Introduction:The atmosphere consists of many different layers that each have unique characteristics. Other things in day to day life also consist of layers that have unique characteristics, like beds, burritos, and sandwiches. Task: Draw a picture to compare the layers of Earth’s atmosphere to something else that has layers. For example, you could draw a cheeseburger and write “The lettuce on the cheeseburger is like the Mesosphere, because they are both the coldest layers.”

This is a 6-day unit focusing on Components of Fitness and Skill Related Components.  Students will rotate through each station (1 per class block).  Days 4-6 students will be involved in creation an exercise video using the information.

Students evaluate functions to make a connection to compositions of functions.  Students then practice finding compositions of functions.  Students end the activity evaluating compositions of functions both algebraically and graphically with a challenge that includes multiple compositions.

To review types of conflict in fiction text, students will create a storyboard highlighting each of the types of conflict. Students will develop a short story involving a form of literary conflict. Students will write and illustrate the story within the designated boxes of the storyboard. Students will create a total of six storyboards for each of the types of conflict - Individual vs. Individual, Individual vs. Self, Individual vs. Nature, Individual vs. Supernatural, Individual vs. Technology, and Individual vs. Society.

The teacher will review the six types of conflict found in literature (individual vs. individual, individual vs. technology, individual vs. nature, individual vs. self, individual vs. supernatural, and individual vs. society). Students will create conflict in the news presentations identifying the six types of conflict. Students will use current newspapers and credible online news sources to identify and correctly label current examples of conflict today.

Students compare and make connections between the novel A Christmas Carol and the Victorian Times through a jigsaw activity which guides them through a virtual tour of the Charles Dickens museum in London. 

 This is a fun review activity to support connotation and denotation in the classroom. I use this while formally teaching connotation and denotation, but also use it sporadically throughout the school year as a fun way to review! 

This inquiry focuses on the ways in which African Americans have been able to construct their own freedom in the face of injustice, violence, and white backlash following emancipation and in the era of Reconstruction and beyond. The questions, tasks, and sources in this inquiry ask students to examine the political, social, and economic successes African Americans were able to create for themselves, as well as the social, political, and institutional barriers that African Americans had to overcome in order to achieve these successes.   

Students will learn the five most common types of context clues and they will be able to figure out the meaning of the unknown word by using one of the five types on the attached ppt. slide.

In this PowerPoint presentation students will learn that contraction is a shortened form of two words. They will learn some common contraction rules, look at some commonly used contractions and then get to practice.

 This inquiry provides students with an opportunity to examine nine of China’s most impactful innovations and their contributions to the modern world. These innovations and inventions fall into three categories: 1) Communication innovations including, written language, paper, and printing; 2) Military innovations including the Great Wall of China, gunpowder, and fireworks, and; 3) Economic innovations including, common currency, silk, and the Silk Road.  The Communication innovations were the widest ranging chronologically with written language appearing in the Shang Dynasty (1,600-1,046 BCE) and paper-making not happening until 100 BCE in the Wu Dynasty and then printing in the Tang Dynasty in the 7th and 8th centurie CE. Military innovations unfolded first with early fireworks and the parts of the Great Wall of China in Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE). Gunpowder was developed in the Tang dynasty (9th century) and began to be used in rockets in 13th century. but was mostly built in Ming (14th – 17th CE). Economic innovations go all the way back to 3,000 BCE with the development of silk. Three thousand years late the Silk Road begins to open up and common currency appears with the Qin in 3rd century BCE.

Students will be able to prepare answers to the conversation starters and then talk to their partners

In this activity, students will discover how to determine the distance between two points on the same horizontal or vertical line. 

This resource uses a song to talk about commands and toxic relationships. There is also a portion used to review descriptions of people.

Using given congruent triangle statements, students will create congruent triangles and find the lengths of all the sides.

It is suggested that this activity be used once students have a deep understanding of parallel and perpendicular lines. Students will be given the equation of a line in various forms and based on that information, must drag points on a graph to create parallel and perpendicular lines. Initially students will not be shown the graph of the original line, but can obtain that hint if necessary. Once students submit their solutions on the graph, they can reveal the answer, but will no longer be able to adjust their work. This could be used as an assessment, especially during distance learning.

Create Rhyming Words While Using Locomotor Skills in Physical Education is a cross-curricular lesson designed by an Elementary Health and PE teacher to support Language Arts instruction. Created By: Cullen Powhatan County Public Schools

Create your own Physical Education Game is a cross-curricular lesson designed by an Elementary Health and PE teacher to support Language Arts instruction. Created By: Anthony (Cullen) Freund and Steve Ellison of Powhatan County Public Schools.

In this Desmos activity, students will use their knowledge of parallelograms to correctly find the location of a 4th vertex.