So How Should We Get There?

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This lesson features a comparison of different travel options from New York City to six other cities. Students compare walking, biking, driving, taking the bus, riding the train, and flying. Students conduct research and calculate the CO2e for each travel option. Step 1 - Inquire: Students watch a short video on the climate crisis. In groups, students explore and discuss emissions from the transportation sector. Step 2 - Investigate: Students are assigned one route between New York City and another city in the Northeast. Students calculate miles, cost, time, and CO2e for each travel option for their route. Step 3 - Inspire: Students participate in a group discussion about the results and explore different ways to decarbonize our transportation system.

Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan

Author: Dan Castrigano

Carbon Footprint Calculator For Students

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In this lesson, students calculate their own carbon footprint using Peter Kalmus's methodology in his book Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution. Step 1 - Inquire: Students watch a short video on the climate crisis. Students engage in a brief discussion on the prompt "Do my individual actions matter?" Step 2 - Investigate: Students calculate their own carbon footprints. Step 3 - Inspire: Students engage in a discussion, reflecting on this activity and the importance of individual actions.

Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan

Author: Dan Castrigano

Data Stories

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The goal of the Data4Kids project is to help educators prepare children to be better data users, stewards, and consumers. With support from the South Big Data Hub, the Urban Institute and its partners have created a set of tools and resources to help teach kids in primary and secondary schools about data, data science, and data visualization in a virtual environment. These "Data Stories" are designed to assist educators in supporting students’ data science learning, and can be allow educators to freely used across a variety of grades. Each story is a starter kit for educators at different levels–grades 3-5 (Band 1); grades 6-8 (Band 2); or grades 9-12 (Band 3). Each Data Story includes an Instructor's Guide, Data (available in Microsoft Excel, CSV, and Google Sheets formats), a Data Dictionary to describe the data values in each story (available in Microsoft Word and Google Doc formats), and Teaching Slides (available in Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides formats).

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Data Set, Lesson Plan

Author: Urban Institute

Illustrative Mathematics IM K–5 Math

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IM K–5 Math is a problem-based core curriculum rooted in content and practice standards to foster learning and achievement for all. Students learn by doing math through solving problems, developing conceptual understanding, and discussing and defending their reasoning. Teachers build confidence with lessons and curriculum guides that help them facilitate learning and help students make connections between concepts and procedures. Every activity and lesson in IM K–5 Math tells a coherent mathematical story across units and grade levels based on both the standards and research-based learning trajectories. This allows students the opportunity to view mathematics as a connected set of ideas and offers them access to mathematics when developed into the overarching design structure of the curriculum. The first unit in each grade level provides lesson structures which establish a mathematical community and invite students into the mathematics with accessible content. Each lesson offers opportunities for the teacher and students to learn more about one another, develop mathematical language, and become increasingly familiar with the curriculum routines. The use of authentic contexts and adaptations provides students opportunities to bring their own experiences to the lesson activities and see themselves in the materials and mathematics.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Kendall Hunt

Illustrative Mathematics 6-8 Math version 3.1415

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M 6–8 Math is a problem-based core curriculum rooted in content and practice standards to foster learning and achievement for all. Students learn by doing math, solving problems in mathematical and real-world contexts, and constructing arguments using precise language. Teachers can shift their instruction and facilitate student learning with high-leverage routines that guide them in understanding and making connections between concepts and procedures. IM 6–8 Math lessons are designed with a focus on independent, group, and whole-class instruction. This format builds mathematical understanding and fluency for all students. Teachers will also use Warm-ups and Cool-downs to help guide lesson pacing and planning. IM 6–8 Math, focuses on supporting teachers in the use of research-based instructional routines to successfully facilitate student learning. IM 6-8 Math, authored by Illustrative Mathematics, is highly rated by EdReports for meeting all expectations across all three review gateways. EdReports is an independent nonprofit that reviews K–12 instructional materials for focus, coherence, rigor, mathematical practices, and usability. Read the full analysis here.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Kendall Hunt

