In this co-taught 80-minute face-to-face lesson (assessment is homework or given time in a second class session) students will rotate through stations to make personal connections with the book, A Long Walk to Water by  Linda Sue Park. (Stations can be removed or customized to allow for time, budget, or supervision constraints.) Please note, this lesson works best when you have several adult volunteers to run stations. This lesson is best co-taught with an ELA teacher who will be reading and discussing the book with their students. (It can be slightly adapted to fit similar stories.) It is also an effective way to deepen understanding and connections after the class has read the book. Thumbnail Image: Woodwayne, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Lorin Hansen grew up in Utah and has spent close to two decades studying Samba- a dance form associated with the Afro-Brazilian religion, culture, and history many centuries old. She started a nonprofit in Salt Lake City, Utah: SambaFogo.org, where she teaches Samba drumming and dance, and brings home the party and the lessons of her Brazilian mentors and teachers, cultivating the growing Utah Samba community.

Learn about the fundamental connections between math and music, in four Acts: "Rhythm," "Frequency," "Harmony," and "Fractals." Concepts presented in the video documentary are reinforced by hands-on experiments using the Google Chrome Music Lab Experiments. Learn the instructional design process used in creation of The Majesty of Music and Math incorporating Universal Design for Learning and the methodology of assessing non-cognitive skills using a combination of gains in Experience Level, Depth of Knowledge, and Performance Quality.

Make a word game for and with your students using Google's Applied Digital Skills!

Students learn to use Google Sheets to make pixel art inspired by Frida Kahlo and Mexico.

Share some great Google Drawing practices with your students through this amazing post from Control Alt Achieve.

This lesson explores the question: Why did the Founders find it necessary to provide protections for slavery in the US Constitution?

In what ways was the US settled and unsettled in the 19th century? What role did artists play in shaping public understandings of the US West? In this resource, students will explore and analyze works of art related to the era of Manifest Destiny and its impacts. In suggested activities, students research a work of art from this unit that connects to American exceptionalism and then discuss their findings; examine the 1868 print Across the Continent and question the artist's narrative; research indigenous peoples who lived in their area and listen to living members of the community.

Case background and primary source documents concerning the Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison. Setting the precedent of Judicial review, this lesson focuses on the question of whether or not the Supreme Court should have the power to overturn unconstitutional federal laws.

Dr. Masha Shukovich is a neurodivergent person with acute synesthesia that she describes as her superpower. Synesthesia essentially means that their brain interprets words and narratives as moving images (similar to videos); numbers as colors; tastes as images, shapes, colors and sounds; and so on. For example, she can taste or smell a recipe before actually making it, simply by reading it or hearing it read out loud, which has greatly enriched their experiences as a chef, an artist, a storyteller and their current fictional/magical realism novel, The Taste of Names. ​

The Coherence Map from AchieveTheCore.org maps out the Common Core mathematics standards in a tree format. Select any math standard and see the prerequisite standards as well as what it is a prerequisite for. Each standard has attached tasks, progressions, and assessments.

In this group project, you will create a video that teaches the class how to multiply matrices.  You will be using iMovie to edit your video.  You should spend 2-3 hours on this project and it will be done face-to-face.  This project is intended for a 9th-grade Secondary Math 1 Honors class.

Dig into this great example of a Great Race program with a Star Wars flair.

Almost one quarter of the people in the world are Muslim. But how much do we really understand Muslims here in America? Maysa Kergaye, a Muslim woman who calls Utah home, but has lived in multiple countries and US states, opens up the conversation about what it means to be Muslim, her experiences as a Muslim woman in America , and particularly as a minority in Utah.

In McCulloch v. Maryland, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress had the authority to charter a national bank based on the “necessary and proper” clause of the Constitution. In later years, this “implied power” enabled Congress to pass laws in many different areas. Access to this resource requires a free educator login.

The purpose of this lesson is to explain the two overarching modes of constitutional interpretation – strict and loose construction – and their use and application to particular Supreme Court cases. After an in-class investigation activity to explore the various methods of interpretation, students will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their command of these definitions and express their opinions of the merits and limitations of each method during a mock Supreme Court session where students will revisit the Court’s opinions in Brown v. Board of Education (school segregation) and DC v. Heller (Second Amendment).