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MPIR - Ten Minute Talk
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Ten Minute Talk is one of many Mathematically Productive Instructional Routines (MPIR). They are short (10ish minutes), daily exercises aimed at building number sense. This is one of six different MPIR covered in the Mathematically Productive Instructional Routines collection from the Washington Office of Public Instruction and the Washington Association of Educational Service Districts.

Subject:
Mathematics
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Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Barbara Soots
Washington OSPI OER Project
Washington OSPI Mathematics Department
Date Added:
04/08/2021
MPIR - Which One Doesn't Belong
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Which One Desn't Belong is one of many Mathematically Productive Instructional Routines (MPIR). They are short (10ish minutes), daily exercises aimed at building number sense. This is one of six different MPIR covered in the Mathematically Productive Instructional Routines collection from the Washington Office of Public Instruction and the Washington Association of Educational Service Districts.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Barbara Soots
Washington OSPI OER Project
Washington OSPI Mathematics Department
Date Added:
04/08/2021
Math Anywhere!
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This website has a collection of mathematics resources which aim to build positive math experiences outside of school.

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Mathematics
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Activity/Lab
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Hannah Hynes-Petty
Date Added:
05/15/2020
Math Choice Board PreK – 1st Grade Summer Edition
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Explore the Mathematics Student Choice Boards for PreK – 1st grade created by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

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Mathematics
Material Type:
Game
Author:
Washington OSPI Mathematics Department
Date Added:
06/04/2021
Math Choice Boards: 1st - 4th Grade (Fall Edition)
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This resource was created by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

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Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Interactive
Author:
Hannah Hynes-Petty
Washington OSPI OER Project
Jennifer Cronquist
Arlene Crum
Barbara Soots
Washington OSPI Mathematics Department
Date Added:
10/09/2020
Math Choice Boards: 1st - 4th Grade (Summer Edition)
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This resource was created by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Hannah Hynes-Petty
Washington OSPI OER Project
Jennifer Cronquist
Arlene Crum
Barbara Soots
Date Added:
07/09/2020
Math Choice Boards: PreK-1st Grade (Summer Edition)
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This resource was created by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

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Mathematics
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Activity/Lab
Author:
Hannah Hynes-Petty
Washington OSPI OER Project
Jennifer Cronquist
Arlene Crum
Barbara Soots
Date Added:
07/09/2020
Mathematically Productive Instructional Routines (MPIR)
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Mathematically Productive Instructional Routines (MPIR) are short (10ish minutes), daily exercises aimed at building number sense. These six different MPIR are part of the Mathematically Productive Instructional Routines collection from the Washington Office of Public Instruction and the Washington Association of Educational Service Districts.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Barbara Soots
Washington OSPI OER Project
Washington OSPI Mathematics Department
Date Added:
04/05/2021
Mental Health and High School Curriculum Guide and Additional Resources
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This Guide, from Mental Health Literacy, includes six interactive web-based classroom-ready modules, a teacher self-study resource, lesson plans, print and video resources, PowerPoint presentations, evaluation options, and supplementary materials.Developers of the Mental Health and High School Curriculum Guide worked with The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, The Jordan Binion Project, and CHI Franciscan Health  to create a Washington State Version of the materials.

Subject:
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Unit of Study
Author:
Barbara Soots
Washington OSPI OER Project
Ken Turner
Date Added:
10/15/2021
Middle School Assessment - Melting Ice – Modeling Heat Transfer
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This assessment task, from ClimeTime educators, is aligned with middle school grades 6-8. The assessment context within the middle school curriculum is thermal energy transfer and developing a model for particle motion as energy transfers. Students are presented with a discrepant event when two ice cubes of the same size next to each other melt at astonishingly different rates. Before starting this assignment, students should have practice with drawing motion lines on particles and with drawing arrows for direction of heat transfer – this is not their first activity working with conduction and particles.
Resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.

Subject:
Physical Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Provider:
Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Author:
Elizabeth Vroom
Jeff Ryan
Lexie Macnevin
Date Added:
05/06/2024
Middle School Assessment - Modeling Temperature Change
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In this assessment task from ClimeTime educators, students model thermal energy transfer between a hot liquid and a cooler solid, exploring how this might also occur in everyday phenomena.
Resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.

