The purpose of this template is to allow the user to unpack the 7th grade visual art National Core Arts Standards (NCAS) into task-specific or task-neutral learning targets that then can be used during instruction and/or within an assessment tool like a rubric.

The Unpacking Process:
1. Take a look at the performance standard (7th grade) and pull out the nouns, or what students need to know.
2. Next pull out what students need to be able to do (the verbs).
3. Write learning targets or I can statements. When writing ask yourself, “What does this look like in student work?”

Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.

In this lesson students explore a number of sources to create a biographical timeline about a selected person. Students collaboratively research and resolve conflicting information they find during their investigation.

The purpose of this template is to allow the user to unpack the National Core Arts Standards into task-specific or task-neutral learning targets that then can be used during instruction and/or within an assessment tool like a rubric.

The Unpacking Process:
1. Take a look at the performance standard* and pull out the nouns, or what students need to know.
2. Next pull out what students need to be able to do (the verbs).
3. Write learning targets or I can statements. When writing ask yourself, “What does this look like in student work?”

*Grade level Performance Standards or Indicators will need to be added to the template prior to the first step. This is a blank template.

Explore the parts of book covers and dust jackets with this online guide, designed to to allow users to review the content that appears on each portion of these artifacts.

Though teachers usually caution students against using sentence fragments, Edgar Schuster's work demonstrates that professional writers often use fragments effectively. This lesson helps students understand that there are reasons that they can and should use sentence fragments to become effective writers.

The purpose of this task is to help develop students' understanding of addition of fractions; it is intended as an instructional task.

This joint position statement of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National Council

of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) highlights a set of principles for effective early math instruction.

The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.

The purpose of this task is to provide students with an opportunity to explain fraction equivalence through visual models in a particular example.

Mathematically:

Addresses standards: 3.NF.A.2a and MP.1
Helps students understand fractions in relation to whole numbers 3.NF.A.2a
Includes an example of a fraction greater than one, allowing students to see that fractions are not limited to values between $0$ and $1$
Requires students to make sense of the problem and persevere in solving it (MP.1)
In the classroom:

Engages students quickly without needing much scaffolding by the teacher
Encourages students to share their developing thinking

This module contains instructor resources and student-facing materials to facilitate the use of online forums to teach a blended, workshop-based writing/composition class.

STUDENT ACTIVITY -- 5th -- NC/TXThis is a distance-learning lesson students can complete at home.The student will use their knowledge of operations (addition and subtraction) of fractions with unequal denominators to solve real world problems.This activity was created by Out Teach (out-teach.org), a nonprofit providing outdoor experiential learning to transform Science education for students in under-served communities.

Students write and record their own essays for a class blog by first completing a series of activities designed to get them thinking and writing about their experiences.

What we like about this task

Mathematically:

Addresses standards: 4.OA.A, 4.NBT.B, 4.OA.A.3, 4.NBT.B.6, MP.1, and MP.6
Requires students to understand the meaning of the quotient and remainder in order to solve problems in a real-world context
Addresses content across two major clusters (4.OA.A and 4.NBT.B) within the grade, specifically 4.OA.A.3 and 4.NBT.B.6
Requires students to interpret what is being asked and perform extensive calculations (MP.1) accurately and efficiently (MP.6)
In the classroom:

Offers opportunities for students to use strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division to solve division problems
Provides repeated practice of multi-digit division and can be easily altered to allow for repeated use throughout the year
Allows for small group, partner, or individual work

In this video, you will learn how to check out a resource such as a room, Chromebook cart, etc in Google Calendar.

The "Into the Book" web site is designed to help elementary students practice eight reading comprehension strategies through playful interactive activities. The site focuses on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. "Behind the Lesson," the teacher area of the site, provides information, lesson plans and other resources for teachers.

This is slideshow that explains how the Learn Centered Model works in Elementary school

This is a slide show about the Learner Centered Model in High School and Middle School

This is a challenging fraction comparison problem. The fractions for this task have been carefully chosen to encourage and reward different methods of comparison.