Discover how to overcome obstacles to take civic action for a cause you care about, in this video from the PBS KIDS series ARTHUR. After watching the video, students explore the steps involved in creating a campaign for change. Included are support materials for teachers. [10:33]

Discover how resolving conflicts can lead to a better outcome for both sides from the PBS KIDS series ARTHUR. Included are support materials for teachers. [11:26]

As Alma learns about families, friendships, and communities, she discovers that sometimes challenges and conflicts arise. In those moments, Alma stops and "thinks through" the situation. Then, she knows what to do! Support critical thinking and problem-solving skills with this group discussion, video clips, and Alma's Way visual cards. Practice Alma's, "think through" strategy. This skill can be used throughout the school year in many different situations!

Follow individual trajectories of America's diverse community of veterans as they join the military, experience deployments, and then return and adjust to civilian life. Analyze oral histories that describe the camaraderie of the veteran community, the struggles of engaging in combat, and the experiences -- positive and negative -- of returning to civilian life. Use their personal stories to engage in a discussion of how American veterans are treated by civilians during their service and on returning home from various conflicts. The video resources in this collection are from the four-part documentary American Veteran. This Collection includes: Media Gallery (5), Video (5) for Grades 9-12.

Kids and youth can have a huge impact on their families' spending and eating habits. Programs like Appetite For Change's Youth Community Cooks Night program offers youth a chance to learn about nutritious cooking, and have some fun in the process. Spanish captions and transcript also available. [3:02]

Awesome Library's searchable database is full of resources in all subject areas. It also provides information to parents, students, teachers, principal, family, and community.

In this multi-day activity, students explore environments, ecosystems, energy flow and organism interactions by creating a scale model biodome, following the steps of the engineering design process. The Procedure section provides activity instructions for Biodomes unit, lessons 2-6, as students work through Parts 1-6 to develop their model biodome. Subjects include energy flow and food chains, basic needs of plants and animals, and the importance of decomposers. Students consider why a solid understanding of one's environment and the interdependence of an ecosystem can inform the choices we make and the way we engineer our own communities. This activity can be conducted as either a very structured or open-ended design.

Biology 2e is designed to cover the scope and sequence requirements of a typical two-semester biology course for science majors. The text provides comprehensive coverage of foundational research and core biology concepts through an evolutionary lens. Biology includes rich features that engage students in scientific inquiry, highlight careers in the biological sciences, and offer everyday applications. The book also includes various types of practice and homework questions that help students understand—and apply—key concepts. The 2nd edition has been revised to incorporate clearer, more current, and more dynamic explanations, while maintaining the same organization as the first edition. Art and illustrations have been substantially improved, and the textbook features additional assessments and related resources.

By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following:

Identify and describe the properties of life
Describe the levels of organization among living things
Recognize and interpret a phylogenetic tree
List examples of different subdisciplines in biology

See how a place-based high school curriculum project promotes STEM learning through local ethnography and conservation projects. This video segment showcases one of 11 CREST projects taking place in rural, coastal Maine communities. [5:40]

This pathway highlights some of the features and content types on LabXchange that allow researchers and those interested in research to connect and share their experiences.

Students explore the theme of community through the book Seedfolks, wrestling with how prejudice and racism impact the way people treat each other and the ways in which that can influence a community.

Examine specific reasons for investing in powerful family and community partnerships which are important to the school and students within. Educators will determine the foundational components needed in my school (or classroom) to build strong family and community partnerships.

Approximate time to complete this course is 4 hours. A micro-credential is available from Digital Promise upon completion.

Eliminate data silos and explore data planning tools while promoting diversity of perspectives and encouraging collaboration. Teachers will examine collaborative structures that foster a healthy culture around data, data collection and the presentation of data to stakeholders. Teachers will define what a collaborative data culture looks like in their classrooms and in their schools.

Approximate time to complete this course is 3 hours. A micro-credential is available from Digital Promise upon completion.

Provides an overview of biological communities.

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In this service-learning engineering project, students follow the steps of the engineering design process to design an assistive eating device for a client. More specifically, they design a prototype device to help a young girl who has a medical condition that restricts the motion of her joints. Her wish is to eat her favorite food, pizza, without getting her nose wet. Students learn about arthrogryposis and how it affects the human body as they act as engineers to find a solution to this open-ended design challenge and build a working prototype. This project works even better if you arrange for a client in your own community.

Students begin by reading Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax" as an example of how overdevelopment can cause long-lasting environmental destruction. Students discuss how to balance the needs of the environment with the needs of human industry. Student teams are asked to serve as natural resource engineers, city planning engineers and civil engineers with the task to replant the nearly destroyed forest and develop a sustainable community design that can co-exist with the re-established natural area.

The 12th grade learning experience consists of 7 mostly month-long units aligned to the Common Core State Standards, with available course material for teachers and students easily accessible online. Over the course of the year there is a steady progression in text complexity levels, sophistication of writing tasks, speaking and listening activities, and increased opportunities for independent and collaborative work. Rubrics and student models accompany many writing assignments.Throughout the 12th grade year, in addition to the Common Read texts that the whole class reads together, students each select an Independent Reading book and engage with peers in group Book Talks. Language study is embedded in every 12th grade unit as students use annotation to closely review aspects of each text. Teacher resources provide additional materials to support each unit.