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North America - San Antonio Growth and Expansion

Consider the impacts of human migration on physical and human systems and ask "where will the future growth of San Antonio occur?"

Discipline: Social Studies and History

Overrun by Skeeters - Exponential Growth

This introduction to exponential functions considers the world population since 1650. In a simulation, the population grows at a random yet predictable rate.

Discipline: Mathematics

Patriotism & Foreign Policy

What should the U.S. relationship with the rest of the world be? And what artifacts should be selected for a Museum of Patriotism and Foreign Policy?

Discipline: Social Studies and History

Performing With Confidence

Students discuss a political election and hold a mock talk show in French.

Discipline: Foreign Language

The Phone Bill Problem - Linear Functions

Write an equation of a linear function when given a set of data. Interpret the meaning of the slope and y-intercept and then use the equation to find other values of x and y.

Discipline: Mathematics

Public Policy & the Federal Budget

Create, present, revise, and defend a Federal budget, and then reflect on what was learned.

Discipline: Social Studies and History

Reader Response: James Welch

James Welch's work is further understood by focusing on specific compelling and significant words.

Discipline: Literature

Reader Response: Keith Gilyard

Small groups discuss several of the poems, and create their own visual "poemographies" in response to Gilyard's work.

Discipline: Literature

Reader Response: Mourning Dove

In a traditional "lodge," students become part of a clan and members of a tribe who create and tell stories of their own.

Discipline: Literature

Rights and Responsibilities of Students

Write summaries of Supreme Court cases that involve the constitutional rights of students. Role-play with lawyers presenting a hypothetical case to Justices who deliberate and present their opinions.

Discipline: Social Studies and History

Russia - Yours, Mine, and Ours: Determining Boundaries

Learn about conflict by participating in a role-playing activity in the context of the fictional region of “Ugeria".

Discipline: Social Studies and History

Skeeter Populations and Exponential Growth

Exponential functions are used to represent population growth.

Discipline: Mathematics

Sports in Action

Students begin with learning and practicing German vocabulary, move to understanding and re-creating a new TPR story, and then finish by writing down the story in their own words.

Discipline: Foreign Language

Sub-Saharan Africa - Health Ratings for Sub-Saharan Africa

Research and consolidate demographic data, calculate health ratings and discuss conclusions.

Discipline: Social Studies and History

Sub-Saharan Africa - Kenya: The AIDS Epidemic

Through a role-playing exercise, understand the dissemination, causes, and effects of the AIDS epidemic in Kenya.

Discipline: Social Studies and History

Sub-Saharan Africa - South Africa Land Allocation

With a map and an assigned role, determine how to allocate land.

Discipline: Social Studies and History

Things Fall Apart

Adapt any chapter as a script. Travel to a nearby African-American cemetery and research names of the dead. Conduct research projects on issues addressed in the novel.