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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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 »
Operations With Complex Numbers
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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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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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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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