Active Voice and Passive Voice
(View Complete Item Description)This video examines active voice and passive voice, explaining the linguistic difference between them and how to use them in sentences.
Material Type: Lesson
All resources in Curriculum Review Academy #2
The ABC's of Gas: Avogadro, Boyle, Charles
(View Complete Item Description)This brief video describes the laws that govern gas properties (Boyle's Law, Charles' Law, and Avogadro's Law). Assessments for the student to complete after viewing the video and suggested supplemental resources are also included.
Material Type: Lecture, Lesson, Presentation
Finding Your Voice: What's Important to You?
(View Complete Item Description)This is a great activity for the first week or two of school to help students to learn to colaborate and work on the speaking skills that they will use throughout the year. Students will also have an opportunity to share something about themselves and to learn about their classmates. They will be taking a picture of a person, place, or item that is important to them. They will bring in either a picture or the picture on their phone to share. Students will present in small table groups so that they get some practice in a small group before they have to start presenting to the whole class.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
India's Air Pollution Emergency
(View Complete Item Description)This is a close read of an article by The Staff Board of the New York Times where students will answer the question "What positive economic effects could result from decreased air pollution? If the gains are so great, what reasons does the article give for the current levels of non-compliance with existing environmental regulations?"
Material Type: Case Study
Earth System Science - Lab 5: It's All Connected: Global Circulation
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students are introduced to the global circulation patterns of the atmosphere and the oceans, and investigate how those circulation patterns might influence their local region. Students use computer models to test predictions of ocean currents.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The African American Experience
(View Complete Item Description)There is no one poem that represents the experience of African Americans in the United States, yet the history of racism in this country is seared deeply into the lives of many African Americans. “The Weakness” by Toi Derricotte recounts an experience with racism through the eyes of a young, light-skinned African American girl going shopping with her grandmother in a department store in 1945. The poems in The African American Experience offer a number of perspectives from African American poets that add a rich complexity to students’ perceptions of African American lives.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Animal Behaviors and Character Traits in Animal Farm
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students who are reading Animal Farm, by George Orwell (All rights reserved-Copyright), will evaluate the behaviors of different animals. Students will then research the individuals/groups represented by these characters and they will start to make connections as they think about why the author chose certain characters to represent certain people. Once students have a better understanding of the characters and who they represent, they will choose one character and trace the development of that character throughout the text.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
African-American Soldiers After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students view archival photographs, combine their efforts to comb through a database of more than 2,000 archival newspaper accounts about race relations in the United States, and read newspaper articles written from different points of view about post-war riots in Chicago.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Activity: Deception and Double Agents: The Success of Operation Fortitude
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson explores the reasons behind the success of Operation Fortitude, why this operation was so successful, and how this major deception was planned and executed. Students will learn the reasons for and the necessity of Operation Fortitude, use critical thinking skills to determine the impact of Fortitude, and write narratives of the events using historical evidence.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Can Mother Earth Feed 9+ Billion by 2050?
(View Complete Item Description)This resource is a colorful inforgraphic stating the facts about the earth's resources and what is needed of it to feed the population in the future.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration
Strategies to Engage ELs During Literacy
(View Complete Item Description)This resource describes six strategies that can be used to engage your English Language Learners during literacy instruction.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Nonsense (Words)!
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will be able to build and distinguish between real and nonsense CVC words.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
3 States of Matter Quiz
(View Complete Item Description)After learning about the 3 States of Matter, students can be tested using a pop quiz to check for understanding of the subject, how they transfer from one state to another and also how they are able to illustrates the states of matter either through a drawing of a real life example of the state of matter or the state of matter as a particle. (3.P.2.1, 3.P.2.2, 3.P.2.3)
Material Type: Assessment
1st Grade - Act. 14: Who's in Your Family
(View Complete Item Description)After reading Family by Carol A Johnson, students create a classroom graph of their family members.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
4th Grade ELA Bookmarks
(View Complete Item Description)This resource contains bookmarks for 4th Grade ELA Common Core Standards. Each bookmark lists the Anchor Standard, the focus standard, essential skills and concepts, question stems and prompts, and academic vocabulary with Spanish cognates.
Material Type: Reading
Cell Functions & Growth and Development
(View Complete Item Description)Organization of Living Things: Cells Functions, Growth and Development- Students will learn how cells function, grow and develop. L.OL.M.2 Cell Function: I am able to explain the role cells play in the survival of living organisms. L.OL.M.3 Growth and Development: I am able to describe how living organisms grow and develop over time
Material Type: Unit of Study
Lesson 05 - Country, Nationality
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will learn to ask basic information about a country in Mandarin Chinese. It has dialogues "Which country are you going to?" "Which country are you from?" "Have you been to China?" The lesson contains a grammar part, substitution drills, and calligraphy practice.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Lesson 06 - City, Native Place
(View Complete Item Description)The lesson contains audio dialogues including, "What country is this?" "What part of China is this?" "Where are you from?" There is also instruction concerning grammar about phrase structure, substitution drills, and calligraphy practice based on the lesson vocabulary.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Remix
T4T Gr 4 C5 lesson- Fraction Chain
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is from Tools4NCTeachers. In this lesson, students explore correct placement of fractions on a number line. They use the number line, reasoning, and understanding of benchmark fractions to compare fractions. This is remixable.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Atmosphere Characteristics (http://bit.ly/AtmosphereCharacteristics)
(View Complete Item Description)This is a four-day unit focusing on the composition, properties, and structure of Earth's atmosphere. The lessons are embedded in a Google Slide presentation (http://bit.ly/AtmosphereCharacteristics) allowing teachers to modify the lessons to their needs. Formative and summative assessments are included in the form of warm-up and exit ticket questions and a summative project.
Material Type: Lesson Plan