This article lists seven art techniques and four poetry types that can be used to depict and describe the aurora.

This article describes common misconceptions held by elementary students about the history of the polar regions, fossils, and geologic time. The article provides ideas for formative assessment, teaching strategies, and the National Science Education Standards.

This article highlights lesson plans and activities that help elementary students develop map skills as they learn earth science concepts.

The 12th grade learning experience consists of 7 mostly month-long units aligned to the Common Core State Standards, with available course material for teachers and students easily accessible online. Over the course of the year there is a steady progression in text complexity levels, sophistication of writing tasks, speaking and listening activities, and increased opportunities for independent and collaborative work. Rubrics and student models accompany many writing assignments.Throughout the 12th grade year, in addition to the Common Read texts that the whole class reads together, students each select an Independent Reading book and engage with peers in group Book Talks. Language study is embedded in every 12th grade unit as students use annotation to closely review aspects of each text. Teacher resources provide additional materials to support each unit.

Who decides who among us is civilized? What rules should govern immigration into the United States? Whom should we let in? Keep out? What should we do about political refugees or children without papers? What if they would be a drain on our economy?

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Students read William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest and write a short argument about who in the play is truly civilized.
Students participate in a mock trial in which they argue for or against granting asylum to a teenage refugee, and then they write arguments in favor of granting asylum to one refugee and against granting it to another.
Students read an Independent Reading text and write an informational essay about a global issue and how that relates to their book.

GUIDING QUESTIONS

These questions are a guide to stimulate thinking, discussion, and writing on the themes and ideas in the unit. For complete and thoughtful answers and for meaningful discussions, students must use evidence based on careful reading of the texts.

What role do national identity, custom, religion, and other locally held beliefs play in a world increasingly characterized by globalization?
How does Shakespeare’s view of human rights compare with that in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Who is civilized? Who decides what civilization is or how it’s defined?
How do we behave toward and acknowledge those whose culture is different from our own?

In this lesson, students will meet with their Granting Refuge Activity groups. Then they’ll meet in one of three groups: teenagers and their defenders, prosecutors, and policy board members. Finally, they’ll go back to their original groups to prepare arguments for the next lesson.

Using an Arduino microprocessor, students will build an automated fish food feeder so fish can be fed when no one is at school?

This project involves learning how to do simple wiring of an LED, a buzzer, and a servo (motor) to a simple-to-use Arduino microprocessor.

This lesson details how to facilitate a number talk. The target is 3rd grade students with addition, but this could also be used in 4th grade or at the end of 2nd grade. This task is remixable to provide more supports for various learners.

This lesson provides opportunities for students to solve multi-step problems and explain their problem solving strategies. This is remixable to provide additional supports for various learners.

This lesson describes how to facilitate a number talk for subtraction. The target is 3rd grade students, but this could be adapted and used in 4th grade or at the end of the year in 2nd grade. This is remixable to provide more supports for various learners.

This lesson provides opportunities for students to examine what it means to subtract. Students solve tasks and write arguments and mathematical claims about how subtraction works.

In this lesson, students will use multiplication strategies to find solutions to division expressions. This is remixable.

In this lesson, students will find patterns when counting by related numbers and explain the relationship of multiplication and division. This may be remixed to add additional supports to meet the needs of all learners.

In this lesson, students explore finding the number of tables and forks needed at 2 dinner parties to develop the concept of multiplication and division.

In this lesson, students will solve division word problems and explain how they solved them. They will retell division word problems, act them out with counters, draw a representation of how they solved a division word problem and write an equation to represent a division word problem.

This lesson is for a short activity where students explore whether equations are true or false. This is remixable.

In this lesson students explore two-step word problems involving multiplication and one other operation. This is intended for use in Cluster 4 of Grade 3. This can be remixed to provide additional supports for all learners.

This lesson provides support for teachers to facilitate multiplication number talks in Grade 3. This is remixable.

In this lesson, students explore how to represent multiplication and division situations on a number line. This is remixable to provide additional supports for all learners.

In this lesson, students solve two-step word problems using addition, subtraction, and multiplication, using appropriate strategies and assessing the reasonableness of their answers. This can be remixed to provide additional support for teachers to meet the needs of all learners.

This lesson has been remixed by adding online resources that will engage students in mastering 2-step word problems.