In the Continuous Improvement advanced Experience, students will explore concepts, skills and tools that support improvement in themselves, their peers, and their workplaces. This unit is comprised of content derived from competencies associated with the Technical Skills Grounded in Academics Essential Elements of the SkillsUSA Framework 

What starts out as a cascade of well-mixed granular materials sorts itself into alternating layers of salt and sand.

Students examine familiar car names for underlying connotations then proceed through a series of steps, increasing their control over language, until they select words with powerful connotations in their own writing.

The impact of natural disasters is made vivid in this video segment adapted from NOVA. A small town in Iceland, prepared for recurrent avalanches, is devastated when one takes a new and damaging path.

In this real world problem students solve questions based on the relationship between production costs and price.

We may be leaving out information or disregarding it because it doesn't conform with our own beliefs.  Students will learn about confirmation bias, different perspectives and how to avoid confirmation bias.  This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?". 

Students engage in a brief writing assignment that concretely illustrates how language and gender stereotyping interact causally.

Through this lesson, primary students strengthen their phonemic awareness while using picture books featuring alliteration as models for their own writing.

This is an art project carried out by students and won first prize at the 2021 ‘Festival des Vocations’, a festival that promotes projects to take better care of our planet.

This sequence of instruction was developed in the Growing Elementary Science Prjoject to help elementary teachers who were working remotely.  We developed a short storyline that ties together a few sessions to help explore a specific concept.  We tried to include some activities that honored and included the student’s family and experience, and some that included the potential for ELA learning goals.
In this Unit of Instruction, students observe animal behaviors - both in video format and in their own neighborhoods - then create a model to explain how these behaviors help the animals meet their needs.
It is part of ClimeTime - a collaboration among all nine Educational Service Districts (ESDs) in Washington and many Community Partners to provide programs for science teacher training around Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and climate science, thanks to grant money made available to the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) by Governor Inslee.

In this activity students will encounter a series of challenges, each asking them to graph a point on the bullseye of a target. They will plot points in all four quadrants, first by plotting points using a table and then by using ordered pairs.

80 bones total
Consists of the skull, the vertebral column, the rib cage, the auditory ossicles and the hyoid bone

Introduction/
Vertebrae/
Cervical vertebrae/
Axis/
Atlas/
Thoracic vertebrae/
Lumbar vertebrae/
Sacral and coccygeal vertebrae/
The rib cage/
Ribs/
Sternum/
Hyoid bone/

Introduction
Vertebrae
Cervical vertebrae
Axis
Atlas
Thoracic vertebrae
Lumbar vertebrae
Sacral and coccygeal vertebrae
The rib cage
Ribs
Sternum
Hyoid bone

Modeling traffic data is important for urban planning, creating transportation systems, and even predicting how much foot traffic a retail store can expect in a given day. This genre of dynamic data science activities could be classified as “finding a needle in a haystack,” giving students a chance to mine big data to make insights about traffic use.

According to the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, about 400,000 people used the BART system daily in 2018. In BARTy, students investigate BART data from 2015 to learn about passenger use and explore traffic patterns. The Teacher Guide includes a game-like investigation to locate a “mystery meeting,” and suggests ways to help students figure out peak passenger use, popular stations, and the impact of events in San Francisco on BART usage.

Modeling traffic data is important for urban planning, creating transportation systems, and even predicting how much foot traffic a retail store can expect in a given day. This genre of dynamic data science activities could be classified as “finding a needle in a haystack,” giving students a chance to mine big data to make insights about traffic use. According to the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, about 400,000 people used the BART system daily in 2018. In BARTy, students investigate BART data from 2015 to learn about passenger use and explore traffic patterns.

This site from the BBC hosts a brief primer on the Arabic language. It discusses such topics as where the language is spoke, where it came from, and tips on etiquette. The guide also includes interesting examples of the Arabic language, such as tongue twisters, jokes, and famous quotations.

This page contains a list of all the letters in the Arabic alphabet, organized in seven groups. Users can listen to a native speaker read the names of the letters online or download the clips for home use. Users can also print out selected letters. The site also lists information about writing in Arabic, including the short vowel system, joining the Arabic letters together, and the names for symbols commonly used in email addresses.