ASE: High School Diploma

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A skill we need to teach our students is to fact-check those things they read, hear, or see in the media. Using online checkers:  snopes, FactCheck and Politifact, students will investigate a current story presented in the media.

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In this activity, students research text, pictures, and comments about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in preparation for a mock trial simulating the real one that followed the assassination in 1865. This site, which is about the assassination of President Lincoln, was created by the American history teacher, Roger Norton. He used this site to do mock trials with his students simulating the real one that followed the assassination in 1865.

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In this activity, students are introduced to the connection between education attainment and earning potential. Students participate in a classroom activity where they develop a budget according to a given scenario.

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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics sponsors this, Take a Challenge Web site that has 80 problem-solving challenges that can be used for algebra and geometry students. The site is also available in Spanish.

For this activity, we will be working on figuring out averages.