The Amoeba Sisters YouTube Videos

The Amoeba Sisters strive to facilitate curiosity and engagement by making biology both humorous and meaningful. The videos use real world examples and silly cartoons to demystify difficult biology concepts, such as cell anatomy, homeostasis, enzymes, and biomolecules. A new video is released weekly. The creators are sisters who both work in education. One is a high school biology teacher who found these videos made biology more approachable and easier to comprehend.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: The Amoeba Sisters

Analyzing Animal Farm

In this unit students will become more knowledgeable about historical events as well as infer/identify elements of a fable narration. Within the text, they will take three reading check quizzes via Google Forms. Students will partake in an Escape Room for a final assessment of the book. At the end of this unit, after reading the book, students will create their own ideal society.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study

Author: Jenn Crosley

Basic Money Management for Adults - Remix

This lesson focuses on developing basic money management skills for adults. The specific time focus for these skills is on multiple months to years. The intended audience is for adults ages 18 and above.The lesson will include elements of reading and writing and listening, and will focus on authentic texts, videos, facts and figures cited from expert research and reports.This lesson will help learners comprehend different money management skills, and help them to understand how to apply them in a long term timeframe.These skills can be used in both a personal sense as well as for business.

Material Type: Assessment, Case Study, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Pauline Muljana

The Cell Cycle Animation

During development from stem to fully differentiated, cells in the body alternately divide (mitosis) and "appear" to be resting (interphase). This sequence of activities exhibited by cells is called the cell cycle. Watch this animation to learn more about each of the stages in the cell cycle: interphase, gap 0, gap 1, S Phase, gap 2, and M phase.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Interactive, Lesson Plan

Book Report Alternative: Glog That Book!

In this alternative book report, students identify the elements of fiction in books they have read by creating glogs, interactive multimedia posters, and then share their glogs.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Teaching Awareness of Stereotyping in Multilingual Communities

This lesson plan talks about stereotyping and its harmfulness. After this lesson students will be able to became aware of some cultural differences and labeling as well. When applying this lesson, some adaptions may be necessary taking into consideration the variety of contexts worldwide.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Thiago Costa, Ludmilla Stefani

Digital Footprint

In this problem-based learning module, students will investigate why is it important that students be careful what is posted for everyone to see. Students will investigate and discuss these questions during this module that directly relate to their daily life. Students will work cooperatively in groups to design an infomercial to be presented to elementary students and/or parents and community members. Key Learning Targets: I can use technology to produce and publish my work, and link to sources.I can include multimedia projects or visual displays when they will be helpful in clarifying and emphasizing information.I can actively participate and contribute to a discussion with my teacher and my peers. I can present my findings to a group or audience in a clear and concise way.I can create a storyboard to prepare a public service announcement. I can compare contrast trends of technology. I can write an explanatory paragraph to examine a topic (present and future digital footprint).

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Blended Learning Teacher Practice Network

Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology

Students work in groups to create annotated book reviews with links to topics of interest related to their book.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study

Blending the Past with Today's Technology: Using Prezi to Prepare for Historical Fiction

To prepare for literature circles featuring historical novels, students research the decades of the 1930s to the 1990s and share their information using Prezi, a web application for creating multimedia presentations.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Word Choice in Advertising: 7th Grade

Engage students in the analysis of the persuasive written language of advertisements. Students will have to recognize some language techniques used in advertising, match the techniques to some printed ads and create slogans, using such techniques.Subject: English Language, Reading Foundational Skills, Writing Foundational SkillsLevel: Middle SchoolMaterial Type: Classroom ActivityRemixed by Tami Hughson, Sioux County Schools.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan

Author: Tamara Hughson

Poetry and Lyrics

How can poetry be fun for all 8th grade learners?  Students have previously learned about poetic elements and figurative language.  Using those skills, students apply the knowledge to demonstrate the poetic elements and figurative language in a favorite song.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Sandi Rankin

Reading Media: Analyzing Logos, Ads, & Film in the ELA classroom

This media literacy unit was designed and piloted with junior English classes at the start of the school year. Activities can easily be adapted to suit secondary students at various levels. Within the unit, students analyze corporate logos, corporate advertising, movie trailers and stereotypes found in media related to Native American culture. Within the unit, students also learn how to consider the ways in which media appeals to ethos, pathose and logos and how to identify the tone of a piece of media. 

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Reading, Unit of Study

Author: Shana Ferguson

Images of the American Revolution

This lesson focuses on the American Revolution, which encouraged the founding fathers' desire to create a government that would, as stated in the Preamble, insure domestic tranquility and provide for the common defense. This lesson correlates to the National History Standards and the National Standards for Civics and Social Sciences.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Civil War Battle Expert Project

This project is intended to be an activating project for the Civil War.  Students will each be assigned a battle to research and essentially become the expert on the battle through the creation of a technology based project as well as a battle poster.  After the completeion of the posters they should be displayed within the classroom in chronological order.  This will allow the classroom to see the turning of the tide during the Civil War.  Image retreived from History.com on 2/27/19.https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history 

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Shelly McGowan, Zachary Potteiger, Michael Sterner

Multicultural Heritage of Trinidad and Tobago

This is a lesson that can be taught face-to-face or online.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan, Reading

Author: Pamela Greenidge

The Constitutional Convention: Four Founding Fathers You May Never Have Met

Witness the unfolding drama of the Constitutional Convention and the contributions of those whom we have come to know as the Founding Fathers.  In this lesson, students will become familiar with four important, but relatively unknown, contributors to the U.S. Constitution Convention: Oliver Ellsworth, Alexander Hamilton, William Paterson, and Edmund Randolph.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Twelve Years a Slave: Analyzing Slave Narratives

The corrupting influence of slavery on marriage and the family is a predominant theme in Solomon Northup's narrative Twelve Years a Slave. In this lesson, students are asked to identify and analyze narrative passages that provide evidence for how slavery undermined and perverted these social institutions. Northup collaborated with a white ghostwriter, David Wilson. Students will read the preface and identify and analyze statements Wilson makes to prove the narrative is true.

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Written in Bone: The Secret in the Cellar

Forensic scientists are recovering buried clues of the lives of early colonists and discovering the stories written in their bones. Using graphics, photos, and online activities, this Webcomic unravels a mystery of historical and scientific importance about the life of a recently discovered 17th century human body along the James River on the Chesapeake Bay. Students can analyze artifacts and examine the skeleton for the tell-tale forensic clues that bring the deceased to life and establish the cause of death. Teacher resources are included. Note: Turn off pop-up blocker to successfully experience all site features.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Interactive, Lecture, Lesson Plan

Not "Indians," Many Tribes: Native American Diversity

Students study the interaction between environment and culture as they learn about three vastly different indigenous groups in a game-like activity that uses vintage photographs, traditional stories, photos of artifacts, and recipes.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

HIV/ AIDS resources for teachers

This website contains educational resources that are based on the UNESCO-recognised HIV and AIDS collections held by Lothian Health Services Archive (LHSA). Rather than being complete lesson plans in themselves, these resources provide a range of suggested activities based on the collection items. The resources are linked to the Curriculum for Excellence (S2 and S3) and are intended for use by teachers, youth groups and educational professionals. The site contains resources, audio-visual material and images linked to the following subject themes: Expressive Arts, Social Studies, and Health and Wellbeing.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Case Study, Primary Source

Authors: Lothian Health Services Archive, University of Edinburgh