Students will take a trip to explore the architecture in their communities, hunting for specific features from the Field Guide and using the suggested discussion questions.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Great for math centers that align with the 3rd grade Geometry unit!
Material Type: Activity/Lab
For this instructional task, students are given 2 number lines and are asked to locate the number 1 on each, being as exact as possible.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Second grade students will explore their school site in order to understand the basic needs of the animals on our campus. Through that exploration they will learn challenges animals may face raising their young without proper resources and a safe environment. They will work collaboratively in groups to come up with a plan to improve our school site, asking school leaders and members of our community for help. After engaging with others to join in, students will use those resources (possibly funds) to help make our school site more animal friendly.
Material Type: Unit of Study
In this lesson, students learn about the contributions of the African American community.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students learn how to authenticate online information by comparing "facts" from the website entitled "All About Explorers" with more authoritative sources. (This four-lesson unit on search skills and critical thinking teachers students how to target and specify their online searches to avoid unwanted results, how to judge whether a link, search result or website is legitimate or phony, and how to find legitimate sources online for media works such as music videos and movies.)
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This resource is a guideline to citing sources and parenthetical documentation for a research paper.
Material Type: Interactive
In this lesson, students will be determining the central idea of a text about the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. They will also examine how quotes help to develop a central idea. Next, they will be writing an objective summary. Students will then research information from NASA about becoming an astronaut, as well as quotes that support why someone should become an astronaut. Finally, students will plan and write an argumentative essay about why someone should apply to become an astronaut using claims, evidence, and commentary.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
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.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This math lesson from Tools 4 NC builds student knowledge about equal groups and multiplication. Students are expected to make connections with repeated addition and multiplication through the use of equal groups.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This online lesson explains the polytheistic religion of ancient Egypt with respect to beliefs about death, the afterlife, mummification, and the role of different deities. How each level of society had beliefs of what would be waiting for them after death is also discussed.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Tracing character development in Lord of the Flies.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders an overview of area and perimeter.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture
Behind many of the apparently simple stories of Robert Frost's poems are unexpected questions and mysteries. In this lesson, students analyze what speakers include or omit from their narrative accounts, make inferences about speakers' motivations, and find evidence for their inferences in the words of the poem.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Next steps and support for Webinar #1 of the Curriculum Review Academy.
Material Type: Presentation
STEM is serious business on a NASCAR racetrack, where race cars can reach speeds of more than 200 miles per hour. The NASCAR Acceleration Nation program brings STEM skills to life in the classroom with two units full of fun, hands-on experiments that teach students in grades 5–7 about key scientific principles. • UNIT 1—Aerodynamics: Five interactive lessons about aero balance and the key aerodynamic principles known as drag, downforce, and drafting. Plus a brand-new online car engineering simulation at scholastic.com/nascarspeed. • UNIT 2—Energy: Three engaging lessons that demonstrate how potential energy, kinetic energy, and friction influence NASCAR and the world around us.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Demonstration, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
This video introduces punctuation and explains when to use a period, question mark, exclamation, and comma.
Material Type: Lesson
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach first graders an overview of subtraction (numbers to 100).
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture
In this interactive resource, students can select one of three counting games (counting, matching, & ordering) to reinforce their understanding of numbers 1 to 10.
Material Type: Interactive
