This lesson, the second in a series, encourages students to think and talk openly about the concept of beauty, particularly as it overlaps with issues of race and racial identity.
Material Type: Lesson
The Skills Strand teaches the mechanics of reading. Students are taught systematic and explicit phonics instruction as their primary tool for decoding written English. By the end of grade 2, students have learned all of the sound spelling correspondences in the English language and are able to decode written material they encounter. In addition to phonics, students also are taught spelling, grammar, and writing during the Skills Strand. A downloadable story "Kits Hats" with illustrations is provided for instruction. Find the rest of the EngageNY ELA resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-ela-archive .
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Reading
The Skills Strand teaches the mechanics of reading. Students are taught systematic and explicit phonics instruction as their primary tool for decoding written English. By the end of grade 2, students have learned all of the sound spelling correspondences in the English language and are able to decode written material they encounter. In addition to phonics, students also are taught spelling, grammar, and writing during the Skills Strand. A downloadable story "Kits Hats" with illustrations is provided for instruction. Find the rest of the EngageNY ELA resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-ela-archive .
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Reading
Created by NHPRC Teacher Participant/Creator Judith Jeremie for her AP World History course; Adaptable to other grades. This assignment asks students to make meaningful connections between the past and their family/neighborhood history by conducting an interview of / researching a relative, gathering and organizing evidence of a historical moment / theme that has impacted that relative, and presenting their findings through art (graphic novel/ comic strips) or writing (narrative/poem).
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
Students explore the idea of ńcrossing boundariesî through bilingual, spoken-word poetry, culminating in a poetry slam at school or in the community.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
In this lesson, designed for a heterogeneous group of students that includes English-language learners, students work together to plan a website based on their home knowledge. An introductory lesson outlines the structure and components of simple websites (home page, titles, headings, links). Students take home and complete a bilingual student and family interest survey, then work in groups of four or five to identify common themes among the responses. Each group makes a flow chart to think graphically about the contents of their planned website. Each student keeps a project notebook to record new ideas, summarize group work, and share the project with family members. The teacher can make the planned websites a reality using one of the online website-building platforms in the Resources list.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Resource suggestions to explore and consider as a way to support emergent bilingual students.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson
These materials are created to work as a course, combining activities to increase vocabulary, read, learn about Hispanic cultures and differentiate standard Spanish uses from the U.S. variants.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan, Reading, Unit of Study
This paper addresses the implications, for ELLs, of the new standard's requirement that students be able to read and understand complex, informationally dense texts. The authors discuss the types of supports that learners need in order to work with complex texts. They also provide a sample of what academic discourse involves, using an excerpt from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail. They demonstrate how English learners can be provided with strategies for accessing complex texts, such as closely examining one sentence at a time. The authors argue that instruction must go beyond vocabulary and should begin with an examination of our beliefs about language, literacy and learning.
Material Type: Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
The Spanish Language Immersion School is a public school with dedicated educators and committed parents who are creating an extraordinary experience for kids from K to Grade 5. Students arrive speaking English as their dominant language. They leave fluent in Spanish, but also filled with knowledge about various cultures, practiced in diversity, and possessing real skills that give them an educational and career advantage.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Please see article (in Spanish)
Material Type: Reading
Broad problem-based learning exercise focusing on the advantages of learning a new language.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
A general statistics course, which includes understanding data, measures of central tendency, measures of variation, binomial distributions, normal distributions, correlation and regression, probability and sampling distributions, Central Limit Theorem, confidence intervals, estimates of population parameters and hypothesis testing. Interpretation and data analysis are emphasized. PREREQUISITES: A grade of C or better in MAT 100 (Intermediate Algebra) or MAT 120 (Math Modeling for Liberal Arts) and placement above or successful completion of ENG 060 (Preparations for College Reading III). A student needs a thorough knowledge of Algebra, good reading skills and familiarity with the graphing calculator before entering this course.
Material Type: Module
This text document lists detailed learning objectives for introductory statistics courses. Learning objectives are brief, clear statements of what learners will be able to perform at the end of a course.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
These practice tests from MIT OpenCourseWare cover topics in the Introductory Probability and Statistics course. They were originally written by Professors Jeremy Orloff and Jonathan Bloom, and adapted by the team at OpenStax CreatorFest. The files include both assessments and solutions.
Material Type: Assessment
In this statistics project, students will begin by sampling a population to answer their own designed question. They will then use their sample to graph, find the mean and standard deviation, and illustrate their understanding of normal distribution. They will then manipulate their data to make it "normal" and, after finding new samples, analyze the associated z-score and percents of that new data.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
THis is an activity that can be used to introduce Linear Regression or the relationship between two numerical variables. Studetns will do an activity, make graphs, and answer questions about the relationship between hand span and the number of candies grabbed. Then they will be asked to do an exploration on their own.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will explore the overarching question, is the internet trustworthy?, while expanding their knowledge of statistics and comparing data sets. They will compare two data sets as well as determine the accuracy or bias of data representations shown on the internet. Students will then have the opportunity to apply their knowledge while creating their own visual representations for data they personally collected regarding the trustworthiness of the internet. The module concludes with a peer showcase and the post-assessment.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students write statistical questions that can be used to find information about a typical sixth grade student. Then, the class works together to informally plan how to find the typical arm span of a student in their class.Key ConceptsStatistical thinking, in large part, must deal with variability; statistical problem solving and decision making depend on understanding, explaining, and quantifying the variability in the data.“How tall is a sixth grader?” is a statistical question because all sixth graders are not the same height—there is variability.Goals and Learning ObjectivesUnderstand what a statistical question is.Realize there is variability in data and understand why.Describe informally the range, median, and mode of a set of data.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
