This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its potential use.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will add and subtract decimals.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will learn to use the distributive property to rewrite each sum as a product. Visual representations of the areas of rectangles and their respective measurements (length and width) will be used.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its potential use.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Supplementary angle, adjacent angle and linear pair
Material Type: Reading
In biology, evolution is the change in the characteristics of a species over several generations and relies on the process of natural selection.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
A break down of the solar system and what it the stars
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Student readings review the origins of the AK-47, the 10-year federal ban on assault weapons, President Obama's views on guns, and the NRA's political clout. Discussion questions and an inquiry-oriented plan for "constructive controversy" follow.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Reading
As part of Washington's Kip Tokuda Memorial Civil Liberties Public Education Program, which strives to educate the public regarding the history and the lessons of the World War II exclusion, removal, and detention of persons of Japanese ancestry, KSPS Public Television and Eastern Washington educators Starla Fey, Leslie Heffernan, and Morgen Larsen have produced Injustice at Home: the Japanese American experience of the World War II Era. This educational resource--five educational videos and an inquiry-based unit of study--will help students understand Executive Order 9066 and the resulting internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the failure of political leadership to protect constitutional rights, the military experience of Japanese-Americans during WWII, and examples of discrimination and racial prejudice the Japanese-American community faced before, during and after WWII. In addition, students will analyze the short and long term emotional effects on those who are incarcerated, identify the challenges that people living outside of the exclusion zone faced, examine how some Japanese Americans showed their loyalty during the period of incarceration, and learn about brave individuals who stood up for Japanese Americans during this time.
Material Type: Lesson, Unit of Study
This resource provides general rules of conversation, as well as several polite phrases for students to use when introducing new ideas or challenging existing ones. It also provides examples of inappropriate discussion etiquette and discusses when and how to leave a discussion that has become unproductive.
Material Type: Student Guide
This is a problem based learning activity based on the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This topic relates to Indiana standard: USG.4.9 Discuss specific foreign policy issues that impact local community and state interests. (Economics; Individuals, Society and Culture)
Material Type: Interactive, Lesson Plan
Students use Library of Congress primary sources to examine the forced acculturation of American Indians through government-run boarding schools.
Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan
There are several methods we can use to determine the meaning of unknown words in a text. In this presentation, students review the context clues methods, learn about roots words and affixes, and practice using roots and prefixes to determine the meaning of unknown words.
Material Type: Lesson
The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Students will understand the types of figurative language Students will be able to use close reading skills to locate information within a text Students will be able to identify figurative language within a set of reading passages.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
These lesson plans and activities were developed by Janine Darragh, Gina Petrie, and Stan Pichinevskiy and were previously located on the Reaching for English app. Created for K-12 English teachers in Nicaragua, the materials may be used and adapted for any country's specific context and needs.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Our age-appropriate classroom lessons and activities for grades K-12 aim to deepen your students' understanding of September 11 and develop their critical thinking skills. The guide, written by Morningside Center executive director Tom Roderick, also includes recommended books and other teaching ideas.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This lesson plan allows students to learn about state symbols.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In the spring of 1918, the United States was embroiled in World War I, fighting alongside the English, French, and Russians against the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. In total, 70 million men were at war on multiple fronts across Europe, Russia, the Middle East, and Northern Africa. The tide was finally turning for the Allies after a crushing offensive by German forces mere weeks earlier. Then, a fierce enemy intervenedan outbreak of influenza that would decimate entire regiments and towns, kill civilians and soldiers alike by the millions, and rapidly become a global pandemic. This disease weakened forces on both sides, changing not only the course of the war but also the economies and population stability of every affected nation. In the long term, this particular outbreak would inspire research on an unprecedented scale and lead to advances in science and medicine, forever altering our understanding of epidemiology. From the spring of 1918 to early 1919, no aspect of life remained untouched by the pandemic for Americans at home and on the front. This exhibition explores the pandemics impact on American life. This exhibition was created as part of the DPLAs Digital Curation Program by the following students as part of Dr. Joan E. Beaudoin's course "Metadata in Theory and Practice" in the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University: Bethany Campbell, Michelle John, Samantha Reid-Goldberg, Anne Sexton, and John Weimer.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Primary Source, Unit of Study
