This session explores the use of Google Apps through Google Drive. Participants will learn how to create, share, edit, and review different types of documents through Google Docs, Slides, and Forms. Participants will develop skills and apply the use of Google Apps for Education in their classrooms. Read more »
The Creating 5E Lessons PD focuses on familiarizing participants with the 5E instructional model. The goal of the session is to immerse participants in an authentic 5E activity with an emphasis on each element of the 5E model. Participants will identify and describe the components of a 5E lesson and... Read more »
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Forging a path of strong community in an online classroom can be a challenge. Teachers and students are separated and maintaining a sense of community relies on some of the same practices we use in the in-person classroom. However, when coupled with uniquely designed virtual materials, authentic teaching... Read more »
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This PD introduces the use of Swivl™ robots in the classroom. Participants will go through the process of setting up the bot, recording video, uploading video to the cloud, and accessing previously saved videos. Additionally, participants will discuss possible uses of Swivl bots both for instructional... Read more »
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This professional development session is the mathematics content-specific day of the Formative Assessment Institute. In this session, participants will learn what formative assessment looks like in a mathematics classroom and will create formative assessments to take back to their classrooms. Read more »
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Participants will actively engage in formative assessments that are in lessons on Learn and reflect on how those assessment strategies can be used in their specific content area and with their students. Read more »
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How can instructional strategies be modified and changed to fit classroom needs? In this interactive session, participants explore how the 3-2-1 instructional strategy is flexible enough to fit the needs of any content area. Read more »
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In this session, participants will explore the value of interactive story as a pedagogical tool, instructional strategies that can help to implement interactive story in existing instruction, and ways that Twine can support building interactive story as learning activities. Participants will engage... Read more »
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This professional development activity introduces some of the more effective strategies for preparing for the ACT. The goals of this activity are to access prior knowledge of the ACT and use the lessons already prepared to assist students in increasing their scores. Read more »
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In this lesson, students will understand the essential elements of identity theft and consumer fraud. They will create a PSA-style poster or video about how to avoid identity theft. This lesson includes optional modifications for distance learning. Resources for use in Google Classroom are included. Read more »
Standard 9: Identity Theft
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Students will use a graphing calculator to explore function transformations on polynomial (quadratic and cubic), radical (square root and cube root), and transcendental (exponential and logarithmic) functions. Students then generalize these transformations using function notation. Read more »
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How do authors develop characters? How do readers recognize a character through their thoughts, actions, and emotions? This literary analysis lesson will examine literary characters, invite students to consider the literary "anatomy" of a character, and find textual evidence that showcases characterization.... Read more »
Literary Analysis: Characterization
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Students will watch videos to learn about firsthand accounts of ghost encounters and decide whether these stories are believable. Students will then read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and examine if and how Brom's story of the Headless Horseman was credible. Students will conclude the lesson by creating... Read more »
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In this lesson, students will explore the differences between artists who blatantly rip off others' work and artists whose work is influenced by those who came before them. This is a conversation that remains unsettled, and there is room for nuance and debate. Students will listen to several songs and... Read more »
Musical Influence vs. Plagiarism
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To complete this lesson, students need to know how to simplify the square root of a negative number and how to simplify i to a power.* This lesson is contained within an escape room. Students will navigate through a spaceship and, along the way, will perform operations on complex numbers so they can... Read more »
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In this lesson, students will create a composition using a limited number of musical elements by selecting from a menu of pitches, dynamics, rhythms, and symbols. Students will then reflect on their experience and engage in a discussion concerning the benefits and drawbacks of musical limitations in... Read more »
Embracing Musical Limitations in Songwriting
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In this lesson, students will explore angles of incline on different wheelchair ramps by measuring side lengths and finding missing angle measures using inverse trigonometric functions. Students will compare their results with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) accessibility standards to determine... Read more »
Inverse Trigonometry: ADA Accessibility
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In this lesson, students will create a composition using a limited number of musical elements by selecting from a menu of pitches, dynamics, rhythms, and symbols. Students will then reflect on their experience and engage in a discussion concerning the benefits and drawbacks of musical limitations in... Read more »
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Students will explore how measures of central tendency are used in the world of sports and will learn how to calculate a weighted average. Students will work through ACT-style practice problems using prior knowledge of mean, median, and mode. Read more »
Decoding the Game
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A dash of this and a dash of that works in cooking, but does it work in writing? In this lesson, students will explore the use of em and en dashes. Through reading the short story “Cooking Time,” students will get to explore the use of dashes. Students will also have the opportunity to write a response... Read more »
The Weirdest Sentence I'd Ever Heard
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Through small-group activities, research, and discussion, students will be exposed to a variety of careers, along with their average salaries, educational institutions, and postsecondary requirements. Students will learn about a variety of jobs in eight career clusters and the educational institutions'... Read more »
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Students will learn to evaluate and prioritize tasks by making personal timelines. Students will then use the Eisenhower Matrix to categorize tasks by importance and timeliness. Then, they will revise their timelines and reflect on what they learned about priorities and task management. Read more »
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In this English ACT prep activity, students review revision and conciseness using the ARMS acronym and practicing with a Quizizz. Students will then practice revision and pacing with an ACT-style passage. This is the ninth activity in a 10-week "Power Up" series for ACT prep. Read more »
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