This is the first lesson in a sequential unit. Students view ceramic vessels from different time periods and cultures and discuss their meanings, functions, and original contexts. They develop criteria for value and meaning of these objects, and create a timeline to situate the objects in history.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students are tested on what they learned about the history of ceramic forms in "Ceramics: A Vessel into History -- Lesson 1." They start work on a personal clay vessel that has a specific use or meaning in their contemporary culture, which could be discerned through study by future archeologists and art historians.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students begin work on a ceramic vessel, which they designed in "Ceramics: A Vessel into History -- Lesson 2." They discuss their artistic choices and identify elements derived from historical examples, while considering how artists appropriate ideas from earlier artists.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students hold a critique session to evaluate the work of their peers using the criteria for value and meaning they developed in "Ceramics: A Vessel into History -- Lesson 1."
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
This introductory class of computer skills is comprised of units that focus on basic computer hardware and the following applications: Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Photo Gallery, and Audacity. Most units begin with YouTube overviews or 'how to' presentations followed by step by step guides to using aspects of the application and then have assessment exercises and conclude with a final project for evaluation.
Material Type: Assessment, Full Course, Lecture
This page contains sequential and supplemental activities that help teachers teach students to read word families, compound words, contractions, double-letter words, silent-letter words, -ed words and 's words.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The "Into the Book" web site is designed to help elementary students practice eight reading comprehension strategies through playful interactive activities. The site focuses on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. "Behind the Lesson," the teacher area of the site, provides information, lesson plans and other resources for teachers.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Completion of this seminar will allow you to understand and use the R.A.C.E.S. strategy for answering text dependent analysis questions. This is a well-known strategy to use in the second paragraph of a TDA response. You will read, answer questions, and learn how to communicate effectively by writing and citing evidence about a story called Because of Winn Dixie.StandardsC.C. 1.2.3B Ask and answer questions about the text and make inferences about the text. Refer to the text to support your answers.C.C.1.3.5 B Cite textual evidence by quoting accurately from the text to explain what the text says explicitly and make inferences.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this seminar, you will be introduced to the six common types of text structure. Then, the seminar will narrow its focus to the first two structures. You will learn how authors organize ideas to help you to better understand the nonfiction texts you encounter, and you will explore the graphic organizers used to support them.StandardsCC.1.2.5.E Use text structure, in and among texts, to interpret information.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This lesson was created to introduce learners to Copyright law, the Fair Use Doctrine, and the Creative Commons.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
This resource is designed to provide instructors with an outline for a 1 hour professional development session aimed at introducing teachers to OER commons.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Watch this short video and try to identify the location of the sculptures. Then see how art and these sculptures relate to the science of mathematics.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Human Geography: An open textbook for Advanced Placement is aligned to the 2015 College Board course articulation for AP Human Geography. The purpose of AP Human Geography is to introduce students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth's surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human social organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their science and practice.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this project, students research a current or past instance of ethnic or religious conflict from around the world such as ethnic cleansing and genocide. Following research, students present and reflect on causes and effects of the conflict. The project was designed for AP Human Geography but can be adapted to any global studies or issues courses.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Case Study
The students will examine and define each reading strategy to prepare for activities that will be completed in WIN this marking period.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lesson Plan
