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CK-12 Life Science For Middle School
(View Complete Item Description)CK-12’s Life Science delivers a full course of study in the life sciences for the middle school student, relating an understanding of the history, disciplines, tools, and modern techniques of science to the exploration of cell biology, genetics, evolution, prokaryotes, protists, fungi, plants, the animal kingdom, the human body, and ecology. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with California content standards.
Material Type: Textbook
What's in Your House?
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson presents common household vocabulary. It includes activities for cooperative learning, student interviews, and vocabulary development.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Team Building Activities for a Diverse Classroom
(View Complete Item Description)These activities in team building exercies will help students develop skills in thoughtfullness. The more students do these type of team building activities they develop a higher mental collaboration. This helps students improve communication and social skills.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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Adaptati
(View Complete Item Description)This is a template for lessons developed by the San Francisco Unified School District SLANT Cohort. (Replace this text with a short description of your SLANT-inspired lesson. Then add learning goals, keywords, standards alignments, subjects, and grades in their respective fields.) I have added an extension for students to explore Ekphrastic Poetry.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
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Adaptation Poem and iMovie for Grade 6 (Work in Progress)
(View Complete Item Description)This is a template for lessons developed by the San Francisco Unified School District SLANT Cohort. (Replace this text with a short description of your SLANT-inspired lesson. Then add learning goals, keywords, standards alignments, subjects, and grades in their respective fields.)
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Art, Science and Writing: Nature's Treasure Chest
(View Complete Item Description)While taking a walk around their school, neighborhood, park, or nature trail, students (suggested ages 3-8) will be challenged to create a map of the 'nature treasures' they discover. Students will make thumbnail sketches and brief descriptive notes of what they observe. This activity is adapted from "Nature's Treasure Map" (page 34) found in "Opening the World Through Nature Journaling" a curriculum by Jack Laws, that integrates science, art and writing for grade 4-8 classroom.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Artistic Practices and Techniques from Europe and North America Favoring Social Cohesion and Peace
(View Complete Item Description)This booklet about teaching through art education integrates topics such as peace, tolerance and interpersonal communication as well the treatment of psychological aspects in a post conflict environment through creativity and artistic language.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Arts Integration in Elementary Curriculum
(View Complete Item Description)This open textbook was created with the support of an ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Topics include art integration, music integration, physical education / dance integration, and the theoretical foundations of arts integration in education
Material Type: Textbook
Capturing Light: The Science of Photography (Advanced Level)
(View Complete Item Description)Students create and use pinhole cameras to understand how artists use and manipulate light to capture images in photographs. They shoot and develop photographs made with pinhole cameras. They compare and contrast a nineteenth-century image, photographs taken with a pinhole camera, and pictures created with a digital camera or camera phone.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
Capturing Light: The Science of Photography (Beginning Level)
(View Complete Item Description)Students create pinhole cameras to understand that light travels in a straight path. They describe the lines and shapes in a nineteenth-century photograph of a building and then use their pinhole cameras to trace the architecture of their school building.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
Capturing Light: The Science of Photography (Intermediate Level)
(View Complete Item Description)Students create pinhole cameras to learn how artists manipulate light to make photographs. They describe and analyze a nineteenth-century photograph and use their cameras to capture the architecture of their school or other buildings.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
Celebration and Satire (Advanced Level)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will compare and contrast different perspectives of the French Revolution as depicted in two works of art. Students will discuss the use of satire and caricature to comment on historical and current events and will create satirical cartoons based on contemporary issues.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
Counting on Art
(View Complete Item Description)In these lessons students will explore the paintings of Horace Pippin and Wayne Thiebaud and the mobiles of Alexander Calder to discover and practice math and visual art concepts. Background and biographical information about the work of art and artist, guided looking with class discussion, and activities with worksheets using mathematical formulas and studio art provide the framework for each lesson.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities between Writing and Art
(View Complete Item Description)Graphic organizers assist the development of comparative vocabulary and generate discussions of analogy and metaphor in art as students go on a real or virtual tour of an art gallery.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Curriculum Design for Inclusive Arts Teaching and Learning (Part 1): Understanding by Design
(View Complete Item Description)The Understanding by Design module provides a solid framework for designing quality curriculum that features relevant, worthwhile content and has alignment and coherence across the desired results, assessment evidence, and learning activities. This module will help you understand the UbD framework, analyze curriculum using the framework, and give constructive feedback to educators. In addition, you will explore how to apply UbD in your own professional development programs.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Curriculum Design for Inclusive Arts Teaching and Learning (Part 2): Universal Design for Learning
(View Complete Item Description)This module of the course focuses on using the Universal Design for Learning framework to review and revise your curriculum to make it more accessible and inclusive. You will learn about the critical features and concepts of UDL in this module presentation and then you will apply this information to the evaluation and feedback of curriculum documentation. You will also be asked to consider how you would use the UDL framework in your own professional development.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Curriculum Design for Inclusive Arts Teaching and Learning (Part 3): Educative Assessment
(View Complete Item Description)This module of the course focuses on educative assessment. Educative assessment is designed to provide educators and learners with feedback to improve their work. In this module you will learn the UbD-DI principles of authentic assessment and understand how UDL integrates with them. You will then use a protocol to generate valid assessment criteria based on a review of student work samples.
Material Type: Assessment, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Curriculum Design for Inclusive Arts Teaching and Learning (Part 4): Educationally Interpretive Exhibitions and Educative Cases
(View Complete Item Description)This module of the course focuses on organizing curricular documentation and student learning evidence into a reflective exhibition or narrative that explains student learning and what inclusive educational practice supported that learning. During the module you will use a scoring rubric to help analyze some sample cases and give constructive feedback to improve the educative value of the cases or exhibitions for other educators.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Teaching/Learning Strategy