Students learn that voluntary exchange is based on the fact that both sides expect to gain from trade and that exchange is made easier by the creation and use of money. Individuals and societies organize themselves to answer basic questions such as, How will goods and services be produced?
In this unit, students will begin by developing an understanding of economic sustainability and how a lack of it it can lead to difficulties in a community. Students will then use this knowledge to identify and investigate different global economic crises. After a critical review of resources related to this topic, students will be assigned a certain country for which they will need to create and defend a proposal for economic sustainability.
5th Grade North Caroline ecosystems unit plan
How animals survive with changes to their habitats
This 5th-grade Science Unit on Ecosystems helps students compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems, including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests, and grasslands) and it helps students classify the organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, or decomposers (biotic factors).
A guideline for teachers to compare the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Ambrose Bierce and discuss how their narration choices affect the piece and the reader.
This unit focuses on charges and electric fields. It also introduces students to voltage or potential difference. Many of the initial ideas and concepts are abstract ideas, while some incorporate the use of hands on labs and numerical equations.
Students will learn about concepts of charge, conductors and insulators, and Coulomb's Law.
This 2-3 week unit on algebraic expressions allows for students to develop a deep understanding of what an expression is and how it can be used to represent a situation. Students start off by working with number expressions and analyzing the components and evaluating them. They then study the meaning behind a variable and how it us used in an algebraic expression. Finally, they work to understand that two expressions that may look different can be equivalent. The goal is to give students a strong foundation in algebraic expressions before moving on to equations and inequalities.
This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes an introduction and overview; discussion questions; author biography; and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance student discussion of Mark Dunn's book, Ella Minnow Pea, a satirical novel of language and ideas.
This is unit utilizes Historical Fiction and Nonfiction text to address standards such as determining a theme; providing a summary; Describing how the plot unfolds as well as the character’s response; and explaining how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
In this lesson, students present their research-based claim during class using visual aid to answer the overarching research question: “Do the benefits of DDT outweigh its harmful consequences?”
In this lesson, students will define stylistically sophisticated language, domain-specific vocabulary, and a notable sense of voice to gain an understanding of the rubric.
This guide was developed to support teachers in teaching topics with real-world context, and provide them with the background to feel competent and comfortable when teaching about the climate change. The guide includes numerous education features, such as teaching tips and student thinking, that help to connect the content to classroom practice.
This guide was developed to support teachers in teaching topics with real-world context, and provide them with the background to feel competent and comfortable when teaching about fresh water. The guide includes numerous education features, such as teaching tips and student thinking, that help to connect the content to classroom practice.
This guide was developed to support teachers in teaching topics with real-world context, and provide them with the background to feel competent and comfortable when teaching about energy. The guide includes numerous education features, such as teaching tips and student thinking, that help to connect the content to classroom practice.
Understand how humans can have a positive or negative impact on the environment.
In this extensive, PDF unit focused on the women's movement in the United States from the 19th century to present day, students will examine how women gained rights in an America that was not always receptive to their efforts. Students will utilize primary source documents in order to investigate varying opinions on women's rights and examine how even after women gained some rights, they were still oppressed in other ways, through both actual laws and the culture.
This unit addresses the development of women’s rights in the United States. It begins with an overview of women’s roles in the nineteenth century, then moves to a discussion of the fight for women’s suffrage, and concludes by looking at the ultimately failed battle to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Students will interpret primary-source documents such as a legal ruling, cartoons and a painting using a Primary Source Analysis Worksheet that teaches them to approach such materials systematically. Throughout the lesson, the students work on detecting the perspectives of various figures and groups in U.S. history in terms of their views on the role of women in society. In particular, the lesson addresses the backlash against the civil and women’s rights movements of the 1960s, focusing on the figure of Phyllis Schlafly and her group, “Stop ERA.”
In this unit, students develop their knowledge of selective sheep breeding so they can formulate an argument and make ethical decisions about breeding easy care sheep.