This activity is designed as a project-based learning activity. It allows students to collaborate, requires them to comprehend what they have read and engages them in critical thinking. This activity can be adjusted to fit the needs and grade levels of your students.
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Students explore quadratic functions by using a motion detector known as a Calculator Based Ranger (CBR) to examine the heights of the different bounces of a ball. Students will represent each bounce with a quadratic function of the form y = a (x - h)^2 + k. This lesson plan is based on the activity Tremain Nelson uses in the video for Part II of this workshop.
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Students will use a temperature probe, a pressure sensor, and an air sample in a stoppered flask to study the relationship between gas pressure and temperature. Note: Implementation of this activity requires a TI graphing calculator and Vernier probeware.
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This resource contains a list of questions for students to answer in argumentative or persuasive essays.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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
In this project, students select a modern trend and follow it through various media outlets. By choosing articles, analyzing them, and writing about them, students begin to see how their respective trend influences the modern world. In the second half, students go back through history and research the same trend in the past. After compiling historical data on the trend, students combine the modern and the historical into a research paper that expresses their new understanding of the world.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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.
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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
