In this lesson, students choose a claim and a counterclaim based on their evidence based claims criteria. Students will also evaluate a peer's choice and offer feedback.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
An interactive applet and associated web page that explain the area of a triangle. The applet shows a triangle that can be reshaped by dragging any vertex. As it changes, the area is continually recalculated using the 'half base times height' method. The triangle has a fixed square grid in its interior that can be used to visually estimate the area for later correlation with the calculated value. The calculation can be hidden while estimation is in progress. The text page has links to a similar page that uses Heron's Formula to compute the area. Applet can be enlarged to full screen size for use with a classroom projector. This resource is a component of the Math Open Reference Interactive Geometry textbook project at http://www.mathopenref.com.
Material Type: Reading, Simulation
In this lesson from Read Write Think, students will read Angela Thomas' novel The Hate U Give and then delve into radio interviews that explain the purpose and viewpoints of Black Lives Matter. Topics of study include double consciousness/codeswitching, the Black Panther movement, Tupac Shakur as a an activist, and the complexity of gang culture. Students will explore subject material through excerpts form James Baldwin's essay "Letter from a Region in My MInd" and Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Letter to My Son."
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students explore the principles of synesthesia through drawing to music. By viewing and analyzing artwork based on multi sensory perception, students will become aware of the role of the senses in art, and how sensory stimulation such as listening to music can be used as a tool for inspiration. Guided by a handout outlining the basic elements and principles of art, students will engage in active discussions about how sensory perceptions can be interpreted through color, line, and form. They will then apply these reflections on their own artistic work.
Material Type: Full Course
Students begin this activity by experimenting with Silly Puttyâ„¢ to identify different stresses that rocks can experience, and examining the relationship between stress type and strain. This lays the foundation for students to understand that the structure (strain) we see in rocks provides evidence for the type of stress that caused it. Students apply this idea by examining images of faults and folds to determine how the structures formed. Additional evidence is collected through experimentation with sponge models. Students summarize their ideas and evidence for each image in a short written paragraph or in alternative presentation format. Sponge models are particularly useful because they allow students to interact physically with the models to consider the forces necessary to create these features as well as visualizing deformation in 3-D.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This lesson plan provides a basic introduction to Freytag's Pyramid and to the literary element of plot. After viewing a brief presentation about plot structure, students brainstorm the significant events in a story with which they are all familiar and place those events on Freytag’s Pyramid. They work in small groups to map the plot of another story.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this resource, students will explain the influence of the target culture perspectives on products and practices Additionally, students will learn that Celia Cruz was a Cuban singer who became an influential and legendary musical figure around the world.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this lesson, students analyze songs as an introduction to poetry. Students search songs for examples of poetic devices and assemble them in a storyboard that matches each term with an illustration and a line from the song.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This lesson will introduce students to the topic of designing websites that take web accessibility issues into account and will introduce students to Section 508 Of The Rehabilitation Act.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
CK-12 Earth Science For Middle School covers the study of Earth - its minerals and energy resources, processes inside and on its surface, its past, water, weather and climate, the environment and human actions, and astronomy.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Textbook
This resource can be used through Google Slides or Peardeck. The Mini-Lesson will cover the following “I Can” Statement.I can use the given perimeter to find one missing side length of a polygon.
Material Type: Formative Assessment
Behind many of the apparently simple stories of Robert Frost's poems are unexpected questions and mysteries. In this lesson, students analyze what speakers include or omit from their narrative accounts, make inferences about speakers' motivations, and find evidence for their inferences in the words of the poem.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This activity is a creative response after reading Beowulf. This has students writing poetry, and it also contains a hands-on artistic component in the instructions. It is a remix of an original lesson by Kinsi King.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This lesson plan focuses on having students read John Donne's poem "Death Be Not Proud" and examining the attitude of the speaker towards death. This is designed to be used with the novel "The Book Thief" and that work's own examination of death. Students will use graphic organizers to make connections and comparisons between the works' views of death and they will also write, edit, and create poems that are based around their own attitudes towards a particular subject.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
As students are reviewing odd and even numbers, students first sketch out a bug that has odd or even features. Students then use Google Drawing to turn their sketch into a work of art that they label to describe even and odd features.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment
CK-12 Algebra Explorations is a hands-on series of activities that guides students from Pre-K to Grade 7 through algebraic concepts.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Textbook
Students will explore Spanish idioms, or phrases, used to talk about the weather. Students will learn how to translate ideas and phrases rather than translating each word from one language to another.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson
Students learn useful, reliable ways to locate materials for personal, academic or professional research projects on NYTimes.com.
In this activity students analyze the lyrics to a popular Vietnam War protest song and discuss how music can be used to motivate people and for protest. Then students will create a new stanza for the protest song "I-Feel-Like-I'm Fixin'-To-Die Rag."
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This website focuses on educating educators as well as students through in depth knowledge of history as well as art styles that has been mastered in Asia throughout the years. The website also includes information of famous artists as well as works that have stood the test of time and have inspired as well as expanded art mediums.
Material Type: Assessment
