Students will explain the importance of dairy products.
In this unit students practice writing to an essential question, using context clues and root words to determine word meaning, close reading with the aid of a glossary, taking notes with graphic organizers, re-reading to answer text dependent questions; and summarizing.
In this resource students will learn how certain sounds can hurt and damage their ears.
This resource provides information to help students understand the process of organ donation.
This resource provides an interactive map of the United States that provides information about the unemployment rate change for a select period of time for each state. State and local governments use these estimates for planning and budgetary purposes and to determine the need for local employment and training services. Individuals use this data to assess localized labor market developments and make comparisons across areas.
The objective of this activity is to reinforce the importance of being specific while dealing with events of a sequential nature, such as the phases of the moon.
This resource provides information to help students understand physical abuse and how to stay safe if someone is hurting them.
This resource provides information to help students understand why fighting is a problem, why teens are more likely to fight, and how to stay safe.
Students will practice visualizing and understanding that visualization is an important comprehension strategy. Students will share their visualization of the story through original artwork.
Students will understand the importance of eating healthy foods.
The objectives of this lesson include teaching students about professionalism in the work place and respecting and accepting the differences of others. Activites include discussions about sterotyping, diversity and cultural differences in the work place, peceptions of others. Scenarios are provided to lead the discussions.
This article discusses how students can protect their identity on the internet and protect themselves from cyber-bullying.
This resource provides questions to check student knowledge about being bullied.
This resource provides questions to help students understand bullying.
This resource provides questions to check student knowledge about healthy relationships.
This resource provides questions to check student knowledge about how to deal with conflict.
This resource provides questions to check student knowledge concerning cyberbullying.
In this literary unit, students explore rural life during the Great Depression by analyzing Richard Peck's, A Year Down Yonder.
This resource highlights the importance of students interested in STEM careers taking as much science and math in high school as possible. The varied STEM occupations are reviewed as well as earnings, education requirements, and job prospects. These tech-savvy workers are responsible for faster aircraft, bolder video games, and better medicines to name a few. Professional STEM organizations are listed.
This article discusses safety on the internet including what students should do when they accidentally get on a website that they should not be on, computer viruses, and what students should know about downloading information.