This site is provided for by the American Forum for Global Education. Using the concept of belonging to groups, children come to understand the concept of economics as it applies to "People Systems", or interdependence and cooperation.
Students will be able to compare groups of objects to decide if they are equal with this lesson. Included are pictures and videos of the lesson in action, worksheets, and a SMART Board resource.
In this lesson, students will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the lesson and allow the children to "wrangle" with the content.
Can your students make bundles of tens? This lesson allows students to visualize adding tens to make one hundred.
Links to 175 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.3.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Links to 57 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.4.1b: Follow agreed upon rules for discussion and carry out assigned roles.
After a wild day of mishaps leaves Clifford wishing he weren't so big, Emily Elizabeth reads Clifford Gulliver's Travels as he drifts off to sleep. He dreams he is a small dog, and is at first excited to be able to do all the things he couldn't before, until Emily Elizabeth needs help. When he wakes up, he is glad to be back to his big, regular size. Join Clifford and explore the fun of comparing all sorts of sizes and colors. In this lesson, students will sort objects into groups by size and color. They will learn how to identify the special attributes of objects and how they can be similar (alike) and what makes them unique (different). This includes five different resources.
This review of what makes up human blood is easy to read and understand. There are guides to pronunciation and glossary links as well as a self quiz to check your understanding.
Resource includes helpful advice and information about working together and writing in groups (collaborative writing). Provides nodes on such topics as purpose, ideas, decision-making, and more.
Site provides some different examples of categorical data and discusses the use of two-way tables.
This site describes different kinds of conflict that occur in groups, and then it provides information on managing those conflicts. SL.11-12.1b Group Rules, SL.11-12.1d Resolve/Synthesize
Acting as a subtopic of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook's section on Atoms and the Periodic Table, this site focuses specifically on the Periodic Table of Elements with information on the table's organization methods along with other related topics.
A tutorial that describes the origin of the periodic law.
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A brief overview of how to join a group and a comparison of how an Open Space group compares to listserv.
This article highlights the five essential components of cooperative learning, provides a quick overview of the research behind the strategy, describes three of the most common types, and offers ideas on how to get started using cooperative learning at the elementary level.
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.
Understand the main ideas behind mineral formation with this study guide.
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For this learning module, students must solve word problems using division where there is a remainder. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem [1:56] and a set of practice questions.
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The 11th 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 11th 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. Students move from learning the class rituals and routines and genre features of argument writing in Unit 11.1 to learning about narrative and informational genres in Unit 11.2: The American Short Story. Teacher resources provide additional materials to support each unit.
In this unit, students will explore great works of American literature and consider how writers reflect the time period in which they write. They will write two literary analysis papers and also work in groups to research and develop anthologies of excellent American stories.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Students read and analyze stories from several 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century American authors. After researching a time period, they select stories from that period to create an anthology. The readings enhance their understanding of the short story, increase their exposure to well-known American authors, and allow them to examine the influence of social, cultural, and political context.
Students examine elements of short stories and have an opportunity for close reading of several American short stories. During these close readings, they examine the ways that short story writers attempt to explore the greater truths of the American experience through their literature.
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.
If you were to write a short story about this decade, what issues might you focus on?
What defines a short story? Just length?
To what extent do these stories reflect the era or decade in which they were written?
To what extent are the themes they address universal?
CLASSROOM FILMS
History.com has short videos on the Vietnam War (“Vietnam” and “A Soldier's Story”).