In this story, the Sun visits their star friends that can be found in our neighborhood of the Milky Way.

When Ruth finds a box of old comic books in her attic, the three friends are inspired to write and film their own science fiction movie with aliens, robots, and space explorers.

"Three High'Flying Friends," which tells the story of Amelia Earhart, Ruth Nichols, and Louise Thaden who were friends that shared a love of flying.

The three friends help a neighbor whose hat blows away and find out about weathervanes and wind direction. They make windsocks and spinning garden decorations.

A collection of foreign food icons

To download and access the icons, click on view resource.
This will open the resource in a new google drive tab.
In the top right corner there should be a download button.
The folder will download as a ZIP file.
Once the ZIP file is downloaded, double click on it to open it, and it will create a new folder with all the icons!
The icons are PNG files, which means they have a transparent background, so they can easily be placed on top of other materials.

Here is a forestry lab activity that is geared for early childhood, preschool, and early elementary ages. It involves a table setup, outdoor activities, and YouTube videos for the instructor to reference. 

Professional Learning module from the Center for Assessment. Objectives: Describe formative assessment (what it is and what it is not), explain features of high-quality formative assessment, and create a formative assessment relevant to your particular content/grade using the provided tool.

This video segment from Between the Lions shows the practice of sounding out the word rocket part by part, blending sounds together to form a word.

Prépositions de lieu
This French location prepositions cheat sheet will help students quickly identify French prepositions with graphics illustrating the location of an emoji compared to a box.

A resource for librarians, early education teachers, child care providers and parents to share books and literacy activities with children ages birth to 5. The content in this storytime lesson plan aligns with Every Child Ready to Read (ECRR) practices and Minnesota Early Childhood Indicators of Progress (ECIPs). Users are encouraged to remix the lesson plan to keep it up to date and comment with their successes and failures in using the listed resources.

A brief overview of the history of copyright laws and why the Creative Commons was right on time!

This unit explores the use of recycled materials in the creation of beautiful works of art when experimenting with different media. Materials such as plastic bottles and food packaging can be repurposed to inspire children and evoke their imaginations as they create their master pieces.

Most kindergarten teachers become concerned when children's initial enthusiasm for writing does not result in improved writing ability. Current research about the process approach to writing suggests that children will make progress if they are provided the time, materials, information, and freedom needed to manipulate and invent meaningful written language.

This resource provides guidance for school districts when considering OER for adoption as well as currently available full-course openly licensed resources to consider.

These fun games for the Women’s Day celebration are sure to make the parties and get-togethers fun and memorable. International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8th March every year. It stands as the focal point in the women’s rights movement.Every year 8 March is honoured as a day in memory of working women. The day has been celebrated as International Women’s Day or International Working Women’s Day ever since. After women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia in 1917, March 8 became a national holiday there. The day was then predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and communist countries until it was adopted by the feminist movement in about 1967. The United Nations recognised and began celebrating the day in 1975.https://www.prettymummasays.com/

This resource outlines the fundamental movements (critical elements) developmental progression PK-4 with pre- and post- assessment options and common difficulties seen in student performance. This poster was created by Drs. Helena Baert & Matthew Madden.

The funds of knowledge concept was originally applied by Vélez-Ibáñez and Greenberg (1992) to describe the historical accumulation of abilities, bodies of knowledge, assets, and cultural ways of interacting that were evident in U.S.-Mexican households in Tucson, Arizona.

What’s your system for ensuring language acquisition? Join OSPI’s Director of Migrant & Bilingual Education, Veronica Gallardo as she examines essential systems elements needed to support Language Learners. We’ll be joined by ESD 105 to talk about what districts can do to support the schools they are working with. You’ll get statewide data and resources to help you get started!