We invite you to remix this planning template to brainstorm the why, what, who, when & how of GoOpenNC, and determine what next step(s) you plan to take.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This unit includes 10 lessons that culminate in a student created final product presentation on the factors that influence climate change through the lens of chemistry and oceanography using literacy strategies to conduct inquiry level research. Using inquiry-based reading, student will examine an anchor text to formulate a question to guide their research and development of student driven projects. Throughout the unit, students will use a variety of texts, websites, and other resources to develop a product and presentation that exhibits their literacy and inquiry skills. Using inquiry-based reading, students will explore an anchor text and then develop their own essential and supporting questions to guide their research. Over the course of the unit, students will explore a variety of texts and grow in their knowledge of cellular organelles and in their ability to use informational text to support their inquiry and research.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment, Homework/Assignment
This template supports STEM teachers and librarians in working collaboratively to create lessons that build science practice and STEM inquiry skills in alignment with state and national science standards, and that address the Common Core literacy shifts around close reading and building textual evidence.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will learn the relative sizes of the planets in the solar system, as well as Pluto, asteroids, and comets, by using a scale model. They will learn that different solar system bodies are made of different materials and will consider different ways to classify them.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
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
Students work collaboratively to research and record information about different spinoffs of space exploration. Using the information they find, students then write a script to be produced into a podcast or vodcast.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This resource provides a lesson that is designed to assist learners with improving their ability to handle a graphic novel. Students will focus on the beginning of the work Persepolis and examine the art used to varying effects. Students will attempt to familiarize themselves with strategies pertaining to making connections to the visual elements presented.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
This is Watauga County Schools' remix of the OER Community of Practice next steps planning document. The only changes to the resource were our responses in each area. We invite you to remix this planning template to brainstorm the why, what, who, when & how of GoOpenNC, and determine what next step(s) you plan to take.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
REMIX - this is XYZ county's NExt Steps. We remixed by adding details about our ...... We invite you to remix this planning template to brainstorm the why, what, who, when & how of GoOpenNC, and determine what next step(s) you plan to take.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This task asks students to solve addition and subtraction equations with different structures so that they are able to see the connections between addition and subtraction more easily.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
Students will develop a set of tools for understanding and interpreting variability in data, and begin to make more informed decisions from data. They work with data distributions of various shapes, centers, and spreads. Students build on their experience with bivariate quantitative data from Grade 8. This module sets the stage for more extensive work with sampling and inference in later grades.
Material Type: Unit of Study
This remix is specific to Lincoln Charter School.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This remix is specific to the Iredell-Statesville Schools to help us plan and have discussions around the openness of our district and create some language around next steps.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
In this lesson, students will analyze Orwell’s carefully chosen words, details, repetitions, and characterizations in these first few pages, students can construct a strong understanding of some of the key features of this society that will give them a solid framework for comprehending the rest of the novel.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this presentation, students are introduced to information pertaining to the risk of musician hearing health in the performace capacities of marching bands. Students learn through questions such as "What do you need to know?", "What do you need to do?", and "How well are you doing?". Such questions help to provide information about what musicians needs to know about the sound conditions of marching band, what ways to prevent hearing damage, and an assessment of how well musicians are currently protecting their hearing.
Material Type: Presentation
Students examine books, selected from the American Library Association Challenged/Banned Books list, and write persuasive pieces expressing their views about what should be done with the books at their school.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Through this lesson, the teacher will model the think-aloud strategy for students. Components of think-alouds will be introduced, as well as type of text interactions. Students will develop the ability to use think-alouds to aid in reading comprehension tasks.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This interactive lesson allows students the opportunity to fill in the blanks of a story with words created through a virtual flip of a chip. Students will use chips as tools for showing different affixes and roots that can be joined together to create words. The created words are inserted in a paragraph according to context clues. Students can work in pairs to create their own set of chips and corresponding paragraph. Students then exchange their packets to see whether the context clues are stong enough to enable classmates to fill in the blanks correctly.
Material Type: Curriculum, Lesson Plan
This is a short video outlining the causes and effects of a magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964. Additional resources include a background essay and discussion questions.
Material Type: Presentation
In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of Abraham Lincoln?s and Frederick Douglass' pivotal role in American history. This lesson plan is most suitable for Presidents? Day, Black History Month, or during a study of abolition or the Civil War.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
