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My students sometimes share documents to create joint stories or essays.
In American Lit., I attempted to introduce new units by allowing students to explore the trends and writers of the time periods to gather information about what made the different groups distinguishable.

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My 8th graders are introduced to robotics through building and programming robots from specific directions.  Once the students have mastered the basics they take the robots apart and must build a robot of their own design to complete a specific task.  They need to utilize the construction and programming methods learned earlier to construct a successful sumo bot.

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Trash to Treasure IFT Project

Fashion and Textiles students are given a box of random clothing (Goodwill finds, cheap Walmart buys, etc) and have to create a complete outfit using the skills that they have learned throughout the class. They can only use items in the classroom, random materials, sewing equipment, etc that are in the FACS classroom. Students are graded on a rubric that checks the outfit's fit, functionality, and design.

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1920's culture assignment

Create a google document with guided topics and have them create a collage with pictures and/or videos about the culture of that era. With the people/events they choose, they are to explain the impact each topic had.

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In preparing for the AP Calculus Test we do Jig Saw Multiple Choice Days.  Students get 12 multiple choice questions.  They are divided into groups of 2 to 3 and assigned 4 problems per group.  They are given 12-15 minutes.  At the end of the time, they are regrouped so that each new group has one "expert" for each of the 12 questions.  Then they work together to finish up the quiz.  They are talking the whole time and reevaluating their work from the first group, sometimes calling across the room, "I think we did #4 wrong". Once the quiz is graded I know right away where they need extra instruction.

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When preparing for concerts, we use the ipad to record ourselves singing. We listen to the playback and then analyze what we hear and determine ways to make our performance better, stronger, more expressive, etc. We can also analyze our visual performance and determine what we look like - how we are standing, etc. We make one recording early and then another a week before the concert and compare the recordings to see how much we have improved.

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After completing therapy activities, exit ticket questions involve how to apply skills within the classroom and with classroom activities.

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Create a poster in slides to generate ideas to questions and share ideas with others. Use words and pictures to share their ideas.

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After studying genres, my students had to pull a genre out and then create their own story using storyboard.  After showing their storyboard to the class, the class would reflect and analyze what genre that student had chosen.

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We use the solve and share in math, with a small group students have to share the process they used to solve.
In Reading we discuss the feelings of the characters and what we would have done differently, how would that change the outcome of the story.

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This school year we have completed digital citizenship lessons. During those lessons, my class has discussions of the things that could happen if they don't use their devices and social media sites appropriately. I think this has helped my students to become more critical in thinking about what they post or say online.

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Peer Reviews

KWL charts before beginning a given reading/chapter book etc.

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Dialogue Cartoons

After several lessons on dialogue and how to use dialogue, I asked students to create their own creative dialogue cartoons.

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At the end of the year, we do a theme park project where the kids have to use graph paper and draw out a map to their theme park. They have to make it to scale by giving a key saying what scale of measurement they are using.

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At the end of each year we build an object to protect an egg during a fall from the top of the football bleachers.

After spring break the students will be designing a toothpick bridge to hold various amounts of weights.

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Comprehension activity. Students are given weekly mysteries to solve. The students must use only the facts given in the story to draw conclusion.

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5th Grade Math:

I provided students with a problem and they had to solve it as many was as they could think of. We then shared our solutions as an entire class with the students leading the discussion.

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Shadow Activity where students predict the height of tall object outside of the school and then use Pythagorean theorem to correctly name the actual height of an object using shadows. They are able to draw and explain their reasoning.

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After completing work, the students have to justify their answers with descriptions and formulas related to the problems.

Have the students share how they believe problems we are doing could be used in real life.

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Students are given or have a real life problem then individually and/ or as a group they work on resolving it.    We have protocols that are added to or used a resource for problem solving.

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Ron  I gave them the setting and the dialogue of a story in which a crime had been committed. Based on these two factors alone, they had to how the crime was committed. Also the students had to decide who the guilty party was.

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Ron  I gave them the setting and the dialogue of a story in which a crime had been committed. Based on these two factors alone, they had to how the crime was committed. Also the students had to decide who the guilty party was.

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Debate regarding the story "The Lottery"
Mock Trial as a follow-up to the story "The Bargain"
Story Board w/ E.A. Poe short stories
Breakout EDU

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Alcohol/Tobacco KWL Charts
Life Skills Unit Topics include Stress Management, Decision Making, Alcohol/Tobacco/Drug Use

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Circuits
In 4th grade, my students had to evaluate how a single circuit was different than a double circuit. From that, they have to create a single or double circuit with the material given.

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K/W/L with new topics

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-Artist statements
-Critical thinking maps to develop concepts
-Projects/art pieces based on concepts of their choice-these usually demonstrate student's perspective/viewpoint on the concept

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Short videos/journal
Storyboards