Measures of Central Tendency
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson will be a fun way for students to be create and use the collected data to find the measures of central tendency.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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Shakespeare's Othello and the Power of Language
(View Complete Item Description)By means of group performances, writing exercises, and online search activities, students learn about the sometimes dangerous and destructive powers of language, particularly when wielded by such an eloquent and unscrupulous character as Shakespeare's Iago.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
What's the difference between primary and secondary sources?
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson guides students to learn how to differentiate between primary and secondary sources. The lesson defines primary and secondary sources for students and then gives them the opportunity to look at examples of each and determine which category each falls into. At the end, students get to define what a primary and a secondary source are in their own words.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan
Complex Number Systems
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson reviews the Real number system, introduces imaginary numbers and build to complex number system and operations with complex numbers.
Material Type: Interactive
English 2B Research Paper
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson introduces students to picking a topic, research paper expectations in MLA, choosing credible sources, drafting a thesis statement and outline, and transitions in the body of the paper.
Material Type: Lecture Notes
History Lesson: Introduction (Thinking like a historian)
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson serves as an introduction/review looking at primary/secondary sources; historical perspective/scale; and evaluating sources.
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Graphing Linear Equations
(View Complete Item Description)This is an introduction about graphing linear equations in slope intercept form.
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Investigating VOLUME
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson will take students through an investigation on VOLUME.
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Resources for Teaching Online
(View Complete Item Description)Use this collection of tools to facilitate efficient, effective use of technology in the classroom. After completing this lesson, you will be able to: Effectively host a virtual conference or class Navigate Google Classroom Access instructional content online Utilize technology resources to facilitate and enhance instruction
Material Type: Unit of Study
Slope-Intercept Form
(View Complete Item Description)This seminar will help you to identify a linear equation written in slope-intercept form. It will also help you to write and graph slope-intercept equations when you are given different pieces of information. You will be able to make connections between algebraic equations written in slope-intercept form and the real-life situations that they represent. StandardsCC.2.2.HS.D.10 Represent, solve, and interpret equations/inequalities and systems of equations/inequalities algebraically and graphically.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Analog vs. Digital Waves
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson follows the NGSS standards for reviewing analog and digital waves. Students will be able to review the differences and similarities of analog and digital waves. Students will also be able to review how signals sent as analog or digital waves are used.
Material Type: Lesson, Reading
Understanding Geological Time
(View Complete Item Description)This leson in intended as an inroduction to the following standard:MS–LS4–1Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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Working As A Meteorologist
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson will help students understand how to work as a forensic meterologist. Students will watch a short video of an area experiencing increased weather and storms. Through the use of prompts, students will be able to create a model of what they think is happening and then use that pre-model in other lessons to figure out how water and heat from the sun increase stroms.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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Community Building
(View Complete Item Description)Community Building is one of a series of units created to teach the Iowa Teaching Standards using Jim Knight's High Impact Instruction.
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Newell-Fonda Technology Resources
(View Complete Item Description)Students will complete this Softchalk lesson to learn to use this collection of tools to facilitate efficient, effective use of technology in the classroom. After completing this lesson, you will be able to:Find resources on the Newell-Fonda websiteUse your MacBook to access online resourcesNavigate Google ToolsUnderstand Infinite CampusSelect applications in Self-ServiceUtilize online and staff resources
Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment
Introduction to Rhetorical Analysis
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn the terms used for rhetorical analysis and begin using those terms in annotation practice. These foundational skills will lead to a paper in which students write their own rhetorical analysis of a selected text.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
How to Pick a Topic for the Compare/Contrast Essay
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson guides students through topic selection for the compare/contrast essay, which is part of the Composition I dual-credit class for high school students (usually 11-12).
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
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Argument in Political Cartoons
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson involves students exploring political cartoons and analyzing the argument being made. Students will work in groups to build skills, then they will get an assignment to practice the skill on their own.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
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Analysis of Text Craft and Structure
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson explores author's craft and structure through articles that directly affect students.
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Topic Selection & Expansion for Argument Papers
(View Complete Item Description)When students are assigned an argument paper of 7-9 pages for Composition II, they often struggle to gather enough research material to fill the required pages. This lesson is intended to help them expand their topics in order to write a good research question as well as to gather the appropriate amount of information.
Material Type: Activity/Lab