Parts of a Plant
(View Complete Item Description)Learn about the parts/functions of a plant and create a plant flip book.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
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Avoiding Co-Teaching Conflicts
(View Complete Item Description)This resource is designed to support co-teachers as they are navigating their relationship in the classroom. The co-teaching relationship can become somewhat challenging if both partners are not transparent and open to compromise.
Material Type: Reference Material
Creating for a Task
(View Complete Item Description)This resource helps you to pre-plan intentional lessons. It can be used for any lesson, but the lesson itself was intended when planning for tasks.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Data Sheet for Analysis of Student Work
(View Complete Item Description)This data sheet allows teachers a consistent and organized way to analyze student work by providing room for them to document noticings, wonderings, patterns, and next steps for instruction. There's also a space for teachers to record criteria for success to guide their lens for analysis.
Material Type: Assessment, Data Set
Flipgrid - Setting up your grids
(View Complete Item Description)This handout is an instructional guide for teachers who want to set up a Flipgrid account.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Google My Maps: Directions for Creating Maps
(View Complete Item Description)Please see attached Google Doc for instructions on using Google My Maps to create digital, collaborative maps.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Hyperdoc Template for eWISE Research Model
(View Complete Item Description)This resource is a template that teachers can use to create Inquiry Based Research Lessons and Units. It is a hyperdoc template that is based on the eWISE Research Model. It is broken into the 4 stages of the research model (Wonder, Investigate, Synthesize and Express). There are suggestions and details in each stage to help you plan your research unit. Feel free to copy the google doc and create your own research project.
Material Type: Reference Material, Teaching/Learning Strategy
PL ~ All About Creative Commons
(View Complete Item Description)This PPT slide deck will introduce districts and staff to Creative Commons and licensing.
Material Type: Presentation
PL ~ Collections, Derivatives, Remixing, Adapting
(View Complete Item Description)This PPT will walk teachers through an explanation of how collections and adaptations work. It also explains CC licensing. title
Material Type: Presentation
Project Design Template
(View Complete Item Description)This is a tool teachers can use to design high quality PBL projects, including how to ensure they have a strong connection to curricular standards and success skills, they are authentic per things students care about, they provide students with choice and voice during the project, assessments and scaffolding are intentional and personalized for each student, time is dedicated for student reflection and revision, and the project has a public audience.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Formative Assessment, Module, Reference Material
Template OER Community of Practice Next Steps
(View Complete Item Description)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
Unpacking the Lesson Plan
(View Complete Item Description)This is an instructional tool that can be used for a beginning teacher to unpack the lesson plan to identify the teacher and student responsibilities. Once unpacked, it serves as a guide for the teacher to use to enhance their instructional delivery in the classroom with students.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Using Infographics with Students - Proof of Practice
(View Complete Item Description)This assignment activity is designed to be used as a culminating Proof of Practice in a professional learning on finding, creating, and using infographics in instruction. Learners should first know what Infographics are, how to create them, and how they can be used effectively in teaching and learning. NOTE: The links to the Google Docs in Step 2 (Infographic Table and Infographic Rubric) will ask you to make a copy. You can then replace the links with your copy of those Google Docs.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Am I Beowulf or Am I Grendel?
(View Complete Item Description)This activity is a creative response after reading Beowulf. This has students writing poetry, and it also contains a hands-on artistic component in the instructions.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Amber Brown Goes Fourth by Paula Danziger 3 Column Notes
(View Complete Item Description)Three Column Notes is a great resource to use as students read and pace themselves through reading material.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Questionnaire, Vocabulary
Argument Letter for Social Justice Issue (Prewriting Guide)
(View Complete Item Description)This guide prepares students to write an argumentative letter on a social justice issue of their choice. It includes a review of argumentative structure and resources to assist them in finding an informational article on an issue they would like to address.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Vocabulary
Argumentative Structure in "Indian Father's Plea" (3 levels of support)
(View Complete Item Description)Students analyze the argumentative structure employed by Robert Lake (Medicine Grizzlybear) in his essay "Indian Father's Plea." There are three versions with varying levels of support.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Argumentative Writing Unit
(View Complete Item Description)Argumentative Writing Unit for 6th grade English Language Arts. Students will learn the components of an argumentative essay and learn to write an essay. The unit will begin with an overview of bullying in order to present the argument of, "Should bullies be treated as criminals?". This essay will be researched and written as a class practice and will not be scored. The students will write a second essay in connection with an ecology unit in science titled, "Do humans help or hurt the Great Lakes?" This essay will be used as a summative assessment. The final scored assessment will an argumentative essay of choice on the part of the student.
Material Type: Unit of Study
Remix
Brunswic
(View Complete Item Description)Brunswick County Schools specific plan for OER Next Steps. To be completed by the instructional team.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
CSI-Crime Scene Investigation: Practice making claims and finding evidence
(View Complete Item Description)Students will examine a crime scene to evaluate evidence, make claims, explain which evidence supports those claims, and provide commentary to explain how the evidence supports the claims. They will provide a report at the end to show that they are able to make appropriate claims, provide sufficient support, and explain it all in great detail.
Material Type: Lesson Plan