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Grades k-4
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
Your Chamber of Commerce is promoting your town as a great place to visit and live. They are asking you and others to create a brochure to show off the positive and welcoming things in your community. The committee will print and distribute the brochure they think best represents the town.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
This unit provides four separate lessons on ants. The introductory lesson lets students become familiar with the routines and labors of ants. The second lesson deals with body structure and functions. The third lesson discusses foods and nutrition. The fourth lesson has students investigating the temperature of ant hills, safely, of course.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
Four student activities about ants to teach concepts of scientific observation
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
This unit will familiarize students with the differences between mammals and birds. Students will compare and contrast bats and birds in various activities. The teacher will read the storybook Stellaluna by Janell Cannon. General subjects addressed are Language Arts and Science. Some of the concepts this lesson will teach are identifying bats' and birds' body shapes, sizes, body coverings, movements, and body parts. The posing question is: If bats can fly, why aren't they birds?
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
Through the use of various technological tools and interviewing activities, learners explore how their community affects individual identities. Learners also explore past, current and future community factors.
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: Spanish
Description:
Aprendan los números del 1-10 en el idioma Africano, Kamba
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
This lesson introduces the basic elements of desktop publishing layout and design through the use of paint/draw and publishing applications. It allows students to be creative and productive while learning to manipulate images, text and layout designs. A set of fun, hands-on activities that allow creation of brochures, fliers, posters, and printed programs based on a play. Learners determine their own criteria for success and develop an assessment rubric for their products. This unit can be done with students from grades 3 through 12 and with adults.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
The central question for this lesson is "What are digital portfolios and how can we use them?" During the school year, students collect and organize projects, photos, and school work into a multimedia format that represents what they have accomplished. Assessmentof products placed in the portfolios is also an important component of this session.
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
These lessons have students studying the ancient Egyptian numeral system. In Hieroglyphics, students learn the symbols for one, ten, and one hundred. It is appropriate for early elementary students. In Duplatio, students learn the method of multiplying by doubling. An interactive calculator demonstrates the outcome. It is more appropriate for older elementary students. These activities are mathematical in content, but they also introduce a different culture.
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
Learn to multiply Egyptian hieroglyphics in this student activity
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
Learn to recognize and use Egyptian hieroglyphics in this student activity.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: Spanish
Description:
En esta actividad los estudiantes aprenden los nombres de los océanos y de algunos de los organismos que viven ahí.
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
Students learn a new way to use their fingers for counting. This method is based on one used in the Kamba tribe of Kenya, Africa. A short video demonstrates the counting method. Students are asked to practice and show someone else what they have learned. A Kenyan flag is provided for coloring. A map of Kenya is provided for reference. A printable practice sheet is provided for students to complete and put in their folders. The driving investigation for this lesson is awareness of other counting methods and other cultures.
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
Learn numbers 1 - 10 in African Kamba
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
The Heroes unit is a multi-disciplinary set of activites designed to help students understand how media impact and influence our ideas and definitions of public figures. Students investigate how heroes are presented in literature, news, and images. After which, they derive a generally accepted definition of "hero." As a group, students discuss this predetermined definition and add their own thoughts on what heroes are. Working in small groups, elementary students create heroic characters in preset scenarios. Secondary students are given a specific task to accomplish, through which they determine what it takes to be a hero.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: Spanish
Description:
Cuatro actividades estudiantiles sobre las hormigas que enseñan conceptos de observación científica.
Content Areas: Art and Media
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
This activity is a shortened version of the Identity module. It provides opportunities for learners to identify various aspects which contribute to their uniqueness. Participants create individual quilt pieces which are combined to form a classroom or community quilt. Learners explore connections and individuality through using technology to create a common product.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
This activity is a shortened version of the Identity module. It provides opportunities for learners to identify various aspects which contribute to their uniqueness. Participants create individual quilt pieces which are combined to form a classroom or community quilt. Learners explore connections and individuality through using technology to create a common product.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
This activity is a shortened version of the Identity module. It provides opportunities for learners to identify various aspects which contribute to their uniqueness. Participants create individual quilt pieces which are combined to form a classroom or community quilt. Learners explore connections and individuality through using technology to create a common product.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
This early childhood online interactive game introduces students to ladybugs. Children count ladybug spots, listen to a ladybug poem, and other things as they try to help the ladybug find her way home.
