Breaking the Stock Barrier
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
In this unit, students will learn about the stock market, specifically the stocks included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.  They will create a virtual portfolio containing 5 stocks from the Dow and watch their movement for a 3-month period.  Each day as they gather data, they will keep a chart in Excel.  History of the market, the Dow, as well as a guest speaker from an investment firm would be excellent additions. This lesson takes approximately 3 days to teach and then you can follow up on it for as long as you would like.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 5.

Classification
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Students will craete a classification system based on physical characteristics of plants and animals. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1 and 3.

Comets
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
In this science lesson about comets, students will discover more than the fact that a comet is just a dirty ball of ice.  This is a 5-day project.  One the first day students will learn how to use the newsletter part of Microsoft Publisher.  They will also focus on the legal issues involved with copyright laws.  The rest of the week will be spent creating a newsletter on comets that will be written in groups.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 2 and 3.

Creative Planet News
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
After students learn about the planets of the Milky Way they get to be creative and create their own planet in another galaxy.  The students incorporate aspects of our planets for example:  atmospheric layers, plants, animals, weather, and landscape.  They use their own art as well as digital pictures for the pictures of their planet.  The students then create a newspaper on Microsoft Publisher to headline their new planet.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 1.

Dendrology Database
Students research selected trees and develop a dendrology database. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 5.

Discovering Elements Online
Students research assigned elements on the Internet with sites given in advance. They will then contribute to a class database with their individual information. The database will then be made availanle for studetns to again work independently and in pairs ro answer questions created from a class discussion to discover relationships about the elements. Meets Arizona State Technology State Standards 3, 4, 5, and 6. 

Earthquake Predictions
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
In this lesson students will use real-time earthquake and volcano data to explore the relationship between earthquakes, plate tectonics, and volcanoes. This in an online project which allows students to access real time data, interact with experts, and publish the results of their work on the project web site.Students will need to collect data several times a week for two weeks. This should take 5-10 minutes for each data collection. The project also has four Core Activities that are designed to be used in 45 minute class periods. The final activity is an enrichment activity that asks the students to write a letter reporting what they have learned. This letter may be posted to the site’s Student Gallery.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 4.

Geo-Plant
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Plants are used to encourage learning about geography. Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 1.

How do the Biomes Compare to the Climatic Zones Around the World?
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
The students will compare the biomes around the world with climatic zones through the use of maps.  Using Kidspiration, Inspiration, or Word the students will create a Venn diagram to compare climate zones and biome location.  The students will also rate which biome they think people inhabit the most by using the climatic information.  For an extension the students will compare their hypothesis to a world population map to see if they were correct.  This lesson utilizes the Cox Education Network desktop.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 3.

How Much Water Do You Use?
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
This is a collaborative project in which students will learn about water usage in their homes and in homes around the world.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 4.

Ohm's Law Made Easy with a Spreadsheet
Students use math word problems to help them input information into a spreadsheet that will use Ohm's law to calculate current and resistance using common household appliance wattages. Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 3.

Plantes' Relative Gravity Spreadsheet
Students use a prepared database to find th relative gravity of each of the plaets in our solar system and then use a spreadsheet to calculate what the weight of an average man and woman would be on each of the planets. Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 3.

Rights Go Up In Smoke
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Through a webquest, students will analyze the smoking ban, and draw  their own conclusions to the question, How does the smoking ban in Pima County affect the residents here?  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 6.

Save the City!
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Students will participate in the WebQuest Epicenter, That Rockin’ Town. This WebQuest is based on gathering and analyzing real earthquake information for a specific city or area. The WebQuest will allow students to work as a team to organize the information gathered about earthquakes into a report to a town council that needs to make decisions regarding the possibility of future earthquake damage.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 4.

Slide Show Review
Students work in groups to create a five question slide show which reviews the chapter or unit we have just competed in class. Groups then present their slide shows to the class and the class attempts to answer the questions posed by the groups. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 4.

Space Presents a Problem
Students use the Internet, databases and spreadsheets to research and evaluate the various aspects of the solar system. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 5.

Students Study Genetic Disorders
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
After a five-week unit on Genetics, students learn about different genetic disorders.  The students are given the problem of finding about a student selected genetic disorder, collect data, and present the findings.  The students also incorporated their knowledge of genetics to discuss the remedies for the disorder and the location of the disorder on the chromosomes.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 6.

Track Star Recycling
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Students, using a Track star, with learn more about the U.S. waste programs and about recycling programs. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 5.

Tremendous Tornados
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Students will participate in a number of different activities in order to investigate tornadoes.  The students will learn basic facts about tornados in general and will also learn how a tornado is formed.  This will allow them to learn how a tornado compares and differs from a hurricane.  They will also illustrate the destruction of a tornado, and then produce a tornado of their own.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 3.

Using Inspiration, Word, the Internet and PowerPoint to Put together a presentation on Space
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Students will use the Internet to answer questions they have about Space and create a presentation in PowerPoint to share with peers. Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 1.

Wise About Weather
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Students will go through 2 TrackStar activities and learn about weather.  Through the 2 activities, students will learn to apply their knowledge about the variables that cause weather and compare various weather maps.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 5.

Worldwide Search for the Dominant Trait-Do YOU have IT?
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Students are provided with a list of dominant and recessive traits.  They are to interview a determined amount of individuals and record the number and types of traits found. Students will learn how their physical characteristics, or traits, are inherited by gathering a great deal of information about specific, easily seen human features.  This information will be shared through an Internet Project. During this project, students will complete surveys, formulate hypotheses, and use the data compiled by students around the globe to test their hypotheses.  Following the study, the students are to create forms and charts to illustrate their individual and group findings.  Please see attached the Internet Project requirements and deadlines.