This animated essay from "American Experience" explains the difference between alternating and direct electric current and offers in-depth explanations about the role played by a battery, light bulb, wire, and generator. [2:27]
Use the strategies of making a table and looking for a pattern to solve problems.
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In this lesson, students learn how to subtract rational numbers. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt practice problems.
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Students will learn the difference between books that tell stories and books that give information. Multiple videos of different level reading groups engaged in this lesson, along with a printable activity sheet are included.
Links to 29 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard RL.4.6: Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first and third person narrations.
This sample chapter from Hurst's book Picturing Math is an excellent resource for using picture books and activities for learning computation.
This resource will compare different regions of the world by climate, geography, animal life, and culture. The site focuses on the differences within the United States regions.
Although Disney's version of Cinderella is most popular in America, hundreds of versions exist across many cultures. This resource provides lessons, which examine the similarities and differences in literary elements among many versions of this fairy tale.
Students watch a video on finding the difference between two time intervals.
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The video describes how to find the difference of two numbers with digits in the thousands place. The video is followed by a series of practice questions to assess student comprehension of the concept.
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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.
Who decides who among us is civilized? What rules should govern immigration into the United States? Whom should we let in? Keep out? What should we do about political refugees or children without papers? What if they would be a drain on our economy?
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Students read William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest and write a short argument about who in the play is truly civilized.
Students participate in a mock trial in which they argue for or against granting asylum to a teenage refugee, and then they write arguments in favor of granting asylum to one refugee and against granting it to another.
Students read an Independent Reading text and write an informational essay about a global issue and how that relates to their book.
GUIDING QUESTIONS
These questions are a guide to stimulate thinking, discussion, and writing on the themes and ideas in the unit. For complete and thoughtful answers and for meaningful discussions, students must use evidence based on careful reading of the texts.
What role do national identity, custom, religion, and other locally held beliefs play in a world increasingly characterized by globalization?
How does Shakespeare’s view of human rights compare with that in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Who is civilized? Who decides what civilization is or how it’s defined?
How do we behave toward and acknowledge those whose culture is different from our own?
What are the conventions for citing quotations from a play? You will guide students through the rules, and they’ll have one more chance to proofread their essays. Students will reflect on the Guiding Questions. Then they will select their Independent Reading books.
Kids have many ideas about how and why things fall based on their daily life experiences. However, many of these ideas are misconstrued. Learn from this video how to clear up these misunderstandings about gravity and help your students understand concepts of mass, weight, inertia, and air resistance. [9:51]
Use this site to figure out if women really do live longer than men. A math challenge taken from today's health journals that explores data collection, data analysis, patterns, and graphing skills. Learn how mastering these skills can be useful in real life situations in this one page activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series.
Practice subtracting ten from the target number and finding that difference on the hundreds chart in the shortest possible time. Can you discover a pattern?
At this site from Lizard Point Consulting, you can practice several different levels of difficulty of subtraction problems that use 1-digit numbers all the way up to 3-digit number subtraction problems that require regrouping. You can also choose single digit subtraction with negative numbers. When you are finished you can print your results!
This website explains and defines basic subtraction. There are practice problems at the very end of this lesson.
The online virtual self-checking resource has students practice subtracting two digit numbers with borrowing. Solutions are included.
Learners subtract numbers up to eight. If the correct answer is chosen, the face smiles.