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: Spanish
Description:
Aprendan a reconocer y utilizar los jeroglíficos egipcios en esta actividad estudiantil.
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
Luson are story-telling drawings created by an African tribe. This lesson gives students the opportunity to investigate the creation of lusona. The goal for students is to learn the ways of drawing lusona.
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
Luson are story-telling drawings created by an African tribe. This lesson gives students the opportunity to investigate the creation of lusona. The goal for students is to learn the ways of drawing lusona.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
In this lesson students will become familiar with the names of oceans and some of the organisms that live in them.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
In this activity students will become familiar with the names of oceans and some of the organisms that live in them.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
This is a fun and exciting lesson in which students develop a tri-fold brochure about their favorite state. In this interdisciplinary unit with an emphasis on United States geography, students learn the fundamentals of desktop publishing and publishing software.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
The Pet Store provides early childhood educators with a multidisciplinary, developmentally appropriate example of integrating technology into the (Pre-K-2) curriculum. It provides a hands-on opportunity for participants to recognize, use, and understand appropriate technology use with young children through guided activities that revolve around the Pet Store theme. Students will be planning and creating a Pet Store by working in teams and rotating through a series of stations which requires them to create an advertisement, a presentation, plan and sort data, create a floor map, gather information, categorize and classify animals, and document their progress.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
Students study animals of the rainforest in this online activity.
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: Spanish
Description:
Esta lección se diseñó para las matemáticas elementales del primero al tercer grado. Los estudiantes completan la actividad en la red para reforzar el concepto de reagrupación. La actividad en la red requiere muy poca supervisión del profesor / profesora.
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
This lesson is designed for elementary math, grades 1 through 3. Students go through the online activity to reinforce the concept of regrouping. The online activity requires minimal teacher guidance.
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
This lesson is designed for elementary math, grades 1 through 3. Students go through the online activity to reinforce the concept of regrouping. The online activity requires minimal teacher guidance.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
This lesson is an early childhood, language arts activity emphasizing the use of technology in the classroom. The activity is designed to be used during Fire Prevention Week, which takes place in the month of October. A weeklong matrix giving lesson ideas in all subject areas is included to help integrate the lessons and the children's learning.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
This lesson is an early childhood, language arts activity emphasizing the use of technology in the classroom. The activity is designed to be used during Fire Prevention Week, which takes place in the month of October. A weeklong matrix giving lesson ideas in all subject areas is included to help integrate the lessons and the children's learning.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: Spanish
Description:
Una lección para niños. Una aventura de Smokey Bear sobre el tema de la seguridad contra incendios.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: k-4
Language: English
Description:
This is a science lesson that incorporates language arts and electronic communications to share data between classrooms.
Grades 5-8
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
Your Chamber of Commerce is promoting your town as a great place to visit and live. They are asking you and others to create a brochure to show off the positive and welcoming things in your community. The committee will print and distribute the brochure they think best represents the town.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: Spanish
Description:
El agua en el desierto es una neccesidad preciosa. En este lección, los estudiantes crean una presentación multimedia del ciclo de agua.
Content Areas: Career Readiness
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
This lesson is designed as a Career Readiness/Social Studies unit for 6th to 8th graders. It is easily adaptable to upper elementary grades. Students look at the career of graphic design and take on learning roles to produce greeting cards. Students work collaboratively using a paint program. The driving question for this activity is: What do graphic designers do?
Content Areas: Career Readiness
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
In this adventure, you'll learn about graphic design and what designers do on the job. As a member of a design team for the Creative Card Factory, you'll create a set of note cards. Get your creative juices flowing! You are part of a design team.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
Through the use of various technological tools and interviewing activities, learners explore how their community affects individual identities. Learners also explore past, current and future community factors.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language:
Description:
Preserve local history through research, then create a museum exhibit using that research in this activity.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: Spanish
Description:
In this activity collaborative groups will make and test a solar cooker and design a better solar
cooker. This project combines math, technology, science, and engineering. Students must evaluate
the efficiency of their design for a solar cooker and present their conclusions to the class.
