Students write descriptions of characters, incorporate new vocabulary words, practice using simile and metaphor, engage in peer editing, and post their revised descriptions on the walls for a matching game.

Students will research a chemical substance and collate its distinguishing features, then craft a text-to-image prompt in Adobe Express that creates a recognizable depiction of that substance.

Using graduated cylinders and straws of two diameters, students are introduced to reversible reactions and dynamic equilibrium. Students develop the understanding that equilibrium id defined as the rate of change is equal, not the amounts of reactant and product at equilibrium.

The goal of this task is to look at the impact of outliers on two important statistical measures of center: the mean and the median.

This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its potential use.

This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its potential use.

This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its potential use.

The purpose of this task is to illustrate standard S.CP.1, which provides a review of the definitions of sample space and events. Students are asked to describe events both verbally and as subsets of a sample space.

This lesson helps students demonstrate understanding of the Expanding Expression Tool principles by creating a Keynote presentation describing a chosen animal. An example of this assignment is attached under the instruction section. Picture: 彭家杰 彭家杰. (2018). Ipad. commons.wikimedia.org. Retrieved January 3, 2023, from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Ipad.jpeg.  

Students will be able to incorporate sensory details into a piece of descriptive writing. Students will improve a piece of writing by using precise and vivid language and word choice.

Students will have a roaring good time when they watch a scene from "The Lion King" as a way to compare standard and described programming media.

Students will use what they have learned about descriptive writing--show don’t tell, vivid verbs and adjectives, sensory details, and figurative language--to write a snapshot detailed description of a picture they find or create.  Students select a picture of their choice and then write an extended paragraph. 

Students write descriptions of 100th day bottles they create at home, write clues about their bottles for a guessing game, practice descriptive writing, and create a class book.

This video segment from NOVA: A Desert Place describes the physical characteristics and organisms that define the desert biome.

This video segment from Outdoor Nevada examines threats to the desert tortoise population.

Deserts comprise about 14% of Earth's landmass and most are located between 20-30 degrees south latitude and 20-30 degrees north latitude. The Sahara, Chihuahuan, Mojave, and Sonoran deserts are highlighted on maps.

Permafrost is the phenomenon by which only thin layers of the upper soil in the arctic tundra thaw, while the lower layers remain permanently frozen.

The arctic tundra biome, highlighted in white on this map, receives very little precipitation.