This microcredential is the second in the Stability and Change in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #5 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential applicants demonstrate understanding of how changes occur as natural systems interact through constructing explanations, and improving them through argumentation. Additionally, educators demonstrate an understanding that change in systems occurs in differing temporal scales (change can happen suddenly or over a long period of time), spatial scales (changes occur based on the shape, orientation, location, direction or trajectory), and scales of magnitude (small changes can lead to big effects or big changes cause many small effects).

This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #5 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential applicants demonstrate understanding of how to prepare and enact three-dimensional science instruction that is based on authentic phenomena and problems and supports the development of students’ conceptual science understanding and scientific literacy.

This microcredential is the fourth in the Stability and Change in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #5 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential applicants demonstrate an ability to promote effective and equitable science instruction both in personal practice and in the science education community.

This microcredential is the first in the Systems in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #2 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential, applicants demonstrate understanding of how different systems are organized groups of related parts that make up a whole that can carry out functions that individual parts within systems cannot.

The focus of this microcredential is understanding key differences and similarities between the elementary and secondary student development and pedagogy. Note that earning this Microcredential requires prerequisites as aligned with the USBE Instructional Coaching Endorsement and is intended as a competency path for an experienced instructional coach.

Students experiment to create a color using primary colors and black and white. They learn the color wheel and values.

Color is one of the seven basic building blocks of art along with Line, Form, Shape, Value, Space, and Texture. Learn how different colors have different impacts on how emotions are conveyed through art.

Form is one of the seven basic building blocks of art along with Line, Space, Shape, Value, Color, and Texture. Through the eye-fooling genre of Trompe L'oeil, we look at a variety of techniques artists use to transform shapes into forms and give their art depth and dimension.

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Line is one of the seven basic elements of art along with Shape, Form, Texture, Value, Space and Color. These are the building blocks of all art and are a good place to start when making, looking at or analyzing works of art. However, lines are not only limited to drawings. They apply to photographs, videos and anything that is placed anywhere deliberately to convey meaning. Learn about the different types of lines here.

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Shape is one of the seven basic building blocks of art along with Line, Form, Texture, Value, Space, and Color. Using still life paintings of fruit, we look into how artists' create their individual style and develop a unique approach to making shapes.

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Space is one of the seven basic building blocks of art along with Line, Form, Shape, Value, Color, and Texture. Using site specific art as a starting point, we highlight the techniques that artists use to control and manipulate space in their work.

Texture is one of the seven basic building blocks of art along with Line, Form, Shape, Value, Space, and Color. Here we look at the how visual artists try to stimulate our sight and our other senses through different textures. They create something that we can see and feel or imagine the feeling of and try to engage us in that way as well. Learn how different textures (and implied textures) convey different feelings here.

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This is an interactive image that links to videos from YouTube and other websites that explain and show examples of each Element of Art. Students will use this as an exploring tool to build their understanding on each element. This will build a stronger foundation to help them evaluate and refine artwork.

Strand: RESPOND (L1.V.R.)
Students will understand, evaluate, and articulate how works of art convey meaning for the observer, as well as the creator (Standards L1.V.R.1–4).

Standard L1.V.R.2:
Analyze how one’s understanding of the world is affected by experiencing visual imagery.

Standard L1.V.R.3:
Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work and it various contexts.

Value is one of the seven basic building blocks of art along with Line, Form, Shape, Color, Space, and Texture. Through the lens of black and white photography, we look at how artists produce value scales and contrast, and how different kinds of lines change the way we perceive depth and space. Learn how different values can invoke different emotions in this video.

Developing strategies around vision, culture, capacity, team, community, finance, and measure is the work of leaders. These elements of leadership influence learning, teaching, and the environment of your school, and help establish and sustain a commitment to continuous innovation. In this book you’ll have opportunities to engage with each element through interactive widgets, guiding questions, and downloadable resources, including a planning tool that can help you raise the bar for how technology enables your learning community.

The Elements of Learning provides research-based strategies for designing student learning experiences with iPad and Mac. The book covers five elements of deeper learning, supported by a rubric, interactive examples, and 19 downloadable lessons, designed by teachers around the world. Teachers and technology esecialists can use this book to design innovative and effective learning experiences with Apple technology.

In this interactive lesson, discover how literary techniques like figurative language, imagery, and symbolism contribute to the overall meaning of a poem. Explore how a poet establishes and builds on a theme. Learn how to tell the difference between tone and mood. Through a close reading of Maya Angelou’s famous poem “Caged Bird” (1983), practice unpacking the language of poetry while learning about some of the various tools a writer can utilize when writing a poem.

This student-directed lesson can be completed online. Students will require a login if the instructor desires that they save their work to the platform. You will find detailed instructions on how to set up and manage accounts, class rosters, and assignments in the Help section of the interactive lesson plan.

Science Phenomena: HS Physical Science - Chemical Reactions - Elephant toothpaste is a dramatic chemistry demonstration that involves the decomposition of concentrated hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) into water and oxygen. Potassium iodide is used as a catalyst to speed up the reaction. Soap is added to trap the escaping oxygen gas and food coloring is often added to the experiment. This phenomenon can be using in elementary science classes to illustrate non-reversible reactions and can be studied in more detail in middle and high school.