A collection of activities and professional development resources to deepen teachers' understanding of Next Generation Science Standards. Site is meant to help teachers bring engineering alive for their students.
This article describes many strategies for meeting the needs of visual and kinesthetic students, including deaf students.
Detailed beginner's tutorial in creating online graphics. Requires access to a bitmap editor. Choose among topics, or work the entire 15 page tutorial in order.
The Bozeman Trail was a shortcut to the newly-discovered gold fields of Montana Territory. Cutting through the heart of Indian country, it provoked a clash of cultures that exploded into warfare, destruction, and tragedy. In the accompanying Lesson Plans for Grades 6-8 and 9-12 (found in Support Materials), students will learn it was a singular road that changed this part of the American West forever. [4:30]
Click on Denotation, Connotation, and Myth. A discourse in the use of "denotation" and "connotation" as they refer to semiotics and cultural myths.
This resource teaches researchers how to evaluate information that they find on the Internet for accuracy, authority, timeliness, and objectivity. Features include a checklist for evaluating websites, information on common misconceptions, an interactive tutorial, and a list of groups that alert the public to Internet fraud and bad information.
In this lesson, students examine the different ways candidates use social media, including Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter in their presidential campaigns. They will watch videos, read articles, and examine candidates' social media pages.
This site has the definition of "Infomercial," and includes explanations of the infomercial equivalent in print media and on the internet.
A third Canadian northern territory was created in 1999 when the Northwest Territories was divided, thus forming Nunavut. This article covers its history, symbols, demography, geography, and much more.
Learn about core health indicators in Rwanda in this World Health Organization country profile which includes demographic and current health information.
Communicate the important details of a project to the public by writing a press release in Google Docs. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes
(Nota: Esta es una traducción de un recurso educativo abierto creado por el Departamento de Educación del Estado de Nueva York (NYSED) como parte del proyecto "EngageNY" en 2013. Aunque el recurso real fue traducido por personas, la siguiente descripción se tradujo del inglés original usando Google Translate para ayudar a los usuarios potenciales a decidir si se adapta a sus necesidades y puede contener errores gramaticales o lingüísticos. La descripción original en inglés también se proporciona a continuación.)
En este módulo, los estudiantes reconectan y profundizan su comprensión de las estadísticas y los conceptos de probabilidad introducidos por primera vez en los grados 6, 7 y 8. Los estudiantes desarrollan un conjunto de herramientas para comprender e interpretar la variabilidad en los datos, y comienzan a tomar decisiones más informadas de los datos . Trabajan con distribuciones de datos de varias formas, centros y diferenciales. Los estudiantes se basan en su experiencia con datos cuantitativos bivariados del grado 8. Este módulo prepara el escenario para un trabajo más extenso con muestreo e inferencia en calificaciones posteriores.
Encuentre el resto de los recursos matemáticos de Engageny en https://archive.org/details/engageny-mathematics.
English Description:
In this module, students reconnect with and deepen their understanding of statistics and probability concepts first introduced in Grades 6, 7, and 8. Students develop a set of tools for understanding and interpreting variability in data, and begin to make more informed decisions from data. They work with data distributions of various shapes, centers, and spreads. Students build on their experience with bivariate quantitative data from Grade 8. This module sets the stage for more extensive work with sampling and inference in later grades.
Find the rest of the EngageNY Mathematics resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-mathematics.