Video Description:  In this close-up video, Dr. Inbal Becker-Reshef, Program Director for NASA Harvest, describes her journey and how her travels as a child helped her choose a career in science over her passion for art. She shares how cameras on satellites provide data to help farmers and agricultural leaders grow more food and work toward food security worldwide.  Video Length:  2:21.NASA eClipsTM is a suite of online student-centered, standards-based resources that support instruction by increasing STEM literacy in formal and nonformal settings.  These free digital and downloadable resources inform and engage students through NASA-inspired, real-world connections.NASA eClips Ask SME: Close-up with a NASA Subject Matter Expert videos are professionally developed to capture a glimpse of NASA SME's personal interests and career journeys. Each can be used to spark student interest and broaden their ideas of the STEM workforce. Additional videos in this series can be found by searching GoOpenVA using "NASA eClips Ask SME".

Video Description:  In this close-up video, Dr. Hannah Kerner, Artificial Intelligence Lead at NASA Harvest, shares her experiences in writing code and developing machine learning algorithms that enable NASA satellites to monitor where food is being grown. She describes how her hobbies of hiking, scuba diving, and volunteering intersect with her work.  Video Length:  2:28.NASA eClipsTM is a suite of online student-centered, standards-based resources that support instruction by increasing STEM literacy in formal and nonformal settings.  These free digital and downloadable resources inform and engage students through NASA-inspired, real-world connections.NASA eClips Ask SME: Close-up with a NASA Subject Matter Expert videos are professionally developed to capture a glimpse of NASA SME's personal interests and career journeys. Each can be used to spark student interest and broaden their ideas of the STEM workforce. Additional videos in this series can be found by searching GoOpenVA using "NASA eClips Ask SME".

This resource provides a rubric written for middle school students to self-assess their narrative writing. Teachers may also use it for assessment. In this remix, the parts of a narrative essay are outlined.

Remixed from Clarity Innovations' "Persuasive Writing Rubric--High School" available here: https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/22756-persuasive-writing-rubric-high-school.

This resource provides eight multiple-choice questions which were modeled after question stems frequently appearing on the End of Course (EOC) Reading Standards of Learning (SOL) test. It is designed to be used with the poem "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop.

English Instructional Plan – Women’s Equality, Civil Rights, and the Super Hero: Using Paired Passages to engage student learning outcomes   Students will read paired passages about different aspects of women’s fight for equality or the Civil Rights Movement. These readings will provide background knowledge to students to connect these movements to two superheroes: Wonder Woman and Black Panther. This will allow students to analyze the intersection between historical movements and superheroes through various forms of writing. Primary Strand: 8.5/8.6, 9.5/9.6 - Reading Integrated Strand/s:  Writing/Communication/Multimodal Literacies

English Instructional Plan – Multi-day Lesson with Paired Passages “How do Social Pressures Impact our Decisions?” 

English Instructional Plan – Grades 9- 12: Paired Passages – The Threat of Conformity and Indifference and the Power of the Individual  

This resource provides a rubric written for high school students to self-assess their persuasive writing. Teachers may also use it for assessment. In this remix, the purpose of three different types of argument writing--arguments of fact, value, and policy--are described.

Remixed from Clarity Innovations' "Persuasive Writing Rubric--High School" available here: https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/22756-persuasive-writing-rubric-high-school.

Sequence Cardiovascular Exercises is a cross-curricular lesson designed by an Elementary Health and PE teacher to support Math and English instruction. Created By: Steve Ellison Powhatan County Public Schools 

This guided reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1842) focuses on expanding vocabulary, developing student understanding of imagery and other figurative language, strengthening reading comprehension, and strengthening writing skills.