David Conover's List: Lesson Plans based on Marzano

Air Guitar
6 - 12 | Lesson
In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, you'll hear about the virtual guitar, the brainchild of computer scientist Aki Kanerva and his colleagues...

TX Standards Alignment
Subjects: Science
Grade: 10-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: Chemistry: (2) Scientific processes. The student uses scientific methods to solve investigative questions. The student is expected to:: (C) know that scientific theories are based on natural and physical phenomena and are capable of being tested by multiple independent researchers. Unlike hypotheses, scientific theories are well-established and highly-reliable explanations, but may be subject to change as new areas of science and new technologies are developed;
Subjects: Science
Grade: 10-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: Aquatic Science: (2) Scientific processes. The student uses scientific methods during laboratory and field investigations. The student is expected to:: (C) know that scientific theories are based on natural and physical phenomena and are capable of being tested by multiple independent researchers. Unlike hypotheses, scientific theories are well-established and highly-reliable explanations, but they may be subject to change as new areas of science and new technologies are developed;

The question, "What makes a good magazine cover design?" is answered in this section of the online exhibition entitled July 1942: United We Stand
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Interactive | Photo | Activity | Primary Source | Collection
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Social Studies - United States Government | Social Studies - United States History
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Keywords:
United We Stand | World War II | 1942 | Propaganda | Home Front | War Effort | Magazine | Media | War Bond | Patriotism | Flag | Advertising | Nationalism | Fla
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Web: .html, .cfm, .asp, .php, .rss, .xml, .js
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Created: 2008-06-24T02:04:58-07:00 | Updated: 2008-08-11T10:19:37-07:00

This student interactive allows students to sketch and quantify sound using two different representations. Students can write and play musical tones using this...
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6 - 12
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Interactive | Activity
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Sound | Sound Measurement | Music | Sound Representation | Sound Wave
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Created: 2002-02-23T02:14:38-08:00 | Updated: 2006-10-05T01:24:27-07:00

TX Standards Alignment
Subjects: English
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: English II (One Credit): (15) Writing/Expository and Procedural Texts. Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes. Students are expected to:: (D) produce a multimedia presentation (e.g., documentary, class newspaper, docudrama, infomercial, visual or textual parodies, theatrical production) with graphics, images, and sound that conveys a distinctive point of view and appeals to a specific audience.
Subjects: English
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: English I (One Credit): (3) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to analyze the effects of diction and imagery (e.g., controlling images, figurative language, understatement, overstatement, irony, paradox) in poetry.
Subjects: English
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: English III (One Credit): (13) Writing/Writing Process. Students use elements of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) to compose text. Students are expected to:: (B) structure ideas in a sustained and persuasive way (e.g., using outlines, note taking, graphic organizers, lists) and develop drafts in timed and open-ended situations that include transitions and rhetorical devices to convey meaning;
Subjects: English
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: English II (One Credit): (12) Reading/Media Literacy. Students use comprehension skills to analyze how words, images, graphics, and sounds work together in various forms to impact meaning. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts. Students are expected to:: (B) analyze how messages in media are

TX Standards Alignment
Subjects: English
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: English III (One Credit): (12) Reading/Media Literacy. Students use comprehension skills to analyze how words, images, graphics, and sounds work together in various forms to impact meaning. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts. Students are expected to:: (A) evaluate how messages presented in media reflect social and cultural views in ways different from traditional texts;
Subjects: English
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: English III (One Credit): (12) Reading/Media Literacy. Students use comprehension skills to analyze how words, images, graphics, and sounds work together in various forms to impact meaning. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts. Students are expected to:: (C) evaluate the objectivity of coverage of the same event in various types of media; and

TX Standards Alignment
Subjects: Math
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: Precalculus: (P.6) The student uses vectors to model physical situations.: (B) analyze and solve vector problems generated by real-life situations.
Subjects: Math
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: Precalculus: (P.6) The student uses vectors to model physical situations.: (A) use the concept of vectors to model situations defined by magnitude and direction; and

