On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the U.S. government to integrating the segregated military. Read and see the document here.

Identifying, creating, extending, and transferring repeating and growing patternsMathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the 2016 Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

Students analyze Dorothea Lange's photographs and identify key themes in her work. They then create a thematic exhibition pairing Lange's work with work by artists who explore the same themes in other media.

Three easily applied exit ticket examples that can be easily implemented for ANY lesson (elementary - high). Simple way to collect data and measure student learning!

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Joy Phillips teach about expanding vocabulary using synonyms and antonyms.

Data set and map pertaining to expenditure per secondary school student for all countries as a percentage of their GDP per capita. The World Bank specifies expenditure per student as a World Development Indicator (WDI) -- the statistical benchmark that helps measure the progress of development.

Data set and map pertaining to expenditure per secondary school student for all countries as a percentage of their GDP per capita. The World Bank specifies expenditure per student as a World Development Indicator (WDI) -- the statistical benchmark that helps measure the progress of development.

Data set and map pertaining to expenditure per tertiary school student for all countries as a percentage of their GDP per capita. The World Bank specifies expenditure per student as a World Development Indicator (WDI) -- the statistical benchmark that helps measure the progress of development.

This activity is designed to be a self-paced activity to review students on the parts of Experimental Design while at home or in the classroom. There is a simple experiment for the students to complete to generate and collect data and a second example in which they design their own experiment and collect data. They are then led through the process of analyzing their data and writing a conclusion.

This product contains final experimental estimates of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous), non-Indigenous and total populations of Australia at 30 June 2006, for various geographies.

NASA released the Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) emblem. Launching from a modernized Kennedy Space Center, EM-1 is the first integrated flight of the Orion Spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. To learn more, visit https://www.nasa.gov/content/j2m-getting-to-mars-sls-and-orion.

In this lesson, students will make a guess about how to code a particular type of triangle and then test their code out. Coding a shape really helps visualize what makes it possible.

A Visual Arts Activity Inspired by Works of Art from the VMFA Collection

Cultures all over the world create decorative patterns, perhaps inspired by the enduring patterns humans see in the natural world that surrounds us, from the cycle of the seasons to the pattern of the stars in the heavens. These hands-on activities, which can be adapted for a number of grade and ability levels, introduce repeating and alternating patterns, as well as the concept of a visual motif.

This resource provides an inquiry-based exploration of the cyanotype photograms using examples from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and video explanations of the history, science, and artistic process of cyanotype photograms.

This resource provides an inquiry-based exploration of the cyanotype photograms using examples from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and video explanations of the history, science, and artistic process of cyanotype photograms.

This resource presents a variety of digital resources hosted by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts that students can use to explore the life and work of renowned African-American photographer Louis Draper.  

Students will be able to explore the water cycle, by getting hands-on experience making the water cycle !  Using the examples, the students will be able to use various materials to practice creating a water cycle.  Dive into water cycles and allow your students access to expand their knowledge using creativity!

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Classifying and measuring angles  Mathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the 2016 Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.