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 The lesson is designed for Grade 5 English Language Arts students to review the four types of sentences: exclamatory, declarative, interrogative, imperative. This lesson addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 5.1.4.a, NE LA 5.1.4.b.It is expected that this lesson will take students 60 minutes to complete.

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English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Languages
Linguistics
Speaking and Listening
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Lesson
Author:
Carrie Veal
Date Added:
07/23/2020
US Constitution Scavenger Hunt
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Geoffrey Kenmuir - Passaic County Community College. This assignment prepares first-year students to perform academic research. Specifically, by working with a complex text such as the US Constitution, they will be required to write summaries (articles), paraphrases (definitions), and create a Works Cited Page that adheres to MLA standards. By developing these fundamental skills they will have an opportunity to self-assess their abilities, and realize which research skills are lacking, and which are strong.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
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Module
Author:
Geoffrey Kenmuir
Date Added:
07/18/2017
U.S. History
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 U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.Senior Contributing AuthorsP. Scott Corbett, Ventura CollegeVolker Janssen, California State University, FullertonJohn M. Lund, Keene State CollegeTodd Pfannestiel, Clarion UniversityPaul Vickery, Oral Roberts UniversitySylvie Waskiewicz

Subject:
U.S. History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
OpenStax College
Date Added:
05/07/2014
U.S. History Sourcebook - Advanced
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From CK-12, U.S. History Sourcebook - Advanced covers U.S. history from Colonial America through World War I. This book provides high school U.S. History teachers and students with sets of primary and secondary sources about important topics. Some teachers will use it as a supplement to a traditional textbook. For those looking to leave the textbook behind entirely, it will provide a course with basic structure and continuity, and will reduce the burden of finding new primary sources for each class meeting. However, it is not yet comprehensive enough to meet the coverage requirements of, for example, an Advanced Placement test.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Reading
Textbook
Provider:
CK-12 Foundation
Provider Set:
CK-12 FlexBook
Date Added:
10/29/2009
Underground Railroad Readers’ Theater
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This resource was created by Jenny Bauer, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

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English Language Arts
Performing Arts
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Lesson Plan
Author:
Arts ESU2
Date Added:
08/21/2022
Understanding Organic: Connections to Action in the Garden Classroom
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***This curriculum is provided by The Edible Schoolyard Project with full permission to share*** Understanding Organic: Connections to Action in the Garden Classroom is a garden and classroom-based curriculum for middle to high school students that explores the concepts and meanings of organic agriculture. The curriculum consists of a short preparatory unit, a sequence of ten core lessons, and twelve optional extension inquiries that can also be taught as standalone lessons. The ten core lessons utilize hands-on explorations of organic practices and feature textual analysis and open discussions to examine the complex meanings of organic. The final project workbook introduces students to a social action project in which students apply their knowledge and experiences to enact justice-oriented change related to organic. We recommend that you start by reading the curriculum overview linked below before reading individual lessons. 

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Agriculture
English Language Arts
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
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Reading
Author:
The Bee Cause Project
Date Added:
08/19/2021
Understanding adaptation and appropriation in art and literature
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The activities, assignments, and lessons included here are designed to help students read and write like artists who constantly take apart old ideas and texts in order to repackage them for the sake of contemporary humor, wisdom, and relevance. The activities introduce new vocabulary for discussing how texts work and play, as well as synthesis, analysis, and creativity. 

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English Language Arts
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Activity/Lab
Assessment
Homework/Assignment
Lecture Notes
Reading
Author:
Bryan Harvey
Date Added:
12/27/2019
Understanding algorithms and big data in the job market
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This interactive lesson helps students understand how companies use algorithms to sort job applicants. It also encourages students to reflect on how digital data mining also can contribute to the hiring process. Students examine resumes and digital data to consider the ways in which our data may open or close opportunities in an increasingly digitized hiring market.

Subject:
Applied Science
Business and Communication
Computer Science
English Language Arts
Information Science
Material Type:
Lesson
Date Added:
08/05/2019
Unit Honey Bee- Module 1-3
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Students will examine ways declining bee population can impact day to day life, by considering how the cost of honey and pollination has been affected society Students will create real-world problems that relate to statistics on the declining bee population.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Mathematics
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Date Added:
05/09/2021
Unlocking Literacy for Students with Disabilities 1 of 4: Universal Tools & Strategies
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Comprehensive literacy instruction for all students requires the use of tools and strategies that make the instruction accessible. The Unlocking Literacy for Students with Disabilities Modules will build on what you already know about literacy instruction by demonstrating how strategic tools or strategies can make literacy instruction accessible to students with complex communication needs and physical disabilities. Best practices and research-based strategies for literacy instruction, as well as K-2 English Language Arts (ELA) Common Core State Standards (CCSS), will be included throughout all modules. Universal Strategies & Technology ToolsModule 1 will equip educators and parents with foundational tools and universal strategies to improve literacy instruction for students with complex communication needs and physical disabilities.  The foundational tools and strategies will be applied within subsequent Unlocking Literacy modules.

