These documents provide directions and a template for writing a scientific paper to share students' results.

How scientists and engineers follow similar methods to obtain their results. Scientists study how nature works, engineers create new things or products. When performing experiments  both disciplines sometimes use the other method to complete their work

Students should analyze the Frontispiece to 'A Discourse concerning a New World and another Planet' by John Wilkins (1640) after learning about notable scientists of the period. In their analysis, students should attempt to identify technological advances and theories portrayed in the frontispiece.

Students should analyze the Frontispiece to 'A Discourse concerning a New World and another Planet' by John Wilkins (1640) after learning about notable scientists of the period. In their analysis, students should attempt to identify technological advances and theories portrayed in the frontispiece.

Print a copy of "A Discourse concerning a New World and another Planet" by John Wilkins (1640) after learning about the Scientific Revolution.
*Remixed to direct students to circle objects on the print and then identify who that idea is associated with. For example, circle the telescope and label it Galileo.

Students will learn the process of the scientific method by using whole group interaction. Students will get a front row seat at learning the steps in the scientific method process. They will learn to use their scientific method checklist to make predictions on what they think will happen when you conduct the three different experiments. This can be used over the course of one week.Day one: hedgehog experiment Day three: volcano experiment Day five: rocket launch 

This unit serves as a launch to fifth grade literature. By reading the core text, Seedfolks, students will explore what it means to be part of a community and how the actions of one person can positively impact an entire community. Students will grapple with how being part of a community can help a person change and evolve as they discover new things about themselves. Students will also wrestle with how prejudice and racism impact the way people treat each other and the ways in which both can influence an entire community. It is our hope that this unit helps establish a strong classroom community and that the characters in Seedfolks can serve as a model for how people from all walks of life can come together to be part of a strong, productive community.

The text Seedfolks was chosen not only because of its portrayal of the power of community, but also because of the unique structure of the text. Each chapter is told from a different character's point of view and shows how as the garden grows, the character's hearts grow bigger and their worldview and compassion grow. The structure of the text allows for students to begin exploring two key fifth grade standards, comparing and contrasting two or more characters and describing how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described. Since this is the first unit of the year, an underlying focus of the unit should also be on establishing expectations for annotation, discussion, and vocabulary.

In this open-ended performance task, students use probability for decision-making in a practical game show-style scenario. In doing so, students analyze, interpret and make predictions based on theoretical probability within a practical context. Determine conditional probabilities for dependent and independent events.

A leveled assessment to pair with Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the Motives of Evil fro the National Endowment for the Humanities

Retrieved from https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/shakespeares-macbeth-fear-and-motives-evil

In this unit, students begin to grapple with the overarching question of how a person develops values, identities, and beliefs while reading the novel Shiloh. Marty, the main character in Shiloh, sees someone mistreating a dog and thinks it's his right and responsibility to step in to save the dog, even if the dog doesn't belong to him. His action raises a question for readers about when an individual should step in to take a stand against what he/she believes to be an injustice. His action also causes readers to consider how different people, depending on their values, identities and beliefs, may have different opinions on what constitutes an injustice. Students will be challenged to take a stand on both of these ideas, based on the experiences and opinions of the different characters in Shiloh. Students will also be exposed to the idea of courage, and what it means to show courage, especially in situations where you are standing up for what you believe in. It is our hope that this unit will inspire students to grapple with these questions at a deeper level and understand the power of showing courage to fight for the things they believe in, no matter what obstacles they may face.

Shiloh was chosen as the text for this unit not only because of the powerful themes, but because of the way in which Phyllis Reynolds Naylor artfully develops the setting, characters and plot. In this unit, students will be challenged to think deeply about how the details an author includes help a reader better understand a character's thoughts and actions. The setting of Shiloh in rural West Virginia in the 1970s allows students to deeply analyze how an author develops setting, and how the setting of a text influences the characters. Finally, students will begin to notice how the point of view of a story influences the way a story is told.

Students will be introduced to and practice the concept of Short A and Long A words.

Provided basic circuitry materials, including a multimeter, students experiment through guided inquiry to gain hands-on experience with Ohm's Law and Equivalent Resistance.

Students are given 28 expressions with exponents that need to be simplified that cover multiple exponent rules. When simplified, there are 7 possible solutions.

This short article, produced by historian Dr. David Toye for the Saylor Foundation, describes the employment of indentured servants and slaves in the different regions of the American colonies.
title"Slavery and Indentured Servitude in the American Colonies" 2018 by userSaylor Academy
under license"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0"

Khan Academy is a free website. Teachers can create classes and assign practice problems to students. This resource has listed 8th grade math VA standards that align to the functions and slope-intercept topics.

Khan Academy is a free website. Teachers can create classes and assign practice problems to students. This resource has listed 8th grade math VA standards that align to the functions and slope-intercept topics.

Students research, prepare and report on their trip of a lifetime to a Spanish speaking country.