Physics: Newton's First Law of Motion
(View Complete Item Description)This 10-minute video lesson looks at Newton's First Law (Galileo's Law of Inertia).
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Geometry Deductive Proof Relay
(View Complete Item Description)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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Analyzing Center and Spread Using Stacked Box Plots Activity
(View Complete Item Description)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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Introduction to Civil Disobedience | Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"
(View Complete Item Description)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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Of Mice and Men 4C's Discussion Day Activities
(View Complete Item Description)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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How to a Learning Management System in my Ceramics class
(View Complete Item Description)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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Polasky Lesson 1 Pocket (2X2 Rubik's Cube)
(View Complete Item Description)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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Polasky Lesson 3. 16 trait Personality Test
(View Complete Item Description)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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Polasky Lesson 2: Psychological Disorders
(View Complete Item Description)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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Making Connections with Forms of Quadratic Equations
(View Complete Item Description)Students will look to make connections between vertex form, standard form and intercept form for quadratic equations.
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Height Percentile Activity
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students will change their own heights to a z score and then use the standard normal table to convert to a percentile ranking. Students will then determine if their heights are considered unusually tall/short.
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Geometry
(View Complete Item Description)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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Hands-on Balancing Equations and Reaction Types
(View Complete Item Description)Objectives: To use models and particle diagrams to represent the law of conservation of matter and energy in a chemical reaction.To write and determine the ratio of reactants to products, through the use of adding coefficients. To classify various types of chemical reactions.
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Classifying Special Parallelograms Flowchart
(View Complete Item Description)I would recommned using this task after feeling confident in your students' understanding of the properties of a parallelogram. While it could serve as a review, I think it is best suited as in introductory piece to get students to see how the properties have a trickle down effect to other quadrilaterals.
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Geometry
(View Complete Item Description)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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Graphing Systems of Linear Equations
(View Complete Item Description)This seminar will allow you to solve a system of linear equations by graphing. It will help you to understand what it means when the lines in a system of equations are parallel, and also what it means for the graphs to be the same line. You will learn how to visually identify information about the system of equations simply by examining the graphs of the lines that make up the system.StandardsCC.2.2.HS.D.10Represent, solve, and interpret equations/inequalities and systems of equations/inequalities algebraically and graphically.
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Distance Formula (Dan Meyer 3-act-play) (Real)
(View Complete Item Description)The 3 act math is a perfect way to incorporate the See-Think-Wonder activity. Dan Meyer is the originator of the 3 act math plays and the Pearson Envisions Math textbook incorporates one every Topic/Chapter. I am writing this lesson plan with the idea of using the Taco Cart 3 act math play.The link to the 3-act-math play is below.Taco Cart http://threeacts.mrmeyer.com/tacocart/
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Add, Subtract, Multiply, & Divide Rational Numbers
(View Complete Item Description)Students learn how to add, subtract, multiply, & divide fractions and decimals.
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Cardiovascular & Respiratory System Diseases
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson consists of a basic introduction to the cardiovascular and respiratory system(s) along with basic (common) diseases within each system. Diseases include atherosclerosis, heart attack, stroke, COPD (emphysema, chronic bronchitis). Screenings to detect various forms of cardiovascular disease are also included at an introductory level.
Material Type: Assessment, Diagram/Illustration
Collaborative Conversations
(View Complete Item Description)Lessons to help students to become better at conversations.
Material Type: Activity/Lab