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: 5-8 9-12 5-8
Language: English
Description:
Students will convert the measurements from metric to standard and then scale the kite design to 'fit' a vertical spar dowel whose measure is 36 inches.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
This lesson introduces the basic elements of desktop publishing layout and design through the use of paint/draw and publishing applications. It allows students to be creative and productive while learning to manipulate images, text and layout designs. A set of fun, hands-on activities that allow creation of brochures, fliers, posters, and printed programs based on a play. Learners determine their own criteria for success and develop an assessment rubric for their products. This unit can be done with students from grades 3 through 12 and with adults.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
The central question for this lesson is "What are digital portfolios and how can we use them?" During the school year, students collect and organize projects, photos, and school work into a multimedia format that represents what they have accomplished. Assessmentof products placed in the portfolios is also an important component of this session.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
Water in the desert is a precious commodity. In this lesson, students will create a multimedia presentation about the water cycle, graph water usage in the Mesilla Valley area, and create public service brochures on water conservation.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
Water in the desert is a precious commodity. In this lesson, students will create a multimedia presentation about the water cycle, graph water usage in the Mesilla Valley area, and create public service brochures on water conservation.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
The Rio Grande supports a wide variety of life forms. In this lesson, students will identify various organisms that exist in the river environment. They will consider physical characteristics and roles that plants and animals play in the river ecosystem. Using information from research and a trip to the local river, they will create field guides of the plants and animals that thrive in the river ecosystem.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
This lesson explores the connection between the Rio Grande and weather patterns.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
A student's family is a wonderful and authentic place to draw from and create authentic interesting experiences for students. Sharing delicious family recipes is a wonderful way to express students' culture and individuality. As students research ingredients, nutritional value, and food costs they will learn that some recipes can be viewed as a reflection of a student's background. This can be a wonderful opportunity to explore the history behind such recipes. Students not only learn from each other, but they also get a chance to explore the issue of diversity in class. With this unit, the class will create a recipe book containing students' family recipes while experiencing the elements of an interdisciplinary, collaborative, technology assisted learning environment.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
Forces of Nature, an interdisciplinary lesson, focuses on natural disasters that are happening all over the world. After researching and mapping natural disasters, students create a survey about natural disasters for friends or family members. The information gathered from the survey and student research is used to create a digital presentation that answers the driving question "Where in the world is the safest place to live?"
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
Forces of Nature, an interdisciplinary lesson, focuses on natural disasters that are happening all over the world. After researching and mapping natural disasters, students create a survey about natural disasters for friends or family members. The information gathered from the survey and student research is used to create a digital presentation that answers the driving question "Where in the world is the safest place to live?"
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
In this activity, students research a Spanish family who traveled El Camino Real and design a coat of arms.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
Through this project, students will be introduced to the various cultures, traditions, and beliefs of New Mexicans while exploring and recording their own presence and place. These student portfolios can be later unified into a class web site, much like short stories published in the book, Rio Grande Stories, by Carolyn Meyer.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
In this project, students will interview a relative and create a digital oral history report.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
The Heroes unit is a multi-disciplinary set of activites designed to help students understand how media impact and influence our ideas and definitions of public figures. Students investigate how heroes are presented in literature, news, and images. After which, they derive a generally accepted definition of "hero." As a group, students discuss this predetermined definition and add their own thoughts on what heroes are. Working in small groups, elementary students create heroic characters in preset scenarios. Secondary students are given a specific task to accomplish, through which they determine what it takes to be a hero.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
This activity helps students answer the question: How does my community and its changes affect who I am?
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
The History Hounds lesson utilizes various technology tools and programs for students to create a newspaper that contains articles, photos, and advertisements from historical events in their community. The central question for this lesson is "What changes have taken place in our community?" Before the activity, students collect photos, news articles, stories, and other memorabilia from past events. These items are reformatted into a newspaper for display. Students also decide how to assess their work and present their completed newspapers.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
This activity is a shortened version of the Identity module. It provides opportunities for learners to identify various aspects which contribute to their uniqueness. Participants create individual quilt pieces which are combined to form a classroom or community quilt. Learners explore connections and individuality through using technology to create a common product.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
Kites are made and flown all over the world. This lesson introduces students to other cultures and customs through the making and flying of kites. After researching how kites are used in other countries, students present their findings to the class. They then make a kite and decorate it in the style of the country researched.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
In this activity, students will gather information about kites around the world and then write a report detailing uses of kites in other countries and how those kites are built.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: Spanish
Description:
En esta actividad, los estudiantes investigan una familia española que viajó a través de El Camino Real. También diseñarán un escudo.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: Spanish
Description:
Esta lección de las artes del lenguaje se enfoca en las destrezas del pensamiento crítico, específicamente en inferir. La maleta misteriosa ofrece la oportunidad al estudiante de practicar ejercicios de escritura individuales, justificar respuestas y crear hojas de cálculo.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: Spanish
Description:
Exploren la marcha forzada de los Navajo, llamada la marcha larga, en esta colección de tres actividades en la red.
