Math, Grade 6, Ratios, Tape Diagrams

Students use tape diagrams to model relationships and solve problems about types of DVDs.Key ConceptsTape diagrams are useful for visualizing ratio relationships between two (or more) quantities that have the same units. They can be used to highlight the multiplicative relationship between the quantities.Goals and Learning ObjectivesUnderstand tape diagrams as a way to visually compare two or more quantities.Use tape diagrams to solve ratio problems.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Social Issues Blog

This lesson was created by Courtney Baker as part of the Nebraska ESUCC Special Project Digital Age Skills. Students will explore social issues that plague our society and the world to find an issue they are passionate about or are interested in learning more about. Through a process of questioning, students will develop research questions that they will seek the answers to by conducting research of a variety of sources both in print and digital. Students will create a blog site to share their research findings and write 8 blog posts, each focusing on answering a different question or aspect of their social issue, using evidence from credible sources. Their blogs will be published and shared with an authentic audience.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson

Authors: Molly Aschoff, Amy Coufal

Career Gates: Soft Skills

Career Gates: Soft Skills highlights the skills employees need to be successful. These include communication, eye-contact, listening, teamwork, positive attitude, proper handshake, professional appearance and respect. Soft skills are the abilities to get along with others, resolve conflict and work together towards a common goal. These skills can be a strong indicator in why you get a job or why you don't get a job. A desire to learn and an ability to learn, you can advance. Many companies will hire people that have soft skills over someone with more technical skills because technical skills can be taught more easily.

Material Type: Lecture

Interviewing Skills

How to be prepared for a job interview.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Jessica Hazelton

Construct-a-Word

Using Construct-a-Word, students learn letter-sound correspondence by combining a beginning letter or blend to a word ending to create words.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive

Word Family Sort

This online activity helps students recognize word patterns by having them sort a series of words into short-vowel word families.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive

Building Sight Words

Kindergarten students use various materials to build their classroom sight words. This activity integrates STEM & ELA.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Cara Bates, Dana Daisley

End Punctuation Grammar Lesson

The attached lesson plan is designed for 1st grade English Language Arts students. Students will identify what end punctuation belongs at the end of sentences with proficiency. This lesson plan addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 1.1.1.bIt is expected that this lesson plan will take approximately 30 minutes to complete.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Isaac Simpson

Comprehension Activities

FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Comprehension Activities, a page of activities to address important comprehension skills and strategies.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Holt Laurence et al

Latin and Greek Roots

In this seminar, you will be introduced to common Greek and Latin root words and their meanings. You will gain a basic understanding how knowing etymology (a word’s origin) helps  a reader pronounce multisyllabic words and define unknown words that are found in more complex texts. You will be exposed to common Greek and Latin roots, common prefixes and suffixes, and have opportunities to practice breaking down multisyllabic words and defining them based on the meanings of each part of the word. You will compare parts of new words to words you already know to help decode and define the new words. You will classify the parts of a multisyllabic word into prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Knowing a word’s origin is helpful in defining unknown, multisyllabic words. After this seminar, you should have a solid introduction and foundation in word origins.StandardsCC.1.1.3.D/ 1.1.4.DKnow and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. • Decode words with common Latin suffixes. • Decode multisyllable words.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Tracy Rains

How to find the Main Idea?

An English Language Resource

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Author: Jason Jarvis

Remote Learning Plan: Figurative Language 7th Grade

This Remote Learning Plan was created by Melissa Omar in collaboration with Eileen Barks and Caryn Ziettlow as part of the 2020 ESU-NDE Remote Learning Plan Project. Educators worked with coaches to create Remote Learning Plans as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.The attached Remote Learning Plan is designed for 7th grade ELA students. Students will anlayze a line from a poem both figuratively and literally. This Remote Learning Plan addresses the following NDE Standard: LA 7.1.6.c Analyze the author's use of literary devices (e.g., simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, oxymoron, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, analogy, tone, mood). It is expected that this Remote Learning Plan will take students 30 minutes to complete. Here is the direct link to the Google Doc:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15S4kjGRMbuZpD7FpJFCOkgMZDcjfBipT2Lp397W5O70/edit?usp=sharing

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Melissa Omar

#1: Why are Flamingos Pink?

In this Wonder of the DayR, we learn about why flamingos are pink. Students have the opportunity to explore the Wonder either as a class or individually. With suggestions for different age groups, Wonder #1 has an activity to engage students with drawing, writing description, or both. 

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan, Reading

Author: Julie Tastad

Project-Based Learning Teaching Module

Learn how to increase engagement and retention in your classroom. Edutopia's professional development PBL teaching module is designed for either a two- to three-hour class or session or a one- to two-day workshop, and is divided into two parts.Part one, Guided Process, designed to give participants a brief introduction to PBL, answers the questions "What is PBL about?" "Why is PBL important?" and "How does PBL work?" The Guided Process also includes the Teaching About PBL section as well as a PowerPoint presentation (including presenter notes), which can be shown directly from the Web site or can be downloaded for use as a stand-alone slide show.Part two, Group Participation, assigns readings and activities for experiential PBL. Ideally, the tasks will be accomplished using group collaboration and with the use of technology.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lecture, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Sara Armstrong and Marian Shaffner

A Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for "The Tell-Tale Heart"

What's that sound? Students participate in a Directed Listening-Thinking Activity (DLTA) using "The Tell-Tale Heart," make predictions, and respond in the form of an acrostic poem or comic strip.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Argumentative Writing Overview

This video goes over the basics of a 5-paragraph argumentative paper, including the rebuttal. There are examples for each paragraph (introduction + thesis, body paragraphs, rebuttal paragraph, and conclusion).

Material Type: Lecture

Author: Jenna Ellis

"The Most Dangerous Game" Argumentative Essay

This unit was designed to give freshmen a small writing task that is similar to the ACT writing. "The Most Dangerous Game" generates great conversation of the ideas of morals and ethics, and this writing task allows students the opportunity to explore their own morals and ethics.OBJECTIVES: The learner will...identify the main points of an argument and connect arguments to supportive materialargue a chosen side using supportive detailsconstruct personal beliefs about morals and ethicswrite and edit a short argumentative essay collaborate with peers

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Reading

Author: Raeanna Carlson

Accessing Complex Text Through Structured Conversations

In this lesson students use a structured format (an adaptation of Think-Pair-Share) to discuss and deconstruct complex text. The new core standards emphasize the importance of developing students' speaking and listening skills as well as helping them access complex text through reading, re-reading, re-thinking, and re-examining.The purpose of this lesson is to get the students to focus and stay on topic while they talk. As a result, students are required to think more extensively about a topic by repeatedly reading and discussing with others.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Literary Theories

The PDF is literary criticism in English Literature. Various theories are well explained with appropriate examples of British Literature.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Author: unknown

Macbeth and Mental Illness

This is a lesson plan which requires students to use part of the DSM-5 (specifically the section on Narcissistic Personality Disorder) to fill out a Psychological Assessment Diagnostic Report on Macbeth as having NPD using textual evidence.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Rebecca Byrd