This is an easy, short and effective way to incorporate/utilize Social Emotional Learning into your classroom. It helps children to learn to focus and deal with emotional issues in a positive manner.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Demonstration, Self Assessment
This unit features multiple types of reading strategies. The unit focuses on specific lessons to target reading strategies students use in the literacy class. For example, predicting before reading the book, making connections (self, text, to the world), visualizing the story, inferencing with background knowledge, summarizing the important details of the story, and asking questions to monitor comprehension.
Material Type: Unit of Study
Students learn to divide by using the partial products strategy, using a 3 digit number divided by a 1 digit number.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This Google slide deck provides information about Creative Commons Licenses.
Material Type: Presentation
Learn to determine the meaning of figures of speech, like similes and metaphors, that authors use in poetry. You will also be able to analyze how these word choices reveal an author’s tone, or attitude, in a poem. You will also be able to analyze how these word choices reveal an author’s tone, or attitude, in a poem.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The Girls Who Build: Make Your Own Wearables workshop for high school girls is an introduction to computer science, electrical and mechanical engineering through wearable technology. The workshop, developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, consists of two major hands-on projects in manufacturing and wearable electronics. These include 3D printing jewelry and laser cutting a purse, as well as programming LEDs to light up when walking. Participants learn the design process, 3D computer modeling, and machine shop tools, in addition to writing code and building a circuit.
Material Type: Full Course
This is a fun and creative way to explore the 12 Days of Christmas. This lesson reinforces numerical order, repetition within a song, and group effort. It's also very cute to see the creative ways the students “become†the 12 Days of Christmas. Composition with instruments is also involved.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
With this resource, students will discuss and create changes in matter.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this activity, students explore the various ways in which organisms reproduce. Students discuss the role reproduction plays in the cycle of life. They observe that no individual organism lives forever and that, to carry on their species, organisms must pass their genetic instructions on to the next generation. They learn that single-celled organisms reproduce asexually, by dividing and producing two identical copies of themselves. They learn that many plants reproduce sexually, often using complex strategies that have evolved over millions of years. Finally, they explore the pros and cons of asexual and sexual reproduction and the reasons both strategies persist.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will compare and contarst their personal traditions and celebrations with those of others in their class and community. Students will participate in a whole group discussion of their families and complete a graphic organizer with family facts. Next, students will compare their organizers with other students' work and note similarities and differences. Last, students particpate in a variety of activities including reading books to explore their family celebrations and compare them with the celebrations of others.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This lesson, from the Anti-Defamation League, offers ten ideas for teaching Black History Month.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Ultimately, why something happened in the past is the question that history is all about. And here’s the fun part (or the hard part!). It’s up to you to answer the why question. You will read about many things that happened in the past and some reasons why people think they happened. People who look at the same facts sometimes come to different conclusions. Answering the other “W” questions will help you answer the question, why: Why did this happen? Answering Why -- that’s what thinking like a historian is about.
Material Type: Textbook
Students learn about animal and plant adaptations in Antarctic species and use these ideas to design their own unique animal or plant.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This article gives background information on the Iditarod race in Alaska and shows how the race can be used in Grades K-5 classrooms to incorporate science, geography and language arts. The author provides links to resources that involve reading expository tests and writing assignments as well as working with real-time data. The article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Students will pick a character from whichever text they are currently reading and create a fake social media profile. This can be done digitally, though I have my students complete it on poster board. There are several templates I have come across that match up with the various forms of social media in the project instructions. Students should NOT use real social media sites to create their profiles.
Material Type: Assessment
Prepare a defense of Macbeth! This activity has students taking a stance and arguing a defense for Macbeth while utilizing rhetorical appeals and cited, textual evidence from the Shakespearean play.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will choose from a list of the top 100 movies of the past 100 years. Students will then research critical reviews of the films and write one of their own reviews.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This three week lesson provides instruction in the basic elements of literature by reading Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Students are also provided the opportunity to understand how their choices can change their attitudes and behavior through a reading of the novel and a series of writing assignments.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In lesson 1 of this unit, students will explore what it means to be connected to other people with and without digital technology. They'll also start to consider the ways that their digital connections shape who they are.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
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: Lesson
