All resources in Curriculum Review Academy #2

Using Padlet with a novel study

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Students used Padlet walls to post thoughts/connections/questions about their reading of the historical fiction novel My Brother Sam Is Dead. Students were placed into small groups by teacher. Teacher created a Padlet wall for each small group. Group members were asked to post at least two comments per chapter of reading.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Jeremy Newcombe

6.RP, 6.EE Fruit Salad

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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: A fruit salad consists of blueberries, raspberries, grapes, and cherries. The fruit salad has a total of 280 pieces of fruit. There are twice as many r...

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Illustrative Mathematics

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

The Gingerbread Man!

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Students hear one or more versions of The Gingerbread Man fairy tale. Students will then use illustrations from the text or those provided to sequence and retell the story. By using different versions, students compare the adventures of characters in familiar stories.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Dbsenk

Exponential Growth Introduced

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Lesson plan using a Cyberchase activity, students are introduced to a problem that gives them a sense of how quickly exponential growth accrues in the classic problem about a chess board and grains of rice. The context is extended to consider applications using money growth and chain letters. They are introduced to the algebraic representation for exponential growth.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Presentation

Author: WNET.org

Candy Dish Selection

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In this lesson students become unwitting subjects in a demonstration of natural selection. Students select candies from a bowl and have an opportunity to think about what traits brought about the “survival” of some candies.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Carol Tang

Differences Between Climate and Weather

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Students collect weather data over several days or weeks, graph temperature data, and compare the temperature data collected with long-term climate averages from where they live. Understanding the difference between weather and climate and interpreting local weather data are important first steps to understanding larger-scale global climate changes.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Author: National Center for Atmospheric Research

100 Number Chart

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For this interactive, students place numbers on the correct spot of the 100 chart. There are two levels of difficulty. Beginner-students are given one line of the 100 chart with two missing numbers at a time & advanced-students are shown the entire 100 chart with twenty missing numbers. Students receive a funny surprise at the end of the activity.

Material Type: Interactive

Author: ABCya.com

Accommodation key for modified tests

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When giving a modified assignment or test, teachers need to keep evidence of doing so. This accommodation key can be utilized to assist with documentation of providing accommodations. The resource could be used to print labels. The labels can then be attached to the student work that was modified.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Debra Sauls

Activity #1: Should We Build On the Estuary?

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In this activity, students will work in collaborative groups to develop an advertisement for a political candidate in support of one side of an issue - should we build low-cost housing on part of the land presently occupied by an estuary? Each group will decide which side they want to support - either for or against building the housing - and write an ad that will be run in a local paper, or that will be viewed on local TV, to support their argument.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve

Volume

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This resource explains volume to students in a way that is relateable and easy to understand. It contains a video which provides a summary of the definition of volume, volume of a rectangle, and volume of a cube, along with a quiz where students can test their knowledge, and an opportunity for students to sing karaoke.

Material Type: Interactive

Author: Study Jams