Diamante Poems
(View Complete Item Description)This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
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What's in the Bag?
(View Complete Item Description)What's in the Bag? invites primary students to play with vocabulary common to their environment.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Book Cover Creator
(View Complete Item Description)The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Comparison and Contrast Guide
(View Complete Item Description)The Comparison and Contrast Guide outlines the characteristics of the genre and provides direct instruction on the methods of organizing, gathering ideas, and writing comparison and contrast essays.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Design Thinking for 11th Graders
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson aims to introduce students at the top of the K-12 ladder to the concept of Design Thinking via Common Core Literacy Standards recently introduced
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Primary Source Exemplar Template
(View Complete Item Description)This is a blank template which provides users with the basic formatting to begin building Primary Source based lessons and units. Open this resource and choose "Remix this resource" to begin. Examples of completed exemplars have been added within the Table of Contents, under "Resource Sets"
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Remix
Primary Source Exemplar: The Moon
(View Complete Item Description)Through a study of the moon, students will be guided through an inquiry process using primary sources to learn how we shape our understanding of the past (history). They will also learn how new discoveries and observations change our perceptions over time, as each succeeding generation creates knowledge and adds new technology. Students will then pose their own questions to wonder how future discoveries or new technology might change our understanding of the world and our universe.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Primary Source Exemplar: Nutrition and Human Rights
(View Complete Item Description)In this unit, students examine the question: How does access to a specific diet (nutrition) impact human rights? As students explore biological information on how the human body uses food as a source of energy, they will explore the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) document, to examine the crucial question of how access to a proper diet is related to a person’s rights.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study
Primary Source Exemplar: Universal Declaration of Human Rights Social Science Unit
(View Complete Item Description)This document describes a series of lessons in the Social Sciences, all of which are tied to the exploration of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as a Primary Source Document. They are designed to be given to 9th or 10th grade students in a World History, Cultural Geography, or similar social science class. They are specifically designed to teach the Common Core Standards for Literacy in the Social Sciences, and to engage higher order thinking skills.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan, Primary Source, Reading, Unit of Study
100th Day of School Activities
(View Complete Item Description)Resources to mark the 100th day of school with math activities. Challenge students to generate 100 different ways to represent the number 100. Students will easily generate 99 + 1 and 50 + 50, but encourage them to think out of the box. Challenge them to include examples from all of the NCTM Standards strands: number sense, numerical operations, geometry, measurement, algebra, patterns, data analysis, probability, discrete math, Create a class list to record the best entries. Some teachers write 100 in big bubble numeral style and then record the entries inside the numerals.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
10X Bigger!
(View Complete Item Description)Students will explore multi-digit numbers and the relationship between ones, tens and hundreds; a digit in one place is 10x the digit in the place to its right. Students will use their bodies to represent digits in multi-digit numbers up to the hundredths place and compare these numbers using <, =, >. Students will use their bodies as multi-digit numbers to add and subtract.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Remix
10X Bigg
(View Complete Item Description)Students will explore multi-digit numbers and the relationship between ones, tens and hundreds; a digit in one place is 10x the digit in the place to its right. Students will use their bodies to represent digits in multi-digit numbers up to the hundredths place and compare these numbers using <, =, >. Students will use their bodies as multi-digit numbers to add and subtract.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Remix
10X Bigg
(View Complete Item Description)Students will explore multi-digit numbers and the relationship between ones, tens and hundreds; a digit in one place is 10x the digit in the place to its right. Students will use their bodies to represent digits in multi-digit numbers up to the hundredths place and compare these numbers using <, =, >. Students will use their bodies as multi-digit numbers to add and subtract.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Teaching/Learning Strategy
10th's and Decimals
(View Complete Item Description)In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad replaces a piece of track to get the Madre Bonita Express to the Mother's Day harvest.
Material Type: Lecture