This learning path focuses on using Microsoft Teams to engage with students in remote and hybrid learning environments. Discover ways to utilize Teams to support all learners in different types of learning environments. Educators will find the best ways to connect with their students no matter the learning model.

Students use a text set to increase understanding of content area material and demonstrate what they have learned by writing an original piece that blends together narrative and expository elements.

This blended learning lesson plan is a hyperdoc that students can work through individually to learn what a prefix is, practice identifying prefixess in words, understand the meaning and how it changes the word to mean something new. Students will work through this hyperdoc with required assignments/ tasks, these include instruction through videos and practice. The rest of the hyperdoc students can pick and choose what they want to do with a required limit of acitivites. They will be assessed throughout the hyperdoc to check their understanding and at the end they will complete a worksheet based on their level of understanding to turn in for the teacher to have as evidence of their understanding.  HyperDoc Template by Amy De Friese Adapted by Amy Filiaga Adapted by Angela Citte

This episode focuses on phonological awareness. Reading expert Linda Farrell helps kindergartener Autumn learn to blend two parts of a syllable (onset and rime). Watch how Ms. Farrell gives Autumn explicit practice with onset and rime — a core phonological awareness skill that helps kids recognize and blend sound chunks within syllables

Students tend to be fascinated by colors and patterns of organisms, and by thinking and learning about these and other adaptive strategies. Colors and patterns in nature are a great entry point to understand adaptations. This activity focuses on how organisms’ patterns and colors help them stand out or blend in with their environment, and how this helps them survive. Students observe the main colors in the landscape, then search for plastic animals hidden there, noticing which blend in with their surroundings and which stand out. Then, students discuss what made the animals blend in or stand out, construct explanations for how this could help the animals survive, and learn four categories for color and pattern adaptations: camouflage, mimicry, warning, and attraction. Students apply these concepts as they search for real organisms in the area, then discuss how patterns and coloration might help the organisms survive in their habitat.

To prepare for literature circles featuring historical novels, students research the decades of the 1930s to the 1990s and share their information using Prezi, a web application for creating multimedia presentations.

Chicana poet, publisher and educator Maria Miranda Maloney honors her ancestors through her poem “Blessed." This video is one of the 2021 Dead Poets Open Mic Series created by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino in collaboration with Mouthfeel Press.

The eye’s retina receives and reacts to incoming light and sends signals to the brain, allowing you to see. One part of the retina, however, doesn't give you visual information—this is your eye’s “blind spot.”

Students will mix ingredients to create a chemical change and "Blobber" - a substance similar to silly putty.

In this task, output is given from a computer-generated simulation, generating size-100 samples of data from an assumed school population of 2000 students under hypotheses about the true distribution of yes/no voters.

Many teachers and schools are leveraging chromebooks in classrooms, allowing teachers and students to explore learning in new and powerful ways. However, managing a classroom full of students on chromebooks can be a headache. In this over-the-shoulder session, we will share how Alpine School District has implemented Blocksi, a tool that helps teachers keep students safe while enhancing the learning environment. We will demonstrate how Blocksi helps teachers manage a classroom and share teacher perceptions of using Blocksi.

Many teachers and schools are leveraging chromebooks in classrooms, allowing teachers and students to explore learning in new and powerful ways. However, managing a classroom full of students on chromebooks can be a headache. In this over-the-shoulder session, we will share how Alpine School District has implemented Blocksi, a tool that helps teachers keep students safe while enhancing the learning environment. We will demonstrate how Blocksi helps teachers manage a classroom and share teacher perceptions of using Blocksi.

Make the most of your students' diverse ability levels and experience with a prewriting activity in which they describe an abstract idea using blogging and photographs that they have taken.

Students work together to create their own utopias, using blogs as the primary source of publication.

The purpose of this lesson is to teach students about blood and its components while instilling an appreciation of its importance for survival. The lesson takes a step-by-step approach to determining the recipe for blood while introducing students to important laboratory techniques like centrifugation and microscopy, as well as some diseases of cell types found in blood. It also highlights the importance of donating blood by explaining basic physiological concepts and the blood donation procedure.

In this video segment, adapted from NOVA, Dr. Judah Folkman uses the scientific method to discover how cancer cells induce the formation of new blood vessels, which in turn nourish those cancer cells.

Arteries have thick walls so that they can handle the large force of blood being pumped through them by the heart. Blood in arteries is oxygen-rich.

Blood in veins contains less oxygen than blood in arteries. It also contains waste gases, such as carbon dioxide.

The liquid part of blood is called plasma, which is made up of water and important substances, including vitamins, minerals, and nutrients.