scientists using a system of classification...
Subjects: English/Language Arts, English/Languages Arts
Subjects: Math, Career/Technology
This activity helps students to work in cooperative groups while they discover how human and non-human interventions affect a species that lives within a habitat. Students research...
Subjects: Languages, English/Languages Arts
Before the lesson starts, we will have covered the following basic parts of speech:
This lesson will be the first lesson within the unit of Web Page Design. Within this lesson, participants will learn how to use basic HTML formatting tags. Students will practicing...
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Social Studies, English/Languages Arts
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Literature
Subjects: Math, Social Studies
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to explain and illustrate the connection between the early attempts to measure non-rectangular and curvilinear objects to the fo...
Subjects: Math, Social Studies
This is the third PowerPoint population presentation in a series of six.
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Art/Music, English/Languages Arts
Students will see how the turn of the century brought political upheaval throughout the world. Remembering the horrors of war, the United States refused, initially, to take part in...
The use of the Internet search for information.
Subjects: Science, Social Studies
This activity is a visit to the bird culture of Florida in a wetland ecosystem. Visit the native American Birds that lived around the Rose Bay area and those that have been importe...
Subjects: Science, Social Studies
This activity is a visit to a wetland ecosystem and how to read maps. A visit to Rose Bay area on foot, sea and air. Learn the facts of the topography network and the environement...
This activity is a simulated visit to a Native American culture in a wetland ecosystem. Learn the facts of the Timucan people of the 1400"s and the enviroment they lived in. This a...
Students will see how fractions, decimals, and percents are used and the functions of those uses in life applications.
This activity has groups of students participating in an simulation where they discover the importance of the basic elements of a habitat. Students are actively engaged in a game t...
The purpose of this project is to allow the student to combine all of the information learned in this unit to create a government that would incorporate all of the duties, characte...
Prior to this lesson, students should have reasonable understanding of graphing a quadratic function. Students should also have experience utlilizing the internet search program.
Subjects: Social Studies, Career/Technology, English/Languages Arts
We will be looking at the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Civil Rights movement of 1964, and how they affect our civil rights today. For example, the students should know that d...
Subjects: Literature, Career/Technology
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Languages
Subjects: English/Language Arts, English/Languages Arts
Our school mascot is the raven, a primary figure in Native American legends and tales. To introduce this fascinating bird to our sixth graders, this unit is designed to have studen...
This unit is designed to introduce students to the concept that structure and function are fundamentally linked, even at a cellular level. The students begin by aquiring a basic un...
Subjects: Social Studies, Career/Technology
Ongoing struggle for racial equality in the United States stems from decades of discriminatory voting policies implemented at the state level. In many instances, African Americans,...
Subjects: Social Studies
The purpose of this activity is to reinforce student knowledge of the structure of various governments found around the world. Before this activity can occur, all students must und...
Subjects: Social Studies
Activity is a visit to a native plant culture in the wetland ecosystem of Rose Bay. Visit the Native Americans and the plants that were there before the Europeans transported other...
Subjects: Social Studies
Americans perspective of our country's role in world conflicts is different than the perspective of non-Americans. This view has been affected by propaganda from many sources that...
This is the third PowerPoint population presentation in a series of six.
Subjects: Social Studies
Subjects: English/Language Arts, English/Languages Arts
Students who participate in this lesson will be applying the knowledge they have learned in the classroom to real-world situations. The students already understand the four basic f...
Subjects: Languages, English/Languages Arts
In this lesson, the students will learn the concept of the other past tense, the imperfect. They will have already had the concept of the preterite. They will need to be taught the...
This activity is designed to introduce students to the term "nation-state." It is vital for further understanding that the students are aware of the four essential features of a na...
Subjects: Languages, English/Languages Arts
The students will be learning about one of the past tenses in Spanish called the preterite. The basic components of the preterite will
Subjects: Languages, English/Languages Arts
In this lesson, students will learn to distinguish between the two past tenses in Spanish, the preterite and the imperfect. The tenses have already been learned seperately. Now, th...
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Literature
Subjects: Literature, English/Languages Arts
Basically, students have a hard time visualizing three dimensional operations when it comes to working with volume. Why is it cubed? Where did the third measurement come from? Sphe...
This is the second PowerPoint lesson in a series of six.
This is the first of six PowerPoint population presentations.
Subjects: English/Language Arts, English/Languages Arts
In the classroom setting, the teacher and the students will discuss the 100 year time period leading up to the voting rights legislation of 1965(It is critical that each student co...
