All resources in Middle School Special Courses/Electives

Scavenger Hunt

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Students apply their searching and critical thinking skills to learn how to find legitimate online sources for downloading and streaming movies, music and videos. (This four lesson unit on search skills and critical thinking teaches students how to target and specify their online searches to avoid unwanted results, how to judge whether a link, search result or website is legitimate or phony and how to find legitimate sources online for media works such as music videos and movies.)

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: MediaSmarts

Knight Tank

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Students in Business Management class have been learning how to sell not only their products but themselves and their ideas. In this lesson, developed off the ABC Show "Shark Tank," students will work with a partner to develop a fictional product/company, create information about the product and company, develop a business and marketing plan, and present the product/company to a group of potential investors (Sharks). The students will present their information to the Sharks (faculty members) and be prepared to answer any questions the Sharks may have.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Amy Stills

Marketing to Teens

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Students understand how pervasive and influential advertising is in our culture and how teenagers are actively targeted by advertisers. Students will demonstrate an awareness of the many different types of advertisements they encounter daily. Student will explain how they, as consumers, are influenced by commercial messages.

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Author: Charity Laboucan and Tracy Duncan, Planned Parenthood Edmonton, and Sonya Thompson, Film Classification Services, Alberta Community Development

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

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Students learn strategies for using the Internet effectively to research global development issues. Students discover how to determine the truth and accuracy of online information and learn effective ways to obtain balanced sources of information. Students learn to ask, and search for answers to, the questions: Who is presenting this information and why?

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: MediaSmarts, Maureen Baron

Foundation for Biomedical Research: Lesson Three - Specific Facts about the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research Review / Webquest (long version)

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This webquest will farmiliarize students with the 3 R's of biomedical research using animals. They will be able to cite several examples of diseases, treatments and procedures that are being researched and the animals that are used in that research.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Foundation for Biomedical Research

Foundation for Biomedical Research: Lesson Three - Specific Facts about the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research Review / Webquest (short version)

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This webquest will farmiliarize students with the 3 R's of biomedical research using animals. They will be able to cite several examples of diseases, treatments and procedures that are being researched and the animals that are used in that research.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Foundation for Biomedical Research

Create Your Own Business Card

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Students will create a business card for themselves. The card should help others know and remember them. Ideally it should convey a sense of who they are, what they do, and their interests: cheerleader, history buff, teacher's assistant, class president, hall monitor, avid reader, or the only boy in a family of seven girls!

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: DCMS Technology Education

How Computers Work

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Students will develop a basic sense of how computers work by having them act out a simple computer simulation. Each student takes on the role of a different part of a simplified computer and they work in groups to run a simple program. The end result of this program is to draw a picture on a simulated computer display. It is designed for groups of 3 students, although it can be adapted to work as an individual activity or with groups of 2-4. The simulations focuses on the Central Processing Unit (CPU), the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), and the Display.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Gary Kacmarcik