In this lesson, students become familiar with identifying, locating, and analyzing persuasive techniques in writing and multimodal compositions, including their own, by examining the ways in which commercials and infomercials employ these techniques. Using their new knowledge, students will write a... Read more »
Persuading Your Audience
Chicken trucks are known to transport thousands of live chickens. Students will use mathematical reasoning to calculate the number of chickens in a truck of known dimensions, given a photograph, which was taken while travelling I-40 in Oklahoma. Students will extend their understanding by writing a... Read more »
Writing Algebraic Expressions
Centered on the phenomenon of the Blue Fugates, students will explore how recessive traits increase in a population using a Punnett square activity, genotype/phenotype ratios and allele frequency calculations, and pedigree analysis. By the end of the lesson they will be able to explain how social, genetic,... Read more »
Recessive Gene Inheritance
In this lesson, students explore energy conservation based on how energy from the sun is captured and used to make chemical energy. Students also review how solar energy and the concept of photosynthesis have been used to engineer technology that could be beneficial to humans. This lesson can be used... Read more »
Photosynthesis
This lesson is an introduction to polynomials. Solving polynomials is not included in this lesson, and would be the next lesson after this one. Academic language as well as patterns in polynomial family functions is explored. Prerequisite knowledge would be an understanding of functions and exponents... Read more »
Polynomials
Students will be introduced to Shakespeare's language through a hands-on approach. First, students will read the prologue of "Romeo and Juliet" and translate the text into their own words. Then, students will connect with Shakespeare's words in the prologue by thinking of present-day examples of art... Read more »
Making Shakespeare Accessible
Students will use a graphing tool to analyze basic transformations on a variety of parent graphs in order to create general rules about function transformation. Read more »
Function Transformations
Students will identify common lab mistakes via simulated lab stations. Read more »
lab safety
This lesson is intended to be either an introduction or a refresher of Darwinian fitness. Students think about what it means to be 'fit' and the impact humans have had on this natural mechanism. Read more »
Darwinian Fitness
This lesson will focus on the impact of the New Deal in addressing the hardships of the Great Depression. Guiding this lesson is an essential question focused on debating the level of government intervention in a crisis situation and when that intervention becomes too powerful. Students will be able... Read more »
The New deal