Content Areas: Career Readiness
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
This lesson gives students the opportunity to investigate the creation and meaning of logos as well as introducing graphic design as a career choice.
Content Areas: Career Readiness
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: Spanish
Description:
Esta actividad explora las carreras de diseñadores gráficos por medio del estudio de logos y sus significados
Content Areas: Career Readiness
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
This activity explore the career of graphic design through the study of logos and their meanings.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
This lesson, designed for the language arts class, stresses critical thinking skills, particularly making inferences. Mystery Bag provides an opportunity for individual writing activities, justifying responses, and making spread sheets.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
This lesson, designed for the language arts class, stresses critical thinking skills, particularly making inferences. Mystery Bag provides an opportunity for individual writing activities, justifying responses, and making spread sheets.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
This lesson explores the influence of geography on adobe architecture in New Mexico. In groups, students investigate one of three types of New Mexican adobe architecture - Pueblo, Territorial or Northern New Mexican. An interactive media piece allows students to design a floor plan and calculate the area of the rooms.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
Research a style of architecture in New Mexico and then recreate it in this online activity.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: Spanish
Description:
En esta actividad, los estudiantes investigan los papalotes de distintos países del mundo y luego hacen reportes detallados sobre cómo se usan en esos países y cómo se construyen.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: Spanish
Description:
La cámara de comercio está promoviendo tu ciudad como un lugar buenísimo para visitar y vivir. Te piden a ti y a otros que diseñen un folleto para mostrar los aspectos positivos y atractivos de la comunidad. El comité hará copias y distribuirá el folleto que mejor represente la ciudad.
Content Areas: Science
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
In this activity collaborative groups will make and test a solar cooker and design a better solar
cooker. This project combines math, technology, science, and engineering. Students must evaluate
the efficiency of their design for a solar cooker and present their conclusions to the class.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
Explore the forced march of the Navajo, called the Long Walk, in this collection of three online activities.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: English
Description:
This activity provides opportunities for learners to identify various aspects which contribute to their uniqueness. Participants create individual quilt pieces which are combined to form a classroom or community quilt. Learners explore connections and individuality through using technology to create a common product.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 5-8
Language: Spanish
Description:
Esta actividad es una versión corta del módulo sobre la Identidad. Presenta una oportunidad para que los estudiantes identifiquen las características que los hacen especiales y únicos. Cada estudiante crea un cuadro electrónicamente y estos se juntan para formar una ?colcha digital.?
Grades 9-12
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
Your Chamber of Commerce is promoting your town as a great place to visit and live. They are asking you and others to create a brochure to show off the positive and welcoming things in your community. The committee will print and distribute the brochure they think best represents the town.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
Through the use of various technological tools and interviewing activities, learners explore how their community affects individual identities. Learners also explore past, current and future community factors.
