During this lesson you will the ins and outs of using Google Classroom. This lesson is meant to be an introductory lesson for someone that has never used Google Classroom. If you have already started using Google Classroom this lesson might not be for you.Introduction 

This lesson is an introduction to learning to graph linear equations written in Slope-Intercept Form. It was written for the Beginning Algebra 1 student.

Students will learn about Charles Dickens through a biography video, and they will use the video to help them to make predictions about what the novel Great Expectations is about.  

Stoichiometry is the quantitative relationship between the number of moles of reactants and products in chemical reactions. This lesson will show students how to identify mole ratios in balanced equations and how to solve stoichiometry problems.

Students will be introduced to a variety of cooking oils and examine their nutritional values, costs, and uses.

This article highlights resources that can be used to supplement lessons on extreme weather, including games and video clips. The article appears in the free, online magazine for K-Grade 5 teachers Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle. The magazine focuses on the essential principles of climate science.

The University of Iowa Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research and College of Education teamed up to develop free eighth grade science curricula on land use and climate science, in response to Iowa’s grade level alignment of the middle school Next Generation Science Standards.

Primary author Dr. Ted Neal, clinical associate professor of science education, led a team of graduate and pre-service teaching students and CGRER scientists to develop the material. They grouped standards, resources and lesson material into six bundles, each designed to engage Iowa’s middle schoolers with local data and information on relevant topics like athletic concussions and agriculture.

These lessons are built on NGSS principles and put learning in the students’ hands with hands-on activities for groups and individuals. Kids will have ample opportunity to get curious, generate questions and lead themselves to answers.

The Iowa Digital Library features more than a million digital objects created from the holdings of the University of Iowa Libraries and its campus partners. Included are illuminated manuscripts, historic maps, fine art, historic newspapers, scholarly works, and more. Digital collections are coordinated by the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio.

Real Iowans and how they intersect with history around the world.  A community that no longer exists - Buxton, IA; sisters who exchanged pen pal letters with Anne and Margot Frank during WWII; Iowa's own "Rosa Parks" sits at a counter in Des Moines; Five Waterloo, IA brothers changed how the military assigns family in combat are just some of he stories of Iowa families.  Stories that make Iowa history.  In this two part course, you will be exploring these stories and sharing a story from your own family.

Students will be given a product along with information necessary to determine the cost of the product after discounts, travel and time involved in making the purchase.  Students will then decided which option seems to be best based on where they place value; time, money, etc. 

Jacqueline Howard shows us how our exchange economy has evolved from early rudimentary bartering to present-day digital currency.

This is a SoftChalk lesson designed to help students determine key features of a function such as domain, range, x-intercept, y-intercept, positive intervals, negative intervals, and intervals over which the function may be increasing or decreasing.

Here is a lesson on Reflection and Refraction of light. Provided is the definitions of reflection and refraction accompanied by a few demonstration videos.  

This lesson explains the school wide expectations that our school has developed for lining up on the blacktop.

Join the ladybug in an exploration of rotational motion. Rotate the merry-go-round to change its angle, or choose a constant angular velocity or angular acceleration. Explore how circular motion relates to the bug's x,y position, velocity, and acceleration using vectors or graphs.

This activity aligns to a novice-level unit about families. It focuses on numbers and basic family relationships as students listen to an authentic audio file, then further learning through compiling a family tree as a group. Two versions are included: One with instructions in English, and one with instructions in Spanish.

This lesson will give beginner Lego-builders a fun introduction to gears and how they function. If used in a classroom setting, there is also a video about the History of Lego and an activity for students to free-build the flag of Denmark in honor of the company's beginnings there.

This lesson is an introduction to using Google Docs. In this lesson you will practice using tools, settings, & other features in Google Docs, as well as editing and adjusting the content and settings of a doc to prepare it for sharing and collaboration.

An article about a teacher working with 4th and 5th grade students in centers focused around STEM. These STEM activities are around the “The Science & Technology of Sound & Music.”