The purpose of this template is to allow the user to unpack the National Core Arts Standards into task-specific or task-neutral learning targets that then can be used during instruction and/or within an assessment tool like a rubric.

The Unpacking Process:
1. Take a look at the performance standard* and pull out the nouns, or what students need to know.
2. Next pull out what students need to be able to do (the verbs).
3. Write learning targets or I can statements. When writing ask yourself, “What does this look like in student work?”

*Grade level Performance Standards or Indicators will need to be added to the template prior to the first step. This is a blank template.

Explore the parts of book covers and dust jackets with this online guide, designed to to allow users to review the content that appears on each portion of these artifacts.

Students discover how engineers can use biomimicry to enhance their designs. They learn how careful observation of nature becoming a nature detective, so to speak can lead to new innovations and products. In this activity, students reverse engineer a flower to glean design ideas for new products.

This module contains instructor resources and student-facing materials to facilitate the use of online forums to teach a blended, workshop-based writing/composition class.

STUDENT ACTIVITY -- 5th -- NC/TXThis is a distance-learning lesson students can complete at home.The student will use their knowledge of operations (addition and subtraction) of fractions with unequal denominators to solve real world problems.This activity was created by Out Teach (out-teach.org), a nonprofit providing outdoor experiential learning to transform Science education for students in under-served communities.

What we like about this task

Mathematically:

Addresses standards: 4.OA.A, 4.NBT.B, 4.OA.A.3, 4.NBT.B.6, MP.1, and MP.6
Requires students to understand the meaning of the quotient and remainder in order to solve problems in a real-world context
Addresses content across two major clusters (4.OA.A and 4.NBT.B) within the grade, specifically 4.OA.A.3 and 4.NBT.B.6
Requires students to interpret what is being asked and perform extensive calculations (MP.1) accurately and efficiently (MP.6)
In the classroom:

Offers opportunities for students to use strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division to solve division problems
Provides repeated practice of multi-digit division and can be easily altered to allow for repeated use throughout the year
Allows for small group, partner, or individual work

In this video, you will learn how to check out a resource such as a room, Chromebook cart, etc in Google Calendar.

This is slideshow that explains how the Learn Centered Model works in Elementary school

This is a slide show about the Learner Centered Model in High School and Middle School

This website offers an alternative way to approach and design how people work together. It provides a menu of thirty-three Liberating Structures to replace or complement conventional practices.

Mystery Hangouts (or Skype) provide an engaging way for classrooms to learn about different regions of the US including climate, landforms, resources, economy, and people. Mystery Hangouts/Skype is a connected learning experience that allows student-centered learning, inquiry and deductive reasoning to be at the forefront of the experience. The concept is simple: Classrooms Hangouts or video calls each other and try to guess where the other classroom is located either in the United States or somewhere else in the world. On the day of the call, students use their resources in trying to figure where the other class is calling from via Google Hangout.

This is the second module in ISKME's OER Academy series that will provide participants with an introduction to OER and the value added, highlighting successful use cases from around the world. We have designed these modules to first spark the learner's interest in the topics covered and then dig deeper into the content through presentations, storytelling, and demonstrations of the tools. We will offer opportunities for learners to practice exploring the resources and tools, and reflect on how they might use them in their work.

This module will provide participants with an Introduction to OER Discovery and Curation and the value added, highlighting successful use cases from around the world. We have designed these modules to first spark the learner's interest in the topics covered and then dig deeper into the content through presentations, storytelling, and demonstrations of the tools. We will offer opportunities for learners to practice exploring the resources and tools, and reflect on how they might use them in their work.

This module is designed to help users learn how to use the built-in evaluation tools on OER Commons.

This is a guide to help teachers implement Genius Hour or Passion Projects in their classes. Passion Projects are projects where students are allowed to work on their passions during a specific time carved out in school. They choose what they want to learn and how they are going to learn it. It fosters innovation, creativity, and personalization during set period of school time by encouraging student choice and voice.

In this activity, students are introduced to the concept of ecosystem services, provided with a tool for exploring these services in particular landscapes, and led through a few examples so that they will be comfortable using the tool. Google Earth is presented as a tool for exploring landscapes and evaluating the ecosystem services provided by those landscapes, including spatial and temporal variability. Students use Google Earth to identify and classify ecosystem services according to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) categories, first by looking at an example landscape along the the Missouri River, and then by looking at an example specific to their location.

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This is the original State Board document describing each of the VT Education Quality Standards.