Best Practices Showcase Lessons
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Teaching
American
History |
Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism
Rich
Mayorga
Sunnyside High School
Sunnyside Unified School District
- Primary Sources
- Five-Minute Drill
The students are expected
to analyze primary sources to identify the central concepts and ideas from the progressive era
and the presidential administration of Theodore Roosevelt. |
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Page USD
Teaching
American
History |
Westward
Expansion and the Transcontinental Railroad
Sandra
Lomeland
Desert View Elementary
Page Unified School District, Page, AZ
- Usage of primary sources
- Importance of viewing historical events from multiple perspectives
- Utilize a variety of graphic organizers
Ms. Lomeland uses a variety of primary
source documents to help her 5th grade students analyze the different perspectives of the European American
settlers and the Native American population through the lens of the construction of the
transcontinental railroad. |
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Creating
an Invention
Sharla LaBelle
Sunset Ridge School, Deer Valley Unified School District, Phoenix, AZ
- Nonlinguistic Representations: Concept Maps and Multimedia
- Collaborative Learning
- Technology Integration
The lesson
"Creating an Invention" makes extensive use of non-linguistic representation to
teach students about geometric shapes while integrating science, mathematics,
science, and language arts. A block of 2 1/2 hours is allotted for this lesson,
which is part of a unit on Ideas and Inventions.
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Video
Cases Studies
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Elementary
School
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An
Integrated Lesson: Math, Science, Language Arts
Martha
Taylor
Thomas M. Knoles Elementary School
Flagstaff Unified School District, Flagstaff, AZ
Science is integrated
into the students' day by discussing the weather with the use of
a class-made barometer, the newspaper and the computer. It encourages
the class to predict the weather and reinforces their predictions
with graphs.
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Norton
Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
Lynn
Fox
Renaissance Magnet Middle School
Flagstaff Unified School District, Flagstaff, AZ
Mrs.
Lynn Fox brings to us a well organized and developed Language Arts
lesson that enfolds the Six Writing Traits of the Arizona Academic
Standards into a writing assignment.
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Tuck
Everlasting Literature Review
Jeongwha
Lors
Pinon Accelerated Middle School
Pinon Unified School District #4, Pinon, AZ
- Young Author's Chair
- Technology Integration
The studients explote literature
share in small groups, develop unique stories, and present the stories as "Young Authors".
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Archimedes'
Spiral
Jean
Sutton
Madison Meadows School
Madison Elementary School District, Phoenix, AZ
- Hands-on Learning
- Technology Integration
In a collaborative
learning environment, Jean Sutton presents the lesson "Archimedes'
Spiral and Other Inventions" to a class of 6th grade math students
at Madison Meadows School in Phoenix, Arizona.
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High School
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A
Multi-Genre Approach to Six Traits Writing
Lois
Rodgers
Patagonia Union High School
Patagonia Union High School District, Patagonia, AZ
- Cooperative Learning
- Six Trait Writing
- Independent Literature Analysis
Students
read, explore and compare the two novels, Conrad's Heart of Darkness
and Golding's Lord of the Flies. Mrs. Rodgers focuses
on the general concept of Darkness and her students are led into both
personal and general expressions of Darkness. |
