Teaching Theme with the fable "The Dove and the Ant"
(View Complete Item Description)Students determine the moral/lesson of "The Dove and the Ant" and answer guiding questions. An extension research question is included.
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New Deal- An Analysis of FDR's Reaction to the Banking Crisis
(View Complete Item Description)Students will analyze President Roosevelt's first 2 fireside chats and evaluate his proposed programs that outline the New Deal.This lesson is adapted from the NEH and EDSITEment.
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Cinderella on the Green Screen!
(View Complete Item Description)This is a multi-day unit on Cinderella and the many versions of the fairy tale. Students will listen to four versions of Cinderella and then compare/contrast two. Then students will design a background, decorate a puppet and use a script to create a green screen video summarizing one of the versions shared. There is also a rubric and assessment component.
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Remix
Remix of NC.1.OA.6: Add It Up (added to Continuum of Understanding)
(View Complete Item Description)This resource is part of Tools4NCTeachers. This task calls for students to solve an addition problem using a variety of equations. The task may be used for instruction or assessment purposes.
Material Type: Assessment, Formative Assessment
"Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal" Depicting the Text AIG ELA Project
(View Complete Item Description)This project can be used with 5th grade AIG students during the third module of EL.As students read the novel, Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal, by Margarita Engle, they will use their guided reading journal to take notes on different passages that represent the different themes of the novel.Students will then use their passages to complete a Google Slide presentation. They will insert images that can relate to the passage and then provide their analysis of how the image and passage represent the theme from the book.
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Olympic Math Activity with Decimals
(View Complete Item Description)This Olympic Math activity can be used with any set of olympic results in the men's 100m race, the men's 100m Butterfly, and the women's gymnastics finals. The activity can be remixed to be more relevant to the most current, and most discussed, Olympics events.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment, Homework/Assignment
Onion Root Tip Mitosis Online Activity (Arizona—The Biology Project)
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson was designed to accompany the Online Onion Root Tip Activity (Arizona--The Biology Project). Students classify diagrams of onion root tip cells into the correct phase of the cell cycle in an interactive and receive feedback in the form of hints for cells they classify incorrectly. Students record their data from the cell cycle interactive in a table and answer questions to measure student learning.
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Digital Reading Strategies using Google Docs
(View Complete Item Description)Most people read and understand better when reading print. Usually when we are online, we are jumping around from place to place. To read online and really understand, we need to slow down and really think about what we are reading. In this lesson, students practice strategies to help them read deeply online. These strategies are based on the article in the lesson resources: "Strategies to Help Students 'Go Deep' When Reading Digitally" by Katrina Schwartz.Teacher copies the text from an online article into a Google Doc and shares it with students. Students use the highlighting tool to mark the most challenging vocabulary words and use strategies to determine their meaning. Then they develop a main idea for a paragraph by choosing one, two, three, and finally four words that make up the main idea. They type this above the paragraph and use formatting tools to make it a heading. As they repeat this process with additional paragraphs they are developing a summary of the article in the document outline.
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Personal Time Capsule Pyramid
(View Complete Item Description)Students create a small time capsule of their own, shaped like a pyramid.
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Intervention Planning Template
(View Complete Item Description)This template provides a framework for planning instructional interventions at any grade level.
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Calculating Arcs and Areas of Sectors of Circles Lesson
(View Complete Item Description)Mathematical goals This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to solve problems involving area and arc length of a sector of a circle using radians. It assumes familiarity with radians and should not be treated as an introduction to the topic. This lesson is intended to help you identify and assist students who have difficulties in: Computing perimeters, areas, and arc lengths of sectors using formulas. Finding the relationships between arc lengths, and areas of sectors after scaling.
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How Sweet Is Your Tea?
(View Complete Item Description)Students will create different concentrations of sweet tea and vote on which tastes best. The concepts of dilution, molarity and converting from grams to moles will be reviewed.
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Applying Fractions to Cooking in Grade 3
(View Complete Item Description)Students can apply their knowledge of fractions and equivalent fractions to a real life situation....cooking! Students are to complete work using manipulatives, and/or paper and pencil to draw out their work.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Self Assessment
Personalized Learning Sight Words
(View Complete Item Description)There will be 7 different lists of words for the students to master. Lists are color coded. Students will be preassessed on the knowledge of 10 Sight Words. The teacher will record answers on the Sight Word Checklist and then hole punch the students Sight Word Ring for the words they know. Student will then work on the words they still need to master for the week. Students will be checked at the end of the week for growth. As the list of word id mastered, a new list of words is added to the SIght Word Ting.
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Printing Tickets
(View Complete Item Description)Susie is organizing the printing of tickets for a show. She has collected prices from several printers. Your task is to use graphs and algebra to advise Susie on how to choose the best printer.
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While Reading Sheet Graphic Organizer
(View Complete Item Description)This resource is a catch-all graphic organizer that students can use while reading. It provides areas for students to analyze text and it helps to train student-readers to attain skills while analyzing literary elements.
Material Type: Formative Assessment, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Create a paint app using Visual Studio
(View Complete Item Description)The student will create a paint app using Visual Studio. They will create a form with a panel, three combo boxes, and two buttons. Students will be able to create images with their app once it is completed. The handout provides screenshots and code. The three challenges do not contain any code. These challenges can be part of the lab or an extension of the lab. A generic rubric is included.
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Remix
Clouds with Attitudes
(View Complete Item Description)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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