Subject:
Early Childhood Development
Educational Technology
Elementary Education
English Language Arts
Reading Foundation Skills
Material Type:
Module
Author:
SETC CWU
Sarah Kinsella
Brenda Del Monte
Washington OSPI OER Project
Linda Doehle
Date Added:
11/19/2022
Unlocking Literacy for Students with Disabilities: Module 2 of 4 - Alphabet & Phonological Awareness
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This module focuses on best practices for instruction on alphabet knowledge and phonological awareness.  Explicit Instruction and the Cycle Approach to teaching letters and sounds are highlighted.  Instructional strategies and tools to extend literacy instruction to students with complex communication needs and physical disabilities are discussed.  English Language Art Common Core Standards are provided, along with research on instructional strategies to address the standards. 

Subject:
Early Childhood Development
Reading Foundation Skills
Special Education
Material Type:
Module
Author:
SETC CWU
Sarah Kinsella
Brenda Del Monte
Date Added:
03/11/2023
Unlocking Literacy for Students with Disabilities: Module 3 of 4 - Emergent Reading
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An emergent reader is a young child who is in the early stages of learning to read. They are developing foundational reading skills and becoming aware of how written language works. Emergent readers rely on visual cues, context, and basic letter-sound knowledge to make sense of the text as they gradually build their reading abilities.  Emergent reading is defined as all of the behaviors and understandings of learners of any age that precede and develop into conventional reading. (Koppenhaver, Coleman, Kalman & Yoider 1991; Sulzby, 1985)Emergent reading strategies include providing opportunities for shared reading, self-selected reading, accessing various types of text, and building background knowledge. What if a student cannot hold a book and turn the pages of a book?  What if a student is non-speaking, how will they participate in reading experiences?  This module provides ideas for removing these barriers to provide rich emergent reading experiences for ALL students.

Subject:
Reading Foundation Skills
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Module
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
SETC CWU
Sarah Kinsella
Brenda Del Monte
Date Added:
03/11/2023
Using Details to Determine Theme
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Students often struggle to find theme in literature--one that is not a bumper sticker, a "moral to the story," or anything that could be applied to more than one story.  Understanding what theme is, an implicit argument the author is making, is the first step.  Then it gets more complicated as they realize that there are wrong answers (the ones that don't make sense with the story), there are undeveloped answers (ones that don't get far enough past motif but are on the right track), and there are many possible correct answers that can be explained and supported with the text. This activity uses the Generate-Sort-Connect-Elaborate strategy in small groups to help students focus on the details of the story and how they contribute to the overall point of the story.  It can be used with any piece of literature you deem appropriate for your students.

Subject:
Literature
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Kim Grissom
Date Added:
09/18/2017
Using a Preview Checklist with Informational Text
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In this lessons students identify information from text using titles, subtitles, diagrams, charts, graphs, maps, photographs, illustrations, and captions by using a preview checklist.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Reading Informational Text
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Utah Education Network
Date Added:
08/12/2013
Using the 3Rs to Help the Environment
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In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine our growing waste problem and learn about strategies we can use to lessen the strain on our landfills and Earth's natural resources: reduce, reuse, recycle.

Subject:
Ecology
English Language Arts
Forestry and Agriculture
Geoscience
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Life Science
Physical Science
Space Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:
PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection
Author:
WGBH Educational Foundation
Walmart Foundation
Date Added:
08/29/2011
Vaping: Not for the Young at Heart
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This multimodal text set is designed to help middle school learners work toward mastering the grade-level moderately complex Anchor Text “Vaping: Not for the Young Heart”, adapted from a published study that discusses the cardiovascular risk associated with vaping (Moheimani RS, Bhetraratana M, Yin F, et al., 2017 & Middlekauff, H. R., 2019).

Subject:
Anatomy/Physiology
Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Life Science
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Date Added:
10/06/2022
Version 2: Chemistry Capstone Essay Project: One World Essay
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The Chemistry Capstone Essay is a way to introduce or assess students' knowledge and understanding of a variety of science texts and their understanding of chemical theories and applications taught during the year. Students demonstrate knowledge by having to be concise and distill down complex ideas and connections from a variety of different texts.
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Subject:
Applied Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Date Added:
09/27/2016
"Violin" Hyperdoc
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This remote hyperdoc activity was created by Katlyn Powers on July 24, 2020. The attached hyperdoc & lesson plan is designed for high school ELA students. Students will analyze the poem's perspective, build knowledge about POV, perspective, and theme, and use relevant evidence from a variety of sources to write a synthesis statement. This plan addresses the following NDE standards: 10.1.6.A, 10.1.6.B, 10.1.6.D, 10.1.6.F, LA 10.1.6.I, 10.1.6.M, 10.2.2.B. This hyperdoc will take students approximately 90 minutes to complete.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Literature
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Module
Author:
Katlyn Powers
Date Added:
07/24/2020