From Data to Instructional Response is a guiding document that is a flow chart from screening assessments, like Acadience Math, to selecting and implementing a targeted intervention. It gives suggestions on how to design an instructional response to a student's data and current performance.

Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.

In this keyboarding lesson, students will learn the J to Y to 6 finger movement using Typesy. At the start of each lesson, students set a goal and consider the importance of keyboarding. At the end of the lesson, students record their WPM.

In the years after World War I Americans quickly reached the conclusion that their country's participation in that war had been a disastrous mistake, one which should never be repeated again. During the 1920s and 1930s"”recognized as the Interwar Period (1921-1939)"”U.S. officials pursued a number of strategies aimed at preventing war.

Students explore the relationship between input and output values and learn to use algebraic expressions and equations.

This lesson focuses on the biggest problem faced by any young programmer - i.e. the LOGIC BUILDING required while solving a particular problem. With programming, the solution to a particular problem lies in the head, but one is unable to convert it into a computer program. This is because the thought processes of a human are much faster than the sense of observation. If this thought process could be slowed down, logic to solve a programming problem could be found very easily. This lesson focuses on converting this psychological thought process in a step-by -step logic fashion that a computer program can understand. This lesson is recorded in a kitchen where the basic programming concepts are taught by giving examples from the process of making a mango milk shake. This lesson teaches the 4 following techniques: 1) Swapping two variables by swapping a glass of milk with a glass of crushed ice; 2) Finding max from an array by finding the biggest mango; 3) Sorting an array by arranging the jars; and 4) Understanding the concept of a function, parameters and return type by comparing it with the blender/juicer. The lesson targets those students who know the syntax of programming in any language (C or GWBASIC preferred), but are unable to build the logic for a program. It can be taught in a class of 45 to 50 minutes.

This lesson is also available in Mandarin Chinese.

Watching plants grow is like watching paint dry: It happens so slowly that the changes are imperceptible from one moment to the next -- and yet the end results are dramatic. This video segment shows just how amazing plant development can be by depicting various phases of the process using time-lapse photography. Footage from NOVA: "The Shape of Things."

Learn the story of Venture Smith, an African boy who was enslaved and brought to America in 1737. In this interactive lesson, students will explore the differences between slavery in the North and South as they learn about Smith’s journey from slavery to freedom.

Students bring the print-rich environment of the community into the classroom through the use of environmental print, enabling emergent readers to delight in the realization that they are indeed readers.

Students will describe how energy changes from one form to another and model where all energy goes and explain that no energy is lost.

Students will learn about the water cycle, watersheds, and specifically, the watershed that feeds Springfield, Oregon. After analyzing drought maps, reading news reports, and seeing images and videos, students will realize that drought is a real life concern. Students, as concerned citizens, will create a water collection device, at first on a small scale, and then a true to life water collection system to help re- purpose rainwater in our garden area.

This is a language arts lesson for early elementary learners, grades k-2. Students will read and discuss wordless picture books and audio stories. Then they will work in groups to create their own audio story based on a wordless picture book.

This activity is designed to familiarize students with the legislative process and increase the students awareness of their district Representative and the responsiblities of Members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

This activity familiarizes students with the legislative process and introduces them to basic legislative vocabulary.

This article describes the IGLO project and its involvement with local science centers and museums. Webcasts, online materials, and other resources are linked within the article.

In this video excerpt from NOVA, find out how the discovery of a gene defect has led to the development of a new drug to treat patients with cystic fibrosis.

This video segment describes the basics of the circulatory system: how the heart pumps the blood that carries oxygen and nutrients throughout the body.

This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW shows how the common wood frog freezes solid every winter, an adaptation that allows the organism to survive the cold winter.

Students will learn the difference between fruits and vegetables, and will be able to name them.

This three-act math task utilizes videos and questioning to help students explore multiplication and division within 100.