The Earth and Beyond: Sunrise and Sunset and Day Length
(View Complete Item Description)With this resource, students will learn how sunrise, sunset and day length change throughout the year.
Material Type: Interactive
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Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring: A Myth is Born
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson will contrast Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring (classical) and Stephane Furic's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (jazz), and the role the poems Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman and The Bridge by Hart Crane, bring to the music.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
Spanish Games for Kids
(View Complete Item Description)Students learn and practice Spanish vocabulary through a series of interactive modules, beginning with introduction of the vocabulary through images and audio, followed by a lesson, a game, and finally an assessment. Students are in complete control of what and how they learn.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
ALL: Power Point Intro to Career Paths
(View Complete Item Description)This resource provides a PowerPoint presentation and work sheets to introduce students to workplace terminology and career paths. Students will learn that technology and health service will lead the way and be amongst the fastest growing occupations.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Pick the Risk: The Polygenic Pedigree Challenge
(View Complete Item Description)Students track and record the passage of colored pom poms (representing genes) through generations of a family using a pedigree. Participants learn that common chronic diseases (such as heart disease) run in families and are caused by the combined action of multiple genes.
Two Weeks of Positivity
(View Complete Item Description)Teachers work hard and need to take time to take care of themselves. Here are two weeks of simple activities designed to shift your mental framework and help you respond more skillfully to difficult situations. Taking care of your own mental health helps you create a safe and welcoming environment for your students, and may help keep you from burning out. (Could be adapted for student use.)
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Measuring the Area of a Circle
(View Complete Item Description)This goal of this task is to give students familiarity using the formula for the area of a circle while also addressing measurement error.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Communism and Capitalism DBQ
(View Complete Item Description)These docmument based questions and essay prompt provide the student with an in-depth opportunity to evaluate the concepts behind capitalism and communism using primary sources. Selections are taken from: Friedrich Engels, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adam Smith, Karl Marx and others.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Primary Source