This activity is a classroom activity where students predict and test Newton's First Law of Motion as it applied to the movement of cargo in the bed of a truck.
Most work is processed through computers nowadays, like submitting reports or filling out forms. Therefore, typing skill is the prerequisite to these tasks. This motivational lesson about computers will help learners realize the necessity of using computer can be of help to them personally and for school or work, and will provide a basic understanding of some basics of computer skills.
This task presents an opportunity to explore a more general and non-algebraic view of functions.
Ratios are everywhere around us whether we realize it or not. Understanding and applying ratio concepts is a life skill and job skill that will benefit any learner. The goal for this unit is to provide learners with a working knowledge of ratios that they can apply to their everyday lives, education, or occupation.
This module is intended for adult learners with some previous high school education who are pursuing the completion of their GED. This lesson focuses on identifying and evaluating foreshadowing, targeting the Common Core Readiness Standards for ELA/Literacy 2. Adult learners will read, analyze, and evaluate foreshadowing in multiple examples. This module involves reading, viewing, and writing components.
This website has a fun short video and an interactive practice activity to teach and assess common suffixes. It is geared toward adults but would be appropriate for secondary as well.
Students will complete research on the subject of United States Wars using the offline Wikipedia available on their classroom computers. They will create a short presentation in Open Office Impress and share with the class.
Two youtube videos - songs focus on U.S. geography. One is about the United States and the other is about Portland, Oregon.
This guide outlines various OER resources available to utilize the Area Model in the Mathematics classroom. The guide is intended to help Adult Education and Community College Instructors learn and utilize more visual approaches in the math classroom. However, many of the resources are Common Core aligned, and are therefore appropriate for k-12 use as well.
Interacting with law enforcement can be a very negative experience. This lesson provides vocabulary and body language exercises that may help students have more positive interactions with police. The ‘ponder’ activities are designed to give students tools to change how they are perceived.
This lesson focuses on developing critical thinking skills through reading informational text, determining pros and cons, and making a final recommendation. It is framed within the context of finding a babysitter for two young children, but can be modified to apply to other situations as well.
This lesson will help prepare learners to compare multiple options, decide on a final recommendation, and provide a written justification of their choice.
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Game-based learning is a teaching approach that uses different forms of games, and the strategies or mechanics associated with them, for educational purposes. It advocates a student-centred approach that allows learners to explore, fail and take up challenges in a safe environment. Game-based learning also supports students in autonomously exploring situations created by their professor. Additionally, games are likely to reinforce the students’ commitment to the learning process. In an educational context, these characteristics and qualities can greatly enhance student engagement, motivation and learning. This collection of recipes has been created to present game-based strategies to make online learning more stimulating and engaging for students. In this cookbook, an interdisciplinary panel of experts offers recipes for integrating different types of game-based learning activities in the context of remote teaching. An overview of game-based learning strategies will be provided, including trivia games, escape games, co-operative games, crossword puzzles, and more.
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Planning for the future is a difficult task for most. This lesson ask the learner to participate in role-play and to assume the role of someone who has just graduated and accepted a job and to develop a budget where the goal is to save for a vacation to be taken in a year’s time. The role that the learner is asked to assume is Madison. The name was chosen specifically because it is a unisex name. The character, Madison, has just graduated, but the story intentionally does not reveal the credential that was achieved. The learner is asked to develop a budget with the salary and withheld taxes already established. For learners living in a rural area, the salary may seem high for a recent graduate, but for a learner from an urban area, the salary may seem low. Along with assuming this identity comes the tasks of making decisions for him/her. The actual math problems have definitive answers which are provided for the instructor, but the decisions enable the learner to develop a unique budget. Unit rate is used to help the learner visualize the decisions that are made on a daily basis that may impact savings. Problems included ask the learner to make decisions about housing, transportation, health, and spending. The variety of problems enable the learner to compute unit rates and understand how quantities can be measured in different units. The instructor is a facilitator only, examples of calculations are included in the materials for guidance.
This is a PowerPoint of common verbs used in the workplace and at home. It can be used for beginning level English language learners. Part 1 uses clip art of 16 verbs and part 2 uses Brendan Tuttle’s artistic illustrations of 28 verbs. The additional PowerPoint is a handout for students to write the verb under the picture and there is also a list of suggested activities for the teacher.
ESL lesson plan for use in orientation to videconferencing platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet. Students practice using microphone mute/unmute and the chatbox to report about the poeple in their homes and read about their classmates' homes using the present progressive tense.
This curriculum guide offers a list of Open Educational Resources (OER) that are arranged in a logical sequence for introducing polynomials with visual models, particularly using arrays and area models.
Mentor teachers are integral to the success and retention of new teachers in K12 schools. These resources were curated in 2024 by Mentor Teachers across Colorado enrolled in an Advanced Mentorship course at Western Colorado University. We aim to support Mentors as they introduce new and novice teachers to the education profession. We curated resources in three main areas: healthy relationships, effective communication, and exchanging feedback.
Being able to read a graph isn't just vital for an algebra class. Graphs and charts are used everywhere! We'll take a crash course on the basic x/y plane used in algebra and give you the fundamental vocab you need. This lesson is on the different parts of a graph. Knowing the vocabulary for the different parts of the graph is really useful because it allows you to do more than just draw it on your paper and think about it in your head; it allows you to talk about it with other people and express what you're doing in words.
Will it rain tomorrow? How likely is your favorite team to win the Super Bowl? Questions like these are answered through the mathematics of probability. Watch this artistic visualization of your odds of passing a test if you don't know any of the answers.
The students will learn how to use iPads to access, via QR Code, a KWL chart created on Padlet. The students will add their own comments, questions, photos, videos, links, maps, etc. to the “What I Know” and “What I Want to Know” columns. After reading and research, students will add to the “What I Learned” column.