This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about adding and subtracting money using words.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture
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
Learn to describe characters’ feelings, traits, and motivations. You will also learn how to identify and explain how characters’ actions contribute to the events in a story.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This additional resource provides next steps and research-based ways to support students.
Material Type: Reference Material
In this lesson, students demonstrate how investments in savings accounts and stocks function.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students are introduced to content area vocabulary associated with the American Revolution.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The framers of the Constitution designed three branches of government. The role of the legislative branch was to make the laws, the role of the executive branch was to enforce the laws and the judicial branch was to interpret the laws. The constitution is set up in seven sections or articles and also has an introduction called the preamble.
Material Type: Textbook
Students get one class period (52 minutes) to find a real problem on campus, document it, develop a solution and prepare a market-based presentation to be peer-reviewed the next day. The main goal of this project is to highlight the importance of collaboration when working under a tight deadline - a common situation in today's working world. This project integrates engineering, design and business concepts and meets learning standards from 9th to 12th grade.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture, Lesson Plan, Simulation, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Students will be introduced to and develop a basic understanding of copyright laws. They will identify musical examples of copyright infringement.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Understanding that musical themes are the same even if they are played in different styles can help students understand that numbers maintain their same value even if they appear in different forms.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
For this activity, students identify variant correspondences in words. Reproducible materials are included in the PDF.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This annotating bookmark pairs great with fictional texts to help students understand what they are reading.
Material Type: Formative Assessment
In this unit, students will become familiar with fables and trickster tales from different cultural traditions and will see how stories change when transferred orally between generations and cultures. They will learn how both types of folktales employ various animals in different ways to portray human strengths and weaknesses and to pass down wisdom from one generation to the next. Use the following lessons to introduce students to world folklore and to explore how folktales convey the perspectives of different world cultures.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
Students examine books, selected from the American Library Association Challenged/Banned Books list, and write persuasive pieces expressing their views about what should be done with the books at their school.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Changes in voting qualifications and participation, the election of Andrew Jackson, and the formation of the Democratic Party"”due largely to the organizational skills of Martin Van Buren"”all contributed to making the election of 1828 and Jackson's presidency a watershed in the evolution of the American political system.
Material Type: Lesson
In this lesson, students will read different informational texts and compare and contrast the celebration of Christmas in two different countries.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This Google slide deck provides information about Creative Commons Licenses.
Material Type: Presentation
This rubric is offered as a starting point for curriculum review and iteration on the #GoOpenNC platform.
Material Type: Reference Material
Students explore multiple forms of digital etiquette and citizenship. They research current events based around digital concerns and innovations. Eventually, they apply that knowledge to their own lives and use of technology to develop 5 top guidelines for digital device usage for their peers. Students share their presentations and projects in an exhibit-style venue. Using a survey, students vote for their top choices, eventually selecting one choice to implement.Standards:CCSS English Language Arts (Grade 8) Ohio Standards for Technology
Material Type: Lesson
