Real Iowans and how they intersect with history around the world.  A community that no longer exists - Buxton, IA; sisters who exchanged pen pal letters with Anne and Margot Frank during WWII; Iowa's own "Rosa Parks" sits at a counter in Des Moines; Five Waterloo, IA brothers changed how the military assigns family in combat are just some of he stories of Iowa families.  Stories that make Iowa history.  In this two part course, you will be exploring these stories and sharing a story from your own family.

Students will be given a product along with information necessary to determine the cost of the product after discounts, travel and time involved in making the purchase.  Students will then decided which option seems to be best based on where they place value; time, money, etc. 

Jacqueline Howard shows us how our exchange economy has evolved from early rudimentary bartering to present-day digital currency.

This is a SoftChalk lesson designed to help students determine key features of a function such as domain, range, x-intercept, y-intercept, positive intervals, negative intervals, and intervals over which the function may be increasing or decreasing.

Here is a lesson on Reflection and Refraction of light. Provided is the definitions of reflection and refraction accompanied by a few demonstration videos.  

This lesson explains the school wide expectations that our school has developed for lining up on the blacktop.

Join the ladybug in an exploration of rotational motion. Rotate the merry-go-round to change its angle, or choose a constant angular velocity or angular acceleration. Explore how circular motion relates to the bug's x,y position, velocity, and acceleration using vectors or graphs.

This activity aligns to a novice-level unit about families. It focuses on numbers and basic family relationships as students listen to an authentic audio file, then further learning through compiling a family tree as a group. Two versions are included: One with instructions in English, and one with instructions in Spanish.

This lesson will give beginner Lego-builders a fun introduction to gears and how they function. If used in a classroom setting, there is also a video about the History of Lego and an activity for students to free-build the flag of Denmark in honor of the company's beginnings there.

This lesson is an introduction to using Google Docs. In this lesson you will practice using tools, settings, & other features in Google Docs, as well as editing and adjusting the content and settings of a doc to prepare it for sharing and collaboration.

An article about a teacher working with 4th and 5th grade students in centers focused around STEM. These STEM activities are around the “The Science & Technology of Sound & Music.”

Using the web-based lessons highlighted in this article, students learn how to pose questions before, during, and after reading nonfiction, fiction, and diagrams. This reading comprehension strategy is included in the literacy column of the magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, a free, online publication for K-5 teachers.

Making predictions is a skill readers need for comprehending fiction and nonfiction. Three lessons are identified here to give young readers opportunities to make predictions about nonfiction text found in print or on web pages. The lessons are aligned with the national standards for English language arts. The article appears in the free, online magazine that focuses on the seven essential principles of climate literacy.

Students analyze an individual student's case of library anxiety. Case study intended to help students identify their own library anxiety and articulate ways of managing it.

This video segment adapted from Shedding Light on Science demonstrates the law of reflection by showing how light energy is reflected off both smooth and rough surfaces at predictable angles.

This activity is a culmnating assessment of students' abilities to describe a linear function in words, in an equation, in a table, in a graph, identify a solution, and explain the solution.

In this lesson, students will distinguish the literal and non-literal meanings of verbal and written content in different contexts. The lesson targets adult learners of English who have demonstrated Grades 3- 4 or B-C reading level. Learners will demonstrate an understanding of idioms by using context clues in the sentences to help figure out the meanings of idioms, by drawing out idioms without using words or letters, by giving written tips using idioms, and by creating greeting cards.

Students use specimens prepared by the teacher and try to decide if each one is living, non-living or dead.  This may be done as inquiry prior to instruction or as reinforcement.

Can you avoid the boulder field and land safely, just before your fuel runs out, as Neil Armstrong did in 1969? Our version of this classic video game accurately simulates the real motion of the lunar lander with the correct mass, thrust, fuel consumption rate, and lunar gravity. The real lunar lander is very hard to control.

Sample high school MISA test item set which uses a physics and earth space science performance expectations.  The Item set focuses on wind turbines and their environmental impacts. It contains 5 questions and one constructed response for a total of 9 points. (Image source: “Wind Turbine” by Painter06 at Pixabay.com.)