Illustrative Mathematics IM 6–8 Math Accelerated

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A comprehensive, standards-aligned, two-course curriculum designed to provide an effective accelerated pathway to Algebra 1. IM 6–8 Math Accelerated, a compressed version of IM 6–8 Math™ 3.1415, is a thoughtful alternative to conventional accelerated programs because its design eliminates the possibility for unfinished learning as students arrive at Algebra 1. It includes all of the standards in IM 6–8 Math and compacts them into a two-year curriculum meant to be covered during the 6th and 7th grades. The pace is faster than IM 6-8 Math, but no crucial mathematical concepts are missed. Only IM Certified curriculum is guaranteed to include the rigor, structure, and coherence as developed by our authors. Exclusively available from our IM Certified™ Partners, IM 6–8 Math Accelerated enables deep student learning through a carefully crafted scope and sequence that maintains a balance of conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and meaningful applications. The IM authors made use of efficiencies in the standards to combine units from IM 6–8 Math and relocated or combined concepts as needed to maintain a thoughtful progression through the standards.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Kendall Hunt

Math in the Workforce

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In a world where we have calculators and search engines, why is math still a necessary skill to have in many career paths? From fashion design to astrobiology, math is the backbone of those jobs, and this collection will show you exactly why. Being able to do math means being able to win a fencing match or saving someone's life!

Material Type: Case Study

Authors: KQED Education, PBS Learning Media

APEX Calculus

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APEX Calculus is a calculus textbook written for traditional college/university calculus courses. It has the look and feel of the calculus book you likely use right now (Stewart, Thomas & Finney, etc.). The explanations of new concepts is clear, written for someone who does not yet know calculus. Each section ends with an exercise set with ample problems to practice & test skills (odd answers are in the back).

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Brian Heinold, Dimplekumar Chalishajar, Gregory Hartman, Troy Siemers

Common Core Problem Based Curriculum Maps – emergent math

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The following Problem Based Learning (PrBL) curriculum maps are based on the Math Common Core State Standards and the associated scope and sequences. The problems and tasks have been scoured from thoughtful math bloggers who have advanced math educator practice by posting their materials online.

Material Type: Full Course, Syllabus

Authors: Emergent Math, Geoff Krall

Important Prerequisite Math Standards

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Now, more than ever, all students deserve access to engaging, challenging, grade-level math instruction. This is especially true for students who have been underserved such as students living in poverty, students from racially marginalized communities, students with learning differences, and students who are multilingual emergent. A commitment to equitable instruction requires that educators are intentional in identifying, celebrating, and building on knowledge that students have gained. It also requires that educators are strategic as they plan to address current and ongoing learning gaps. Starting the school year with weeks of review of prior-grade standards will result in a long-term loss of access to grade-level work that perpetuates inequities for historically marginalized students. This resource demonstrates that students who were impacted by interruptions to teaching and learning and subsequent learning losses are still able to access most grade-level standards this year without prior review, and that missed content can usually be integrated in a minimally-invasive way.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The Achievement Network Ltd.

Universal Screener for Number Sense: Kindergarten

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This series of interview-based screeners contains assessments for fall, winter, and spring, and are designed to serve both as indicators of struggle and measures of growth. All screeners are available in English and Spanish. The purpose for these assessments is to provide a series of interview-based screening assessments to: • help teachers to understand how their students are making sense of mathematics. • measure key number sense skills, concepts, and developmental milestones. • help teachers better understand how to support all students in accessing grade level content and accelerate learning. • inform RtI or MTSS Tiers 1 and 2: identify areas topics for whole class and small group instruction. • help teachers identify individual students who might need additional supports, and direct teachers toward high impact topics for instruction to accelerate learning. • identify students to whom the teacher might want to administer diagnostic assessments. • improve parent communication and collaboration.

Material Type: Assessment

Author: Forefront Education

Universal Screener for Number Sense: Grade 2

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This series of interview-based screeners contains assessments for fall, winter, and spring, and are designed to serve both as indicators of struggle and measures of growth. All screeners are available in English and Spanish. The purpose for these assessments is to provide a series of interview-based screening assessments to: • help teachers to understand how their students are making sense of mathematics. • measure key number sense skills, concepts, and developmental milestones. • help teachers better understand how to support all students in accessing grade level content and accelerate learning. • inform RtI or MTSS Tiers 1 and 2: identify areas topics for whole class and small group instruction. • help teachers identify individual students who might need additional supports, and direct teachers toward high impact topics for instruction to accelerate learning. • identify students to whom the teacher might want to administer diagnostic assessments. • improve parent communication and collaboration.

Material Type: Assessment

Author: Forefront Education