Using the findings from lessons 1 and 2, the students, in groups, will design a propaganda pamphlet that either promotes or discourages lifting the barriers that prevented African...
In this introductory and exploratory activity, students will be responsible for researching and reading three primary or literary source quotations about the impact of voter discri...
In this jigsaw activity, students in the Home Group are presented with scenarios where the structure of a particular organelle has been changed. As a group, they need to decide how...
Students will find the effectiveness and usefulness of using decimals, fractions, and percents in our lives.
This lesson deals with both the classification and the interrelationships of abiotic and biotic factors in an ecosystem. The students will classify everday items as either abiotic...
Subjects: Literature, English/Languages Arts
This is an introductory unit to the author, the Ibo people, and their traditions.
Subjects: Literature, English/Languages Arts
In this unit, students will demonstrate their understanding of an aspect of the novel as well as their proficiency at proving a thesis with support from the novel by writing a mult...
Subjects: Literature, English/Languages Arts
In this unit, students will play and evaluate the games of their peers according to the grading rubric in 20-minute rotations.
Subjects: Literature, English/Languages Arts
In this unit, students will prove their knowledge and comprehension of the plot, charcterization, and theme of the novel by taking an objective test.
Subjects: Literature, English/Languages Arts
In this lesson, students will have begun their reading of Achebes Things Fall Apart by reading Ch. 1 & 2 at home, and they will begin student-led literature discussions. They w...
Subjects: Literature, English/Languages Arts
In this lesson, students will continue their reading of the novel (Ch. 3 & 4 for home reading) and student-led literature discussions. Teacher has the option of giving a quiz o...
Subjects: Literature, English/Languages Arts
In this lesson, students will continue their reading (Ch. 5-9 over 2 days of home reading) and student-led discussions (2 pairs). They will also continue reading quizzes or journal...
Subjects: Literature, English/Languages Arts
In this lesson, students will read Ch. 10 together in class, discuss the Ibo judicial system and the purpose of the egwugwu, and take a summative quiz. They will do mask research b...
Subjects: Literature, English/Languages Arts
In this unit, students will have read Ch. 11-13 (home reading) and continue their student-led literature discussions (2 pairs), quiz or journal questions, and Study Guide questions...
Subjects: Literature, English/Languages Arts
In this unit, students will continue their reading of the novel (Ch. 14-19, home reading), student-led literature discussions, quiz/journal writings, and study guide questions as w...
Subjects: Literature, English/Languages Arts
In this unit, students will continue their reading of the novel (Ch. 20-25, home reading), student-led literature discussions, quiz/journal writings, and study guide questions.
Subjects: Literature, English/Languages Arts
In this unit, students will view the film Heart of Darkness and gain an understanding of Achebes feelings regarding this film as being racist as explained in his essay An Image of...
In this activity, students create wet mounts of Elodea leaves and epithelial cells. Students create a journal entry that compares and contrasts the two specimens, discusses the eff...
This is the first lesson is a series of three that fall under the unit Diversity of Organisms. In this lesson students will be first engaged in a whole class discussion on the impo...
This the second lesson in a series of three that fall under the unit Diversity of Organisms. In this lesson students will be using the knowledge gained from Lesson 1 about classifi...
This is the third lesson in a series of three that fall under the unit Diversity of Organisms. In this lesson students will first review concepts of classification taught in lesson...
Students Create Timeline from late 1800s to 2000 to mark significant inventors' inventions.
Subjects: Science, Social Studies
Medical treatment in the early 20th century did not include the use of antibiotics for venereal diseases, infections, etc. Neither was the study of pathological origins of diseases...
Subjects: Social Studies, English/Languages Arts
Students will examine copies of original documents and then participate in a venn diagram activity comparing the documents
Subjects: Social Studies, English/Languages Arts
Students are asked to focus on major inventions from the late 1800s to 2000. They will be directed to examine how these inventions were and are related to societal needs. They will...
Students will understand how to compare fractions.
This activity involves both whole class instruction and individual practice. The teachers and the class decide together on a series of items within a school that correlated with th...
Students will come to the understanding of percentages greater than 100% in life applications.
This lesson will engage students in an inquiry-based project. The project will be the summative assessment for this unit. The students will identify a potential local environmental...
Students will find the relevance of using number formats in areas of life.
This lesson will demonstrate the consequences of breaking laws.
