Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
This two hour digital citizenship professional development focuses on increasing cohort teachers' understanding of digital citizenship. Participants will evaluate their beliefs, values, and digital footprints so that they can model good digital citizenship to their students. As a result of this introspection,... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: February 22nd, 2024
During this interactive professional development session, participants will explore what makes an instructional strategy effective and student-centered. The instructional strategies highlighted in this session promote authentic learning by encouraging student ownership of the learning process. Participants... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: May 2nd, 2023
This is the first lesson in the "What Is a Wave?" unit. Students will begin by recalling information they already know about waves. They will explore movement with springs to learn about and identify types of waves. In groups, students will create anchor charts with key concepts and examples of waves.... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: June 5th, 2023
London Bridge Is Falling Down
This lesson is meant to be taught after WWI content and introduces your students to WWII. Students will learn how economic and political issues after WWI lit a fuse that exploded into WWII. Using hands-on activities and discussions, students will explore the vocabulary and multiple causes of WWII. Following... Read more »
Created by: Kim Press
Date Updated: June 27th, 2024
Causes of WWII
In this lesson, students first reflect on how they respond to stimuli in their environment. Next, students work to identify stimuli and responses to common scenarios. Students then summarize a reading and a video on Pavlov’s learning theory. Learning is extended by students through creating a classical... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: October 18th, 2023
Classical Conditioning Learning Theory
Do you have a green thumb? If you like working with plants and flowers, you might be interested in a career in floral design. Floral designers bring joy to others through their work. Floral design is more than just being able to grow or cut plants. Floral designers also know the meaning behind flowers... Read more »
Created by: Teresa Lansford
Date Updated: September 20th, 2022
In this English ACT prep activity, students focus on punctuation conventions. First, students identify "grammar fails" with some poor grammar depicted in real-world examples. Then, students review eight of the most prevalent punctuation standards through a "What Do You Meme?" and Padlet activity. Then,... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: September 19th, 2024