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The State We're In: Washington - Teacher Guide Ch. 4: 1900-2000: A Century of Change
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This is a Teacher's Guide for The State We're In Washington: Your guide to state, tribal and local government. These quides are developed by members of the Washington State Social Studies Cadre.

Chapter 4 focuses on the significant amount of change the state of Washington experienced from 1900 to 2000. The resources here may be implemented separately or together to guide students toward a deeper understanding of the content therein and to develop important social studies skills.

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History
Social Science
U.S. History
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Teaching/Learning Strategy
Date Added:
08/12/2019
The State We're In: Washington - Teacher Guide Ch. 6: Tribal Governments
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This is a Teacher's Guide for The State We're In Washington: Your guide to state, tribal and local government. These quides are developed by members of the Washington State Social Studies Cadre.There are key ideals established in state and tribal constitutions that determine the functioning of government. Washington state maintains important relationships among sovereign states (international and tribal) through both political and economic agreements. Tribes, as sovereign nations, have independent economies with different government regulations separate from the United States and Washington state. The economic impacts of tribes has been measured and positively impacts the economy of Washington in many ways.

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Political Science
U.S. History
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Lesson
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Barbara Soots
Leslie Heffernan
Washington OSPI OER Project
Jerry Price
Date Added:
08/05/2020
The State We're In: Washington - Teacher Guide Ch. 7: Local Government
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This is a Teacher's Guide for The State We're In Washington: Your guide to state, tribal and local government. These quides are developed by members of the Washington State Social Studies Cadre. Chapter 7 focuses on local government: counties, cities, towns and special districts and their role, organization, duties and services they provide to communities.

Subject:
History
Political Science
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Activity/Lab
Lesson
Module
Primary Source
Reading
Student Guide
Author:
Melissa Webster
Barbara Soots
Washington OSPI OER Project
Jerry Price
Kari Tally
OSPI Social Studies
Date Added:
04/11/2020
The State We're In: Washington - Teacher Guide Ch. 8: Civics and Nature
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This is a Teacher's Guide for The State We're In Washington: Your guide to state, tribal and local government. These quides are developed by members of the Washington State Social Studies Cadre.Chapter 8 focuses on the natural resources in the state of Washington including challenges the government faces when competing interests are at stake, as well as ways the state and individuals can have an impact on that future.

Subject:
Cultural Geography
Physical Geography
Political Science
U.S. History
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Lesson
Lesson Plan
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Barbara Soots
Amy Ripley
Jerry Price
Washington OSPI OER Project
Date Added:
04/22/2020
The State We're In: Washington - Teacher Guide Ch. 9: What's Next
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This is a Teacher's Guide for The State We're In Washington: Your guide to state, tribal and local government. These quides are developed by members of the Washington State Social Studies Cadre.Chapter 9 focuses on the future of the state of Washington including challenges its citizens will face and various ways the state and individuals can have an impact on that future.

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Social Science
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Lesson Plan
Unit of Study
Author:
Ryan Theodoriches
Melissa Webster
Barbara Soots
Leslie Heffernan
Amy Ripley
Washington OSPI OER Project
Jerry Price
Date Added:
04/03/2020
The State We're In: Washington - Teacher Guide Chapter 1 - How the First People of Washington Governed Themselves
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The  environment shaped the first people of Washington’s way of life and as a result the early people had different leaders for different purposes who were elders in their community.This is the teacher guide companion to The State We're In: Washington (Grade 3-5 Edition) Chapter 1. The resource is designed to engage students with a launch activity, focused notes, and a focused inquiry.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Leslie Heffernan
Margit McGuire
Jerry Price
Barbara Soots
Kari Tally
Washington OSPI OER Project
Date Added:
10/06/2021
The State We're In: Washington - Teacher Guide Chapter 2 - First Contacts Between Native Northwest People and Europeans
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Contact between Native and non-native people forever changed the landscape of North America. European exploration drove many changes to the Northwest, including trade, exploration.This is the teacher guide companion to The State We're In: Washington (Grade 3-5 Edition) Chapter 2. The resource is designed to engage students with a launch activity, focused notes, and a focused inquiry.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Leslie Heffernan
Jerry Price
Barbara Soots
Kari Tally
Washington OSPI OER Project
Date Added:
10/06/2021
The State We're In: Washington - Teacher Guide Chapter 3 - The Design of Today's Democracy
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While the arrival of explorers and the beginning of the fur trade were going on in the American Northwest, a new nation was being born in the east. This is the teacher guide companion to The State We're In: Washington (Grade 3-5 Edition) Chapter 3. The resource is designed to engage students with a launch activity, focused notes, and a focused inquiry.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Leslie Heffernan
Jerry Price
Barbara Soots
Kari Tally
Washington OSPI OER Project
Mary Schuldheisz
Date Added:
10/06/2021
The State We're In: Washington - Teacher Guide Chapter 4 - From Settlers to Statehood
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Washington’s long journey to become a state was a complex story culturally, economically, politically, environmentally, and ecologically.This is the teacher guide companion to The State We're In: Washington (Grade 3-5 Edition) Chapter 4. The resource is designed to engage students with a launch activity, focused notes, and a focused inquiry.

