Students will identify types of communication styles, explain active/effective listening skills, and demonstrate the ability to use active listening skills.

In this lesson students will learn how to add decimals to the hundredths place.   Image by Tiffany Hale

This lesson plan is designed to provide students with the opportunity to participate in engaging activities to review previously learned strategies for adding 3-digit numbers within 1,000, as well as practice in explaining their thinking as they solve addition problems.  

This is a First Grade lesson plan that incorporates Speaking and Listening into a presentation. Students will explain why they feel online school has worked for them using relevant details while expressing feelings and ideas clearly.

This is a lesson plan designed to be used in Family & Consumer Sciences adult roles. It can be used as an activity while learning about self concept, but could also be a getting to know you activity for the beginning of a course.

Students will develop an advocacy plan for a local, national or global health problem. Students will write a letter as part of their advocacy plan.This lesson is written as an interdisciplinary unit for both the Health and Language Arts classrooms. It can however, be taught in just one of the classes.

Students will be instructed in how to make a meme to display their understanding and mastery of roots and affixes. For simplicity memes will be created using printer, paper, and pen/marker/pencil. Memes 

Using a bottle and a hard boiled egg, students will see that air exerts pressure. They will analyze evidence about particles of matter and demonstrate the role of motion in the particulate description of matter.

This is a lesson plan that will help students know about air pollution, what causes it, and what they can do to help prevent it. Students will show their understanding by creating a podcast of what they learned and found through experimenting.

This is a lesson plan designed specifically for my students at Albert R. Lyman Middle School in order to create our school wide digital display.

Students will identify the effects of alcohol on body organs and on performance, as well as identifying reasons for not using alcohol.

In traditional Ute culture, the flute was used for healing ceremonies, or sometimes for courting. A man would play a song to win the heart of a woman. According to tradition, only she could hear the music being played for her.This lesson utilizes a true story of Aldean Ketchum, flute player and storyteller. Aldean is a member of the White Mesa Ute tribe. The White Mesa Utes, located in White Mesa, Utah, are members of the Ute Mountain Ute tribe. The Ute Mountain Ute tribal headquarters are located about 90 miles east, in Towoac, Colorado.Student will learn more about Native American flutes and create a bio poem. 

Aldean Ketchum is a White Mesa Ute tribal member. He grew up in southern Utah. He is a storyteller and flute player. He share a story about a hawk. The Ute people have a close association with nature and a respect for all living things. They share the earth with animals, and they look to them for guidance. The Utes honor the hawk in ceremonies, and they use hawk feathers in their regalia. Students will learn more about the White Mesa Ute tribe, birds of prey (raptors) and engage in strategies before, during and after reading the story. 

This unit was created as an introductory/review unit for Algebra II to allow for a review of main concepts needed to progress in Algebra II. However, it could also be used in Algebra I to introduce for the first time real numbers; number operations; and equations, expressions, and inequalities.

This lesson will incorporate the use of the Keynote app on the iPad. Students will need to demonstrate their understanding of multiple representations of an arithmetic sequence. Students will spend a class period creating the presentation.

This lesson plan was created to teach kids Social Studies, Standard 1, Objective 1.a.  Students will learn about how they are the same and different from their classmates. They will be able to use photography to document what they've learned.

This is a lesson plan with a curriculum that helps teachers accomplish their responsibilities for transition planning in the classroom. There are several tools that are available to teachers, and combined into this lesson plan, to help support teachers, and in turn students throughout the transition plan.