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: 5-8 9-12 5-8
Language: English
Description:
Students will convert the measurements from metric to standard and then scale the kite design to 'fit' a vertical spar dowel whose measure is 36 inches.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
This lesson introduces the basic elements of desktop publishing layout and design through the use of paint/draw and publishing applications. It allows students to be creative and productive while learning to manipulate images, text and layout designs. A set of fun, hands-on activities that allow creation of brochures, fliers, posters, and printed programs based on a play. Learners determine their own criteria for success and develop an assessment rubric for their products. This unit can be done with students from grades 3 through 12 and with adults.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
The central question for this lesson is "What are digital portfolios and how can we use them?" During the school year, students collect and organize projects, photos, and school work into a multimedia format that represents what they have accomplished. Assessmentof products placed in the portfolios is also an important component of this session.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
An entire site of lessons devoted to El Camino Real: Its history, art, natural environment, and agriculture.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
A student's family is a wonderful and authentic place to draw from and create authentic interesting experiences for students. Sharing delicious family recipes is a wonderful way to express students' culture and individuality. As students research ingredients, nutritional value, and food costs they will learn that some recipes can be viewed as a reflection of a student's background. This can be a wonderful opportunity to explore the history behind such recipes. Students not only learn from each other, but they also get a chance to explore the issue of diversity in class. With this unit, the class will create a recipe book containing students' family recipes while experiencing the elements of an interdisciplinary, collaborative, technology assisted learning environment.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
The Heroes unit is a multi-disciplinary set of activites designed to help students understand how media impact and influence our ideas and definitions of public figures. Students investigate how heroes are presented in literature, news, and images. After which, they derive a generally accepted definition of "hero." As a group, students discuss this predetermined definition and add their own thoughts on what heroes are. Working in small groups, elementary students create heroic characters in preset scenarios. Secondary students are given a specific task to accomplish, through which they determine what it takes to be a hero.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
This activity helps students answer the question: How does my community and its changes affect who I am?
Content Areas: Art and Media
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
The video production curriculum offers the tools and techniques for creating a basic video. Video production has become affordable for the average consumer. The average family videotapes births, recitals, plays, birthdays, and graduations. They not only chronicle their lives but is now they use video just for fun. Further, video production is a viable tool for incorporating multimedia into curriculum. The following unit is designed to increase the awareness of basic video planning and video techniques to produce a quality video in the classroom.
Content Areas: Art and Media
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
In this activity students will create a video depicting their community
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
This lesson uses email to communicate pieces of a treasure map among groups of "relatives" who can inherit the treasure when the map is completed. Students work in groups following the instructions of the map and learning the skills and etiquette of electronic communications.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
The Media Investigations curriculum offers learners the tools and techniques for critically analyzing today's media. From magazines to the nightly news, media controls information, images, and events. The lessons contained in the following unit are designed to increase your students' awareness of the media's perspectives and to evaluate the messages promoted through those perspectives. Stations are set up at different computers to allow several groups to work on different tasks at the same time. Specific stations include Deconstructing and Constructing Magazine Covers, The Great American Soda Taste Test, A Scavenger Hunt of Hoaxes, and a Consumer Database.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
The Media Investigations curriculum offers learners the tools and techniques for critically analyzing today's media. From magazines to the nightly news, media controls information, images, and events. The lessons contained in the following unit are designed to increase your students' awareness of the media's perspectives and to evaluate the messages promoted through those perspectives.
Content Areas: Language Arts
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: Spanish
Description:
La cámara de comercio está promoviendo tu ciudad como un lugar buenísimo para visitar y vivir. Te piden a ti y a otros que diseñen un folleto para mostrar los aspectos positivos y atractivos de la comunidad. El comité hará copias y distribuirá el folleto que mejor represente la ciudad.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
An entire site of interdisciplinary lessons dedicated to Route 66. This site is a companion site to KNME-TVÕs ÒRoute 66 in New Mexico.Ó
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
An entire site of interdisciplinary lessons dedicated to Route 66. This site is a companion site to KNME-TVÕs ÒRoute 66 in New Mexico.Ó
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
Students solve geomety problems to complete a castle in this online activity.
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
Students solve geomety problems to complete a castle in this individual online activity
Content Areas: Mathematics
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
Email is an important part of electronic communication. In this lesson, students will become familiar with different functions of email. Working in groups, students send and receive email instructions in order to solve a mathematical problems as they rennovate an old castle.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: English
Description:
This activity provides opportunities for learners to identify various aspects which contribute to their uniqueness. Participants create individual quilt pieces which are combined to form a classroom or community quilt. Learners explore connections and individuality through using technology to create a common product.
Content Areas: Social Studies
Grade Levels: 9-12
Language: Spanish
Description:
Esta actividad es una versión corta del módulo sobre la Identidad. Presenta una oportunidad para que los estudiantes identifiquen las características que los hacen especiales y únicos. Cada estudiante crea un cuadro electrónicamente y estos se juntan para formar una ?colcha digital.?