The necessity of teaching LGBTQ history has never been more apparent than in the current political climate. Over the past year, hundreds of anti-LGBTQ laws have been proposed across the country. Several have specifically attempted to prohibit teaching about these topics. California educators remain committed to an inclusive curriculum and continue to lead the charge modeling best practices in teaching LGBTQ history.

But, the path has not always been clear. When California educators started to implement this flagship law, SB48, otherwise known as the FAIR Act, which called for inclusion of LGBTQ Americans in U.S. history courses at the K-12 level, so many questions arose. Most of the discussion has centered around how to make our curriculum more inclusive while efficiently managing our limited instructional time.

One of the key issues has been about whether to create stand-alone or integrated lessons. Stand-alone lessons are significant because they allow students to do a deep dive into a specific topic. This can be useful when addressing big issues in the LGBTQ past. Here are a few examples of lessons that do just that:

The University of California, Irvine Extension, supported by generous grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The Boeing Company, is developing online courses to prepare science and mathematics teachers for the California Subject Examinations for Teachers (CSET).

UC Irvine Extension's online test-preparation courses correspond with the 10 CSET science subtests and three CSET mathematics subtests.

The attached close reading activities go with the novel The Call of the Wild by Jack London and are aligned to 9-12 CC ELA standards and focus on analyzing word choices, interpreting literary techniques, and determining themes.  Full Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/215/215-h/215-h.htm Audio Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVuRdoIItQC9ER0sqT4CTUV1uu7pi1JDK 

Link the college or university operations with local ecology. In this study, students use a tool from urban ecology, the nitrogen budget, to research the inputs, outputs and subsytem transfers of nitrogen on the college or university campus.

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Most of the food that we eat is also safe for our four legged friends, but there are some food items that are very harmful and unhealthy for them.

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This can be used a quiz, take home problem, end of unit assessment to determine students understanding of projectiles launched from an angle. They must also defend their mathematical analysis.

This Canvas shell includes a sample syllabus for a Modern American History course using OER resources. The shell also has two sample modules which include discussion prompts and a sample midterm assignment. Each module has a corresponding announcement that would be sent out at the beginning of the week to remind the students of the work to be done.

 The LA riots of 1992 were a pivotal moment in American history.  Not only did they raise awareness of issues of police violence related to African Americans in the beating of Rodney King, they were also the first instance when film footage by an ordinary citizen (well before cell phone cameras) would lead to such direct and widespread consequences.  Obviously, with those cell phone cameras, such incidents are now reported regularly, with the largest recent consequences being the summer protests of 2020 after the death of George Floyd.  For HS students, 30 years ago might seem like ancient history, but they witnessed 2020.  This provides an excellent opportunity not only to provide context for an historical event, but also to connect it directly to the world in which they live, and to explore the concepts of continuity and change.  This project is designed to not only help students achieve a better understanding of the events of 1992 as an historical event, but also to refine their skills as historians.  Finally, in the culminating part of the project, students will be able to evaluate the judgment of USC criminal justice and law professor Jody David Armour’s comment, “Ain’t nothing changed but the year it is.”

Students will explore the cycling of carbon between the atmosphere, geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere through both naturally occuring and human caused effects. Students will also explore how the ocean, an important carbon sink, is impacted by the rise of CO2 levels due to human activities and how life in the oceans is impacted as a result through a series of short video experiments.

This lesson gives an overview of the process of planning a career change, including skill identification, resume planning, and resume building.

This unit will motivate you to think about your current career and decide what you are looking for in a new career. Each activity was specifically designed to correlate with the objectives outlined for the course, ensuring that you receive as much value as possible from the course content. No matter how many times you change careers, you must ensure that you are prepared and possess the right tools to successfully complete your journey. This toolkit will provide you with essential information to help you make your career transition.

This assignment is with an acitvity incorporated into it is to assist students with finding a major that is closely aligned with their personality.

Two of the core competencies designated for The First Year Seminar Liberal Arts Math and Science (LMF 101) course are Integrative Learning and Global Learning along with oral communication. These abilities are exercised by students in the Career/Interview Presentation project. The main goal of the assignment is to promote student networking within the scientific community through interviews with an expert in the field. Also the FYS students will conduct background research about their career choices and use their findings to determine if they can be realized when interviewing a professional. The assignment is scaffolded whereby students will learn to use on-line resources to search for information about the profession and use on-line tools to material in preparation for the interview. Students will learn how to write professional emails, network and create PowerPoint slides. After the class presentation, students are asked to write a reflection in their ePortfolio on their career choice and interview experiences. The time dedicated for this project is on the order of weeks and counts for 20% (15% oral presentation and 5 % reflection) of the final grade.

This course introduces students to the career-decision making process and job search strategies that will increase their job readiness, employability, and success in their career. The following four major areas will be covered: (1) Self-Understanding; (2) Creating an attitude of success; (3) Researching jobs and careers; (4) and Job search skills.

FREE career resources to identify active job openings, research related careers, and prepare in detail for careers and jobs of interest (all on one page).   

This is an assignment created for an elective course in a Master's program in Educational Leadership.

This case represents various agendas, hidden and otherwise, that can come into play during environmental remediation.

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