In Massachusetts, Manchester-by-the-Sea's wastewater treatment plant is located right on the coast. The town's water utility is working with the EPA's Climate Ready Water Utilities program to consider its adaptation options.

Exploring Antarctica: Standard 7.NS.2 Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division and of fractions to multiply and divide rational numbers.
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).

This course includes a PowerPoint teaching guide, written lesson plan and 3 videos tailored to grade range 3-5.

This course includes a PowerPoint teaching guide, written lesson plan and 3 videos tailored to grade range 6-8.

This course includes a PowerPoint teaching guide, written lesson plan and 3 videos tailored to grade range K-2.

Students explore the concepts of audience and purpose by focusing on an issue that divided Americans in 1925, the debate of evolution versus creationism raised by the Scopes Monkey Trial.

History has many faces in this lesson in which students read Jane Addams Award-winning books to learn about peace, social justice, world community, and equality.

Doctors, astrophysicists, and daycare providers are only some of the careers that will be explored in this lesson in which students research careers and publish occupational summaries about them.

Students explore the nature and structure of expository texts that focusing on cause and effect and apply what they learned using graphic organizers and writing paragraphs to outline cause-and-effect relationships.

Students read an example of allegory, review literary concepts, complete literary elements maps and plot diagrams, create a pictorial allegory, and write diamante poems related to the theme of change.

This currculum builds upon the Exploring Computer Science Currculum develop by Joanna Goode and Gail Chapman. The currculum has student develop coding skills as they work on problem sovling skills and helps them build computational thinking.

Exploring Computer Science is a yearlong course developed around a framework of both computer science content and computational practice. Assignments and instruction are contextualized to be socially relevant and meaningful for diverse students. Units utilize a variety of tools/platforms and culminate with final projects around Human-Computer Interaction, Problem Solving, Web Design (HTML, CSS), Programming (Scratch, Edware), Computing & Data Analysis, and Robotics. ECS is recognized nationally as a preparatory course for AP Computer Science Principles. Watch this video and view this fact sheet for more information.

Students make sense of dollars and cents when they study the importance of saving and budgeting in this lesson.

Interaction and adventure draws high school and elementary school students together as they analyze stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Deserts cover about one-fifth of Earth's surface. Most deserts are located between about 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south latitude.

History takes on new dimensions in this interactive multimedia lesson that emphasizes the B-D-A approach to research as students investigate the experiences of people with disabilities since the early 1800s.

A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth is directly between the moon and sun. In a lunar eclipse the Earth casts a shadow on the moon, causing part or all of the moon to darken to an orange-red color.