Health and nutrition are growing concerns for Utah communities. Rising health care costs and illness can decrease the effectiveness of a community in many ways. On the other hand, decisions that increase health and fitness benefit everyone. This lesson encourages students to learn about and adopt healthy lifestyles.

This lesson includes a video lesson I did with my Secondary 3 Honors class that is a pre-lesson to graphing rational functions. In this video, we identify the horizontal and vertical asymptotes, holes, domain and range, and the x and y intercepts of rational functions.  There is guided notes, a homework assignment, and a bell quiz also attached.

This is a lesson plan that helps students identify the features of rational functions before they graph the rational functions.  They will identify the holes, horizontal and vertical asymptotes, domain and range, and the x and y intercepts.

Students will comprehend the role of the Federal Reserve and gain an understanding of fiscal and monetary policies.

Students will be able to identify a maximum of ten feelings. Show a cause for that feeling. Show how that feeling felt by them can have an effect on those around them.

Students will be able to identify a maximum of ten feelings. Show a cause for that feeling. Show how that feeling felt by them can have an effect on those around them. 

The students will get an overview of basic fibers by acting out a short story. They will learn about fabrication and how a yarn is made. They will also learn some basic weave patterns by weaving paper strips together.

1st/2nd grade: Students will use a visual, physically involved activity to understand and categorize fiction/narrative and non-fiction/informational books.

This lesson plan was created as a way for students to show their understanding of six different types of figurative language. Students will need to have learned about simile, metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and personification. Students will also need to have learned about citing sources for images found online. Image License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

This lesson is for art teachers interested in brining film making into their setting. Students will be asked to create a piece that looks at their "purpose." It should be treated a celebration of the student, where others identify strengths of their classmates, and create a film on it. 

This is a lesson plan designed to deeped understanding of real world, multistep math problems for the 5th grade.  It could be adapted to any grade level.  Students will need to understand basic math operations and apply them to either act out a real world problem, or act as the teacher and take a deep dive in how to solve the problem presented.  It is designed mostly to use with metric and customary conversions, but could be applied to any real world problem.

This lesson plan promotes the use of written and spoken academic language by multilingual students. It is based on secondary standards. It uses filmmaking to bring writing and speaking together while focusing on academic langauge. Photo by Jeswin Thomas on Unsplash

This is a lesson introducing students to storyboards and beginning to think about how to create a story to film in a future lesson. Students will work backward to write a storyboard for a short film, will brainstorm and outline their story they want to share, and will then flesh it out as a storyboard and will think about the shot the want, the audio they want to add and they will revise their lessons based on feedbakc from teachers and peers.

This is a lesson plan for third grade students. Students will choose one math skill or concept they learned this year and come up with a real world example of that concept. For example, finding the perimeter of their yard for a fence. They will create a three scene storyboard and then act out their storyboard. With the help of the teacher, they will film this example and later share it with the class. Students will peer review each others videos and participate in a discussion about the topic.  

Students will learn about SMART financial goals and then complete a worksheet where they will set personal financial goals, both long and short term.

This activity helps students experience the responsibility of finding a financial institution that fits their needs.

Students will understand the services and payment options available from financial institutions, specifically checking and savings accounts and other payment methods.

This lesson is a google site created with different resources for teaching financial literacy to 2nd graders. They will explore different ways to pay and the pros and cons of them. They will utilize jamboard, forms, slides, and sites to complete various tasks in the order they choose. 

This is a part of a longer unit. After students have learned about producers, consumers, ways to pay, and goods and services, they are able to create their own business. They will design a storefront and decide what they're selling. They will then need to include at least one photo of the good or service and define if the item they are selling is a good or service. Cover image created using Canva AI text to image. 

In this lesson students will practice creating equivalent fractions. Using manipulatives and can be done with pencil and paper. This is a face to face lesson. The program that was used for support is IReady - Grade 3 InstructionAssessment - There is an observational assessment, and then a virtual practice from boom learningThe image on the cover is a picture of my fraction tiles in my classroom.