In this unit students learn about making mistakes, honesty, and the power of forgiveness by reading the core texts Freckle Juice and Keena Ford and the Second-Grade Mix-Up. In Freckle Juice, students explore what peer pressure is and the ways in which people can influence the decisions that we make. In Keena Ford and the Second-Grade Mix-Up, students explore what it means to be honest, especially when it may seem difficult to tell the truth. Students will also explore the value of friendship and how jealousy can sometimes come between friends. Andrew in Freckle Juice and Keena Ford are both highly relatable characters who are struggling with issues that are common in second grade. Therefore, these books will give students a chance to grapple with and explore the nuances of peer pressure, honesty, friendship, and jealously in a non-threatening way.

For readers, this unit begins the transition from early chapter books that have an equal balance of words and pictures into chapter books where the picture support is removed. Therefore, over the course of the unit students will work on using the strategies they have learned to help build stamina in order to read longer texts. Besides building stamina, there are a few main focuses of the unit. One is on deeply understanding characters, including character motivations, perspectives, and relationships. Keena Ford shares lots of insight into how and why she does the things that she does, which will make it easier for students to internalize what it means to notice and track character over the course of a longer text. Another focus is on holding onto the plot across multiple chapters. This is the third chapter book that students will be reading, but the plot of this text is slightly more nuanced. Finally, students should continue to work on using context to figure out the meaning of unknown words and using the illustrations to deepen their understanding of the text.

As writers, students will continue to work on writing strong, focused text-based answers in response to the text. In this unit students will be pushed to include inferential and critical thinking to support their answers. They will also begin to use transition words as a way to support organizational structure and evidence. All grammar Focus Correction Areas in this unit are a review; therefore, students should be receiving weekly individualized feedback.

Students will use an Edpuzzle video to label their own map of the United States. The video is structured so students have to pause and label ten states at a time, in alphabetical order. The outcome of this activity is a completed US map for students' later reference. The second activity is a drag and drop game in which students drag labeled states into the appropriate spot on a map of the US. (Note: The state names in the activity have been color-coded according to geographic region. Students and teachers could use this later in the year to discuss regions and state locations.)

This task asks students to read short passages about an imaginary Hispanic family and answer comprehension questions in a multiple choice format. Questions and answers are in English. As an extension activity, students write about themselves and their family members. A reflection is included in which students indicate how well they understood the passages and whether reading Spanish passages first about family helped them write about their own family. Students are also asked to indicate what they still need or would like to know about the family in Spanish. The task is appropriate for Level 1 Spanish students.

LAND AND PEOPLE : FINDING A BALANCE

Land and People: Finding a Balance is an environmental study project that engages high school students in studying earth science resource issues. The project focuses on the interaction between people and the environment in three regions of the United States:
Cape Cod
Los Angeles
the Florida Everglades.

Students use a Focus Question to guide their reading of the attached materials. Each Activity clearly describes what students will need to complete the Activity, explains the procedure, and in some cases, suggests extension activities.

Each section has Activities that are suggested to be done with the particular unit. The recommended lesson plan for this activity is attached.

LAND AND PEOPLE : FINDING A BALANCE

Land and People: Finding a Balance is an environmental study project that engages high school students in studyingearth science resource issues. The project focuses on the interaction between people and the environment in three regions of the United States: Cape Cod
Los Angeles
the Florida Everglades.

Students use a Focus Question to answer and also provide them with several types of information they should use to answer the questions. Each Activity clearlydescribes what students will need to complete the Activity, explains the procedure, and in some cases, suggests extension activities.

Lesson Options
-Study sections in any order
-Complete all three sections or just one
-Read the entire set of student materials for a region then complete all or selected activities.

Requirements
-Each student will need a copy of the student materials. Student worksheets are designed to be photocopied clearly and easily.
-Students will also need copies of the maps and other data that accompany the activities in the teacher materials.

