A digital scrum board that you can use in any content area! This is a project management resource.

A digital scrum board that you can use in any content area! This is a project management resource.

In creating collaboration events for learners to work together, this process provides for the learners to follow. This process also helps learners set goals while creating learner agency.

A digital scrum board that you can use in any content area! This is a project management resource.

In creating collaboration events for learners to work together, this process provides for the learners to follow. This process also helps learners set goals while creating learner agency.

Students will design ceramic forms based on specific Elements of Art and Principles of Design presented. The students may print out the handout and use colored pencils to create their design, they can create them digitally or they can use this handout as a guide to recreate ceramic forms in their sketchbooks. 

In this science-based unit, students explore the world of energy. In the first half of the unit students learn what energy is, the different ways that energy is transferred from place to place, and the ways energy can be converted from one type to another. In the second half of the unit students explore the pros and cons of different types of renewable and nonrenewable energy. After learning about the different types of energy, students will grapple with what the world's energy future will look like if more renewable solutions aren't found, particularly in their communities. Through a combination of reading and research, it is our hope that students begin to build a deeper understanding of energy and its influence on our lives.

This unit builds on to the informational reading skills and strategies developed in previous units. At this point in the year we assume that students are able to actively read and annotate informational texts in order to build understanding of a topic. Therefore, the focus of this unit is on refining students' ability to use different strategies to comprehend denser scientific texts. In particular, students will continue working on determining the main idea, summarizing key details, explaining cause and effect, using text features to improve understanding, and explaining how an author uses text features to elaborate on key concepts and ideas.

The is an extension activity or assessment after a lesson on Enlightenment philosophers. Students are given scenarios from history and present day. Students then respond to the scenario with how an Enlightenment philosopher would respond. The historical scenarios are based around World History II situations.

This resource can be used to introduce the U.S. and international environmental laws and regulations.  It also includes a youtube video about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.  This will help students understand that the regulations do not always prevent environmental "disasters".

In the included11.5 minute video, Paul Andersen explains how enzymes are used to break down substrates. There are also links to two guided notes worksheets and a full transcript.

Transcript added from YouTube subtitles. You can use this to write your own worksheet or quiz.

This task asks students to use inverse operations to solve the equations for the unknown variable, or for the designated variable if there is more than one. Two of the equations are of physical significance and are examples of Ohm's Law and Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation.

This resource provides a warm-up, concept development, practice and alternate assessment for Equations of a Circle.

In this Illustrative Math resource, students must transform expressions using the distributive, commutative and associative properties to decide which expressions are equivalent. The Virginia Department of Education extension activity titled, "Translate and Evaluate Expressions" directs students to represent verbal quantitative situations algebraically using a matching activity, graphic organizer, and teacher lesson plan.

How to use this activity:Print the ready form and provide students the link or the site ESTAR + Prepositions.  This site has every word plus interactive games for students to practice

This activity can be used before teaching the unit on exploration to allow students to obtain some background knowledge, or it can be used as a review after the unit is taught. This activity uses a summarization technique to simplify events surrounding European explorers coming to North America.

Students will analyze the Pears' Soap advertisement to identify which motivation for European imperialism is evidenced in the ad.
*Remixed to add essay. Students write an essay based on the ad and Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden".

Students will find, evaluate, and select credible sources to create a research product.

In this unit students explore immigration by reading a series of narrative nonfiction and fiction texts that highlight the experiences of early and recent immigrants. In the first part of the unit students are pushed to notice and think about the different reasons people choose to leave their homes and settle in a new community or country. Students will then be pushed to think about the different memories, cultural traits, goods, ideas, languages, and skills that individuals and families bring with them when they move to a new place and how these characteristics enrich the community. While students are exposed to a wide variety of immigrant experiences over the course of the unit, not every experience or feeling about immigration is captured in this unit. Because many of our students are first- or second-generation immigrants, it is crucial to be sensitive to and respect the varying experiences and feelings of our students and families. It is our hope that this unit, in connection with others, will help students build sensitivity and empathy for varying cultures and experiences within the United States.

In this unit, students study the rovers Spirit and Opportunity and their remarkable missions to Mars. Through a combination of reading, analyzing images and photographs, and participating in engineering and design labs, students will begin to understand the complexity, preparation, and diligence involved in space missions. Students will grapple with why the engineering and design process, particularly continually planning, trying, and evaluating, is a crucial part of a successful mission. This unit also allows students to make connections between content learned in math and content learned in previous science units, solidifying the importance and value of STEM. It is our hope that this unit inspires students to explore engineering and STEM not only in space but in the world around them.

In this unit, students build their skills in consuming scientific and technical texts. Students will practice explaining the connection between two or more scientific ideas or concepts in a text. Additionally, students will be challenged to draw on and integrate information from two or more texts in order to describe a scientific idea, concept, or process in depth. This unit also continues the study of point of view and analyzing how the point of view influences what and how information is presented to a reader. The Mighty Mars Rover is written to captivate and engage a reader, while the NASA press releases are written to inform the public of the progress and findings of the Mars rover missions. Students will be challenged to compare and contrast the point of view of each text and the strategies each author uses based on the point of view and desired audience. Since this is the culminating unit of the course, all other informational standards will be spiraled throughout the unit.

Engage students in a discussion about the definition of failure and why so many people are afraid of it using Theodore Roosevelt's Man in the Arena speech from 1910.

This lesson is aimed at students who need more practice and help with Factoring Quadratic Equations. It includes multiple video resources, practice problems, and creative ways to challenge your students to dig a little deeper in their critical thinking.