This guide takes users through 10 step-by-step activities on FRED®, the free online economic database of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, to show how quickly and easily it is to find and graph economic data and save and share them as a custom graph. The FRED database includes more than 390,000 economic data time series from dozens of national, international, public, and private sources. FRED allows users to combine and display data with an easy-to-master mix of tools. With just a few minutes of practice, anyone can use FRED to tell a story using data. The dataset used for these activities is real gross domestic product (GDP).

Looking for ways to plan project based learning activities? Suzie Boss suggests borrowing ideas from your colleagues and adapt or remix to fit your context.

Suzie borrowed ideas from professional development and learning conferences for teachers who may need a boost to get their project-based learning off the ground.

In this lesson students will practice accelerating as they run. As they accelerate in the second half of a run, they will notice what changes they make to switch from jogging to sprinting. This activity lets students experience the pleasure of running fast.

This is a supplemental poster that outlines 10 tips for making sure that your MyPlate is balanced and meets the dietary guidelines.

Students learn useful, reliable ways to locate materials for personal, academic or professional research projects on NYTimes.com.

In this resource designed for 10th grade, students will work with 15 different words, building skills in connecting to other vocabulary and understanding connotative meaning.

In this assessment task, students demonstrate one-to-one correspondence, cardinality, understanding of "˜one more', and writes numbers.

Play the 1.13 Excel Core 2016 Insert Tab Interface Game. For each term, click on the blue dot on the picture. If you get it wrong, try again. After three tries, the correct dot will turn purple.

This will help you get familiar with the MS Excel 2016 Insert Tab Interface. The link to the game is
https://www.purposegames.com/game/2016-excel-113

See if you can identify the different parts of Excel 2016's Insert tab! For each term in this interface game, click on the blue dot on the picture. If you get it wrong, try again. After three tries, the correct dot will turn purple.

This game will test your knowledge of the MS Excel 2016 Insert Tab Interface. The link to the game is
https://www.purposegames.com/game/2016-excel-113

In lesson 1 of this unit, students will explore what it means to be connected to other people with and without digital technology. They'll also start to consider the ways that their digital connections shape who they are.

Twelve Angry Men is a classic play about the American legal system. This lesson introduces students to key ideas they'll need to successfully complete a reading of the play. Students learn about drama terms before they start reading.

Teachers can pick from 12 different ways to approach choreography with their students. Studetns will get an opportunity to explore the creative process with their fellow dancers.

This is a fun and creative way to explore the 12 Days of Christmas. This lesson reinforces numerical order, repetition within a song, and group effort. It's also very cute to see the creative ways the students “become” the 12 Days of Christmas. Composition with instruments is also involved.

This resource defines sociological imagination and the beliefs and assumptions of functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, and exchange theory.

This resource from the New York Times includes a variety of lessons, ideas, and resources to teach students to new vocabulary.

Explore climate and latitude relative to the settlement of the original 13 colonies.

GeoInquiries are designed to be fast and easy-to-use instructional resources that incorporate advanced web mapping technology. Each 15-minute activity in a collection is intended to be presented by the instructor from a single computer/projector classroom arrangement. No installation, fees, or logins are necessary to use these materials and software.

Explore climate and latitude relative to the settlement of the original 13 colonies.

In this lesson, students listen to an illustrated read aloud and use literacy skills to understand the central message of the book.

This resource discusses how and why social inequality in the larger society manifests itself in higher education, describes the extent of school violence and the controversy over zero-tolerance policies, and describes how schooling in the United States helps perpetuate social inequality.

In this lesson students will read requested information from a phase diagram and state the primary difference between a generic phase diagram and a phase diagram of water.