The OER Canvas is aimed at university teachers and supports them in …
The OER Canvas is aimed at university teachers and supports them in collecting ideas for creating an OER resource for the classroom. The Canvas is aimed at teachers and lecturers who have had initial exposure to OER, but still need how-to guidance in planning and creating OER resources and tips and tricks for doing so. The Canvas can be used together with the OER Project Canvas by Schön/Ebner.
In the first part of the exercise, students examine a variety of …
In the first part of the exercise, students examine a variety of ArcMaps to work out what data sets and techniques were used and to develop a list of the characteristics of effective, attractive, and complete maps. In part 2, students explore a GIS tutorial of cartographic techniques. You might also be interested in our Full GIS course with links to all assignments.
This tag related activity is for physical education classes in grades k-2. …
This tag related activity is for physical education classes in grades k-2. Students will be able to travel in different movement patterns, work together, and improve physical competency.
In this lesson various quotes that are stated by characters in Hidden FIgures …
In this lesson various quotes that are stated by characters in Hidden FIgures are written on chart paper. Students will use the chalk talk protocol to write explaing their thoughts, connections, and questions about the quote first and then respond to what their classmates have written. Students will move in small groups from paper to paper guided by a timer. After they have finished, students will discuss big ideas on the chart paper and then discuss and share out how this quote teaches us about the person based on inferences we have made with this activity. Do we think this what the author intended us to think? This protocol can be used for any book or topic in many subject areas. There will also be reflection as an informative assessment.
This resource is a supplement to the modified rubric from the Washington …
This resource is a supplement to the modified rubric from the Washington Models for the Evaluation of Bias Content in Instructional Materials (2009) that is made available through OER Commons under a public domain license. This resource attempts to both update the content with more contemporary vocabulary and also to narrow the scope to evaluating still images as they are found online. It was developed as a secondary project while working on a BranchED OER grant during summer 2020. It includes an attached rubric adapted from the Washington Model (2009).This checklist was created for higher education purposes to review course content for diversity and inclusivity.
This leads students through a G_S_C_E activity to create an Inference Procedure …
This leads students through a G_S_C_E activity to create an Inference Procedure Flow chart for AP Statistics. great for summarizing inference procedures and helping students prepare for the AP exam. This activity is best done face to face but can be done online as well using flip grid, post-it notes and flow chart sties and weel as good docs or one note.
GIS techniques, data sources, and other resources are so numerous and varied …
GIS techniques, data sources, and other resources are so numerous and varied that, even if someone is doing GIS work regularly, it's common to say, "Now how did I do that last time?" or "Where did I get that data?". One of the main goals of my GIS course is to have students create a personal GIS portfolio that will be useful to them in the future, either for projects at Hamilton or in a job after graduation. Portfolios must include, at a minimum, a spreadsheet of data sources and information about downloading and prepping data from each site; an annotated Word doc of useful web sites; a DVD collection of projects and data from the course; and an organized notebook that contains the items listed above plus all class handouts, exercises, and printouts of products.
What I stress in this assignment is that portfolios need to be more than collections of GIS stuff – they must be useful for the future. To make portfolios useful for the future, students have to give significant thought not only to organization but how they will be able to find information in their portfolios in the future and how they can build indexes, annotations, flow charts, etc. to make their portfolios more than a collection of pieces of paper in a binder.
Christopher Columbus is one of the most controversial figures in history. By …
Christopher Columbus is one of the most controversial figures in history. By some, he is viewed as a grand explorer who opened up new areas for European conquest and profit. But by others, he is viewed as a butcher, who brought disease, and who's actions began the destruction of an entire continent's population. This lesson will show you two different views of Columbus so that you can draw your own conclusions about whether we should celebrate Columbus or not.
Technology can be a powerful tool to assist students with special needs …
Technology can be a powerful tool to assist students with special needs or any sort of learning challenge. In particular the Chrome web browser allows users to install a wide variety of web extensions that provide tools that can help all learners, regardless of ability level.
In this blog post we will take a look at over 30 Chrome web extensions that can assist students in five main categories: Text to Speech Readability Reading Comprehension Focus Navigation
Some of the tools fit into more than one topic, but each is only listed once. Certainly this list does not cover all of the useful web extensions available for struggling learners, but it is a great place to begin. In addition to the list of extension, I have also linked in the video from a webinar I did a while back on "Google Tools for Special Needs".
Learn about the techniques gold miners used to collect gold ore from …
Learn about the techniques gold miners used to collect gold ore from the area around South Pass City, as well as the hazards they faced during the mining process.
In the accompany lesson plan (found in the Support Materials), students will watch a video that explains the mining process and hazards, and then create caution signs to show their understanding of the challenges the miners faced. Finally, the students will take part in a collaborative STEM challenge to build a working hoist using a limited amount of supplies.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Students will develop grade level appropriate speaking and listening skills, as described by the standards. Students will understand how technology impacted the mining process of early gold miners, as well as the hazards the miners faced. Students will define a design problem and use limited resources to solve it.
Claim-Support-Question technique to activate background knowledge and get students to think deeper. …
Claim-Support-Question technique to activate background knowledge and get students to think deeper. This activity is over Plate Tectonics and is meant to be carried out on a Google Doc.
These discussion guides may be used as part of an anticipatory set …
These discussion guides may be used as part of an anticipatory set to introduce argumentation. "Claim, Support, Question," is a "Visible Thinking Routine" developed by Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The NGSS relies heavily on students being able to make scientific claims …
The NGSS relies heavily on students being able to make scientific claims and support them with evidence and reasoning. The purpose of this activity is to help students review CER within the science classroom and then practice applying their understanding of those terms to a mystery. They then wrap up the activity by engaging in a digital discussion with their classmates in which they evaluating one another's claims, evidence and reasoning. Note: if you do not utilize an LMS like Moodle, you could use the question and answer option within Google Classroom, or have the discussion in a face to face format.
I would recommned using this task after feeling confident in your students' understanding …
I would recommned using this task after feeling confident in your students' understanding of the properties of a parallelogram. While it could serve as a review, I think it is best suited as in introductory piece to get students to see how the properties have a trickle down effect to other quadrilaterals.
After introducing the properties of parallelograms to students, this activity is a …
After introducing the properties of parallelograms to students, this activity is a good introductory piece (with a little creativity). Encourage students to engage with the story and add their own details, as well as highlight the relationships between the special parallelograms. Remixed from: Classifying Special Parallelograms by Mitch Curtis
Students will be able to identify what is clickbait, and how it …
Students will be able to identify what is clickbait, and how it is used once the viewer engages. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website called "Who Am I Online?"
Cybersecurity represents a comprehensive challenge facing all staff in K-12 organizations and …
Cybersecurity represents a comprehensive challenge facing all staff in K-12 organizations and requires the creation of a culture of cybersecurity within each K-12 organization. This paper identifies and addresses staffing cybersecurity across the K-12 organization, including identifying several strategies for staffing cybersecurity within the school system. These strategies include developing focused cybersecurity positions; incorporating cybersecurity duties and responsibilities in all existing K-12 technology positions, leveraging cross-district collaboration and/or managed services to augment cybersecurity staffing; and expanding the expectation that cybersecurity is a responsibility of all members of the K-12 education community.
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