Subjects: Social Studies, Career/Technology, English/Languages Arts
Students will compile research into a group oral presentation including a visual representation
Subjects: Social Studies, Career/Technology, English/Languages Arts
Students will explore the eras of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil Rights Movement
The goal of this lesson is for students to develop of an understanding of how water and blood react in a spattering situation. Students will perform simple tests to show the proper...
Students begin to understand how stoichiometry answers the question: "How much". To begin answering this question, students need to understand the mole ratio.
Students will be introduced to the Stoichiometry Project that will be completed by the end of the unit. Students will begin research into origin, history, uses and qualities of pro...
The goal of this lesson is for students to recognize the importance of analyzing all information from a crime scene and evaluating its accuracy. Students will read a case study whi...
This is the third lesson in a series investigating blood spatter patterns. In previous lessons students explored the similarities between blood and water and have analyzed a case s...
Instructor will provide students with a recipe for making their product. However, the recipe will give no specific amounts of reactants. The recipe will provide general procedure a...
Previously students have researched the origins of their product and discovered the chemical and physical properties of their raw materials and products. Students will now analyze...
In this lesson, students will use data generated in a previous activity to analyze a mock crime scene. Students will conduct a forensics investigation in which measurements of bloo...
Using a balanced equation, students will be able to calculate the mass of an unknown from a given mass. Students will determine their "final" recipe by employing stiochiometry. Stu...
This lesson will introduce students to the concept of limiting and excess reactants (too little of one reactant; too much of another). Additionally the students will be introduced...
After making their chemical product, students will make a presentation regarding their product; the class as a whole will compare at least two "brands" of the same product and shar...
This three-part lesson focuses on the use of propaganda posters from World War II and the current Mid East conflict. Students will work in cooperative teams to analyze different se...
This three-part lesson focuses on the use of pictures from Pearl Harbor and the World Trade Center Bombing. Students will work in cooperative teams to analyze different sets of pic...
The focus of this lesson is for students to identify and relate to how individuals see things differently because of their gender, race, culture, and past experiences (i.e. perspec...
The focus of this lesson is the identification and definition of literary devices and understanding how they bring the story to life for the reader. The students will be writing or...
This three-part lesson focuses on the use of presidential speeches from World War II and the current Mid East conflict. Students will work in cooperative teams to analyze two speec...
The focus of this lesson is identification of descriptive language (i.e., sensory imagery) in writing and telling how it enhances the story.
The focus of this lesson is to take each element of fiction and create a written example of each. The goal is for students to understand the elements from a reading perspective and...
The focus of this lesson is to compose a tale through the perspective of the main character. Editing and revisions will be made to ensure the final publication is correct with Stan...
Subjects: Social Studies, Art/Music
Students who have difficulty visualizing the setting of WWI will benefit from this activity. Students will identify and label the nations, battlefields, general movement of German...
The students connect the Pilgrims experience of the Mayflower Compact with current laws of the school lunchroom.
Teacher will help facilitate the lesson by using the Inspirations Program. Using the webbing map students will answer pre-made questions about Samantha. This lesson will help colle...
In this activity, students take notes (using the two-column notetaking format) on the essential cell organelles. The illustrated notes focus on the structure and function of these...
Subjects: Social Studies, English/Languages Arts
Students will present their group oral reports, including visual component
Subjects: Social Studies, English/Languages Arts
Four years of warfare should have convinced the world powers that imperialism and militarism were poor substitutes for good diplomacy and negotiation. Unfortunately, the desolation...
Subjects: Social Studies, Art/Music, English/Languages Arts
Students will be presented the information from slides 17-22 on the definition,character and purpose of propaganda during wartime. Examples of WWI posters will be discussed and ana...
Students will work changing fractions to percents in life applications.
This lesson follows prior lessons that have focused on the understanding of the interdependence of organisms. Extending those understandings, this lesson directs students to invest...
This lesson will allow students to explore the interdependence of food webs. The activities will include designing a food web and working in cooperative gorups. Students will desig...
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Social Studies
Students are asked to focus on major inventions from the late 1800s to 2000. They will be directed to examine how these inventions were and are related to societal needs. They will...
Subjects: Math, Social Studies, Art/Music, Career/Technology
To better understand the course of events in the unit on World War I, the students must have a frame of reference. A timeline on the cause and effect relationships is essential in...
Students will focus on drawing details from one picture of their choice from the Children of the 20th Century web site. Students will use the Inspirations program from previous les...
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Social Studies, English/Languages Arts
With an understanding of key terms and vocabulary, students will have a greater understanding of the unit as a whole. Students need to become familiar with the significant individu...