Description: Don’t be fooled by food messaging is a media literacy embedded health unit that takes the health goals of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and adds some critical thinking skills and communication skills. In food marketing young people are surrounded by persuasive claims meant to influence and manipulate their eating behavior. Students will explore some of the techniques and strategies food marketers use to influence their eating behavior to better understand how it impacts their own food choices. Within the PE program students will discuss how food choices, levels of consumption and physical activity levels influence health and wellness. Body image/healthy weight will be incorporated into this content. The culminating projects require students to work collaboratively to synthesize their new learning while using a variety of strategies to create their own healthy choices messaging production projects.

This resource has students role-play an Indigenous climate summit. It includes handouts about each Indigenous group and their concerns about climate change.

The Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP) is a non-profit organization founded in 1980 in Durham, NC. Starting in fourth grade, qualifying students can have access to above-grade level testing, enrichment opportunities, accelerated learning programs, and cutting-edge research on the social, emotional, and educational factors that many gifted children face. From ‘Scholar Weekends’ to ‘Summer Studies’, Duke TIP offers many options to support gifted families in the community. Duke TIP is for families, with qualifying children fourth grade and beyond, looking for enrichment opportunities, summer programs, testing opportunities, and supplemental courses during the academic school year.About duke TIP (n.d.). Retrieved April 15, 2020, from tip.duke.edu

Engaging and Empowering Emergent Readers and Writers, Birth - Age 5

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Explore this resource guide with links and handouts detailing inclusionary resources in an Early Learning setting.  

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This is a learning "adventure" (i.e. interactive learning) for body tissues created for an Anatomy & Physiology 1 course.  It can be modified for different concepts and is suitable for use in lecture, lab, or outside of class time as an independent assignment.

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This Beginning Excel textbook is intended for use in a one-term introductory spreadsheet course with an emphasis in the use of Excel for Building Construction Programs. The basics of Excel, as they apply to the professional workplace, are introduced, including spreadsheet design, data entry, formulas, functions, charts, tables, and multi-sheet use. This textbook includes instructions for Excel for Mac also.

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This Beginning Excel textbook is intended for use in a one-term introductory spreadsheet course with an emphasis in the use of Excel for Building Construction Programs. The basics of Excel, as they apply to the professional workplace, are introduced, including spreadsheet design, data entry, formulas, functions, charts, tables, and multi-sheet use. This textbook includes instructions for Excel for Mac also.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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A list of OER Resources for a faculty online course.

This resource has students role-play as farmers from around the world and consider how agricultural practices are part of climate solutions. This resource includes role-play activities for students to learn more about La Via Campesina, one of the largest social movements around the world. Students get to discuss why they may not have heard of this in their history books and embody La Via Campesina activists.

This book introduces key terminology and research to help you define, discuss, diagnose, and deal with this the issue of addiction.

This resource will be updated as needed. For the most recent version, visit: https://cod.pressbooks.pub/addiction/

This website is exclusively for parents of gifted children and intended to provide a network of families with shared dynamics become better connected and informed. The mission of the Gifted Parents is to establish, maintain and utilize a global network of member parents to be better connected and informed to increase the chances of providing a strong foundation for a happy and successful future for our children. Home. (n.d.). Retrieved April 19, 2020, from https://www.giftedparents.org/

This mini-module describes a two-day mini-unit integrating global climate changein Woolf's book Orlando: A Biography. The module connects historical climate records to literary descriptions, discusses the difference between weather and climate, and invites conversation about climate-driven trends in phenology.

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A handbook for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other Open Educational Resources.

This lesson describes how the circulatory system works, including the heart, blood vessels and blood. Students learn about the chambers and valves of the heart, the difference between veins and arteries, and the different components of blood. This lesson also covers the technology engineers have developed to repair the heart if it is damaged. Students also understand how the circulatory system is affected during spaceflight (e.g., astronauts lose muscle in their heart during space travel).

Each section below will assist you throughout the week. Please print the progress notes attachment for tracking of your child's work. Scholastic Truflix Login- trueflix48 greenScholastic Login- julie@stepaheadacademy.org Swim1234! 

Copyright can be a tricky area of law. However, understanding the basis of copyright law, what it protect, and copyright's limitations helps make sure we do not violate copyright law and the creators it protects.

A Mini book that is an overview of the US Space Race and how it evolved. Listed in the Index is the State of Texas TEKS for the EOC Grade 11 Exit Test.  Some of these TEKS cross over into WW1 and WW2 as well. It is not meant as a definitive resource, but rather a jumping-off point for young teachers of Social Studies, Science, STEM, or STEAM-related courses to inject some cross-curricular reading and writing and to promote critical thinking and a source of context for those courses aforementioned. It is also a starting point for activities (graphic organizers) and videos for classroom use or online learning purposes. It can be adapted to as low as 5th grade but only for supplemental purposes as their TEKS do not address this period.