Scratch Jr. is an app where children can program their own stories and games. They learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Interactive, Module
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
Interactive Desmos activity that explains how parabolas and quadratic equations are related.
Material Type: Interactive
In order to determine the cheapest mode of transportation from Philadelphia, PA to Dallas, TX you must investigate the different modes and compare the fares in a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel. After researching estimated amounts, enter the necessary information into your spreadsheet. You will also create a simple pie chart showing a visual representation of the total cost of the different modes of transportation. Examples can be seen below. Be sure to read through all instructions before beginning.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Make sure you have plenty of snap cubes. * Build a rectangular prism that is 2 cubes high, 3 cubes wide, and 5 cubes long. * We will say that the volum...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This article describes the processes of making inferences and using context clues to define unknown words. Links to web sites and articles provide background knowledge and instruction for teachers and students.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
PHET Description:Make a whole rainbow by mixing red, green, and blue light. Change the wavelength of a monochromatic beam or filter white light. View the light as a solid beam, or see the individual photons. Teacher Description: if you are a science teacher you are probably familiar with PhET Simulations. The website has many sims for things like matter, waves, and molecules that are help students visualize the abstract or very tiny. This sim is good is appropriate for teaching students how color filters work, and demonstrates that white or colorless light is made up of all colors.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will research about events from the world and home country a year in the past, they will make predictions about the same events a year in the future and give a presentation to the class as a whole. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will create posters based upon graded readers and present the posters to classmates. The lesson provides a template for the posters, instructions for presentations, and tips on student notetaking. This resource supports English language development for English Language Learners.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will play a game to review pronouns. Then they will learn how to write a friendly letter. With their knowledge of the kinds of pronouns, they will write a friendly letter to an author or favorite book character using pronouns from every pronoun category.
Material Type: Lesson
With this task, students solve problems related to calculating 25% price reductions.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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
A list of tips for content teachers with beginning English learners in their classroom.
Material Type: Reference Material
Students will be able to effectively recognize and imitate AB binary form through movement.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
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
This resource based on Brave New World allows students to review elements from Aldous Huxley's seminal text.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
