Download this comprehensive, 60-page elementary unit that was co-developed by the Fast Plants Program and Emily Miller (ELA/science elementary science education specialist) who helped author the Next Generation Science Standards) as an exemplar for supporting three-dimensional learning. Developed in 2014, the lessons in this unit that fall during the time when Fast Plants are flowering and being pollinated are the same lessons that were extracted as a stand-alone Bee-ing an Engineer unit, also used as an NGSS-aligned exemplar.

Students will make observations of weathering on different rock types in a cemetery. Students will also make observations of rock types of the Minneopa Falls.

This is an information sheet on the species, Isistius brasiliensis, provided by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.

Library Carpentry lesson to learn how to use the Shell. This Library Carpentry lesson introduces librarians to the Unix Shell. At the conclusion of the lesson you will: understand the basics of the Unix shell; understand why and how to use the command line; use shell commands to work with directories and files; use shell commands to find and manipulate data.

Make a copy of this Google Jamboard. You can uses it as an assignment, exit ticket, or assessment in your Google Classroom or LMS. There are two slides. The first the students has to complete the life cycle by dragging the correct picture to the accurate place. The second slide the student then has to type a paragraph explain the life cycle of a butterfly, using vocabulary words like egg, larva, chrysalis, and metamorphosis.

This is an updated version. Introduction to Lifespan Development (Fall 2019)
Lifespan Development examines the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes that occur throughout a lifetime. This course covers the essentials in understanding human development, psychological research, and theories of growth and development. Students will come to understand the lifespan perspective and to analyze growth through each of the major stages of development: prenatal development, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood (including emerging adulthood), middle adulthood, and late adulthood. The course covers key topics in each of these stages, including major developmental theories, genetics, attachment, education, learning, disabilities, parenting, family life, moral development, illnesses, aging, generativity, and attitudes towards death and dying.

Faculty members may readily adapt the course’s OER content to include new developments and research to equip students with what they need to have success in their sociological journey.

Contributors
This course, based on Lifespan Psychology by Laura Overstreet, includes additional material from the Noba Project, OpenStax Psychology, and additional noteworthy contributions by the Lumen Learning team and:

Sarah Carter
Margaret Clark-Plaskie
Daniel Dickman
Tera Jones
Julie Lazzara
Stephanie Loalada
John R. Mather
Sonja Ann Miller
Nancee Ott
Jessica Traylor

This textbook is a massive long term collaboration between sociologists who want to lessen the cost of higher education for students like you. This book is originally written by a sociologist at the University of Maine, and the textbook publisher for his many other books doesn’t want his name associated with free work… frustrating but not surprising. The sociology faculty at Lansing Community College secured an editable version and worked to provide a more current version in 2018. Their data analysis from the 2016 General Social Survey and from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample is included in the text. Then in 2020 the sociology faculty at Delta College produced the online version of the book, updated the Census Data to the most recent 2018 American Community Survey and updated the 2017-2020 data from the World Values Survey. Additional editing for readability, a global to local focus, and modern context is underway. This text is a work in progress, and your questions and feedback make it more relevant and relatable.

The mission of the MIT-Haiti Initiative is to promote active learning in Kreyòl so that Haitians can have universal access to quality education in the language that most of them speak at home. 
Platfòm MIT-Ayiti, launched in 2019, offers a wealth of freely accessible educational resources in Kreyòl, including downloadable lesson plans and picture books categorized by topic, alongside official curricula from Haiti’s Ministry of National Education. The target audience for these resources includes students at all levels from pre-kindergarten through high school, and we offer materials in all disciplines. We also host and invite contributions from all educators who are willing to submit their own materials in Kreyòl. We work with these contributions, in konbit (collaborative) mode, to improve these submissions before publication. Men anpil, chay pa lou! (That is, many hands make light work!)
The Initiative’s original website, launched in 2010, includes software tools for math, physics, genetics, and biochemistry education, as well as a preliminary (work-in-progress) glossary of Kreyòl equivalents for English words commonly used in the STEM disciplines.

These activities are included as a way to help your students explore/build their mindset and metacognitive awareness. Also included are documents explaining how to access the accompanying MyOpenMath course.

In this project, students will have the opportunity to explore how to calculate biomass for trees through a real-life outdoor activity. To find the project, go to this website. ​​​​​​​

In this project, students will have the opportunity to reflect on culturally responsive education practices. Note that this project may require very little math (depending on what adaptations are necessary to the OER), but will help students evaluate their roles in contributing to OER materials and furthering DEI practices. There are two parts to this project: 1) evaluating the current level of cultural responsiveness of an OER or the curriculum and 2) adapting an OER to be more culturally responsive. You can have students evaluate one OER (well suited if students are working individually) or the entire curriculum (well suited if students are working in teams). Regardless of whether students are working individually or as a team, they are likely to only have time to adapt one OER.

In this project, students will have the opportunity to explore how math is used to solve real-world problems. In this case, students will examine how linear equations may be used to predict the size of megalodon based on the size and position of a fossilized tooth. You may have students work individually or as part of a team (3-4 would be ideal).

In this project, students will have the opportunity to explore regression in more detail. Specifically, they will be looking at how Covid-19 Stimulus money was distributed to each state in the country.

The project is designed to help students better understand budgeting. They will also learn about the real-life options and challenges to managing money. Students will learn about gross and net salaries, renting and buying a home, credit scores, savings, loans, and time value of money. 

Basic Algebra Operations Notes:Place Value and RoundingIntegers and DecimalsFractions, Decimals, and PercentsFractionsProportionsExponentsAlgebraic Expressions

Topics List for this Lesson: One Step EquationsTwo Step EquationsMulti-Step EquationsSolving Formulas with VariablesWriting Algebraic EquationsSolving Word Problems

Topics List for this Lesson: Percents, Sales Tax, and DiscountsIncome TaxSimple and Compound InterestAnnuities, Methods of Saving, and InvestingHome Ownership

Topics List for this Lesson: Points, Lines, Planes, and AnglesTriangles Plus Similarity and ProportionsPerimeter, Area, and CircumferenceVolume and Surface Area