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Analysis of Text Craft and Structure
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson explores authors craft and sturcture through and event that directly effects students.
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All resources in Heartland AEA
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How to Find and Use Evidence within Persuasive Writing
(View Complete Item Description)This is an English language arts lesson and the lesson introduces evidence as something that is necessary to support your claims within persuasive writing. Evidence helps demonstrate the relationship between ideas and words within the claim that should be the key ideas within the essay, passage, or to support a claim. Learners will practice using this evidence to support their claim about their topic, then they will find one piece of evidence from an article on that topic.
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Substitute Teacher Training (Ballard West: Seesaw)
(View Complete Item Description)This Softchalk Course, Ballard Substitute Teacher Support, is designed to assist our Ballard substitute teachers at our West building (PK - 2nd grade) in learning about Seesaw. Iowa Teaching Standard 7: Engages in professional growth. a. The teacher demonstrates the habits and skills of continuous inquiry and learning. b. The teacher works collaboratively to improve professional practice and student learning. This course/training does not go into the depth required for understanding the big ideas related to remote teaching, but instead, the aim is to provide Ballard substitute teachers a unique opportunity to experience Seesaw as a student and teacher.
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Natural selection and the owl butterfly
(View Complete Item Description)How the "Owl Butterfly" may have gotten the spot on its wings.
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Wearing A Mask
(View Complete Item Description)https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EYJD3NTQm0GFKuk36ffVYMrO1jHd74SM9p-XgPO6_bU/edit#slide=id.p
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Last Kids on Earth - Lesson 1
(View Complete Item Description)This is the first lesson in the Graphic Novel Study for "The Last Kids on Earth".
Material Type: Reading
Measuring Waves Part 2
(View Complete Item Description)During this lesson, students will learn about 3 ways to measure a simple wave.
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Factors that Affect Supply and Demnd
(View Complete Item Description)What factors impact demand and supply? This lesson gives an overview of different factors that impact demand and supply. There is also a practice assignment included at the end.
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How to Write an Ode
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will learn the defining characteristics of an ode. They will examine model texts from published authors and identify poetic devices at work in an ode. Ultimately, students are invited to compose an ode of their own.
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Claim, Support, Question for Student Editorial Project
(View Complete Item Description)These discussion guides may be used as part of an anticipatory set to introduce argumentation. "Claim, Support, Question," is a "Visible Thinking Routine" developed by Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
High Yield Routines
(View Complete Item Description)Strategies for Math
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Current Reality and Barriers PD
(View Complete Item Description)This professional development will lead a team of math teachers through a goal-setting process where they first identify their current reality, then set goals for improvement, identify barriers, and finish with generating solutions.
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Differentiating With Technology PD
(View Complete Item Description)Background: We are providing PD on differentiation. Day two is centered around using tech tools to differentiate. We will be exploring three tech tools for this PD (Jamboard, Adobe Spark, and Canva). The see-think-wonder strategy will be repeated to explore each of these tools separately. They will be building off of day one PD where they identified gaps in their units where they needed to differentiate. When they have worked through the activity for each tool, they should have a list of differentiation ideas that can be used to fill the gaps they had identified previously.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
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Current Reality and Barriers Professional Development
(View Complete Item Description)This professional development will lead a team of math teachers through a goal-setting process where they first identify their current reality, then set goals for improvement, identify barriers, and finish with generating solutions.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
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High Yield Math Routines
(View Complete Item Description)Strategies for Math
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LINES Expectations (Teaching School Wide Expectations)
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson explains the school wide expectations that our school has developed for lining up on the blacktop.
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Informational Writing
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson will provide students with an overview of the informational writing process.
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Reading Fluency for Middle School
(View Complete Item Description)Reading Fluency Info and Strategies for MS Teachers
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Fluency Strategies PD
(View Complete Item Description)This is a PD over fluency strategies that can be used in all content areas.
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Addition Strategies Review
(View Complete Item Description)The lesson is to be used to review the six addition strategies the first grade class has already learned. The strategies are: Add Zero Facts, Count On Facts, Make 10 Facts, Doubles Facts, Add 10 Facts, and Add 9 Facts. It also touches on the equal sign.
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