Google folder with Googles Slides and accompanying student journal files
This brief online article introduces readers to 5 effective skills for safe, culturally sensitive, and ethical online communication.
Families play a critical role in their child's educational experience from preschool into adulthood. By using the 5Es for Families, you can create a home environment that supports and enriches your child's learning.
● Anticipating students' solutions to a mathematics task ● Monitoring students' in-class, “real-time” work on the task ● Selecting approaches and students to share them ● Sequencing students' presentations purposefully ● Connecting students' approaches and the underlying mathematics. These 5 manageable practices have the power to put teachers in control of productive classroom discussions.
Today's kids spend lots of time posting and sharing information online. Learn five surefire ways to protect their privacy.
Too often math students lean on teachers to think for them, but there are some simple ways to guide them to think for themselves.
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A Google Drive folder with 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 phenomenon-based, 5E lessons that align to the SEEd standards. Lesson folders include lesson plans, a slideshow, and supporting materials for teaching the lesson to your students.
A Google Drive folder with 7.1.3 and 7.1.4 phenomenon-based, 5E lessons that align to the SEEd standards. Lesson folders include lesson plans, a slideshow, and supporting materials for teaching the lesson to your students.
A Google Drive folder with 7.2.2 and 7.2.3 phenomenon-based, 5E lessons that align to the SEEd standards. Lesson folders include lesson plans, a slideshow, and supporting materials for teaching the lesson to your students. Students will research and develop models to better understand the impact of landslides and earthquakes in Salt Lake County.
A Google Drive folder with 7.2.1 and 7.2.6 phenomenon-based, 5E lessons that align to the SEEd standards. Lesson folders include lesson plans, a slideshow, and supporting materials for teaching the lesson to your students. Students will explore how rocks provide evidence of the geologic events and processes that have shaped Earth throughout its history.
A Google Drive folder with 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3 phenomenon-based, 5E lessons that align to the SEEd standards. Lesson folders include lesson plans, a slideshow, and supporting materials for teaching the lesson to your students. Students will learn about cells and cell function by looking at systems from big to small. First learning about how the digestive system works with the circulatory system to get food to cells. Students will investigate cells and their structure and function.
A Google Drive folder with 7.4.2, 7.5.1 phenomenon-based, 5E lessons that align to the SEEd standards. Lesson folders include lesson plans, a slideshow, and supporting materials for teaching the lesson to your students. students will explore the idea that evolution is change over time--that species come from other species due to natural selection, where traits that offer some advantage to an animal will be passed onto offspring.
A Google Drive folder with 7.4.1 phenomenon-based, 5E lessons that align to the SEEd standards. Lesson folders include lesson plans, a slideshow, and supporting materials for teaching the lesson to your students. Students will participate in discussions, modeling activities, and interactives in order to gain an understanding that sexual reproduction leads to greater variation in a population than asexual reproduction.
Over the summer Eric Curts updated and added some great posts and one of them was this great post about some very helpful hacks for Google that will help with your productivity and organization. I personally love #4 on the list.
Educator and author Kristen Mattson, Ed.D., has a bone to pick with a lot of the digital citizenship curricula used in schools today. Too much of it, she says, focuses on what not to do, and it rarely addresses the opportunities and responsibilities of the digital world. In addition, much of it is isolated from any real context and doesn’t give students many opportunities to practice their skills as citizens of digital communities. This article explores strategies to help digital citizens engage with empathy.
Teachers can create positive learning experiences for students that combine assessment with agency, opportunity, and community building.
Google Slides presentations that contain three lessons. The first lesson is exploring why planets orbit the Sun (7.1.5), the second lesson is exploring patterns in California plate tectonics (7.2.5), and the third lesson is exploring the coronavirus (7.3.1).
A Google Drive folder with 8.1.1, 8.1.3, and 8.1.5 phenomenon-based, 5E lessons that align to the SEEd standards. Lesson folders include lesson plans, a slideshow, and supporting materials for teaching the lesson to your students. Students observe changes in matter and develop models of chemical equations in order to develop a definition for chemical reactions, identify patterns of change that indicate that a chemical reaction has taken place, and explain the relationship between reactants and products at a molecular level.
A Google Drive folder with 8.1.2, 8.1.4 phenomenon-based, 5E lessons that align to the SEEd standards. Lesson folders include lesson plans, a slideshow, and supporting materials for teaching the lesson to your students. Students will obtain information and engage in argument about how properties of plastics provide structure and function. Students also investigate how chemical reactions create polymers that result in plastics and what natural resources are used in making synthetic materials.