Students will perform a cost and environmental analysis of traditional and new alternative energy cars. Describe different alternative fuels and the vehicles they power.
Students will create a device that converts kinetic wind energy into electricity.
Students explore expressive qualities in music through listening, singing, and moving.
Students explore expressive qualities in music through listening, singing, and moving.
If a plant or animal is buried by sediments, two types of fossils may be formed - a mold or a cast.
Students read Avi's "Nothing But the Truth" and examine the First Amendment and student rights, and then decide whether the rights of the novel's protagonist, Philip, are violated.
This map illustrates the huge area covered by the Mississippi watershed.
Students make predictions about "Bridge to Terabithia" and its characters, complete character studies, and relate the characters' experiences to their own as they identify ways to make and keep friends.
African savannas are home to huge herds of grazing animials including giraffes and zebras.
Every continent except Antarctica has grasslands. Grasslands vary widely in their appearance, plants, and animals.
Students explore the sound, evolution, performance techniques, and culture of guitar-like instruments from around the world.
Students explore the sound, evolution, performance techniques, and culture of guitar-like instruments from around the world.
Students will be able to understand the processes, rights, and responsibilities of renting, leasing, and purchasing a home. Identify key qualification factors for homeownership, including debt-to-income and loan-to-value ratios, and comprehend the roles of professionals in the home-buying process.
Nonfiction may be dull for some students, but this lesson helps them focus on the main ideas. Through awareness of section headings, students learn to sort and categorize main concepts.
As the second book in the Empower Teaching Open Access Book Series, Exploring how we teach seeks to create a knowledge-sharing resource that validates and amplifies the experiences and voices of graduate student instructors. The collection encompasses the many titles, responsibilities, and levels of autonomy that graduate student instructors hold. The authors, all graduate students at the time of writing, interrogate issues of identity, community, and vulnerability within the context of college teaching, all while providing the reader with concrete takeaways to apply in the classroom. We hope that this collection can support the professional development of graduate students across disciplines, institutions, and levels of teaching experience.
We hope that you and your students enjoy this experience as they develop new connections and appreciations for art, indigenous heritage, and mathematizing the world.
Students will comprehend saving and investing, understand the concept of risk versus reward, and gain knowledge about various investment types and vocabulary.
After reading "All Quiet on the Western Front", students discuss the novel's ironic ending, then compose alternate titles and endings for the book, and design new book covers.
In the essay "Mother Tongue," Amy Tan explains that she "began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with." How these "different Englishes" or even a language other than English contribute to identity is a crucial issue for adolescents.
In this lesson, students explore this issue by brainstorming the different languages they use in speaking and writing, and when and where these languages are appropriate. They write in their journals about a time when someone made an assumption about them based on their use of language, and share their writing with the class. Students then read and discuss Amy Tan's essay "Mother Tongue." Finally, they write a literacy narrative describing two different languages they use and when and where they use these languages.
This is a two day lesson plan to introduce first graders to concepts of light. It includes sources of light, how light helps us to see things in the world around us, darkness is the absence of light, and how light interacts with different mediums.These lesson are meant to teach the concepts of light in fun, interactive ways. Students will learn through exploration, peer collaboration, reading, critical thinking, fun videos and creativity. Students will have opportunities for personalized learning through making choices about how they will learn the concepts as well as receive individual support from peers and the teacher.Preview Image by Lori Eastin