This student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, provides details of an assignment in which students create a memoir of a family member in a written
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9 - 12
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Worksheet
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Subject:
Arts - Visual Arts | Language Arts - Reading | Language Arts - Writing (composition)
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Keywords:
Memoir Assignment | Assignment Sheet | Memoir Project | Memoir Essay | Interview | Visual Representation
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Document: .doc, .rtf, .txt, .pdf
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Created: 2006-08-19T11:35:05-07:00 | Updated: 2010-05-06T10:24:55-07:00

This lesson, from EDSITEment, is designed to help students recognize that portraits, whether paintings or photographs, can tell us more about people of the

TX Standards Alignment
Subjects: English
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: English III (One Credit): (12) Reading/Media Literacy. Students use comprehension skills to analyze how words, images, graphics, and sounds work together in various forms to impact meaning. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts. Students are expected to:: (A) evaluate how messages presented in media reflect social and cultural views in ways different from traditional texts;
Subjects: English
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: English I (One Credit): (12) Reading/Media Literacy. Students use comprehension skills to analyze how words, images, graphics, and sounds work together in various forms to impact meaning. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts. Students are expected to:: (A) compare and contrast how events are presented and information is communicated by visual images (e.g., graphic art, illustrations, news photographs) versus non-visual texts;
Subjects: English
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: English II (One Credit): (12) Reading/Media Literacy. Students use comprehension skills to analyze how words, images, graphics, and sounds work together in various forms to impact meaning. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts. Students are expected to:: (A) evaluate how messages presented in media reflect social and cultural views in ways different from traditional texts;

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9 - 12
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Lesson
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Arts - Visual Arts
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Keywords:
Portrait | Portraiture | Painting | Photograph | American President | Pr

Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
9 - 12 | Lesson

Students research mask-making from various cultures, highlight the masks’ connections to cultural practices, compose poetry to reveal their understanding,...

In this EDSITEment lesson, students analyze ways in which the composition of a painting contributes to telling the story or conveying the message through the..

TX Standards Alignment
Subjects: Arts
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Art, Level IV: (2) Creative expression/performance. The student expresses ideas through original artworks, using a variety of media with appropriate skill. The student is expected to:: (C) create artworks, singularly and in series, by selecting from a variety of art materials and tools appropriate to course work in drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fiberart, jewelry, photography/filmmaking, and electronic media-generated art.
Subjects: Arts
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Art, Level I: (2) Creative expression/performance. The student expresses ideas through original artworks, using a variety of media with appropriate skill. The student is expected to:: (C) demonstrate effective use of art media and tools in design, drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture.
Subjects: English
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: English III (One Credit): (18) Oral and Written Conventions/Handwriting, Capitalization, and Punctuation. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions. Students are expected to correctly and consistently use conventions of punctuation and capitalization.
Subjects: English
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: English II (One Credit): (13) Writing/Writing Process. Students use elements of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) to compose text. Students are expected to:: (E) revise final draft in response to feedback from peers and teacher and publish written work for appropriate audiences.

Students use this printable chart, from an EDSITEment lesson, to keep track of different characters in Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying," note their...

Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have

TX Standards Alignment
Subjects: English
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: English IV (One Credit): (15) Writing/Expository and Procedural Texts. Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes. Students are expected to:: (C) write an interpretation of an expository or a literary text that: (i) advances a clear thesis statement;<br (ii) addresses the writing skills for an analytical essay including references to and commentary on quotations from the text;<br (iii) analyzes the aesthetic effects of an author's use of stylistic or rhetorical devices;<br (iv) identifies and analyzes ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text; and<br (v) anticipates and responds to readers' questions and contradictory information; and
Subjects: English
Grade: 9-12
Standard Text: Subchapter C. High School: English III (One Credit): (15) Writing/Expository and Procedural Texts. Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes. Students are expected to:: (C) write an interpretation of an expository or a literary text that: (i) advances a clear thesis statement;<br (ii) addresses the writing skills for an analytical essay, including references to and commentary on quotations from the text;<br (iii) analyzes the aesthetic effects of an author's use of stylistic or rhetorical devices;<br (iv) identifies and analyzes the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text; and<br (v) anticipates and responds to readers' questions or contradictory information; and