Students examine books, selected from the American Library Association Challenged/Banned Books list, and write persuasive pieces expressing their views about what should be done with the books at their school.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will be able to have a better understanding of the slope of a line, the y intercept, and parallel lines.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Kipton has a digital scale. He puts a marshmallow on the scale and it reads 7.2 grams. How much would you expect 10 marshmallows to weigh? Why? Kipton ...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way by using objects or drawings, and they will record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g. 5= 2 + 3 and 5 = 4+1).
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this lesson, students read Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco to identify words that are unfamiliar to them. Working collaboratively in small groups, they discuss the meaning of these new words, using context clues from the text, prior knowledge, and both print and online resources. Students then apply their knowledge of the new vocabulary to further their understanding of the text.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This resource details prewriting strategies for students to employ when writing arguments.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This cross-curricular resource contains a primary source text on the Civil War, along with text-dependent questions, an academic vocabulary list, and a writing prompt that goes along with the text, including student responses. Students read Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address independently, then as a class before beginning work.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: The local swim center is making a special offer. They usually charge \$7 per day to swim at the pool. This month swimmers can pay an enrollment fee of ...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This worksheet reviews position words.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this interactive, students click on a letter to see it in uppercase and lowercase. They click on the letter again to hear its sound and words associated with that sound.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
In this series of activity, students explore an ecosystem and the interconnectedness of organisms within an ecosystem.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This is a project that follows the PBL framework and was used to help students master the fundamentals of probability, specifically the laws of probability (NC.M2.S-CP.1 to 8). Note that the project was designed and delivered per the North Carolina Math 2 curriculum and it can be customized to meet your own specific curriculum needs and resources.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Case Study, Data Set, Demonstration, Formative Assessment, Self Assessment
This unit engages students in a variety of different reading standards through face to face and online components. In this unit, students will practice many skills to aid them in reading and understanding nonfiction texts.
Material Type: Unit of Study
Students will work with subtraction within 10 by taking 1 away from a number.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
An interactive nonfiction book Don't Be Scared of Bats that students can read independently or listen as it is read to them. Students can compare illustrations and information presented in the text.
Material Type: Interactive, Lesson, Reading
In this resource, students will learn how to emphasize in Spanish by viewing and listening to a native speaker pronouncing several sentences. Students will be able to use this particular aspect of the Spanish language in school or community activities related to the target culture. Students will also learn to use accurate pronunciation and suitable stylistic elements in spoken presentations.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson
Students explore quadratic functions by using a motion detector known as a Calculator Based Ranger (CBR) to examine the heights of the different bounces of a ball. Students will represent each bounce with a quadratic function of the form y = a (x - h)^2 + k. This lesson plan is based on the activity Tremain Nelson uses in the video for Part II of this workshop.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Greetings from the Kalahari Desert in South Africa! In this activity, you will learn a lot about the Kalahari’s most playful residents: meerkats. The f...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This resource describes, compares, and contrasts prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. It includes diagrams, a video, practice questions, a study guide, flash cards, and two interactive assessments.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students learn a more formal definition of conditional probability and are asked to interpret conditional probabilities. Data are presented in two-way frequency tables, and conditional probabilities are calculated using column or row summaries.
Material Type: Interactive
