This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, explores how elementary teachers can move from a study of the weather at home to the weather of the polar regions through hands-on activity, reading, and discussion.

After you have completed the See-Think-Wonder activity the students will be taking an online quiz that will tell them what birth control is right for them.  The What birth control is right for me?-Quiz  is an online app that will walk the students through questions and in the end it will give them what birth control is right for them.  After they have completed this they will then be taking What birth control is right for me?-Survey on Canvas.  They just put their result answer in the survey and then as a class we will be looking at the results.  The survey is anonymous.  We will redo this survey once we have learned about all forms of birth control to see if their results are the same of different. 

Objective: Students will be able to evaluate what characteristics make a video persuasive.This would be an introduce a project where students would create thier own persuasive video using Adobe Spark Video.  Students first watch some example persuasive videos in Adobe Spark and rate them on wether they feel the videos are persuasive. Then students brainstorm a list of characteristics that make a video persuasive. The students would then generate a class list of what charteristics make a video persuasive. 

What if there were no bees? How would it affect our grassland animals? How would it affect humans? This book offers insight into the problems that countless animals and plants face with the potential loss of the bees. Discover just how important this tiny species is to the food web of this ecosystem.Grade Level: 3rd-5thLexile Level: 890LGuided Reading Level: NGenre: Nonfiction

This brief investigation has students observe the phenomena of fish illness in the Chesapeke Bay and make predications based on data on the cause of the illness and the connection to the greater environmental issue at hand. AP Content Connection:  Living WorldB. Natural Biogeochemical Cycles (Carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, water, conservation of matter)

An educator's guide to pollination and pollinator conservation written by Mary Hannah Lindsay and Chanda L. Cooper with Richland Soil and Water Conservation District in South Carolina. 

This is a set of multi-day lessons that help a teacher instruct students on creating family trees and using Ancestry.com's database to explore who they are and where they come from. At the end of the unit, students will create a presentation that explores and explains their culture of who they are and where they came from.

Students will watch a video of a storyteller coming up with a rap that tells a story. They will identify story elements (who, what, and where), and record significant details. The next lesson plan ,Using Story Elements to Write a Rap, has students creating their own rap with the story elements.

How can you tell if harmful bacteria are growing in your food? Students learn to culture bacteria in order to examine ground meat and bagged salad samples, looking for common foodborne bacteria such as E. coli or salmonella. After 2-7 days of incubation, they observe and identify the resulting bacteria. Based on their first-hand experiences conducting this conventional biological culturing process, they consider its suitability in meeting society's need for ongoing detection of harmful bacteria in its food supply, leading them to see the need for bioengineering inventions for rapid response bio-detection systems.

This SoftChalk lesson was designed for 7th graders to teach them how to use (and when not to use) Wikipedia while researching.

The kids from the Yard have built a Wind Simulator that helps them see when the wind will pick up. They learn how low and high pressure systems work to create wind.

Wind Turbine project to build simple rotors, and test for Gravitaitonal Potential Energy. 

Our world history class is mainly focused on recurring world issues of the modern age. We jump around with topics but mainly stay 1945 - today, which the students really seem to enjoy. One of the issues that we tackle is world religions. Attached are also the slides for this unit are also attached so you can see content leading up to this summative. Standard: SS-WH.9-12.21. Investigate cultural advancements within societies with attention to belief systems, ideologies, the arts, science and technology.

FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Writing Activities, a page of activities to address important writing skills and strategies.

This lesson is about writing with vivid, descriptive sense words. It is aligned with Iowa Writing Standard 3. A rubric is provided.The lesson uses a passage from Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, to illustrate the use of effective, descriptive narrative. The added uniqueness of the students will be that Helen Keller wrote of her experiences, even though she could not see or hear. The lesson includes links to the autobiography, an online interactive site on Keller's life, a video of American Sign Language being used, a video on writing with sense words, and some writing samples.

Construct an apparatus which will lose the least amount of heat over the span of 30 minutes.   We are only trying to stop/slow down heat lose, not add heat.

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Ashurbanipal wasn't just an Assyrian king, he was a propaganda king. The layout, decorations and even the landscaping of his palaces were all made to point to one major fact - he was more powerful than you. WARNING: includes scenes of pet lions. DOUBLE WARNING: Pet lions are a bad idea. The BP exhibition I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria 8 November 2018 – 24 February 2019