Students review gravitational potential energy, how to calculate it, and how to use it as a comparison to electric potential energy in these video lessons from Khan Academy.
This brief video lesson discusses the physics of electrical phenomena by looking at the history of the major vocabulary terms associated with electricity such as electron, battery, charge, and current. Discussion/assessment questions and suggested supplemental resources are included.
This supplemental presentation is to be used with the lesson "Emergent." In this lesson, students are placed in a role-playing scenario that builds off of the one described in the book/movie entitled "Divergent." A group of revolutionaries calling themselves "Emergent" organizes factions that must develop expertise on different aspects of the Bill of Rights. Students use their faction's expertise to collaboratively stop the "Secret Committee Against Rights for Everyone."
This resource offers a employability skills resource toolkit that reviews why these skills matter and teaching resources that can be adapted for younger students. Some of the modules include integrity and professionalism, communications, entrepreneurship, and adaptability and lifelong learning.
This is a supplemental presentation to be used with the Energy Balance lesson plan.
The outcome of this presentation is to enhance teacher communication skills with students, families, and colleagues; thus increasing student achievement.
This tutorial teaches how to evaluation health information that is found on the Web.
Lessons from To Kill a Mockingbird bring Southern Gothic Literature live through research and citation
Students learn how to make basic charts, change the chart type, change labels, and switch columns, rows and legends.
Prezi video is a great resource for students to use to create original content. The planning and execution of content represents levels 3 and 4 of Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK).
In this lesson, students will familiarize themselves with some basic facts about India that highlight its diversity. Students will then view excerpts from (or the entirety of) Remarkable Journey and utilize the film’s information as a jumping off point to learn about various aspects of Indian culture (food, music, film, clothing, dance, and religion.) Yet, despite such diversity, Asian Indian immigrants to North Carolina, fellow strangers in a strange land, often rely on their shared roots to build new and unified communities. Students will discuss this concept then use their discoveries to create a mural that exemplifies the theme: "India: Unity in Diversity."
India is a diverse land of religions and spirituality. It is not only the birthplace of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, but numerous other faiths are practiced there, including Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and others. Through viewing clips from Remarkable Journey and completing the following activities, students will explore the various religions with connections to India, as well as the way Asian Indians have integrated their diverse religions into communities across North Carolina. As a culminating activity, students will delve further into one particular religion mentioned during class by creating a scrapbook of that religion.
Lesson plan using a Cyberchase activity, students are introduced to a problem that gives them a sense of how quickly exponential growth accrues in the classic problem about a chess board and grains of rice. The context is extended to consider applications using money growth and chain letters. They are introduced to the algebraic representation for exponential growth.
Students explore the difference between weather and climate by investigating extreme weather on Earth and its contributing factors. Students brainstorm a list of weather-related words and phrases. They will then gather information about weather by viewing images and videos and discussing with peers, and then record the information they have learned on a provided worksheet.
PPT on fad diets and eating disorders
This interactive presentation teaches some basic family vocabulary (los hijos, los abuelos, los padres), asks some comprehension questions, and then prompts the audience to describe their own families.
This is a supplemental presentation that should be used with the Fast Food: Figuring Out the Facts lesson plan. It will show students the dangers of fast food and how to make healthier choices.
Students will describe the impact of fast food on the American diet, analyze their community to identify fast food restaurants and grocery stores, and identify three ways to make healthier food choices using the fast food restaurants and grocery stores in their community.
Students can view these slides to learn more about figurative language: alliteration, analogies, idioms, similes, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia, and hyperbole.
This is a supplemental presentation that should be used with the Fill Up on Fiber! lesson plan.