Analysis of Text Craft and Structure
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson explores author's craft and structure through articles that directly affect students.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
This lesson explores author's craft and structure through articles that directly affect students.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
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.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
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.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
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
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan
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.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
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.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This is an activity to prepare for writing a title analysis paper for the novel The Hate U Give.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This lesson included step-by-step directions for a peer review activity for a title analysis paper.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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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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.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This module takes you through ideas to troubleshoot a Chromebook
Material Type: Game, Student Guide
This OER template is intended as a guide for creating new lessons using Open Author.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This lesson is for an AP Language and Compositon course and is focused on developing precision of language and tone in a student's writing. It is the beginning of a process that will as students to be more purposeful with language.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This lesson is designed to have students understand different ethical philosophies and how they connect to Ethics and ethical dilemmas.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Summary U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Material Type: Textbook
Guiding Question: In what ways do “single stories” impact our own identities, how we view others, and the choices we make?
Material Type: Assessment
This is the first module in our training series that will provide participants with an introduction to OER quality evaluation. We have designed these modules to first spark the learner's interest in the topics covered and then dig deeper into the content through presentations, storytelling, and demonstrations of the tools. We will offer opportunities for learners to practice exploring the resources and tools, and reflect on how they might use them in their work.
Material Type: Module
This module is here to help you navigate the many resources that are available to you as a teacher! Using open education resources may be a bit confusing and overwhelming at first, but it's a rewarding experience! In fact, this module is using an OER resource through OER commons!
Material Type: Module
Learn how to use OER Common Common Core Alignment and Evaluation Tool to align appropriate resources to the Common Core State Standards, and to evaluate the resource against certain aspects of quality.
Material Type: Lesson