American Presidents
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Students research one of the American Presidents. Their objective is to formulate a conclusion as to the effectiveness of the President and be able agree or disagree with several of the national ranking surveys that have been conducted over the past 50 years. The students are to present their information and findings in a PowerPoint presentation.  The presentation begins with a brief biography of their president. This is to be followed by an analysis of the President’s effectiveness in domestic affairs and foreign affairs. Included in the analysis is his public image and power of persuasion. Concluding the presentation will be a capsulation of his legacy and the student’s agreement or disagreement with these rankings. Evidence of primary source documentation must be given to validate the student’s conclusion. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3, 4 and 5.

Civil Rights Timeline
Students use the Internet to research people and places important in the Civil Rights movement.  Students then create and illustrate a timeline of at least ten items. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 2, 3, and 5.

Civil War Venn Diagram
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
This interactive lesson will introduce students to a web site that will enable them to create a Venn diagram that compares and contrasts the Union and the Confederacy.  Students will label ten characteristics that define each side, and ten traits that both sides share.  Upon completion, students will print a copy of the diagram that they created. This launch pages meets technology standards 1 and 3.

Country Fact Quest
Students gather specific information from various reference sources to create a Fact Booklet on an African country. Information can be organized into a database that can be used to match, sort or search. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 2, 3, 4, and 5.

The Day I Was Born
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Students will access a website with a host of links that will enable them to discover historical events, births of famous people and trivia that occurred on the same birth date as theirs, but not necessarily the same year.  Students will gain an insight to such things as what the moon looked like the evening of their birth, the cost of a postage stamp, songs that were popular, foods that were the fad and political figures in vogue.  Collaboration will take place when students add a paragraph about the most important event that occurred on their birthday to the website history book.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 3.

Distance and Time in Geography
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
This real time data lesson will introduce students to a website that will enable them to research the distance in miles between their hometown and a city located in the country they are studying.  Students will also be able to check the daily weather and compare it to the climate that they live in.  Prior to this lesson, students will already have chosen a specific country and begun research with the goal of presenting their findings to the class in a well-organized, informative and entertaining oral presentation.  Due to the nature of this lesson, students can access the website and research data for their individual countries prior to the presentation and incorporate it into their speech, or may choose to access the website during their presentation and display it on the classroom monitor as a visual aid.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1, 3 and 6.

GLOBES
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Students learn basic concepts in geography and name them in English by creating models of the Earth.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 3.

Gorgeous Greek Columns
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
The Greeks made many contributions to the arts, sciences, and architecture of western civilization.  In this lesson students will demonstrate their understanding of the three types of Greek columns and their architectural design.  The students will apply this knowledge by searching for many Washington D.C. monuments and determining the Greek influence on the designs of their columns.  The students will then create a picture, sketch or model of a building that uses each of the Greek columns.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 5.

Holiday Traditions Technology Projects
Each student chooses one tradition or holiday from around the world.  The students research their chosen holiday or tradition on the Internet or on-line encyclopedia and present a 3-5 minute multimedia presentation on their holiday or tradition.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3, 4, and 5.

Integrated Unit on South America
Students learn more about South America while also learning basic computer terminology, database operations, word processing, desktop publishing, and spreadsheet formatting.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3, 4, and 5.

Journey on the Underground Railroad
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Students assume the identity of former slaves and plot their course from Ripely, Ohio to Canada in an effort to evade slave catchers who have been empowered by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 to capture and return them to southern plantations. The students are placed into groups and plot their daily course based on estimated walking speeds and current weather conditions obtained online. Consulting the daily weather forecasts, students make adjustments. Students keep a daily log and record daily travel conditions on a migration chart. The journal and travel time is kept over a 15-day period. Students reflect weekly on issues via email with other students who are studying the Underground Railroad.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 4 and 5.

Legal Cyber-Eagles
Students learn more about computer ethics in relation to copyright law and hackers.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 2.

Label and Draw the Classroom
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
This lesson is appropriate for English Language Learners who have minimal English skills.  Students learn and practice basic classroom vocabulary while learning to develop more proficient computer skills.  They will use Kid Pix Deluxe 3 to make a diagram of the classroom, and then create an original plan of improvement.  Students will discuss and compare both plans. Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 1.

Newspaper Creation
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
During this lesson, students research a current topic on the Internet and gather images appropriate to the topic.  The research and pictures are then used to create a newspaper article using either Microsoft Publisher or Student Writing Center.  Students write the articles on the basis of the 5 W method (Who, What, Where, When, and How).  Students work in groups and combine their individual articles into a newspaper.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3, 4, and 5.

Posting Posters on the Great Depression
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Students will create an on-line poster (http://poster.hprtec.org/) dealing with specific topics from the era of the Great Depression.  Topics will range from the 1929 stock market crash to ditties that were used as cash to purchase food staples.  Each student will design the text of the poster to include title, definition and example as it related to the Depression years. Students may include pictures, personal diaries, and writings or statistics that they have researched and feel would enhance the appearance and objective of the poster. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Recipes from Africa and Asia
Students research various Internet sites that provide recipes from Asian and African countries and compile the recipes in database. After compilation, they can sort the database for similarities and difference in ingredients and compare the environments of Asia and Africa.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3, 5, and 6.

Slide Show Review
Students work  in groups to create a five question slide show which reviews the chapter or unit just completed 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.

Technology in Ancient Egypt
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
In this lesson, students will investigate some of the technology used in ancient Egypt.  Then they will hypothesize how life might have been different in ancient Egypt if modern technology had been available.  This will allow students to reflect on the purposes and used of modern technology.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 2.

Traveling Through Africa
Students will plan a one-week, three country trip through Africa and create a travelogue of places they will visit. The students will create an electronic scrapbook of highlights of the trip.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3, 4, and 5.

Turn-of-the-Century Child
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Using photographs of children from 1900-1923 as primary sources, students will analyze historical images to strengthen their ability to observe and deduce.  In visual terms, this lesson will allow students a glimpse at the lifestyles and circumstances of children prior to, and after, World War I.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 5 and 6.

Wall of Truth
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Students will present to the class a famous historical quote and defend that it has “absolute truth.” A brief biographical description of the author will be given. The historical context of the quote and significant factors during the time of the quote will be explained. The student will give examples of the quote’s application and relevancy to at least three other time periods and/or scenarios. The student will be required to defend the truth of the quote in a question and answer period by the class. At the end of the presentation, a class vote will be taken to determine passage of the quote as worthy to go on the “Wall of Truth.” The presentation will be made via PowerPoint.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3, 4, and 5.

W.W.II Veterans Database 
Students learn to create a database to store information collected in interviews with veterans of WWII.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 2 and 3.