Iowa Agriculture - The 3 Whys
(View Complete Item Description)Students will explore the importance of Iowa Agriculture by using "The 3 Whys" strategy.
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Take a Closer Look at Our State
(View Complete Item Description)Add the General description for teachers to see. And resource added in the "Add Resource" will be for the teacher only.
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Vocabulary Word Activity
(View Complete Item Description)This quick and fun activity that can be used to get kids using clues for vocabulary words (or phrases) in a reading unit, science or social studies unit. Students love the game 'Hedbanz' so use it to increase their learning in a fun and interactive way. This activity reviews or practices word meanings, phrase meanings or even can be applied to numbers. Vocabulary
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Generating Deeper Student Thinking
(View Complete Item Description)This activity is intended to stimulate deeper student thinking in response to an image with questioning.
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Circle of Viewpoints - Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
(View Complete Item Description)Circle of Viewpoints helps students identify the different perspectives that could be present in or affected by what has just been read, seen, or heard. This routine relies on the ability of students to identify different perspectives that are presented around a topic. It will create greater awareness of how others may be thinking and feeling, thus reinforcing that people think differently about the same things. This activity will be a prewriting activity to set them up to write a narrative essay using the novel Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli.
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Symbolism in Literature
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson uses images and the "I See...and I Wonder" strategy to get students thinking about the bigger concepts that objects might represent. Students often see symbols as mere objects with only a face value because of the speed with which they encounter them. However, if we can encourage students to take more time to study an object, other concepts or meanings can come to light.This lesson uses images as an entry point to symbolism because they are less threatening than literature. The images provided are a starting place, but feel free to remix and use your own images.
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Testing pH in Household Substances (Predict-Gather-Explain)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will investigate the pH level of household substances by testing a variety of common compounds. Substances are tested with pH paper and placed on the continuum of the pH scale range of 1 to 14. After testing a solution, the student compares the strip color to the scale provided on the container and gives the solution a rating from 1-14. Using the determined number, the name of the solution is placed on the continuum. Students will find that household substances have a specific pH property which is a characteristic needed for the substance's use.
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Topic Selection & Expansion for Argument Papers
(View Complete Item Description)When students are assigned an argument paper of 7-9 pages for Composition II, they often struggle to gather enough research material to fill the required pages. This lesson is intended to help them expand their topics in order to write a good research question as well as to gather the appropriate amount of information.
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Analysis of Text Craft and Structure
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson explores author's craft and structure through articles that directly affect students.
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Argument in Political Cartoons
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson involves students exploring political cartoons and analyzing the argument being made. Students will work in groups to build skills, then they will get an assignment to practice the skill on their own.
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Introducing Computer Science 6th Grade
(View Complete Item Description)This is an introductory lesson introducing what computer science is and what some of the topics are that we will cover in their Intro to CS and Web Design Course.
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Problem Solution Project - Exploring Computer Science
(View Complete Item Description)This is an introdutory lesson to computer science combinded with a 3-part project, students will prepare for programming by practicing the problem-solving steps. They will select a problem that they are dealing with at home, at school, or a problem in the community. They will then research and gather data to help them find a step by step plan to solve the problem. Lesson Includes: Activity, Pre-Post Survey, 3-part project and rubric
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Railroad Hero
(View Complete Item Description)Why is Harriet Tubman considered a hero?During this seminar, you will learn about one brave railroad conductor named Harriet Tubman. By the end of the seminar, you will identify and explain the characteristics she possessed that enabled her to save many lives. Using the complex reasoning skill of constructing support, you will relate several events from her life and experiences with the Underground Railroad to explain why Harriet Tubman is considered a hero.
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Leaderless Discussion: The Hate U Give
(View Complete Item Description)After reading the anchor text, The Hate U Give, students will make connections to additional sources, gather evidence from the sources, reflect, questions, and engage in a leaderless discussion.
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Title Analysis Preparation for The Hate U Give
(View Complete Item Description)This is an activity to prepare for writing a title analysis paper for the novel The Hate U Give.
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Peer Review Activity for the Title Analysis
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson included step-by-step directions for a peer review activity for a title analysis paper.
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Climate Change (Grade 5)- Blended Lesson Plan
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is designed for fifth grade students. It focuses on the “big idea” that humans depend on, are shaped by, and affect the earth’s climate. Students will first take an in-depth look into the earth’s climate, the roles humans play in climate changes, and the impacts the changing climate will have on humans. Then, they will propose solutions to minimize the consequences of climate change on our earth and its people.
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Mission to Mars: Blended Learning Design Quest
(View Complete Item Description)The Year is 3016. Mars has been terraformed and can now sustain human life. You are part of a group of colonizers looking to make a new life for yourselves on the red planet. This is a collection of design quests that have been given a layer of gamification.
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Body Systems App Design Project
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson ties in our 7th grade science curriculum where students study the Systems of the Body. It also looks at how these systems function in relation to athletics. Students are to design an app that looks at these systems and how an app can help an athlete train for their sport.
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AEA Template for Open Author
(View Complete Item Description)This OER template is intended as a guide for creating new lessons using Open Author.
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