The hyperdoc provides students self-paced learning, practice, and application of vocabulary and verbs related to clothing in Spanish, and it includes opportunities for students and teacher to evaluate learning and mastery of targeted content. A variety of online sites are provided to students to practice recognition and recall of vocabulary related to clothes and to self-assess. Three application tasks engage students in listening and reading comprehension, and open-ended writing.

Reading material with questions and activities aimed at advanced Spanish 1 or early Spanish 2 students learning to discuss routines (reflexive verbs) in the present tense. Suitable to CI- or grammar-based lessons.

How to use this activity:Students can create a paper album, a power point presentation, google slides, with their chosen clothing pieces. They describe each piece including size, price, availability, colors, and fit.   You can add more requirements as the rubric is general and allows for many modifications.

The process of how a bill becomes law is a fascinating process that is much more than just a Representative or Senator introducing a bill and having it move through the process to its eventual demise or addition to another bill or to the bill ending up on the President’s desk itself.  An even more interesting question is: “What is the subject matter of MANY of these bills- researched, drafted, and introduced?  This lesson will tackle that question and many others! 

Students will practice basic clothing vocabulary along with colors and prices. Students will also work on the dialogue "Dans un magasin de vêtements."

The students will discover the vocabulary by clicking on images. Each word has associated sound to facilitate the pronunciation of learners in French.

Great homework assignment/quiz preparation
Interactive activities can be downloaded.

A general template of structure strips to use after reading a text. Students will use these strips to make a connection with a character.

2.4 The student will investigate and understand that plants and animals undergo a series of orderly changes as they grow and develop. Key ideas includea) animals have life cycles This choice board helps students explore animal life cycles at his/her own pace. Students play an interactive hyper doc board game. This can be individual or whole class. It includes videos, online games, assessments, and is a lot of fun. Great way to engage any learner!  Get started with the center square and move around the board to learn more about life cycles. 

Paul Andersen describes how free energy is used by organisms to grow, maintain order, and reproduce. A brief discussion of the first and second law of thermodynamics is also included. Worksheets and a transcript accompany this resource.

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

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 aspects of the task and its potential use. The Virginia Department of Education Resource titled, "Telling the Tale," walks students through a real world exercise analyzing a linear relationship.

Students will listen to the teacher describe people's phyisical appearance and the student will draw/ color the people.

This is a great activity to review conditional statements. There drag and drop items as well as type in. This resource uses Google Slides.

Students will read and interpret data then create one bar graph and one line graph.To extend the lessson, students can construct questions that align with the data from each type pf graph.

Welcome to Making Open Educational Resources with and for PreK12: A Collaboration Toolkit for Higher Education. This toolkit is designed to address known gaps in knowledge and practice which limit the development of generative relationship-building processes between higher education faculty and PreK12 educators.

Higher education and PreK12 are vastly different domains. Well-intended, collaborative relationships do not always result in hoped-for creation of useful and reusable learning materials for PreK12 classrooms, nor of effective partnerships.

The main landing page for this book is https://doi.org/10.21061/OER_PreK12_highered. The toolkit is also available at https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/higheredk12collaborationtoolkit. Associated slides, handouts, and other downloadables are available at this site and other sites linked within the toolkit. A print version is available for order here.

The toolkit is part of the Scholarly Communication Notebook and is intended to prepare and position practicing and future academic librarians and interested higher education faculty, staff, and students consulting with librarians to address gaps related to outreach to PreK12. It aims to expand use and re-usability of learning resources through informed practices regarding copyright, open-licensing, and accessibility. Designed for use in formal graduate-level library and information science courses and relevant for self-study by academic librarians already in practice, this toolkit includes videos, presentations, transcripts, activities, guides, assignments, and assessment tools for learning and delivery by librarians to faculty and students in higher education, and for use by interested instructional designers, other faculty, staff, and graduate students seeking to improve their service to PreK12 educators.

Are you a professor or academic librarian reviewing or using this toolkit? We would love to hear from you. Please use the form at https://bit.ly/interest_hek12 to leave your feedback.

This is an unplugged version of how a man in the middle attack can happen and how data can be altered using rope, binder clips, envelopes and index cards.