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Atmospheric Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Provider:
Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Author:
Alexis MacNevin
Nicole Kraght
Date Added:
05/06/2024
Middle School Assessment – Sources of Taste and Odor Problems in Lake Youngs
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This task, from ClimeTime educators, is targeted to students in grades 6–8 studying body systems or algal blooms. Students develop a model showing the interactions that allow humans to detect issues in water quality based on the taste of the water.
Resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.

Subject:
Applied Science
Environmental Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Provider:
Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Author:
Baljinder Grewel
Jacob Parikh
Neeraj Agnihotri
Date Added:
05/06/2024
Middle School Assessment - We’ve Got Water
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This task, by ClimeTime educators, is targeted to students in grades 6–8 studying ecology and human impacts on the environment. Students identify relationships between human activity and environmental impacts on water resources. Educators can leverage students’ ideas to assess understandings of criteria in evaluating solutions.
Resources include a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.

Subject:
Applied Science
Environmental Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Provider:
Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Author:
Brianne Caviness
Jeff Ryan
Larissa Threats
Date Added:
05/06/2024
Modeling Our World With Mathematics (MOWWM)
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Modeling Our World with Mathematics (MOWWM) is a modularly-designed mathematics course developed by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) with input from educators across Washington. The course is designed to follow Geometry.Units include: Health and Fitness, Civic Readiness, Finances for Life, Environmental Science, and the Arts

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Hannah Hynes-Petty
Washington OSPI OER Project
Washington OSPI Mathematics Department
Barbara Soots
Arlene Crum
Date Added:
09/14/2020
Modeling our World with Mathematics
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Modeling Our World With Mathematics (MOWWM) is a five-module mathematics course developed locally by OSPI with input from educators across Washington, and is designed to follow Geometry. It contains career-connected thematic units where students use high school mathematics to analyze everyday life and work. The content and instructional strategies support increased attainment of the common core high school content standards while developing the standards for mathematical practice.

Arts and Music
Finances for Life
Digital World
Civic Readiness
Health & Fitness

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Lesson
Module
Unit of Study
Author:
Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Date Added:
10/07/2018
Native American Stories Science Connections
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The original Native American story component lesson was developed as part of an Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) and Washington State Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER) project funded through an EPA Region 10 grant. The stories were told by Roger Fernandes of the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe. Mr. Fernandes has been given permission by the tribes to tell these stories.As these lessons and stories were shared prior to the adoption of the Washington State Science Learning Standards in 2013, there was a need to align these stories with the current science standards. This resource provides a current alignment and possible lesson suggestions on how these stories can be incorporated into the classroom. This alignment work has been funded by the NGSS & Climate Science Proviso of the Washington State Legislature as a part of North Central Educational Service District's award.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Education
Elementary Education
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Ethnic Studies
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
MECHELLE LALANNE
Barbara Soots
Ellen Ebert
Carissa Haug
Johanna Brown
Lori Henrickson
Kimberley Astle
Date Added:
04/28/2020
OSPI 3-5 Science Home Learning Resources During COVID-19
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This document provides some learning resources associated with each of the 3-5 Science Content Learning Standards. They are intended to serve during this “stay at home” time, which includes all Washington schools. They are not intended to replace or be equivalent to face-to-face learning. Please feel free to use the resources or to make adaptations.

Subject:
Applied Science
Life Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Module
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Barbara Soots
Ellen Ebert
Kimberley Astle
Washington OSPI OER Project
Date Added:
04/14/2020
OSPI Continuous Learning Resource Suggestions
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In response to school closures due to COVID-19, OSPI content experts have curated a selection of links to external organizations providing high-quality online educational materials – courses, lessons, videos, physical and outdoor activity suggestions, etc. Please note that in many cases, these resources are free to use online but are not openly licensed for wide scale reuse and adaptation.

Subject:
Education
Educational Technology
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Barbara Soots
Date Added:
03/23/2020
OSPI-Developed Assessments for Social Studies
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Washington state has developed a set of civics assessments that are multi‐stepped tasks or projects aligned to specific state standards, which target skills and knowledge necessary for engaged, informed citizenship.

Subject:
Social Science
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Date Added:
09/28/2018