Turn summer reading lists from a teacher-centered requirement to a student-driven exploration by asking students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books to explore during the summer months.

Students use their emerging writing skills to write shopping lists. They work within a budget, use problem-solving skills to create lists, and buy their favorite treats at the class store.

Patricia Polacco's family stories provide an interesting and neutral way to begin discussions about families. Students can make connections from their own family experiences to some of her family experiences.

Patricia Polacco's family stories provide an interesting and neutral way to begin discussions about families. Students can make connections from their own family experiences to some of her family experiences.

Patricia Polacco's family stories provide an interesting and neutral way to begin discussions about families. Students can make connections from their own family experiences to some of her family experiences.

This lesson uses "One Green Apple" by Eve Bunting to teach how characters change across a text. It will also guide students through writing an epilogue to accompany their independent book.

Pressbooks is an accessible, open-source platform that allows you to easily create, write, and publish your own books and beautifully format them into many different readable formats (PDF, ePUB & Web version). With Pressbooks, faculty can adapt, revise and append to openly licensed textbooks, courseware and academic content. This video guides you through how to navigate through Pressbooks Create to easily get started on writing and designing your book, as well as how to add media and other interactive elements seamlessly.

The engineering design process involves many steps. Not only must an engineer be able to devise a solution to a problem, he or she must also be ready to test and evaluate that solution to reach the best result. To successfully complete the design process, an engineer must be able to identify design flaws and learn from his or her mistakes. In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, learn about the design process as cast members create automatic door openers that enable them to open their bedroom doors while lying on their beds. For grades 3-8.

What starts out as a cascade of well-mixed granular materials sorts itself into alternating layers of salt and sand.

Students examine familiar car names for underlying connotations then proceed through a series of steps, increasing their control over language, until they select words with powerful connotations in their own writing.

The impact of natural disasters is made vivid in this video segment adapted from NOVA. A small town in Iceland, prepared for recurrent avalanches, is devastated when one takes a new and damaging path.

In this real world problem students solve questions based on the relationship between production costs and price.

For a function that models a relationship between two quantities, students will interpret key features of graphs and tables in terms of the quantities, and sketch graphs showing key features given a verbal description of the relationship.

In this video segment from TV411, figure skaters compute their average daily practice time.

This learning video continues the theme of an early BLOSSOMS lesson, Flaws of Averages, using new examples—including how all the children from Lake Wobegon can be above average, as well as the Friendship Paradox. As mentioned in the original module, averages are often worthwhile representations of a set of data by a single descriptive number. The objective of this module, once again, is to simply point out a few pitfalls that could arise if one is not attentive to details when calculating and interpreting averages. Most students at any level in high school can understand the concept of the flaws of averages presented here. The essential prerequisite knowledge for this video lesson is the ability to calculate an average from a set of numbers. Materials needed include: pen and paper for the students; a blackboard or equivalent; and coins (one per student) or something similar that students can repeatedly use to create a random event with equal chances of the two outcomes (e.g. flipping a fair coin). The coins or something similar are recommended for one of the classroom activities, which will demonstrate the idea of regression toward the mean. Another activity will have the students create groups to show how the average number of friends of friends is greater than or equal to the average number of friends in a group, which is known as The Friendship Paradox. The lesson is designed for a typical 50-minute class session.

This may be a helpful resource to support teachers in developing artifacts of learning about sexually transmitted diseases/infections (STDs/STIs), including HIV/AIDS. Per Utah Code 53G-10-402 parental consent is required prior to instruction in this content. This should not be used for student instruction unless reviewed by the local materials review committee and approved by the local board. Please follow Utah law and policy for all instruction and remember parental consent must always be given before students can receive any instruction on sex education.

Students engage in a brief writing assignment that concretely illustrates how language and gender stereotyping interact causally.

Through this lesson, primary students strengthen their phonemic awareness while using picture books featuring alliteration as models for their own writing.

This is a lesson for teachers to use when having students research about animals.  Teachers will have students use Adobe Express and create a video to share with other students what they have learned.  The image usedLiam Quinn from Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsTwo King Penguins and a gentoo Penguin walk along the beach, Liam Wuinn from Canada

In this activity students will encounter a series of challenges, each asking them to graph a point on the bullseye of a target. They will plot points in all four quadrants, first by plotting points using a table and then by using ordered pairs.