This template provides STEM educators and their School Media Specialists with a template and a structure for developing Text-based Inquiry units that address multiple content areas.
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Solving 2-step equations involving decimals and fractions. This online lesson includes instruction via a Prezi presentation (which has audio and visual components), practice in the form of an online crossword puzzle, and assessment in the form of an online quiz with a variety of question types.
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An online activity using NOAA wave interactives.
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Students will create a narrative as if they are one particular type of cloud. This task is only intended to engage students in showing their knowledge of cloud types. This resource does not completely cover 5.E.1.2.
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The TPCASTT template will allow students to think deeply during close reading and analysis of poetry. TPCASTT is appropriate for upper elementary through high school.
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This is a remix of Caine's Arcade PBL, orginially authored by Val Capel, Katie Johnson, and Michele Randle. The original work was aligned to Michigan State Standards and housed in Google Drive, which made it difficult to remix on this platform.This version has been aligned to North Carolina State Standards and was created on this platform for easy remixing by others.
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Students will solve radical equations with an index of two. These equations may include extraneous solutions. Activity should take about an hour for students to complete. Please not this resource does not completely cover standard M2.A.REI.A.2.
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This awesome website allows elementary and middle school (K-8) to hone in on their number sense and mental math skills while competing against their classmates. It levels the math to their mastery level which is awesome.
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This is an activity to check for understanding of the concept of story elements. Do the students know and understand the terms? Can he or she determine the story elements of a particular story?
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As students prepare to work with algebraic expressions, either with operations (add, subtract, multiply, or divide) or when making connections to constant, linear, and/or quadratic functions, it is important that students can name basic polynomial expressions as monomials, binomials, or trinomials, During this activity students will learn how to name these polynomials through watching a video, practice naming polynomials through a sorting activity, and then complete five-formative assessment questions.
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This resource is an informal assessment to determine student mastery of identifying functions through use of ordered pairs, a table, and graph. This activity culminates class discussions and assignments of NC.Math.8.F.1 and is based on student interest of basketball and softball.
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Learn about the parts/functions of a plant and create a plant flip book.
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Students will learn about the different types of figurative language in this unit. Then, they will read "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes and one of three teacher-selected songs ("Titanium" by David Guetta and Sia, "Firework" by Katy Perry, and "Caged Bird" by Alicia Keys). They will use their understanding of figurative language to interpret the texts and evaluate the theme of each. They will write an essay explaining the theme of each text and evaluating which author uses figurative language to more effectively communicate the theme.
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This assessment can be used as a formative or summative assessment to quickly check the students' understanding of opioids and prescription drug use.
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This is a tool to use when searching for OER resources to use in planning and in the classroom.
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Students will examine the various perspectives in psychology by examinig the behaviors of a celebrity of their choice. Students will also conduct a cognitive analysis of their celebrity.
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This lesson's target is multiplying a fraction by a whole number by drawing a visual area model. Students will engage in one problem as a group, then try four problems on their own or in a partnership. There are suggestions for summarizing questions included, as well as a formative assessment. The student activity page includes both the exploration questions (front) and the formative assessment (back).
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This resource has all of the links associated with Webinar Two of the #GoOpenNC Curriculum Review Academy. You can watch the video recording, view the PowerPoint and participate in the discussion boards.
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