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Art History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Leslie Heffernan
Jerry Price
Barbara Soots
Washington OSPI OER Project
Nancy Lenihan
Kari Tally
Date Added:
10/06/2021
The State We're In: Washington - Teacher Guide Chapter 5 - From 1900 to 2000
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Washington has changed a great deal in many different ways in the 20th Century – culturally, economically, politically, environmentally, and ecologically. This is the teacher guide companion to The State We're In: Washington (Grade 3-5 Edition) Chapter 5. The resource is designed to engage students with a launch activity, focused notes, and a focused inquiry.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Leslie Heffernan
Jerry Price
Barbara Soots
Nancy Lenihan
Kari Tally
Washington OSPI OER Project
Date Added:
10/04/2021
The State We're In: Washington - Teacher Guide  Chapter 6 - Local Governments
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Local governments are the smallest and closest governments to us. They are usually the first place we turn when we need help. This is the teacher guide companion to The State We're In: Washington (Grade 3-5 Edition) Chapter 6. The resource is designed to engage students with a launch activity, focused notes, and a focused inquiry.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Leslie Heffernan
Jerry Price
Washington OSPI OER Project
Barbara Soots
Kari Tally
Mary Schuldheisz
Date Added:
10/04/2021
The State We're In: Washington - Teacher's Guide Chapter 10: Good Citizen
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This is a Teacher's Guide for The State We're In Washington: Your guide to state, tribal and local government. These quides are developed by members of the Washington State Social Studies Cadre.Chapter 10 focuses on the cultural, economic, political, environmental, and ecological ways in which people in Washington can become actively engaged citizens and make a difference in their communities. 

Subject:
Political Science
U.S. History
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Lesson
Lesson Plan
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Barbara Soots
Callie Birklid
Washington OSPI OER Project
Jerry Price
Date Added:
08/05/2020
Students Research Bird Behavior in Cold Weather
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This article details an investigation designed and carried out by fourth-grade students about bird behavior in cold weather.

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Applied Science
Environmental Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:
Jennifer Fee
Date Added:
10/17/2014
Superbugs
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Over the course of the unit, students will explore a variety of texts and grow in their knowledge of superbugs
and and their evolution over time. They will use informational text, video, lab activities and infographics to
support their inquiry and research.

Subject:
Life Science
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Activity/Lab
Reading
Simulation
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Unit of Study
Date Added:
10/17/2017
Teaching Infographics as Multiliteracy Arguments
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From "The Spectrum of Apple Flavors" to "We are all Zebras: How Rare Disease is Shaping the Future of Healthcare," we find colorful visual displays of information and data used to persuade, inform and delight their audience-readers. Most infographic assignments result in loose collections of related facts and numbers, essentially a collage or poster. Student create displays of unrelated factoids and spurious data correlations and they "ooh" and "ahhh" at beautiful nothings. However, the visual and textual elements of an infographic can culminate in a coherent multimodal argument which prompts inquiry in the creator and the audience.  In order to teach infographics as a claim expressed through visual metaphor, supported by reasoning with evidence in multiple modes, instructors employ a sequence of interventions to invoke the relevant skills and strategies at appropriate moments.  Composing and critiquing infographics can enhance understanding of both the content and rhetoric, since people analyze, elaborate and critique information more deeply when visual and textal modes are combined (Lazard and Atkinson 2014).This pedagogy of reading and writing multiple literacies can be adapted to other multimodal products. For an overview, refer to "Recipe for an Infographic" (Abilock and Williams 2014) which is also listed in the references for this module. We recommend that you experience this process yourself as you teach it to students.   

