In this hands-on activity students create a simple electromagnet with wire, a pencil, and a battery. Students will investigate factors that increase the strength of the magnet.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students create thought bubbles for either the brother or the sister from Patricia Polacco's story, "My Rotten, Red-Headed, Older Brother".
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Please see attached Google Doc for instructions on using Google My Maps to create digital, collaborative maps.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
On behalf of Marcus Caelius in the spring of 56 B.C.E. Roman oratory was a living art. Orators knew that the persuasive power of a speech did not come from the force and clarity of its argument alone. A speaker needed not simply to be heard distinctly, but to project the kind of confident, engaging personality that could win an audience's good will and command its belief.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Demonstration, Diagram/Illustration, Interactive, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Presentation, Primary Source, Reading, Simulation, Vocabulary
This lesson uses the area model to support students' work with adding fractions with unlike denominators. This is remixable if you add ideas to support the range of learners.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Students will be presented with a problem that they have a non-English speaking student in their classroom and it will be their job to create a means for teaching their classmate how to add. They will work in groups of 3 or 4 to plan and design an activity or a display (or both) that models the addition process within 20. Students will work primarily on learning the collaboration process during this initial PBL project. They will learn skills related to group work, group accountability, and the creation of a single group product. They will be introduced to the Critical Friends protocol. Students will do a first draft and a final product to learn that process. They will present to the class.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Grouped by each state, by genre, or thematically, this resource has hundreds of folklores, fairy tales and fables for any age group.
Material Type: Lesson
Students work collaboratively to transform their experiences and understanding of plastic pollution into a product that encourages other community members to reduce their single plastic usage. Students work together to research the effects of single-use plastic on plants, animals, and the environment. Reading skills are strengthened by reading numerous nonfiction articles and websites about the effects of plastic; students then use these sources to write opinion pieces about plastic use. Students interview staff members, participate in Zero Waste Week, and create a sculpture from discarded materials.
Material Type: Unit of Study
This inquiry-led lesson guides students through writing a newspaper article about a mining accident in Trimdon Grange, discussing its causes, its consequences, and the impact on life in the town and elsewhere.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students complete a project as a group, creating videotaped news segments that give them a glimpse into the social, political, literary, and musical climate of the Roaring Twenties. Students create scripts before recording and editing their projects together using iMovie or a similar film editing software.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this assessment task, students demonstrate one-to-one correspondence, cardinality, understanding of "˜one more', and writes numbers.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students discover that heat is conducted through different materials at different rates by performing a simple experiment. They begin to consider how knowledge of heat transfers can be used to safely and efficiently utilize heat transfers in everyday situations.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students can use the ADDIE Model Template to plan their project-based learning assignment.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Prezi video is a great resource for students to use to create original content. The planning and execution of content represents levels 3 and 4 of Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK).
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Demonstration, Lesson, Presentation
Looking for ways to plan project based learning activities? Suzie Boss suggests borrowing ideas from your colleagues and adapt or remix to fit your context. Suzie borrowed ideas from professional development and learning conferences for teachers who may need a boost to get their project-based learning off the ground.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment
In “Surprise Birthday Cake!”, students will be planning to bake a birthday cake for their mom for her birthday. They will learn about converting between ounces and pounds when reading a recipe for making a birthday cake. They will create a table that show ounces versus pounds. They will also determine how many of each items they will need to buy to make a cake that will feed the number of people that have been invited. They will also determine how big the cake needs to be to feed the number of people invited using inches and feet.
Material Type: Lesson
Students will discover the differences in musical tempo between fast and slow. Students will learn to use the correct musical terms to describe the tempo of each piece. Students will use streamers and their bodies to show at what tempo each piece is played.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
SAMR rubric template for developing classroom technology assignments aligned to curriculum standards. Develop an appropriate curriculum assignment using each of the four levels of technology integration. Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This lesson is designed to challenge students to learn about how geometry and measurement are used in the real world by architects. The students will explore various concepts such as area and perimeter as well as developing benchmarks for measurement. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will apply fourth grade concepts of fractions to develop a planned community that meets specific requirements. Throughout this task, students will need to think about fractions as part of a set and part of a whole area. The will compare fractions, find fraction equivalences, and add fractions with unlike denominators to ensure that the sum is one whole. Once all students have created the maps of their communities, they will have discussion to compare and contrast the fractional parts of each person’s community. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
