This lesson will go over the island strum for ukulele.  Students will demonstrate fluency in the Island Strum by playing through "Stand By Me"

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Understand Place Value, Make a Number Worksheet is adapted by Megan Baldelli-Boggs from 2.NBT.A.1- Understand Place Value (Flawed Reasoning)_Make A Number by userMSDE Admin, userLinda Schoenbrodt, userChelsea Davies original resource: https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/47488-2-nbt-a-1-understand-place-value-flawed-reasoning-/view

Understanding Biodiversity presents an overview of biodiversity, its importance and relevance to humans, all living things, and the Earth. It includes species pages and a template to engage and involve students in real-life data collection.

This Learning Plan was created by Tessie Boudreau as part of the 2020 NDE OER Project. The attached Remote Learning Plan is designed for Grade 6 English Language Arts students. Students will read about different historical events told from various points of view to explore the multicultural perspecitves text can share based on the author's point of view.  Students will write their own opinion essay using evidence to support their claim about the debate of celebrating Christopher Columbus's discovery and heroric status in America by reading and research various text sets. This Remote Learning Plan addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA It is expected that this Learning Plan will take students 60-90 minutes to complete.  

This assignment asks students to engage with different primary sources and perspectives to understand political change in the Gold Coast between World War II and 1950. Through close readings of documents, students can recognize how historical events, in this case, the experience of the Second World War and the Accra riots of 1948, transformed what was politically possible in the context of the Gold Coast. Students should see that national independence and the establishment of Ghana as a nation state were far from inevitable in the late 1940s as different actors, on the ground in the Gold Coast and from the vantage of the colonial government, negotiated changing expectations and aspirations.

In the lesson, students will read about Shakespearean sonnets, explore the poetic elements (specifically meter and rhyme) of Shakespearean sonnets, read and analyze a Shakespearean sonnet for meaning, and write their own Shakespearean sonnet.

This is an activity that includes student's own ideas and beliefs about the central ideas and important parts of the text. Students will also do a bit of writing to support their opinions. This activity gets at the heart of a text. I see this as introductory to deeper dives into theme. This lesson could be structured to be online or face to face. This is written as a class activity but an online discussion could easily be created after students had followed the protocol a few times and seen the discussion that results. This could easily work in many classrooms through high school.

This activity will show why our present ultra consumption way of life is not sustainable and must be changed if the human race is to survive long term. The Story of Stuff is shocking but very informative. Its purpose is to wake people up to the perilous situation we are in and take action individually or collective to make the necessary and difficult changes needed.

The activities, assignments, and lessons included here are designed to help students read and write like artists who constantly take apart old ideas and texts in order to repackage them for the sake of contemporary humor, wisdom, and relevance. The activities introduce new vocabulary for discussing how texts work and play, as well as synthesis, analysis, and creativity. 

In this lesson plan, students will be learning about climate change, its causes, and global impacts. They will brainstorm measures to reduce its effects, discuss personal challenges in combating climate change, and create poster presentations outlining specific measures to address it, culminating in a march to protest climate change.

Activity introduces students to the concept of sampling distributions and point estimates, and to how the accuracy of point estimates are affected by sample size.

A jigsaw approach encourages collaboration, co-operation, and avoids a lecture-based approach to delivering content. Each student becomes an expert and also must rely on others to complete their understanding. Students recognize the importance of each individual process, and how each process fits into the rather complex integrated carbon cycle. Additional processes can be added for advanced classes including long-term processes such as sedimentation and burial in rocks.

Nuts and Bolts;
There are five fundamental processes involved in the short-term terrestrial organic carbon cycle: photosynthesis, respiration, feeding, death, and decomposition. The objective of this exercise is to have each student become an expert in one of these five processes, and then explain to others in their small group the essentials of this process.

Before class, each student is asked to research and fully understand one aspect of the carbon cycle. They write one to two pages fully describing this process, including answering the following questions:

- Where does this process occur in the biosphere and geosphere?
- What is the correct chemical equation to describe the process?
- What is the rate of the process, with correct units?
- What is the residence time of carbon in the reservoir that leads to this process?
- How does this process affect or control atmospheric CO2?

In class, the now expert students first consult with other classmates who have studied the same process to strengthen and deepen their understanding. They then form teams of five students and explain to other students their particular process. In exchange, other students explain additional aspects of the carbon cycle. Finally, one or two groups presents to the entire class, with class discussion. At the end, all students develop a comprehensive understanding of the integrated organic C cycle.

This OER Reading Comprehension Activity was created by Bonodji Nako  as part of the 2023 World Language OER Summer work and training. Educators worked with NDE staff to create OER Learning Plans and materials. 

In a hands-on exploration, students will learn to describe and quantify the porosity and permeability of soil models representative of both agricultural and natural environments. Students will use this information to relate the effects of various agricultural methods on soil porosity and permeability in an exercise that requires modeling the role of a soil assessment expert. Instructors are provided with directions for collecting or assembling simple soil models.

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Unit Cancellation Lesson 1 VideoComplete Unit Cancellation Packet Lesson 1 Class study session for help or a workday - Complete Unit Cancellation Lesson 1 Packet Practice Exam  Unit Cancellation Lesson 2 VideoComplete Unit Cancellation Packet Lesson 2 Class study session for help or a workday - Complete Unit Cancellation Lesson 2 Packet Practice Exam  Pesticide Lesson 1 and 2 Exam (20 pts)

Worksheet with worked-out problems on unit conversation, from Barbara Gilbert at CNM.