This lesson is meant for teachers to use during a professional learning session around the science of reading.  Teachers will read an article and reflect on it using the "What, So What, Now What?" routine from Making Thinking Visible.

This website allows young learners to practice their coding skills. The website and app are free.
The website also provides several beginner tutorials to familiarize teachers and students with how the tools work.

Students will learn the basic features of Scratch, a block-based visual prgramming language, and create a simple program using Scratch.

Searching library databases can be frustrating, since they don't understand human language as well as regular search engines. This tutorial will discuss how to build a search so you can find sources you need with less frustration.

An interactive simulation of Earth's seasonal dynamics that includes the axial tilt and other aspects of Earth's annual cycle. This is part of a larger lab from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln: http://astro.unl.edu/naap/motion1/motion1.html

See-Think-Wonder - This is an introductory activity for my birth control unit.  I introduce a lot of different forms of birth control that the students haven’t heard of before.  So the plan would be to have different stations with the examples of the birth control on each table (room set up attached below).  I will have the students fill out the note organizer (attached below) and have them fill it out.  Students will receive a worksheet for each birth control that is out.  It is okay if they don’t know what it is, as we will be covering all the birth controls in depth.  It will be a fun way for the students to walk around and get introduced to new forms of birth control, also it can be funny to see what they students come up with.

"See, Think, Wonder" is a "Visible Thinking Routine" developed by Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This activity invites students to "make their thinking visible" by responding to a selected poem.

This SoftChalk starts out reviewing self esteem and self concept and ends with assessment activities for the students to take.

The high school earth and physical science unit moves through an exploration of tectonic plates, why and how they move, and the earthquakes that they cause. As the final project, teams learn about Early Warning Systems for earthquakes and how they have saved millions of lives in other countries. Teams take on a population in Oregon and design a ShakeAlert system to give them the seconds required to prepare for a mega earthquake.

Students will learn how to distinguish different video shots, angles, and movements by watching a professionally created movie trailer. Locate a movie trailer of your choice and convert it into a movie file that can be uploaded into a video editing software, such as iMovie. Students will then detach the audio so it is not a distraction while working during class. The next step will be to locate the different camera uses, angles, and movements as listed in the PowerPoint. Once the shots are located, students will split the video and use a freeze frame with on-screen text to key the name of the shot. An example would be "long shot with bird's eye view." Students should locate at least three examples for each of the camera uses, angles, and movements. Once done, the students will export their movie and submit for grading.

Introductory information about characters, setting, point of view, conflict, plot, theme, and irony

Why do the lights turn on in a room as soon as you flip a switch? Flip the switch and electrons slowly creep along a wire. The light turns on when the signal reaches it.

This is a way to demonstrate the parts of a microscope to a whole class and point to it as a reference for students to use later.

Students learn how engineering design is applied to solve healthcare problems by using an engineering tool called simulation. While engineering design is commonly used to study and design everything from bridges, factories, airports to space shuttles, the use of engineering design to study healthcare administration and delivery is a relatively new concept.

This unit uses the slinky seismometer as a means of studying physics concepts such as waves, sound and the speed of sound vs speed of light, resonance, electricity and magnetism, Lenz Law and magnetic dampening (backwards engineering). Students experiment with the basic parts of the seismometer and either build or connect the seismometer to the internet to take and upload data.

This is a technique to work on students questioning capabilities. We have used this in the past to introduce our Terrorism unit. The point of this is for students to build their questioning to new levels while working together. **This is an inquiry activity**Standard: SS.9-12.1. Create compelling questions representing key ideas within the disciplines.

This is an introductory lesson that is a game for students to learn the basic vocabulary for sociology. The students can get into groups (no more than three people) and using the book, read the text surrounding the vocabulary words in order to use context clues to put them together. The teams have to get their words approved by the teacher before they can write it on their paper to insure that it is correct. I pit the teams against each other to foster a game like amostophere for extra credit. Everyway walks away with extra credit but obviously those that finish first get more than others. The definitions are my personal defintions rather than the ones in the book as that would be too easy. Standard: SS-Soc.9-12.14. Identify characteristics of groups, and the influences that groups and individuals have on each other.

This SoftChalk was created to show and give an example of all the activities and how they work.

In this lesson, students will be practicing the visible thinking strategy I used to think... Now I think... as well as practicing their HTS. This lesson includes a reflective writing assignment at the end to assess thinking.