A New York Times columnist worries that programs like ChatGPT threaten the future of writing — and the benefits and joys of excelling at it. Do you agree?

Students will learn the potential costs and benefits of social media, digital consumption, and our relationship with technology as a society in the three-week lesson. This inquiry based unit of study will answer the following questions:

Essential Question: How can we use science fiction’s ability to predict the future to help humanity?

Supportive Questions 1: What predictions of future development has science fiction accurately made in the past? This can include technology, privacy, medicine, social justice, political, environmental, education, and economic.

Supportive Question 2: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are positive for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to make these predictions reality?

Supportive Question 3: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are negative for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to stop these negative outcomes?

(Thumbnail is a screenshot of the OER Commons lesson page, taken 7/26/2022 by Christina Nelson.)

Watch a video of a first grader reading correctly, smoothly, and at a natural speed.

Watch a video of a second grader fluently reading. She reads smoothly, at a natural speed, and with expression.

This task asks students to write a proof that applies the properties of parallel lines and congruent triangles to prove a parallelogram property. It can be used in the classroom as an individual, small group, or whole-group practice problem or as an assessment question. More examples of its use in the classroom can be found in the "Public Remarks" section below. Illustrative Mathematics provides this summary: "This is a reasonably direct task aimed at having students use previously-derived results to learn new facts about parallelograms, as opposed to deriving them from first principles. The solution provided (among other possibilities) uses the SAS triangle congruence theorem, and the fact that opposite sides of parallelograms are congruent."

Watch this video to determine if your 1st grader shows understanding when read.

Watch a video of a third grader fluently reading. She reads smoothly, at a natural speed, and with expression.

This video helps parents determine if their third grader understands what he reads.

Watch a video of a kindergarten student fluently reading, and rereading to more accurately read punctuation.

This video helps parents determine if their kindergartner is on track in reading.

This video helps parents determine if their kindergartner is learning from what they are reading.

It’s Graduation Day at the Service Dog School, and you’re invited to the ceremony! Find out how these highly trained pups help the people who need them most in Dog Days of Summer, the latest episode of YourClassical Storytime — with narration by Scott Blankenship and Julie Amacher, illustrations by E.J. Thompson, and classical music just right for this special occasion. Find out more about real-life service dogs and how they use classical music as part of their training: “Classical music has gone to the dogs at Can Do Canines.”

This lesson plan is to help learners form an opinion and find evidence to support their opinion with picture evidence. Because it requires little writing, it is a great lesson to start an opinion writing unit. 

Once upon a time, there was a happy-go-lucky dog named Apollo. He seemed to have a lot going for himself, but he wanted more — especially when it came to food. Find out what happened to our greedy pup in The Dog and the Bone, the latest episode of YourClassical Storytime, featuring music by Edward Elgar and original illustrations by Nancy Carlson.

Dogs: Standard 8.SP.2 - Know that straight lines are widely used to model relationships between two quantitative variables. For scatter plots that suggest a linear association, informally fit a straight line, and informally assess the model fit by judging the closeness of the data points to the line.
This formative assessment exemplar was created by a team of Utah educators to be used as a resource in the classroom. It was reviewed for appropriateness by a Bias and Sensitivity/Special Education team and by state mathematics leaders. While no assessment is perfect, it is intended to be used as a formative tool that enables teachers to obtain evidence of student learning, identify assets and gaps in that learning, and adjust instruction for the two dimensions that are important for mathematical learning experiences (i.e., Standards for Mathematical Practice, Major Work of the Grade).

Oral History Interviews that bring students together with veterans help to foster empathy and make history come alive. This lessons offers a step-by-step guide to doing an oral history project with Vietnam War Veterans.

Students will learn that there are rules to be followed or jobs to be done in the classroom. Students will also learn how to listen and speak to others.