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Grades 9 – 12: The Complex Number System: N.CN.8

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The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) videos are designed to support states, schools, and teachers in the implementation of selected math standards. Each video is an audiovisual resource that focuses on one or more specific standards through examples and illustrations geared to enhancing understanding. The intent of each content-focused video is to clarify the meaning of the individual standard rather than to be a guide on how to teach each standard, although the examples can be adapted for instructional use.

Material Type: Presentation

Author: The Southeast Comprehensive Center

Helping Our School's Wildlife

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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

Authors: Brittany Watkins, Katie Stephenson

All that Glitters is Not Gold

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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

Author: MediaSmarts

One Giant Leap Into Claims and Evidence

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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

Author: Christina Speiser

Digital Reading Strategies using Google Docs

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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

Author: KRISTINA THOENNES

4.4: Standard 6.18 Lesson

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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

Author: Karen Lawson

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