Students practice different ways of collaborating to read a work of literature. They work in different roles as they compose and answer questions, discover new vocabulary, and examine literary elements.

Mystery Hangouts (or Skype) provide an engaging way for classrooms to learn about different regions of the US including climate, landforms, resources, economy, and people. Mystery Hangouts/Skype is a connected learning experience that allows student-centered learning, inquiry and deductive reasoning to be at the forefront of the experience. The concept is simple: Classrooms Hangouts or video calls each other and try to guess where the other classroom is located either in the United States or somewhere else in the world. On the day of the call, students use their resources in trying to figure where the other class is calling from via Google Hangout.

This is the second module in ISKME's OER Academy series that will provide participants with an introduction to OER and the value added, highlighting successful use cases from around the world. We have designed these modules to first spark the learner's interest in the topics covered and then dig deeper into the content through presentations, storytelling, and demonstrations of the tools. We will offer opportunities for learners to practice exploring the resources and tools, and reflect on how they might use them in their work.

This module will provide participants with an Introduction to OER Discovery and Curation and the value added, highlighting successful use cases from around the world. We have designed these modules to first spark the learner's interest in the topics covered and then dig deeper into the content through presentations, storytelling, and demonstrations of the tools. We will offer opportunities for learners to practice exploring the resources and tools, and reflect on how they might use them in their work.

This module is designed to help users learn how to use the built-in evaluation tools on OER Commons.

This personalized playlist lets students have voice and choice and move at their own pace as they learn about energy types and sustainable energy. The playlist is aligned to the NGSS Science and Engineering Practice Developing and Using Models. The final project is to develop and use a model of their choice to show and explain their learning.

Welcome to School Library Learning 2.0. This tutorial is brought to you by the California School Library Association (CSLA) 2.0 Team. You will learn the tools of the new Internet: Web 2.0 tools that are bringing our kids in touch with the entire world through social networking, wikis, video, podcasting, and gaming sites. The exercises give you the background you need to understand the tools you're learning about.

This is the agreement forms between all partners for students in the workplace.

This is a guide to help teachers implement Genius Hour or Passion Projects in their classes. Passion Projects are projects where students are allowed to work on their passions during a specific time carved out in school. They choose what they want to learn and how they are going to learn it. It fosters innovation, creativity, and personalization during set period of school time by encouraging student choice and voice.

The goal of this task is to provide examples for comparing two fractions by finding a benchmark fraction which lies in between the two.

Evidence Choice Matrix
HS Proficient

Performance Standard
VA:Pr6.1.HSI - Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.

This matrix can be used to provide students with some options as to the ways in which they can provide evidence of learning toward a grade level standard in art.

This is the original State Board document describing each of the VT Education Quality Standards.

This website is a digital handbook written for people at Twinfield Union School who, at one time or another, place students in work-based learning experiences. The website provides information and resources with the intention to lead to consistency when placing students in work-based learning experiences and assessing their learning.

NOTE: Almost all of the information and resources in this handbook are verbatim from either from the Work-based Learning Coordinator graduate class, the Vermont Work-based Learning Manual or government documents.