Subject:
Information Science
Material Type:
Module
Author:
Debbie Abilock
Date Added:
08/25/2017
Teaching Infographics as Multiliteracy Arguments
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From "The Spectrum of Apple Flavors" to "We are all Zebras: How Rare Disease is Shaping the Future of Healthcare," we find colorful visual displays of infGrotewold, K. (2020, August). Framework for analysis of visual information. In Assessing Visual Materials for Diversity & Inclusivity. https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/69336/. Licensed as CC BY-NC-SA   

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Information Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Aubree Evans
Date Added:
12/09/2020
Thoughts about "If" by Rudyard Kipling
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Today, you scanned and listened to "If", a poem by Rudyard Kipling. You may be familiar with Kipling as the author of The Jungle Book. To learn more about Kipling's life, you can read and watch his biography (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..In this discussion, we are making "I notice..." statements and "I wonder...?" questions about the poem. As we have done before, "I notice..." is an observation about a detail from the text, and "I wonder...?" is a question about a detail you want to know more about.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Tim Batiuk
Date Added:
01/02/2018
Threshold Concepts: Reenvisioning K-12 Information Literacy Instruction
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The idea of Threshold Concepts has been widely discussed in higher education for more than a decade. As defined by Jan H.F. Meyer and Ray Land, a threshold concept “can be considered as akin to a portal, opening up a new and previously inaccessible way of thinking about something. It represents a transformed way of understanding, or interpreting, or viewing something without which the learner cannot progress”.  (Meyer, J., & Land, R. (2003). Put another way, threshold concepts are the core ideas and principles in any discipline that often become second nature to experts, but may be completely foreign to the novice. And yet, without an understanding of these core concepts, learners cannot progress in further learning in any given subject area. As with all academic disciplines, threshold concepts exist in the area of Information Literacy; grasping information literacy threshold concepts is essential for students to become effective researchers.In 2015, the American Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) replaced their Information Literacy Competency Standards, with a “Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education”. The Framework is organized into six Frames, each anchored by an information literacy threshold concept and supported by a set of knowledge practices and dispositions. These six information literacy threshold concepts include:Authority is Constructed and ContextualInformation Creation is a ProcessInformation Has ValueResearch as InquiryScholarship as ConversationSearching as Strategic ExplorationBased on the research studies and experiences of academic instruction librarians who see first-hand the challenges students experience when conducting college-level research, the new Framework was developed to support information literacy instruction in the digital age. The literature suggests that most students entering college are unprepared for the rigors of academic research. (Head, A. J. (2013). If students can gain an understanding of these six threshold concepts, they will likely be better researchers and generally more successful in their academic work.What are the implications of this huge paradigm shift in college-level research instruction for school librarians? Simply put, school librarians have a wonderful opportunity to prepare students for college level research by systematically teaching information literacy threshold concepts in grades K-12. A scaffolded information literacy instruction program focused on threshold concepts along with standards and skills could help pave the way for students to be effective college researchers. With an estimated 30% of US college and university students dropping out after their first year, preparing research savvy students for the demands of college assignments could have a significant impact on student success and ultimately on college graduation rates.  Instructional ObjectivesBy the completion of Module 1, students will be able to identify a threshold concept from their field or discipline and design a learning activity that could be used to teach this concept.By the completion of Module 2, students will be able to identify one or more stumbling blocks that students encounter when conducting academic research, and describe how a better grasp of one of the six ACRL Information Literacy threshold concepts could help overcome this research barrier.By the completion of Module 3, students will be able to create a lesson plan for a K-12 classroom which teaches or reinforces the threshold concept “Research as Inquiry”. 

Subject:
Higher Education
Information Science
Material Type:
Module
Author:
Susan Mikkelsen
Date Added:
09/05/2016
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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This seventh grade annotated inquiry provides students with an opportunity to explore how words affect public opinion through an examination of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Students will investigate historical sources related to the novel and reactions in the North and South in order to address the compelling question, “Can words lead to war?” This query takes advantage of the mixed messages students often receive about the power of words. Students’ understanding about how words can make a difference is often grounded in discussions of words used to bully, instead of the power of words to encourage reform. This is an ANNOTATED inquiry with additional information on the questions, tasks, and sources within.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
New York State Education Department
Provider Set:
C3 Teachers
Date Added:
07/10/2017
Undergraduate - Introductory Chemistry Guided Inquiry Activities
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This guided inquiry learning activity is designed to be used in a large introductory chemistry course. By working in small groups to discuss the presented information and question prompts, students will engage in cycles of exploring and analyzing data, inventing new conceptual understandings, and applying those concepts. Students should be tasked with working together to complete the prompts in each section by a set time limit. After each section is completed, the entire class can share their answers via a personal response system, and the instructor can review and explain the correct responses, using the accompanying slide deck, which translates the problems into multiple-choice prompts.Instructional resources include 1) the learning activity (.docx and .pdf) 2) the learning objects (.docx and .pdf) and 3) the slide deck (.pptx).- Atomic Orbitals- Chemical Fuels- Gas Laws- Intermolecular Forces- pKa Trends- VSEPR

Subject:
Chemistry
Material Type:
Interactive
Lecture
Lesson
Module
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Unit of Study
Author:
Riley Petillion
W. Stephen McNeil
Date Added:
05/09/2022