Standard 2: Communicating Orally

In groups, students will decide how to promote their technology. Students will develop an impromptu 2-minute presentation in a format of their choice to share information about their technology with the school and community in this lesson.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is based on Letter XII: Distresses of a Frontier Man by J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. This "letter" is one of a collection of essays in an epistolary format from the collection, Letters from an American Farmer (1782). In this lesson, students will read and analyze the two central ideas in the text. Students will fill out a graphic organizer on the central ideas and participate in a class debate.

Type: Lesson Plan

Using the case study, “Out with the Old in with the New”, students will discuss elements of a positive work environment, differing leadership styles and their effects on a workplace. Students will then create a roleplay scenario in which they brainstorm an alternate outcome for the case study.

Type: Lesson Plan

Using the case study, “A Peer Review Committee Accepts a Challenging Task,” students will brainstorm proposed questions regarding the case study. Then, in their groups of three, students will use a role-play strategy to share their thoughts about the case study. Students can make real-life connections using examples of other situations that may benefit from a Peer Review Committee.

Type: Lesson Plan

Using the case study, “Helping to Keep Friends Safe,” students will determine how important it is to understand the privacy settings of social media sites. They will see the danger of how strangers can see their location if they do not adjust their privacy settings correctly on their social media sites.

Type: Lesson Plan

Former U.S Senator and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Mel Martínez shares his journey to freedom in the United States. Mr. Martínez was part of Operation Pedro Pan in which unaccompanied Cuban children were sent to the United States to escape the newly formed communist regime of Fidel Castro. Before leaving Cuba, he spent time with his father who shared life lessons with his son. Mr. Martínez distinctly remembers the pilot announcing that they were in America. After moving around the state of Florida in settlement camps, Mr. Martínez was placed in foster care. After four years he and his family were reunited. Mr. Martínez helped his father become a veterinarian in the U.S and as a family they were highly active in the community. His family’s spirit of activism was the foundation of Mr. Martínez’s career as a public servant. He graduated from Florida State University Law School in 1973 and began his political career. He was appointed the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 2001 and became a United States Senator in 2005.

Type: Video/Audio/Animation