Make Space Project
(View Complete Item Description)A PBL project that allows high school physics and math students exercise voice & choice in the design of a new maker space.
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Activity 15: Vectors from A to B
(View Complete Item Description)Students learn about vectors. There are a series of practice problems at the end of the lesson.
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One-Dimensional Kinematics Tutorial & Virtual Lab
(View Complete Item Description)This mini-lesson is intended as a self or collaborative discovery exercise for physics students needed to master the concept of 1D motion. It involves the use of The Physics Classroom for scaffolding, followed by a PhET interactive simulation.
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The Cuneiform Writing System in Ancient Mesopotamia
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson plan, intended for use in the teaching of world history in the middle grades, is designed to help students appreciate the parallel development and increasing complexity of writing and civilization in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys in ancient Mesopotamia.
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Hammurabi's Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia?
(View Complete Item Description)Students learn about life in Babylonia through the lens of Hammurabi's Code. This lesson is designed to extend world history curricula on Mesopotamia and to give students a more in-depth view of life in Babylonia during the time of Hammurabi.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Primary Source, Simulation
Primary Sources and Personal Artifacts - Library of Congress
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson plan introduces the practice of using primary sources; where to find primary sources, what they are, how to examine them, and how to construct a context to tell more of the story.Students will:Analyze personal artifacts as primary sources; Analyze historical primary sources; andConnect historical text with primary sources.Materials/Links Included:Primary Source Analysis ToolPrimary source setsTeacher's guide to Analyzing Primary Sources
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Achievethecore.org :: Fluency Packet for the 6 - 8 Grade Band
(View Complete Item Description)This packet of 41 short selections can be used regularly over the course of a school year to help students build fluency. There are enough passages to work on one per week - to two weeks. This source provides a protocol outlining strategies to engage students in short, daily fluency practice. Teachers can also send passages home for additional practice. To access the packet, select "View File" to download. This packet is designed to strengthen the components of reading fluency: accuracy, rate, and prosody (expression). Students should understand what they are reading, thus embedded supports, such as student glossaries and ‘right there’ comprehension questions, are included. However, these passages are not intended for close reading or deep comprehension work. Note for teachers of English Language Learners (ELLs): Regular fluency practice is essential for helping ELLs improve their overall literacy skills. Those acquiring a second language benefit especially from additional support with decoding, pronunciation, word identification, and prosody—all of which are the focus of regular fluency practice. Activities found in the Achieve the Core Fluency Packet reflect several best practices for English Language Learner instruction including: • Having a text read aloud by a fluent reader prior to the student engaging with the text. • Giving students multiple opportunities to hear the text read aloud by a fluent reader so that they can mirror the pronunciation and prosody of well-spoken English. • Providing repeated opportunities for students to practice decoding skills both on their own and with support via active monitoring. • Providing opportunities for students to learn new vocabulary through the use of student-friendly definitions, and to reinforce newly learned vocabulary through repeated practice with the same text and opportunities to use that vocabulary to respond to comprehension questions. • Calling out work with “juicy sentences,” a strategy developed by Dr. Lily Wong Fillmore, that allows students to look deeply at word choice, sentence structure, and other text features that build their understanding of how English is used to convey different meanings. • Providing numbered lines that allow students to quickly focus-in on specific sections of the text. • Providing space for students to annotate the text with their own notes.
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Protocols and Resources - EL Education - Grades 6-8
(View Complete Item Description)The protocols and resources in this appendix to Grades 6-8 EL Education Curriculum are referenced in the lessons and are related to checking for understanding, formative assessment, and building academic vocabulary. Protocol descriptions include: Final Word Gallery Walk Interactice Word Wall Rank, Talk, Write Say Something
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment, Vocabulary
Common Core-Aligned Interventions for Adolescent Readers - EL Education
(View Complete Item Description)These resources were designed to help teachers build students’ capacity to read, think, talk, and write about complex texts. The 6-8 ELA modules fully address all the strands of the Common Core state standards: the reading standards for both literary and informational texts, the writing standards, the speaking and listening standards, and the language standards. To ensure that students receive adequate support and practice, as well as sufficient time to meet the volume of reading required by the CCSS, this Interventions resources package provides suggestions and examples of literacy work to support, reinforce, and provide additional practice of the skills learned in the EL Education ELA modules. This resource designed to help school leaders, instructional coaches, general education teachers, special education, and intervention teachers think and plan together about strategic ways to best use additional support time beyond the typical ELA block. The suggestions here could certainly be applied to all learners, but are targeted particularly for students who aren’t meeting grade level standards during a standard class period. This package contains suggestions that teachers can adapt to meet the specific needs of their students needing additional support. Teachers should use their judgment and knowledge of the abilities of their particular students to focus this additional ELA practice and instruction where it is required, and to adapt the activities and examples accordingly. There are various ways to organize time so teachers can pull small groups and provide additional whole-class instruction on discrete skills, as deemed necessary by formative assessments. This package includes: • Word Study and Vocabulary • Additional Work with Related Texts • Fluency • Syntax and Mechanics • Independent Reading • Sample Schedule
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Formative Assessment, Self Assessment, Vocabulary
Reading Closely with Middle School Students - Video EL Education
(View Complete Item Description)What does close reading look like? This video shows students in an eighth-grade classroom are engaged in the close reading process for an EL Education 8th Grade ELA Lesson. The students discuss the complex non-fiction text, Unbroken, to deepen their understanding of the book’s central character and of the World War II era.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment, Vocabulary
Linear and Exponential Functions
(View Complete Item Description)Students will extend their study of functions to include function notation and the concepts of domain and range by exploring examples of functions and their graphs, focusing on the contrast between linear and exponential functions. They interpret functions given graphically, numerically, symbolically, and verbally; translate between representations; and understand the limitations of various representations.
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Match My Line
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students work through a series of scaffolded linear graphing challenges to develop their proficiency with direct variation, slope-intercept, point-slope, and other linear function forms.
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Build a Bigger Field
(View Complete Item Description)Students will use quadratic models to optimize the area of a field for a given perimeter. This is the Desmos treatment of a task that's as old as fields themselves. We emphasize estimation, construction, and formulation, in addition to the graphing and solution you find in traditional treatments.
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Descriptive Statistics
(View Complete Item Description)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.
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If, Then Reading Intervention Menu
(View Complete Item Description)This resources is a menu of literacy interventions for students who struggle with early literacy skills.
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Argument Essay Speed Dating
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students use peer evaluations as a means to strengthen an argumentative essay. Students will revise the essay and prepare a final submission.
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Organelles
(View Complete Item Description)Students will explore the structures and functions of cell organelles and identify key parts and functions that make cells the basic building blocks of all living things. Students will also identify differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
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ATP The Fuel of Life
(View Complete Item Description)The goal of this lesson is to introduce students who are interested in human biology and biochemistry to the subtleties of energy metabolism (typically not presented in standard biology and biochemistry textbooks) through the lens of ATP as the primary energy currency of the cell. Avoiding the details of the major pathways of energy production (such as glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation), this lesson is focused exclusively on ATP, which is truly the fuel of life.
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Adaptation
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students explain genetic variation and natural selection and describe how an organism with traits better suited for their environment is more likely to survive.
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ABC Community Walk
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity students identify the different relationships that can be found in a community and create a class Community ABC Book.
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