In this activity, students will play a game to review the conversation skills acquired this past semester. This activity will be a review of questions, introductions, and basic information. The goal is for students to be able to sign a response to the questions as fast as they can.

This lesson is the first of three on the topic. It is designed so that teachers can introduce new concepts to students engagingly and educationally. You can teach this lesson to beginner, elementary English speakers or use it as a review for more intermediate-level speakers. This lesson can also be used during individual and group lessons. Keep in mind that age does not necessarily correlate with a learner’s level of proficiency in English.Before this lesson, students should have prerequisite knowledge of the present simple tense, present continuous tense and the ability to count syllables.If you want additional lesson plans and support, including teachers’ notes, be sure to register for a free Off2Class account.

In this activity, students will review by talking about things revolving around the university, family, and vacations.

This remix has question cards that are more friendly to secondary students and has been slightly simplified.

The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) was originally designed to aid libraries in deciding which journals to index and purchase for their collections. Over the past few decades, however, it has become a relied upon metric used to evaluate research articles based on journal rank. Surveyed faculty often report feeling pressure to publish in journals with high JIFs and mention reliance on the JIF as one problem with current academic evaluation systems. While faculty reports are useful, information is lacking on how often and in what ways the JIF is currently used for review, promotion, and tenure (RPT). We therefore collected and analyzed RPT documents from a representative sample of 129 universities from the United States and Canada and 381 of their academic units. We found that 40% of doctoral, research-intensive (R-type) institutions and 18% of master’s, or comprehensive (M-type) institutions explicitly mentioned the JIF, or closely related terms, in their RPT documents. Undergraduate, or baccalaureate (B-type) institutions did not mention it at all. A detailed reading of these documents suggests that institutions may also be using a variety of terms to indirectly refer to the JIF. Our qualitative analysis shows that 87% of the institutions that mentioned the JIF supported the metric’s use in at least one of their RPT documents, while 13% of institutions expressed caution about the JIF’s use in evaluations. None of the RPT documents we analyzed heavily criticized the JIF or prohibited its use in evaluations. Of the institutions that mentioned the JIF, 63% associated it with quality, 40% with impact, importance, or significance, and 20% with prestige, reputation, or status. In sum, our results show that the use of the JIF is encouraged in RPT evaluations, especially at research-intensive universities, and indicates there is work to be done to improve evaluation processes to avoid the potential misuse of metrics like the JIF.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Cancer-related mortality, a leading cause of death in the US, is driven by tumor invasion and metastasis. Implicated in these processes is epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, or EMT. EMT drives invasion through a dramatic reorganization of a cell's cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix. Because EMT is a rare event, undergone by a few abnormal cells, it is difficult to view directly in a patient. But new research methods are providing a lens into this critical process. Culturing cells on planar surfaces is revealing how their EMT behavior is coordinated and driven by leader cells. Research on the protein vimentin highlights its role in enabling cells to contort during migration or proliferation. Other studies examine how topographically patterning culture surfaces changes the behaviors of cells as they slip into and out of EMT. And 3D matrices are being used to examine the dissemination and disorganization of multicellular clusters..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

A form for evaluating OER materials based on Content, Accessibility, and Pedagogy. Statements are arranged in rubric style allowing for efficiency in the review process, while requiring narrative information to document the statements. Items are rated according to the mandated scale in Utah: Recommended Primary, Recommended Limited, Recommended Teacher Resource, Recommended Student Resource, Reviewed not Recommended, Not Sampled, Not Reviewed.

Students will talk about their favorite board games. They will learn how to discuss preferences in board games. For the main activity, students are playing battle ship with some review of vocabulary signs from the semester.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Cancers are complex diseases largely characterized by rapid cellular proliferation. This can be slowed by regulated cell death mechanisms like ferroptosis. Ferroptosis is triggered by extensive peroxidation of cell membrane phospholipids by reactive oxygen species (ROS), but ferroptosis can be inhibited by enzymes that undo peroxidation like GPX4. Another enzyme, DHODH, supports GPX4 and is vital to the production of pyrimidine nucleotides, critical building blocks for rapidly proliferating cells. In theory, this would make inhibiting DHODH a valuable therapeutic target for cancer by freeing up ferroptosis and hampering proliferation. However, this is complicated by the “Warburg effect,” which is common in some cancer cells. The Warburg effect is a shift away from using mitochondria for energy to other metabolic processes, which has knock-on effects..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Contains What Comes to Mind Overview and 2 student examples (one stronger response and one weaker response)

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Advancements in next-generation sequencing have opened the door to detailed analyses of the human microbiome. This technique has many applications, and pancreatic cancer research is one of them. Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with an estimated 5-year survival rate of only 11%. Most cases, over 80%, are not found until the cancer is too advanced to successfully treat, but pancreatic cancer patients show shifts in their oral microbiome, which could be detected years earlier than current methods allow. Pathogenic oral bacteria have also been found within pancreatic tumors, which is another potential link between them. However, these findings barely scratch the surface of how the oral microbiome relates to pancreatic cancer. The oral microbiome is influenced by a combination of host-related and environmental factors, which include genetics, race, ethnicity, smoking, socioeconomics, and age..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"The fidelity of cellular signaling is largely dependent upon “hubs” of protein-protein interaction that integrate signals across large intersecting signaling webs. Hub proteins tend to have a high degree of intrinsic disorder, which allows them to interact with an array of differently structured proteins. However, in some cases the hub is structured and interacts with disordered ligands instead. One example is a recently described group of folded hubs, the αα-hubs, which are connected by a shared structural foundation. The αα-hubs are small α-helical domains found in large modular proteins that interact with disordered ligands such as transcription factors. A recent commentary suggests that the harmonin-homology-domain (HHD) belongs to the αα-hub group based on structural analysis. The inclusion of HHD adds several functions to the group, such as telomere regulation and neurovascular integrity..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

In this activity, students will have the opportunity to review the chapters and materials they have gone over throughout the semester.

The students will be exposed to and asked to read katakana words for real Japanese food products. The students will then play bingo to practice simple vocabulary.

In this lab, students will review the vocabulary and phrases they learned by playing a jeopardy. They will learn how to apply what they learned into real life situations.