The lesson contains audio dialogues including, "What country is this?" "What part of China is this?" "Where are you from?" There is also instruction concerning grammar about phrase structure, substitution drills, and calligraphy practice based on the lesson vocabulary.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The lesson contains information on how to say the date in Mandarin Chinese, vocabulary for days of the week, months and audio dialogues. The lesson has a grammar section about using numerals in sentences and a calligraphy section on the vocabulary of the lesson.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The lesson teaches how to ask and tell your age in Mandarin Chinese, audio dialogues related to the topic, vocabulary, grammar explanation on how to build sentences that emphasize time and place in the past.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson
This lesson is about how to ask and tell time in Mandarin Chinese. This lesson has four audio conversations: "What time is it?" "What time do you get up?" "What time do you have a break?" What time will you be back?" The grammar section provides some explanation about how to build sentences when talking about time and schedule.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The lesson is about places in the city. The lesson contains the following audio dialogues: "Where do you go this morning?' "Who are you going with?" "Do you have free time?" "Shall we go to the restaurant?" The grammar part explains about prepositional construction in the sentence and negative forms of verbs.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This lesson provides practice asking different questions and introduction to Chinese measure word. This lesson includes the following audio dialogues: "What is this?" "What fruit is that?" "Do you have a dictionary?" "Is this your dictionary?" Grammar section explains how to use Chinese measure word.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This lesson provides practice asking questions when buying things. This lesson includes a variety of audio dialogues concerning this subject matter.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will learn how to order drinks in Chinese. The lesson includes several audio dialogues: In the grammar section there is an introduction to the future tense and the way to say "let's" in Chinese. The lesson also has the substitution drills section where students will get more familiar with the Chinese characters.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will learn how to talk about food in Chinese, express likes, and give suggestions. In the grammar section there are explanations with examples on how to form affirmative-negative form of questions and use verb repetition.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will learn how to order food in Chinese restaurant, names of Chinese dishes and drinks. In the audio section students can practice ordering food and talking to a waiter in the restaurant. In the grammar section, students will learn how to use helping verbs before other verbs to express ability, possibility, intention and wishes.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
From two psychology professors- "Here are five techniques we use in our ethics courses to help students explore the ethics of psychology—and their own ethics. We'll give you one example of each technique; you can take it from there and apply these to ethics in your personal life and your own profession."
Material Type: Lesson
For this activity, 4th and 5th grade AIG learners will read a book of choice featuring characters who are gifted in some way. Students will then use the bibliotheraphy questions to create a presentation showing how they identify and do not identify with the characters and events of the book. While the resource is targeted to upper elementary school students, it could be modified to use with middle school students.
Material Type: Formative Assessment, Self Assessment
In this lesson, students will work in small groups to read and analyze a primary source using a set of questions designed to help them understand the writers' viewpoints. Students will then explain their findings to their classmates. Finally, each student will produce a written essay that explains how and why scientific understanding of the atom has changed over time.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this two-part activity, students design and build Rube Goldberg machines. This open-ended challenge employs the engineering design process and may have a pre-determined purpose, such as rolling a marble into a cup from a distance, or let students decide the purposes.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Next steps and support for Webinar #1 of the Curriculum Review Academy.
Material Type: Presentation
The Whimsy Project is high school level, school-wide, cross-curricular PBL project that allows students to maximize their creative thinking and problem solving skills as they connect academic content to real-world applications, in a fun and whimsical way (per the book by Tony Wagner, "Creating innovators"). It was done in the fall of 2017 at Tri-County Early College as a relatively low stakes way to introduce students - especially incoming freshmen - to the basics of PBL.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
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 is a high school level, school-wide, interdisciplinary PBL project that allows students to increase their depth of knowledge of academic and 21st Century Skills by designing, building, and refining a product or service that will help people better prepare for, respond to, or recover from natural disasters. It was done at Tri-County Early College in 2018.
Material Type: Curriculum, Teaching/Learning Strategy
6th grade students were introduced to hardships around the world through literature. Students selected a topic they were interested in and researched that topic. Then they collaborated with a team of peers and created a tri-fold poster board display about their topic. These were displayed in the media center and parents and other classes were invited to come in. The guests of the exposition were encouraged to ask the teams questions about their topics, allowing the students to further demonstrate the knowledge and passion they had for their topic. The guests also voted on the teams that had the best information and the most knowledge about their topic.
Material Type: Unit of Study
