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- Science
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- Reimagine Teaching
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- Thanksgiving Point
- Date Added:
- 11/13/2020
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Changes in voting qualifications and participation, the election of Andrew Jackson, and the formation of the Democratic Party"”due largely to the organizational skills of Martin Van Buren"”all contributed to making the election of 1828 and Jackson's presidency a watershed in the evolution of the American political system.
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- History
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- Lesson
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- National Endowment for the Humanities
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- EDSITEments
- Date Added:
- 11/06/2019
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- Science
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- Lesson
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- Reimagine Teaching
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- Thanksgiving Point
- Date Added:
- 11/13/2020
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- Science
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- Reimagine Teaching
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- Thanksgiving Point
- Date Added:
- 11/13/2020
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- Science
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- Reimagine Teaching
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- Thanksgiving Point
- Date Added:
- 11/13/2020
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SFUSD's creative computing curriculum introduces computer science as a creative, collaborative, and engaging discipline to children in third through fifth grade.
Across 15-20 lessons at each grade level, students will learn about algorithms and programming, computing systems, the Internet, and impacts of computing, while developing strong practices and dispositions. Lessons are designed to be implemented in 45 to 60-minute periods approximately once per week.
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- Information Technology Education
- Educational Technology
- Computer Science
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- Activity/Lab
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- Adapted primarily from Creative Commons licensed resources developed by the ScratchEd team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Code.org. See also the original ScratchEd Creative Computing curriculum guide.
- Created by the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Computer Science team: CSinSF.org.
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- 03/21/2019
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This unit on thermal energy transfer begins with students testing whether a new plastic cup sold by a store keeps a drink colder for longer compared to the regular plastic cup that comes free with the drink. Students find that the drink in the regular cup warms up more than the drink in the special cup. This prompts students to identify features of the cups that are different, such as the lid, walls, and hole for the straw, that might explain why one drink warms up more than the other.
Students investigate the different cup features they conjecture are important to explaining the phenomenon, starting with the lid. They model how matter can enter or exit the cup via evaporation However, they find that in a completely closed system, the liquid inside the cup still changes temperature. This motivates the need to trace the transfer of energy into the drink as it warms up. Through a series of lab investigations and simulations, students find that there are two ways to transfer energy into the drink: (1) the absorption of light and (2) thermal energy from the warmer air around the drink. They are then challenged to design their own drink container that can perform as well as the store-bought container, following a set of design criteria and constraints.
This unit builds toward the following NGSS Performance Expectations (PEs) as described in the OpenSciEd Scope & Sequence: MS-PS1-4*, MS-PS3-3, MS-PS3-4, MS-PS3-5, MS-PS4-2*, MS-ETS1-4. The OpenSciEd units are designed for hands-on learning and therefore materials are necessary to teach the unit. These materials can be purchased as science kits or assembled using the kit material list.
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- Science
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- Activity/Lab
- Lesson
- Module
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- OpenSciEd
- Date Added:
- 12/10/2020
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The goals of OpenSciEd are to ensure any science teacher, anywhere, can access and download freely available, high quality, locally adaptable full-course materials. REMOTE LEARNING GUIDE FOR THIS UNIT NOW AVAILABLE!
This unit on weather, climate, and water cycling is broken into four separate lesson sets. In the first two lesson sets, students explain small-scale storms. In the third and fourth lesson sets, students explain mesoscale weather systems and climate-level patterns of precipitation. Each of these two parts of the unit is grounded in a different anchoring phenomenon.
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- Science
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- Full Course
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- OpenSciEd
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- OpenSciEd
- Date Added:
- 12/10/2020
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To pique students’ curiosity and anchor the learning for the unit in the visible and concrete, students start with an experience of observing and analyzing a bath bomb as it fizzes and eventually disappears in the water. Their observations and questions about what is going on drive learning that digs into a series of related phenomena as students iterate and improve their models depicting what happens during chemical reactions. By the end of the unit, students have a firm grasp on how to model simple molecules, know what to look for to determine if chemical reactions have occurred, and apply their knowledge to chemical reactions to show how mass is conserved when atoms are rearranged.
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- Science
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- Lesson
- Lesson Plan
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- Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- OpenSciEd
- Author:
- OpenSciEd
- Date Added:
- 12/10/2020
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This unit on metabolic reactions in the human body starts out with students exploring a real case study of a middle-school girl named M’Kenna, who reported some alarming symptoms to her doctor. Her symptoms included an inability to concentrate, headaches, stomach issues when she eats, and a lack of energy for everyday activities and sports that she used to play regularly. She also reported noticeable weight loss over the past few months, in spite of consuming what appeared to be a healthy diet. Her case sparks questions and ideas for investigations around trying to figure out which pathways and processes in M’Kenna’s body might be functioning differently than a healthy system and why.
Students investigate data specific to M’Kenna’s case in the form of doctor’s notes, endoscopy images and reports, growth charts, and micrographs. They also draw from their results from laboratory experiments on the chemical changes involving the processing of food and from digital interactives to explore how food is transported, transformed, stored, and used across different body systems in all people. Through this work of figuring out what is causing M’Kenna’s symptoms, the class discovers what happens to the food we eat after it enters our bodies and how M’Kenna’s different symptoms are connected.
