ASE: High School Diploma

In this activity, students are shown a panoramic view of the Great Wall of China and asked to answer some questions about it. This Web site offers panoramic views of the seven wonders of the world: the Great Wall of China, the Colosseum, Petra, the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, Rio de Janeiro, and Chichen Itza. There is a brief description of each place, but you will want to have your students do a bit more research to complete a geography lesson.

Screenshot of the Great Wall of China panorama

This activity allows the user to plot ordered pairs and linear inequality relations on the same coordinate plane. This activity would work well in groups of two to four for about 45 minutes if you use the exploration questions and 20 minutes otherwise.

Screenshot of Shodor Interactivate Linear Inequalities Activity

Starting with a virtual cash account of $100,000, students strive to create the best-performing portfolio using a live trading simulation. They work together in teams, practicing leadership, organization, negotiation, and cooperation as they compete for the top spot. The setup is engaging, and learning is a natural part of the experience.

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In building a portfolio, students research and evaluate stocks, and make decisions based on what they have learned. Teams trade common stocks and mutual funds from the NYSE, Nasdaq, and AMEX exchanges; earn interest on cash balances; pay interest if buying on margin and pay a commission on all trades. To determine why certain stocks perform the way they do, or why the broader market has moved up or down, they need to understand how the economy works, and to calculate their returns they need to do the math.

By registering your class for The Stock Market Game (SMG), you will make learning seem like a "game" to your students. SMG is a comprehensive, engaging, real-world program that advances student academic achievement in the core disciplines while providing an understanding of investment concepts among learners in grades 4-12. Working in teams, your students will develop valuable processing skills, such as time management, decision-making, consensus building, and cooperation.

Since its inception over 25 years ago, the SMG program has served over nine million students nationwide.

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Students will use the Snappy Words Web site to help them define a term in the form of a paragraph.

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While learning about urban legends, students practice reading skills, summarizing and paragraphing in speaking and writing, and hone their abilities to view media critically. Students use Snopes, a site dedicated to fact-checking news stories, past events and urban legends, to read and take notes on an urban legends.