Members of the Islamic Center of Washington, DC discuss the religious and spiritual significance of Ramadan and the celebration that concludes it, Eid al-Fitr, in this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly.
Material Type: Lecture
This unit has been developed to guide students and instructors in a close reading of Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address.” The activities and actions described below follow a carefully developed set of steps that assist students in increasing their familiarity and understanding of Lincoln’s speech through a series of text dependent tasks and questions that ultimately develop college and career ready skills identified in the Common Core State Standards.
Material Type: Lecture, Lesson Plan, Reading
Students examine what deepfakes are and consider the deeper civic and ethical implications of deepfake technology. In an age of easy image manipulation, this lesson fosters critical thinking skills that empower students to question how we can mitigate the impact of doctored media content. This lesson plan includes a slide deck and brainstorm sheet for classroom use.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
This site invites kids to learn about inventors and intellectual property -- patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. Kids can take a patent trivia quiz, read fun facts, and learn how to apply for a patent for their own inventions.
Material Type: Reading
This is the Senate's health care bill. The bill started off with text regarding an unrelated matter but the Senate is co-opted this bill as a vehicle for passage of their reform and changed the text in whole to the health care bill. They do this because the Constitution requires all revenue bills to start in the House, and their health reform plan involves revenue. So they have chosen to work off of a bill that started in the House, even if that bill is unrelated. Library of Congress » 3/23/2010. Title I - Quality, Affordable Health Care for All Americans Subtitle A - Immediate Improvements in Health Care Coverage for All Americans (Sec. 1001, as modified by Sec. 10101) ... House Republicans » This legislation seeks to address inadvertent tax inequities imposed on uniformed service members and other federal employees deployed abroad as a result of other recent home-related tax legislation. Under current ... House Democrats » No summary available.
Material Type: Primary Source, Reading
We will:Create a model (s)Demonstrate principles ( prevention, precautionary, polluter-pays, intergration, etc )Be apart of simulations ( http://www.edinformatics.com/il/il_earth.htm )Watch Videos/Listen to Audio (https://www.eh-resources.org/podcast/ )Create Mindmaps to help organize & remember information (https://coggle.it)Environmental JusticeWords To Know environment: everything in natureliving or nonliving-including plants, animals, rocks, and water.environmentalist: someone who works to preserve the environment.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This lesson on fingerprinting takes a unique approach to a standard topic in Forensic Science. While students will learn the basics of fingerprinting, how to lift a print and learn unique characteristics of fingerprints, they will become aware of the flaws of fingerprinting. By investigating the case of the Madrid Spain Bombing students will discover a match is not always accurate.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan
This lesson introduces the cell as the basic structural unit of life, and details modern cell theory.
Material Type: Interactive, Unit of Study
This is a 6 minute video lesson about memorizing the parts of the brain using your hands. It was created for a Psychology class and focuses on learning about where each major part of the brain is located. It's based off of the work found here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/coma/geography/photos.html.
Material Type: Lecture
This site is a searchable encyclopedia of thousands of photos, descriptions, sound recordings, and other information about individual animal species. Find out about amphibians, arthropods, birds, fishes, insects, mammals, mollusks, reptiles, and sharks. Explore special features on mammals, skulls, and frog calls. Students are invited to contribute.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration
Students use dice to demonstrate the randomness of the distribution of nonhomologous chromosomes due to independent assortment during meiosis.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Explainer Video about Consumption and Sustainability
Material Type: Lecture
This course samples the wide variety of bioengineering options for students who plan to major in one of the undergraduate Engineering degree programs. The beginning lectures describe the science basis for bioengineering with particular emphasis on molecular cell biology and systems biology.
Material Type: Full Course
Real Numbers
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Learn about graphing polynomials. The shape of the curve changes as the constants are adjusted. View the curves for the individual terms (e.g. y=bx ) to see how they add to generate the polynomial curve.
Material Type: Simulation
This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to: recognize and use common 2D representations of 3D objects and identify and use the appropriate formula for finding the circumference of a circle.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan
Here they learn Total Surface area, Lateral SUrface ARea and volume of Cube
Material Type: Lesson
Learn addition and subtraction.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Interactive, Reading
In this video from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad helps Ms. Fileshare realize that Hacker has been deceiving her as they take a look at the scale of a bar graph.
Material Type: Lecture
Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. In his talk, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think. (Filmed at TEDxNYED.)
Material Type: Lecture