This unit builds towards the following NGSS Performance Expectations (PEs) as described in the OpenSciEd Scope & Sequence: MS-LS1-3, MS-LS1-5, MS-LS1-7, MS-PS1-1, MS-PS1-2. The OpenSciEd units are designed for hands-on learning, and therefore materials are necessary to teach the unit. These materials can be purchased as science kits or assembled using the kit material list.
Additional Unit InformationNext Generation Science Standards Addressed in this UnitPerformance ExpectationsThis unit builds toward the following NGSS Performance Expectations (PEs):
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- Science
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- Activity/Lab
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- OpenSciEd
- Date Added:
- 12/10/2020
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Students figure out that they can trace all food back to plants, including processed and synthetic food. They obtain and communicate information to explain how matter gets from living things that have died back into the system through processes done by decomposers. Students finally explain that the pieces of their food are constantly recycled between living and nonliving parts of a system.
- Subject:
- Science
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Lesson Plan
- Module
- Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- OpenSciEd
- Author:
- OpenSciEd
- Date Added:
- 12/10/2020
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Oh, no! I’ve dropped my phone! Most of us have experienced the panic of watching our phones slip out of our hands and fall to the floor. We’ve experienced the relief of picking up an undamaged phone and the frustration of the shattered screen. This common experience anchors learning in the Contact Forces unit as students explore a variety of phenomena to figure out, “Why do things sometimes get damaged when they hit each other?”
Student questions about the factors that result in a shattered cell phone screen lead them to investigate what is really happening to any object during a collision. They make their thinking visible with free-body diagrams, mathematical models, and system models to explain the effects of relative forces, mass, speed, and energy in collisions. Students then use what they have learned about collisions to engineer something that will protect a fragile object from damage in a collision. They investigate which materials to use, gather design input from stakeholders to refine the criteria and constraints, develop micro and macro models of how their solution is working, and optimize their solution based on data from investigations. Finally, students apply what they have learned from the investigation and design to a related design problem.
- Subject:
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson
- Lesson Plan
- Module
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- OpenSciEd
- Date Added:
- 12/10/2020
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In this unit, students develop ideas related to how sounds are produced, how they travel through media, and how they affect objects at a distance. Their investigations are motivated by trying to account for a perplexing anchoring phenomenon — a truck is playing loud music in a parking lot and the windows of a building across the parking lot visibly shake in response to the music.
They make observations of sound sources to revisit the K–5 idea that objects vibrate when they make sounds. They figure out that patterns of differences in those vibrations are tied to differences in characteristics of the sounds being made. They gather data on how objects vibrate when making different sounds to characterize how a vibrating object’s motion is tied to the loudness and pitch of the sounds they make. Students also conduct experiments to support the idea that sound needs matter to travel through, and they will use models and simulations to explain how sound travels through matter at the particle level.
This unit builds toward the following NGSS Performance Expectations (PEs) as described in the OpenSciEd Scope & Sequence: MS-PS4-1, MS-PS4-2. The OpenSciEd units are designed for hands-on learning and therefore materials are necessary to teach the unit. These materials can be purchased as science kits or assembled using the kit material list.
- Subject:
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson
- Module
- Provider:
- OpenSciEd
- Date Added:
- 12/10/2020
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By examining Lincoln's three most famous speeches the Gettysburg Address and the First and Second Inaugural Addresses in addition to a little known fragment on the Constitution, union, and liberty, students trace what these documents say regarding the significance of union to the prospects for American self-government.
- Subject:
- History
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Provider Set:
- EDSITEments
- Date Added:
- 11/06/2019
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"Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville is one of the most influential books ever written about America. While historians have viewed "Democracy" as a rich source about the age of Andrew Jackson, Tocqueville was more of a political thinker than a historian. His "new political science" offers insights into the problematic issues faced by democratic society.
- Subject:
- History
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Provider Set:
- EDSITEments
- Date Added:
- 11/06/2019
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This four-lesson curriculum unit will examine the nature of what Winston Churchill called the "Grand Alliance" between the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union in opposition to the aggression of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
- Subject:
- History
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Provider Set:
- EDSITEments
- Date Added:
- 11/06/2019
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The decision of Britain's North American colonies to rebel against the Mother Country was an extremely risky one. In this unit, consisting of three lesson plans, students will learn about the diplomatic and military aspects of the American War for Independence.
- Subject:
- History
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Provider Set:
- EDSITEments
- Date Added:
- 11/06/2019
This resource is for high school art teachers to virtually connect their students with arts professionals. Artist 2 Artist is a series from the Springville Museum of Art where artists share their expertise and answer questions from students. This episode features ceramicist, Janna Siebert.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- Reimagine Teaching
- Provider Set:
- Springville Museum of Art
- Date Added:
- 12/10/2020
This is a professional training for secondary art teachers on charcoal drawing. In this training for Utah teachers professional artist Liz Harris shares her preferred materials and tips and tricks for drawing with charcoal. She also gives tips on teaching students about charcoal drawing and teaching drawing in online and hybrid classrooms.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- Reimagine Teaching
- Provider Set:
- Springville Museum of Art
- Date Added:
- 12/10/2020
Artist 2 Artist is a series from the Springville Museum of Art where artists share their expertise and answer questions from students. This episode features Emily Fox King, an artist based in Ogden, Utah.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- Reimagine Teaching
- Provider Set:
- Springville Museum of Art
- Date Added:
- 11/30/2020
