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Web 2.0 Instructional Technology In The Classroom, Darren Hayes Jul 2010

Web 2.0 Instructional Technology In The Classroom, Darren Hayes

Cornerstone 1 Reports : Expansion and Enhancements of the Thinkfinity Platform

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Thinkfinity Grant Mid- Project Status Report: Differentiations, Roberta Wiener Jun 2010

Thinkfinity Grant Mid- Project Status Report: Differentiations, Roberta Wiener

Cornerstone 1 Reports : Expansion and Enhancements of the Thinkfinity Platform

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Interactive Whiteboard, Mortola Library, Ctlt (Center For Teaching Learning And Technology) Apr 2010

Interactive Whiteboard, Mortola Library, Ctlt (Center For Teaching Learning And Technology)

Cornerstone 3 Reports : Interdisciplinary Informatics

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Grade 7 Native Americans, Bryan Fierson Jan 2010

Grade 7 Native Americans, Bryan Fierson

Social Studies

This lesson on Native American life will be a three-day lesson that includes, among other differentiated elements, a hook sparking the students' imagination through fantasy, a direct instruction session, two anchor activities, a group reading activity, a creative writing exercise, and performance tasks to measure student comprehension and learning.


Grades 6-8 Ecology, Jessica Williams Jan 2010

Grades 6-8 Ecology, Jessica Williams

Science

This is a lesson for 6th-8th grade students on Ecology. This culminating activity has students creating a brochure or presentation on a National Park of their choice based on differentiated guidelines and rubrics. Through this lesson students will have an understanding of how their knowledge of ecology can be applied to the National Parks through collaborative group work.


Grade 6-8 Living Things, Theresa Gomez Jan 2010

Grade 6-8 Living Things, Theresa Gomez

Science

Abstract: This unit explores the characteristics of living things. Students must evaluate and classify various specimens to determine if they meet agreed upon criteria for life. The unit emphasizes the ways in which different organisms perform the same life functions, and reveals that non-living things may appear to perform some functions but do not perform all functions. The unit culminates in the relation that all living things are made of cells.


Grade 9-10 Spanish Food And Cooking, Montsernat Ballina Llosa Jan 2010

Grade 9-10 Spanish Food And Cooking, Montsernat Ballina Llosa

World Languages

This lesson is a Spanish lesson about food and cooking recipes. The final outcome is that students have to create their own recipe. Through the lesson they will study vocabulary and will be able to establish cross-cultural connections among the Spanish and American culture.


Grades 9-10 Algebra: Graphic Quadratics On The Coordinate Plane, Michelle Darcy Jan 2010

Grades 9-10 Algebra: Graphic Quadratics On The Coordinate Plane, Michelle Darcy

Math

This lesson is part of a total unit of graphing quadratics. Each project is tiered and allows the students to see the many different places in which math is present in the world and outside the math classroom. This is part of the Algebra curriculum. Through this lessons students will be able to graph quadratics.


Grades 9-12 Earth Science, Katie Whittaker Jan 2010

Grades 9-12 Earth Science, Katie Whittaker

Science

New York state standards emphasizes the importance of connecting past and present events to possible future events. This lesson plan focuses on the geologic past as it is presented in the New York state referenced tables for Earth Science. The lesson plan features a clip from "you tube" as a hook, a RAFT assignment that embraces theories by Bloom and Gardner, a post card activity to test understanding, and a closure activity where students will predict future events based on patterns from the geological past.