Lectures which precede this activity cover the different fossil groups, time period & depositional environment of the localities, as when as basic ecology & biodiversity. During class, the students go on a field trip to fossil localities to collect their data. Back in class, the students use the primary literature, fossil id books and web-based resources like Paleontology Portal to identify their fossil organisms. They perform a quantitative analysis of biodiversity, and reconstruct the paleocommunity based on their data and the literature. The end product is a scientific-style paper.

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The Fifth Grade Elementary Framework for Science and Integrated Subjects,Earth and Space: Patterns in the Sky, uses the phenomena of perceived sun and moon movements that seem to move around the Earth to explore stars, Earth orbit and rotation and moon orbit around Earth.  It is part of Elementary Framework for Science and Integrated Subjects project, a statewide Clime Time collaboration among ESD 123, ESD 105, North Central ESD, and the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Development of the resources is in response to a need for research- based science lessons for elementary teachers that are integrated with English language arts, mathematics and other subjects such as social studies. The template for Elementary Science and Integrated Subjects  can serve as an organized, coherent and research-based roadmap for teachers in the development of their own NGSS aligned science lessons.  Lessons can also be useful for classrooms that have no adopted curriculum as well as to serve as enhancements for  current science curriculum. The EFSIS project brings together grade level teams of teachers to develop lessons or suites of lessons that are 1) pnenomena based, focused on grade level Performance Expectations, and 2) leverage ELA and Mathematics Washington State Learning Standards.

This lesson will introduce and review different types of figurative language as well as adages and proverbs. It is important to be able to interpret their meanings when used in texts, songs, movies, life experiences, etc.  

 This plan was created by Jean Harper as part of the 2020 ESU-NDE  Learning Plan Project. Educators worked with coaches to create plans.The attached plan is designed for Grade 5th English Language Arts students. Students will analyze and evaluate the elements of literary text, build background knowledge to clarify text and deepen understanding, and use relevant evidence from a variety of sources to assist in analysis and reflection of complex text. This plan addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 5.1.6.a, LA 5.1.6.d, LA 5.1.6.k, LA 5.1.6.nIt is expected that this plan will take students 60 minutes to complete.

A film festival assignment or video competition assignment for freshmen at University of North Carolina Wilmington. Includes templates for storyboards, scripts, and rubrics for grading. All information is editable and can be personalized for your institution. This assignment could be utilized for a single class or a number of courses.

Final Project Assignment for the course: CSCI 49378: Intro to Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing. Delivered at Hunter College in Spring 2020 by Bonan Liu as part of the Tech-in-Residence Corps program.

Financial Education & SEL, K-5Explore the natural connection between financial education and social-emotional learning! In this training, participants will dig into standards alignment and review three strategies for implementing SEL-based personal finance in the elementary classroom, with an emphasis on DEI and underserved student populations. Educators will walk away empowered to integrate SEL and financial education using “grab and go” resources, ideas, and lesson plans. 

MS-ESS2-1 Earth's SystemsDevelop a model to describe the cycling of Earth's materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.MS-ESS2-2 Earth's SystemsConstruct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth's surface at varying time and spatial scales.MS-ESS3-1 Earth and Human ActivityConstruct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.

Our new high school unit plan includes:Engaging Activities: Chock full of interactive games, videos, and news articles to keep students engaged. Science of Learning: Use techniques such as retrieval practice and interleaving to optimize student learning and retentionTeacher Friendly: Easy-to-understand lesson plans, student activities, and answer keys provided Interactive Practice: Students build mastery through interactive supply and demand questions.Real-World Examples: Show your students that economics is all around them. Videos (using Nearpod): Engage students with short animated explainers that include interactive questions to check for student understandingIf this unit plan sounds like something you would find useful, please visit our website to request access!

This resource guides users on how to find and select monologues for various purposes, such as college auditions, professional auditions, and personal study.

Students must be able to search for, find, download, display, query and map hurricane and other relevant GIS data.
Hurricane data spans 1851-2008 and is from: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp
Countries data is from: http://www.diva-gis.org
Learning outcomes: For students be able to successfully use GIS data to answer a basic spatial research question. Many skills are required for this seemingly simple question: creating a correct query that matches the data, understanding hurricane and weather patterns for example.

In this resource, students will practice finding the perimeter of a polygon given the length of one side.

This exercise is a research scavenger hunt for strategy, international business/management students to find the country that was assigned to their group by exploring various indices that introduce them to the elements of a country/PEST/institutional environments analysis. 

At the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond’s exhibit on 400 years of African American history, curator Karen Sherry described the first Africans who were bought to the Virginia colony as slaves in 1619.

This text, originally by K. Kuttler, has been redesigned by the Lyryx editorial team as a first course in linear algebra for science and engineering students who have an understanding of basic algebra.
All major topics of linear algebra are available in detail, as well as proofs of important theorems. In addition, connections to topics covered in advanced courses are introduced. The text is designed in a modular fashion to maximize flexibility and facilitate adaptation to a given course outline and student profile.
Each chapter begins with a list of student learning outcomes, and examples and diagrams are given throughout the text to reinforce ideas and provide guidance on how to approach various problems. Suggested exercises are included at the end of each section, with selected answers at the end of the text.
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