6.RP Constant Speed
(View Complete Item Description)In this task, students learn to reason about whether or not ratios are equivalent using a diagram.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
All resources in Curriculum Review Academy #2
5.NBT Kipton's Scale
(View Complete Item Description)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
Cycle of Life 1: Food Chain
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson plan focuses on food chains and food webs. There are multiple associated weblinks to supplemental videos and interactive resources.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson Plan
BEE part of the Ecosystem
(View Complete Item Description)5th grade students work together in teams to create an ecosystem to support Pacific Northwest pollinators.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
Seeking Social Justice Through Satire: Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students complete multiple readings of Jonathan Swift’s 1729 essay "A Modest Proposal": guided reading with the teacher, a collaborative reading with a peer, and an independent reading. After independent reading, pairs of students develop a mock television newscast or editorial script, like those found on Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update,” The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, or The Colbert Report, including appropriate visual images in PowerPoint.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
4th Grade Poetry Unit
(View Complete Item Description)This unit is focused on figurative language, covering common core standards in language, literature for reading, and speaking and listening with the final assessment. It is designed to be used with a workshop model, where there is some form of opening for brief instruction, partner and/or independent work time, and a closing time for sharing within each lesson.
Material Type: Unit of Study
Language of Social Studies: The Underground Railroad: Escape from Slavery
(View Complete Item Description)This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This online activity follows a young slave's escape from a Kentucky plantation. At each of the four "stops" on this journey, students can listen to audio support of the reading, read primary source quotes, listen to an audio slideshow of primary source images, and write about what they've learned. The teacher's guide provides background information, a Words to Know list, discussion questions, and extension activities.
Material Type: Interactive
100 Hunt: Target Number - 10
(View Complete Item Description)In this game, players are given a target number and a hundreds chart. When they click on the number ten less than the target number, their time to find the number is reported. A new target number is provided by clicking the ?next? button.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Interactive
Fashion Design Model
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn the skills necessary for a career in the fast growing industry of fashion design. Students will learn how to design, sew, and re-style clothing; apply the elements and principles of design in various aspects of the fashion industry; understand the relationship between history and fashion; know the general characteristics, production, and maintenance of textiles and textile products; study and analyze fashion trends; understand the principles of apparel pattern making; and demonstrate the skills and procedures necessary for sales and marketing in the fashion industry.
Material Type: Full Course, Lesson Plan
14 Cows for America
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students listen to an illustrated read aloud and use literacy skills to understand the central message of the book.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
It's Our Air: What is Air?
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students learn about air. Through a variety of hands-on experiences presented as stations in the classroom, students will discover properties of air, including that air has volume, mass, and pressure; that it is compressible; and that it expands when heated. They will also learn about the major molecular components of our atmosphere (nitrogen, oxygen, argon), the four layers of our atmosphere, and that air contains water vapor. Note: The videos referenced in the lesson narrative are no longer available online, but the station activities are not dependent on the content in the video.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
FANBOYS
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will use an acronym to recall the coordinating conjunctions and practice their use in order to master this technique in their writing. Students will also practice writing compound sentences.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
President vs President
(View Complete Item Description)Each student will research a past deceased president, review their life, speeches, quotes, term in office, etc., and use it to run for President versus another past President.
Material Type: Formative Assessment, Homework/Assignment
Building Background Knowledge about Physical Environment: What Makes It Hard for Some People to Get Books?
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson from Expeditionary Learning, students will imagine themselves in the role of the main characters of That Book Woman by Heather Henson. They will discover the motivations of the characters through role-playing and investigating the illustrations in the text. Students will use an informational text to investigate why it might be difficult to get books to people, as it was in That Book Woman. This is Lesson 1 of 17 from the Grade 3 Curriculum Map Unit 3, Module 1: http://engageny.org/resource/grade-3-ela-module-1-unit-3 .
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Reading, Vocabulary
Continued Close Reading of Thank You, Mr. Falker: Text Dependent Questions and Vocabulary
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson from Expeditionary Learning, students will perform a close reading of Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco. They will answer questions using specific details from the text and explain why they chose those details. Students will also use context clues to access new vocabulary. This is Lesson 2 of 10 from the unit Grade 3 Curriculum Map Unit 2, Module 1: http://engageny.org/resource/grade-3-ela-module-1-unit-2 .
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Reading, Vocabulary
Lonely as a Cloud: Using Poetry to Understand Similes
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students identify similes in poetry and gain experience in using similes as a poetic device in their own work.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
3.MD The Square Counting Shortcut
(View Complete Item Description)For this task, students view four letters and imagine that each square in the picture measures one centimeter on each side. Students use this information to find the area of each letter.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Exploring Integers With the Number Line – GeoGebra
(View Complete Item Description)This simulation allows you to use a slider to see how positive and negative integers add on a number line.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Simulation
Investigating Soil: Which Soil Helps Plants Grow?
(View Complete Item Description)This activity is a guided inquiry investigation where students gather data on which soil is the best for growing plants. Student will interpret their data, and develop a conclusion from the data. The student will determine which type of soil they would like to use in the next activity of making their own terrariums. The data collected could lead to further questions, which can be investigated in some extension activities.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
4.NBT Millions and Billions of People
(View Complete Item Description)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: Historians estimate that there were about 7 million people on the earth in 4,000 BCE. Now there are about 7 billion! We write 7 million as 7,000,000. W...
Material Type: Activity/Lab