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PBS KIDS Learning to Code with ScratchJr from KSPS PBS

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The lessons in this curriculum unit will help students learn the foundations of coding using the free PBS KIDS ScratchJr app. With PBS KIDS Scratch Jr, students can create their own interactive stories and games featuring their favorite characters from Wild Kratts, Nature Cat, WordGirl and Peg + Cat!. By snapping together colorful programming blocks, students make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, kids learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively. These lessons help students explore coding/programming vocabulary and offer non-device activities around coding/programming concepts.

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Unit of Study

Author: Bukola Breczinski

ANTH 106 American Mosaic

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In this class, we will explore America's diversity through questions of immigration, race, gender/sexuality and class--some of the major ways our culture is organized. It is comprised of 9 lessons based on online resources, plus 2 auto-ethnography assignments. This class was originally taught by Huma Mohibullah at Renton Technical College. 

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

Authors: Di Zhang, Youth High School Completion Renton Techincal College

ANTH 234 Religion and Culture

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Religion is a significant aspect of human cultures everywhere. In these lessons, we explore questions such as: What are the main elements of religion? Why is believing in a higher power important to human beings across cultures? How is religion related to our social orders? How is religion related to the politics of today's world?This resource is comprised of 7 lessons based on online modules, plus a final presentation assignment. Each lesson includes a discussion or written assignment. This class was originally taught by Huma Mohibullah at Renton Technical College. 

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

Authors: Di Zhang, Youth High School Completion Renton Techincal College

Healthy Relationships - Helping a Friend

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Help a friend in an unhealthy relationship: We all play a critical role in supporting our friends to be in healthy relationships. To effectively help our friends, we need to recognize when they are experiencing or engaging in unhealthy behaviors. We then need to have the courage to have the conversation and the knowledge of how to safely intervene as a bystander.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Libby Gutschenritter, Barbara Soots

Healthy Relationships - Navigating Endings of Relationships

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Navigate endings: Whether in a defined relationship, situationship, hook-up, or “a thing” — navigating endings can be difficult, and handling rejection is always tough. Understanding when and how to end a relationship requires thoughtful decision-making under stressful circumstances, even more so when the relationship might be dangerous and there is a need for safety planning.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Libby Gutschenritter, Barbara Soots

Connected

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This unit is designed to build inquiry about and interest in the themes and topics woven throughout Educurious’s multi-unit Washington State History course. To start off, students discover and share how they are connected to their classmates by participating in a “Web of Connectedness” activity. Throughout the unit, students engage in mapping, data visualization, and cost-benefit analyses in order to unpack the theme of connectedness and answer the unit driving question: How are people in Washington connected to each other and the rest of the world? As students learn about resources, economies, innovations, people, and places in Washington, they draft a series of six interactive community boards that educate others about the ways in which people are connected. For the culminating product of this unit, student teams finalize one of their six draft community boards to help students in their school make connections between themselves, Washington, and the world.

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Author: Educurious .

Resettling In Washington

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Students begin this unit by exploring the themes of humanity and community as they discuss  the many factors that influence the development of personal identities. They unpack together how we show versus hide different parts of ourselves, and how our identities can be both fixed and ever-changing. Then, students listen to oral histories by Vietnamese Americans in Washington to learn how displacement and resettlement have impacted them personally and shaped their outlook on helping others. Using evidence from these firsthand accounts, students answer the question: What can the experiences of displaced people teach us about community, resilience, and humanity? Throughout this unit, students work in teams to create a podcast where they reflect on their collective responsibility to stand in solidarity with displaced people.

Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan, Module, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study

Author: Educurious .

WHAT ARE SOME TYPES OF GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD TODAY?

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There are over 260 countries and territories across the world, each with its own type of government.  A government is a group of people who officially and legally control a country or territory and make all the decisions about its taxes, laws, public services, and more.  The word ‘govern’ comes from the Greek word kybernan which means “to control the direction of something.”  From communist China with the largest population in the world to Vatican City with the smallest,  each nation is uniquely directed or ruled by one person, a few people, or many.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson

Authors: Benjamin Troutman, Washington OSPI OER Project, Barbara Soots

Unlocking Literacy for Students with Disabilities: Module 2 of 4 - Alphabet & Phonological Awareness

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This module focuses on best practices for instruction on alphabet knowledge and phonological awareness.  Explicit Instruction and the Cycle Approach to teaching letters and sounds are highlighted.  Instructional strategies and tools to extend literacy instruction to students with complex communication needs and physical disabilities are discussed.  English Language Art Common Core Standards are provided, along with research on instructional strategies to address the standards. 

Material Type: Module

Authors: SETC CWU, Sarah Kinsella, Brenda Del Monte

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