The goal of this exercise is to examine the relationship between cultural identities and partisanship, vote choice, and liberal social policies. Crosstabulation, frequencies, and charts will be used.

This assignment has the students research what scams are currently being monitored by the Federal Trade Commission, bringing more awareness to scams and identity theft.

I only have them look up to as this is a quick assignment within my larger unit, but one could easily adjust that number to more.

Hurricanes form in warm ocean waters and oftentimes destroy coastal cities due to severe flooding. You have been hired by the Army Corps of Engineers to build a house in Virginia Beach that can withstand the next hazardous Category 5 hurricane. Can your team plan and create a prototype house that will be protected from the impact of  flash flooding, severe winds and hail?

Recognize and use inverse relationships to solve problemsMathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the 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.

This series of slides uses pictures of base ten blocks to represent numbers from the millions place value to those in the thousandths place value. Each slide changes the value of the base ten blocks by stating the value of either a unit, rod, flat, or large cube. Students are challenged to determine value of a representation or to create a given representation.

Students will gain insight into the influence of the Enlightenment on American society and government by comparing Neoclassical objects from the Getty collection to American civic architecture of the time.

The student will learn how to troubleshoot problems that arise on a daily basis. They will start with a “human knot” then move to problems that are caused by humans and nature.

Students will love and enjoy this lesson based from the popular book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff . Within this lesson, students learn the concept of sequencing and will practice this process as they practice arranging the events of the story in sequential order. Students will also practice their ability to retell a story.

Data visualization is a general term that describes any effort to help people understand the significance of data by placid in a visual context. It can allow for insight that would be more difficult than by looking at the raw data. Patterns, trends, and corrEnglishtions that might go undetected in text-based data can be exposed and recognized easier with data visualization models. Visual models include circle graphs, bar graphs, line plots and pictographs. In Grade 6, students will evaluate visual representations of data to draw conclusions and determine the best visualization for various types of data.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Kelly Diehl teach about the short /i/ word families -ig and -ip.

Students will observe emotions depicted in an 18th-century bust and two 19th-century paintings. They will learn about and create similes based on paintings that depict people waiting and receiving a court verdict, respectively. They will write their own narratives about a time they had to wait, and they will use similes to describe characters' emotions. Students will then create two original works of art that illustrate their narratives.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Carolyn Harris teach about part-whole relationships to five.

Students define metaphor and discuss its use in writing and visually. Students develop a personal metaphor and use it to write about their own experience.

This lesson focuses on the American Revolution, which encouraged the founding fathers' desire to create a government that would, as stated in the Preamble, insure domestic tranquility and provide for the common defense. This lesson correlates to the National History Standards and the National Standards for Civics and Social Sciences.

Students will create a drawing from a written description and examine and discuss how European artists from the past created images of China that combined imagination with written descriptions and limited visual imagery.

Adapted from Holzer, Madeline Fuchs (2016). “Every Day We Get More Illegal” by Juan Felipe Herrera. Retrieved from https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/every-day-we-get-more-illegal-juan-felipe-herrera. 

A self-directed project aimed at getting students engaged with poetry on a variety of levels

This is a review and introduction to climate change using videos from National Geographic. It includes a follow up research activity on the impact of climate change on specific biomes around the globe.

This is a lesson for first grade to talk about how technology has changed our lives over the years. I have it related to the first settlers and the experience they may have had if they had today's technology.  We also will discuss the technology we use today in our rooms vs what used to be used and how our behavior online can affect us even when people can't see us.