Students use the method of their choice to combine two sentences based on an excerpt from 1984 by George Orwell. Students practice using various types of phrases and clauses to convey meaning and add variety to combined sentences.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
This lesson concentrates on Anne Frank as a writer. After a look at Anne Frank the adolescent, and a consideration of how the experiences of growing up shaped her composition of the Diary, students explore some of the writing techniques Anne invented for herself and practice those techniques with material drawn from their own lives.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials * Whiteboard or chart paper and markers * Empty number line or magnetic cubes lined up on the whiteboard, alternating colors every 5 (see sol...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: A penny is about $\frac{1}{16}$ of an inch thick. In 2011 there were approximately 5 billion pennies minted. If all of these pennies were placed in a s...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this interactive activity adapted from Annenberg Learner's Teaching Math Grades 6–8, explore some of the ways graphs can represent mathematical data contained in a story.
Material Type: Interactive
Students use the method of their choice to combine two sentences based on an excerpt from the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Students practice using various types of phrases and clauses to convey meaning and add variety to combined sentences.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
The author shows that polar bears are not only appealing images in our culture but also an engaging topic for children in grades k-5. Teachers can combine several of the concepts of the life sciences with reading and writing skills in lessons about polar bears. The author provides links to online lesson plans in both science and literacy as well as titles of children������s books. This article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This article highlights science lessons and activities that can help elementary students gain an understanding of the tools and technology involved in polar research. Suggestions for literacy integration are provided, and activities are aligned to national standards.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students search an online version of Shakespeare's Macbeth for clues to the motives behind Macbeth's precipitous descent into evil.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The students will be reviewing prepositions in Spanish and will learn important places to visit in the Latino countries. Students will explore 5 Latino countries they would like to visit and explore places to visit in these countries. Students will learn about the most popular tv/movie cartoon characters in the Latino world. Students will create and present a Google slide with their finds about the countries they found interesting. Students will choose a character and place it in the countries they found interesting while stating where their character is at using the proper prepositions.
Material Type: Lesson
This task provides a simple but interesting and realistic context in which students are led to set up a rational equation (and a rational inequality) in one variable, and then solve that equation/inequality for an unknown variable.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The purpose of the task is to get students to reflect on the definition of decimals as fractions (or sums of fractions), at a time when they are seeing them primarily as an extension of the base-ten number system and may have lost contact with the basic fraction meaning. Students also have their understanding of equivalent fractions and factors reinforced.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Use the coloring page created by the Art Director and Designer at Virgin Hyperloop to color the Hyperloop XP-1 vehicle. Then, imagine you are an art director for a transportation technology company and draw a technology of the future!
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students select what they believe to be the most important word in a text that they have read and justify their choice using examples from the text.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
This 2-minute video lesson explains how to subtract complex numbers. Khan Academy learning modules include a Community space where users can ask questions and seek help from community members. Educators should consult with their Technology administrators to determine the use of Khan Academy learning modules in their classroom. Please review materials from external sites before sharing with students.
Material Type: Lecture
The Maya of Mesoamerica are renowned for their precise calendars and their knowledge of astronomy. Through systematic observations conducted over thousands of years, Maya skywatchers developed complex and accurate calendars that continue to mark agricultural and ceremonial cycles today. This lesson is an exploration of the Maya Calendar system and its intricate cycles. Hear the voices of contemporary Maya people as they weave their past and present together, and share with us their living traditions of Maya time.
Material Type: Lesson, Reading
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders an overview of lines, curves, vertices, and sides of 2d shapes.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture
This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
This problem helps students practice adding three numbers whose sum are 20 or less.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students explore the connotations of the colors associated with the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
