This resources is a summative assessment for students to display a portfolio of their previous digital work. Students will utilize Adobe InDesign software to create an interactive, published online portfolio. In addition, students will get practice with setting files up for printer's marks for a 2-up saddle stitch document, print double-sided, cut, and assemble a saddle-stitch book.The purpose of this assignment is to help students provide an impressive portfolio both in physical and digital format for job or education program applications.

Engage middle school students in a meaningful study of the lives of students from across the globe through the use of contemporary nonfiction and fiction. Students create personal autobiographies, sequence story events, and prepare well-crafted summaries while learning to use higher-level comprehension strategies such as Question-Answer Relationships and the Bio-Cube. Additionally, students conduct a critical study of the NCSS Notable Tradebook Nasreen̍s Secret School: A True Story From Afghanistan by Jeanette Winter, comparing and contrasting their own lives to Nasreen̍s and expanding their geographical knowledge of the Middle East.

This unit is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core State Standards–based teaching resources. These units were developed to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical significance. Through a step-by-step process, students will acquire the skills to analyze any primary or secondary source material.

Students take a walk on the wild side when they develop an understanding of nonfiction texts with hands-on experiences and intense analysis.

The 7 chapters in the Geometry materials engage learners with how dynamic approaches to geometry can change the ways students understand concepts such as properties of polygons, transformations, similarity, and symmetry.

Explore the shifting powers of the chief executive throughout history usig an interactive timeline and associated resources.

A confluence of factors, including the quickening pace of industrialization, urbanization, increasing immigration, and a growing presence on the world stage faced America in the late 19th Century. These pressures gave rise to various political movements, each seeking to provide answers to the most serious questions of the day. Overall, Americans found answers to these issues in the ideas of the Progressives. From both major political parties, the Progressives offered solutions to economic, social, and political problems, in some ways using and in others changing the American system of government that had existed for a century at that point. This toolkit provides guiding questions and links to essential documents, resources, and lesson plans related to the progressive era.

In this unit of study students learn that in the horizontal direction a projectile moves at a constant speed with nothing to cause acceleration. In the vertical direction a projectile accelerates due to the earth’s gravitational field. And combining these two type of motions together you can determine the parabolic arch of a projectile. This unit integrates nine STEM attributes and was developed as part of the South Metro-Salem STEM Partnership's Teacher Leadership Team. Any instructional materials are included within this unit of study.

The push towards civil rights in the United States has been longstanding and is ever-evolving. While not encompassing, our civil rights unit covers the expansion and abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s, and the expansion of rights through court cases and laws.

Water is always moving in a continuous cycle from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Students study this never-ending cycle through shared readings, center activities, and experiments.

A beginning course in music notation, rhythm and other music elements with tutorials, exercises, references and articles.

Students will have a whale of a good time in this lesson in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.

This resource is a Google Site that houses an entire recorder unit for elementary music. Recorder is typically taught in 3rd and/or 4th grade elementary music. This recourse could also be used if there is no music specialist at your school. It is ment to be all-inclusive. Students will work their way through the site from white belt all the way to black belt (and beyond). Students will practice the material on each belt's page then test for their belt. Teachers can allow students to test for belts in person or students can record themselves and turn in the recording. Belts are to be rewarded based on the rubric in the lesson plan. Belts can take many forms, like string around to recorder, colored beads, colored rubber bands, or even a tracker chart in class. I hope you enjoy this unit. 

In partnership with teachers, the Louisiana Department of Education arranged OpenSciEd (grade 6-8 science) content in a manner that stays true to the vision of the materials and provides clear guidance on how to use them in a fully remote environment. The modified materials assume that teachers will have synchronous virtual meetings with students in addition to home learning.
The site also provides a variety of resources with options for students who do not have internet access.

A study of the resettlement of Japanese Americans after WWII and the ongoing hardships and discrimination they experienced in the postwar years. This project was made possible through generous support from the National Parks Service Japanese American Confinement Sites program.

High school students are taught how to use resumes and cover letters to highlight their skills and make them stand out, whether applying to college or for a job.

This is a unit teaching the very basics of beat and rhythm.  In addition to beat and rhythm this unit includes tempo, notes, and time signature.  You can visit my website for a list of activites that are used in this unit. 

How did we go from thirteen British colonies to the United States of America? Explore the major hardships of life under British rule, why some colonists decided to break away, and how they set a path for a new and independent government.

This is a unit plan for the "Roaring" 1920's. Included is a lecture powerpoint from google slides, student samples on project based learning, and Utah Standards.