Students use specimens prepared by the teacher and try to decide if each one is living, non-living or dead. This may be done as inquiry prior to instruction or as reinforcement.
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This is an inquiry activity that uses either pictures of cells or microscopes and slides to get students thinking about cell structure and function. You could look at prokaryotic vs eukaryotic cells, plant vs animal or different types of cells found in one organism. The objective is to have students begin to make the connection between sructure and function in cells.
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Introduction to nature of science lesson for high school students. Covers law, theory, hypothesis and scientific method.
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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.
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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.
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Write Systems of Equations using Augmented Matrices
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This lesson reviews basic concepts and math skills that are used throughout a physics course.
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This is a SoftChalk lesson reviewing the figurative language terms simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, and symbolism.
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General overview of why and how to apply the triangle congruency shortcuts.
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This lesson provides review of chemical formulas, prior to introducing balanced chemical equations. Writing word equations is also introduced in this lesson.
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This is an activity for students to create their own I see/they see cartoon similar to what is in the book.
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This 10-minute video lesson looks at Newton's First Law (Galileo's Law of Inertia).
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Students engage in a competitive group relay to construct formal proofs involving triangles. New proofs can always be written to fit different curriculum and pacing.
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This activity encourages students to analyze center and spread of the number of chocolate chips in 5 different brands of chocolate chip cookies.
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This is the first lesson in a week-long, mini-unit contains four individual lessons. Through the course of all these lessons, students will be introduced to the concept of civil disobedience—people purposefully disobeying a law or protesting nonviolently about laws or social issues they feel to be unjust. They’ll read from, watch, and listen to three examples that address the issue: Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience," Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail," and the Teaching Tolerance documentary Viva La Causa written and directed by Bill Brummel.Activity Description: This lesson focuses on introducing, defining, and providing a basic example of historical civil disobedience using Henry David Thoreau's experience and an excerpt from his essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience."This lesson is designed to be used in a blended environment. Accommodations are listed for non-blended courses.Time needed for activity: ~45 minute class periodResources needed: Online discussion board(s) set up at either pinup.com or answergarden.ch; copies of the "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" excerpt (printed or electronic)
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Activity Description: This activity is actually three different discussion-based activities to be used in a station rotation discussion day format. It does require some prework with the double journal note-taking graphic organizer included in the resources. This station rotation discussion format could be used with each chapter, a grouping of chapters, or at the end of the book. If you are encompassing the entire book, this activity will most likely take several days.Time needed for activity: 30-45 (10ish minutes per station)Resources needed for activity: student notes using the double journal note-taking graphic organizer (linked here and as a PDF in the resources) paper for timelines or internet access to https://time.graphics/ or another online timeline maker, internet access to an online discussion tool like https://pinup.com/ or a discussion forum on your LMS.Assessment strategies: See the attached rubrics for possible assessment methods.
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This is a lesson that I created to walk my students through the expectations for using the Learning Management System in my Ceramics class.
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This is a Rubrik's Cube activity that I use to extend cognitive concepts and terms such as: algorithms, 3 Box Model, Levels of Processing model, and distributed vs massed practice.
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Here is the free website I use that allows your students to take a Meyers Briggs / Jungian type personality test.Link to Personality Test - CLICK HERE TO START
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This is a task we do to understand and practice how to use the DSM V. Students will learn the DSM V, then diagnosis Aaron Stampler from the film Primal Fear.(Note: this film is R so parent permsision is needed)
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