Penny Caywood demonstrates a classroom activity using tableau to explore what characters want.
Penny Caywood demonstrates a classroom activity exploring setting.
Penny Caywood demonstrates a classroom activity where students explore character personalities through voice and gesture.
Students act as engineers contracted by NASA to create water filtration devices that clean visible particulates from teacher-prepared "dirty water." They learn about the worldwide need for potable water and gain appreciation for why water quality is an important issue for people on Earth as well as on the International Space Station. Working in groups, students experience the entire engineering design process, including a read-aloud book about the water cycle; a visiting water engineer presentation; their own online research about filter methods and designs; group brainstorming of designs (using ordinary household materials); filter construction and testing; redesign and retesting; lab book documentation of their notes, research, plans and results; and a summary poster presentation at a mini-engineering fair. Two design planning worksheets, a poster layout suggestion sheet and a grading rubric are provided. Note: Activities that require the internet can be viewed on individual student laptops, computer lab, and mobile lab or be done as a whole group lesson using a projection tool.
Students will use dirty pennies to observe physical change.
How does a bill become a law? What is the role of Congress and the President in this process? How did the Clean Water Act of 1972 become a law?
The push to modernize Mexico's water and sanitation systems not only saved human lives, it also spurred economic growth, as illustrated in this video segment adapted from Rx for Survival.
This PE Game is one of many quick and easy physical education games that teachers can use in their own PE class. It's all about the best games for exercise, skills, activities, games, learning, fitness, and FUN. Simple school games in just minutes. This is 5 different ways to play this updated version of Knockemdowners. It really is a classic game, students really move, and practice a variety of skills in fun variations which can be used in any primary PE class or football (soccer) program!
This task has students create equations to model a physical scenario, and then reason with those equations to come up with a solution.
When students link clear learning intentions to “implementation intentions”—or plans to overcome expected obstacles—they are more likely to achieve their goals.
Standardized rubric showing proficiency|in particular|competes in student-friendly language. Students are allotted choice in representing their mastery.
This resource includes the sheet music, activity instructions, and audio files for "Clementine" from the Elementary Songbook.
This resource is a free, downloadable audio file of short music clips to use for instruction.
This resource is a free, downloadable audio file of short music clips to use for instruction.
This is an activity to teach conflict resolution strategies. In groups of three, one student clenches his/her fist. As a team the other two students need to figure out a way to unclench this student’s fist. Give them thirty seconds to figure it out.
This brief article relates the legend of young Gauss and the summing of consecutive numbers. Readers are asked to apply the method and they are shown a general solution. A link to a printable page is provided as well as links to related topics.
This lesson introduces students to click restraint, a strategy that involves resisting the urge to immediately click on the first search result. Instead, students scan the results to make a more informed choice about where to go first. Note: A free educator account is required to access these materials.
To locate higher quality information, professional fact checkers practice the skill of click restraint: resisting the urge to automatically click on the first search engine result and instead scanning the results page to make an informed decision about where to click first. The click restraint classroom poster reminds students to practice this skill. Note: A free educator account is required to access these materials.
On this episode of UEN Homeroom,Dani and Fernando chat with Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors, Clief Castleton and Milo Maughan. These Utah educators share their STEM teaching experiences that led them to apply to the SETI Institute’s Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program.
This lesson provides students with an opportunity to collaborate in a group setting while determining the specific housing needs of their "clients". Once the needs have been addressed, students will then find a floor plan that meets those needs and create a presentation outlining how the floor plan fits the clients.