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Cyber Shield: Hack the Safe Code!

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i need my students to work on cyber security

Tidepool Treasure Trove: Protect & Preserve!

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project about tide pools. The trash-to-tidepool connection: how students can be protectors of tidepools, also want students to walk away with basic knowledge of a tidepool. Student's end product will be making creature cards with a bit of inforamtion about the creature as well as making a poster, as a group, about the trash to tidepool connection

Crafty Cardboard Totem Tower Tales

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: Totem poles The Idea: Using cardboard paper towel or toilet paper rolls, have children draw and color different animal faces or symbolic figures on each section. Stack and glue the rolls to create a multi-layered totem pole. Totem poles are monumental sculptures carved from large trees by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. They tell stories, commemorate ancestors, record histories, and display clan lineages. Emphasize their regional significance and the storytelling aspect.

Stormy Seas: Science in Action!

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Create a 9 week, 80 minute class twice per week with 50 minute class every other week, pbl gold standard, high school life science, marine science class based off of 2026 SeaPerch theme, Storm Response: Technology in Action for Recovery and Relief. Make it follow NGSS Life science expectations using ccc and sep as competencies Competency 2: Cause & Effect - Students will demonstrate the ability to investigate, explain, and evaluate potential causal relationships by using evidence to support claims and predictions about the mechanisms that drive those relationships. Competency 5: Energy and Matter - Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze evidence from a variety of sources (investigations, models) to predict, connect and/or evaluate the cycling of matter and flow of energy within and between systems in order to understand, describe, or predict possibilities and limitations of systems. Competency 6: Structure and Function - Students will demonstrate the ability to use evidence to support claims about the relationship among structure and function of natural and human designed objects. Competency 7: Stability and Change of Systems - Students will demonstrate the ability to investigate and analyze static and dynamic conditions of natural and human designed systems in order to explain and predict changes over time. Competency 8: Nature of Science - Student will demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively and individually to generate testable questions or define problems, plan and conduct investigations using a variety of research methods in a various settings, analyze and interpret data, reason with evidence to construct explanations in light of existing theory and previous research, and effectively communicate the research processes and conclusions.

Global Pal Adventures: Write & Skype!

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Set up a pen pal exchange with a school in another country to enhance language skills and cultural understanding. Students will write letters and possibly engage in video calls.

Outsider Perspectives on Today's Troubles

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Compare/contrast real-world issues in today’s world with the themes/issues in The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton;

Strategic Success Sprint: All Aboard DeKalb!

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Adults want to participate in revising the district strategic plan. The vision, mission, core values, and priority areas will remain the same. Now we need administrators and directors within the district to identify goals in each priority area, define processes that need to be put into place, evaluate current processes in place that help or hinder success of the goal, and metrics to measure the goal. We would like to start with a data dump where each school brings data supporting each priority area (student success, positive culture and environment, community and district alliance, intentional innovation, and talent management). Participants will complete a data talk analyzing the data around each priority area (define themes and connections) to help establish current reality, then participate in a protocol to define future goals in each priority area, and then gap fill to evaluate how this document needs to be edited. We could then engage in learning around each priority area and its goals. We would enter into learning with individual goals, school team or department team goals, and district (all leaders) goals. Throughout the project we would like to sprinkle in intentional use of Gallup Clifton Strengths to lean on and collaborate effectively.

Vote-tastic: Rights Revolution Relay

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Voting rights movement Build on collections at The Henry Ford

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