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1. Lesson 1 - Forward, Into the Past!
...ls icon for Activity 1 Chronologies Activity 2 icon for My Collection Lesson Length Site Search Day one - 1.5 - 2 hours for introduction and preliminary activities Day two - 1/2 day for virtual field trip top of page Advanced Search Key Content Ideas Taught in this Lesson and Teacher Background The Albany Road Burying Ground, originally one of several Native American burying ground sites, was the first burying ground used by the Puritan settlers of Deerfield. After 1800, burial in Albany Road was discontinued, and Deerfield's dead were buried in the Laurel Hill Cemetery instead. Burying grounds and t...

2. Using Diagrams in Problem Solutions
Using Diagrams in Problem Solutions Angel L. Torres Peabody School 1910 North Albany Ave. 1444 West Augusta Blvd. Chicago, Illinois 60647 Chicago, Illinois 60622 312-235-5525 312-292-5073 Objectives: Grade Level 7-8 1- Use of tables, graphs, and diagrams to obtain information. 2- Construction of tables, graphs, and diagrams to collect data. Material: Mimeographed papers containing g...

3. Comparison Shopping
.... FOLLOW-UP: Give each student $1000 in "play money." Using newspaper classified ads, challenge each to find the best used car for the money. Afterwards, compare choices and let students present arguments as to why the car they chose was best. WORKSHEET L MATH Store A SALE SALE Danny's Bicycle Shop Albany's best bike buys MONGOOSE 24" silver dirt bike $189 SCHWINN 10-speed, 26" electric blue $225 (Baskets $30 add'l) Spare Tires for 10-speeds $29.99 Buy a MONGOOSE this month and get a set of reflectors free. Special discounts on horns to kids with all As and Bs on their report cards. Unbelievable low...

4. Musical Hoops
...need to be included. Some examples of fitness cards: line jumps, jumping jacks and jills, crunches, mountain climbers, jump over hoop, hop on each foot, etc. Share this idea with Printer friendly version friend! Printer friendly version Email this idea! Submitted by Letressa Whatley who teaches at Albany Middle School in Albany, GA. Thanks for contributing to PE Central! Posted on PEC: 12/19/2001. Viewed 31210 times since 11/7/2001. Search for lesson ideas Home Lesson Ideas Search PEC Assessment Ideas Bulletin Boards PEC Store Info Center/Blog Discount Equipment Media Center Professional Info Kids Q...

5. Making Friends With Franklin
...s (optional) Benjamin Franklin, by Ted Lind. heavy paper scissors glue Subject visual arts The image to the right is an engraving based on a portrait painted in 1767, when Franklin was in London as a representative of the colonies. The images below that are by Ted Lind, director of education at the Albany Institute of History & Art. As an introduction to a self- portrait exercise, you might show students these pictures and ask questions along these lines: How do the changes in the new portrait affect your impression of Franklin? Do the changes make the objects in the original portrait more noticeable...

6. Lesson 5 - The Middling Class in Deerfield
...icon for Home page icon for Digital In the Classroom > Course Lessons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Collection Overview > Unit Overview 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 icon for Activities icon for Turns Exhibit icon for In the Classroom icon for Chronologies Lesson 5: The Middling Class in Deerfield: icon for Two People on Albany Road: A Case study My Collection Site Search Lesson Central Question: In This Lesson: Advanced Search What can the study of individuals tell us Lesson Length about the past of a community? Key Ideas I.L.O.s Preparation Materials Activities Assessment Lesson Length 1 class period (85 minutes) top of...

7. --:: The Bill of Rights Institute ::---
...Back to Lessons Home Free Lessons Activities Subject Unity in Times of National Crisis Constitution Day Synopsis In this lesson, students will trace the roots of federalism from the Founding documents back to one of the earliest plans for an American union of the colonies under Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of 1754. Students will analyze and outline the Albany plan, then work in a group to research the perspective of a particular historical group that might be affected by the provisions of the plan. Following a report on their research, groups will prepare a structured position statement on the Al...

8. Short story writing
...Print Lesson Teachers.Net Nav Chat Center Teachers Administrators Grade Level Subjects States Interest Groups Projects Classified Ads Help Wanted Email: State: 2239. Short story writing Reading/Writing, level: Middle Posted Sun Apr 29 19:20:52 PDT 2001 by Emily Donavan (evandon@telstra.com). North Albany senior High school, Albany, Western Australia Materials Required: Pen Paper and a class of students... Activity Time: two/three weeks Concepts Taught: creativeness, POV, Characterisation,ETC 1)Have students pick out an object in the room and describe it with out saying what it is or what it does. Ex...

9. The Founding of New Societies, 1607-1763 Lesson 1
...uggested lesson/activities: 1. Ask the students to assume that they are living sometime between 1675 and 1725 in the upper Hudson River Valley near the juncture of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers. Small settlements have been established around Fort Orange (later to become the capital city of New York, Albany), Fort SHANEKTADES (the Indian name for what would later become the city of Schenectady the home of the Edison Electric Company now known as the General Electric Company), and a trading port on the eastern shore of the Hudson opposite the point of the Mohawk's entry into the Hudson (a settlement tha...

10. Level 1
...Web sites. Property Privacy Make judgments as to which sites could be used as acceptable resource material for the research paper. MATERIALS/EQUIPMENT Computer lab with Internet access. LCD projector and screen or Smart Board. The Web article entitled ?Evaluating Internet Resources? http:/ /library.albany.edu/internet/evaluate.html TIME 2 class periods or 96-100 minutes of instruction. PROCESS DAY 1 ? Learning the Different Evaluation Techniques Read and discuss the article entitled ?Evaluating Internet Resources? http://library.albany.edu/internet/evaluate.html . Present and discuss the Power Point...