Female Reproduction Review
(View Complete Item Description)This is an review activity to help my students review the female reproduction system.
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Male Reproduction Review
(View Complete Item Description)This is a SoftChalk that helps my students review the Male Reproduction System.
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Self Review
(View Complete Item Description)This SoftChalk starts out reviewing self esteem and self concept and ends with assessment activities for the students to take.
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SoftChalk Activities Examples
(View Complete Item Description)This SoftChalk was created to show and give an example of all the activities and how they work.
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Spanish - Telling Time
(View Complete Item Description)Telling time in Spanish. (Students may need to review number 1-59 before starting this unit)
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Transformations of Functions
(View Complete Item Description)In this students will develop their knowledge of transformations as it applies to all functions. This lesson focuses on linear, quadratic, absolute value, exponential and radical functions. Students will need access to internet and graphing utilities.I have included the assessment I used to asses this unit. See "Resources" tab in the right.
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U1M3 Visible Thinking Practice
(View Complete Item Description)This module will allow students to practice a visible thinking strategy - I used to think, Now I think...
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Do You Know why the Sistine Chapel was Artrageous?
(View Complete Item Description)Michelangelo is known as one of the greatest artists to walk the earth simply due to his work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Join us as we explore Michelangelo’s awkward relationship to Pope Julius II and his skill at painting in the complex and often dangerous Fresco style. But do you know just how difficult a feat this creation was?
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Writing to Inform about a Famous Scientist
(View Complete Item Description)This is a lesson built in SoftChalk for sixth-grade students who have been taught the thinking tracks strategy. The lesson reminds students about how to write an informative paragraph.
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Is it Worth it?
(View Complete Item Description)Students will be given a product along with information necessary to determine the cost of the product after discounts, travel and time involved in making the purchase. Students will then decided which option seems to be best based on where they place value; time, money, etc.
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Color, Symbol, Image (CSI)
(View Complete Item Description)This particular Color, Symbol, Image (CSI) lesson is designed for implementation by an art teacher with 6th-grade students. However, the strategy can be utilized in other disciplines for the purpose of Making Thinking Visible. Parental consent was granted to share a student sample of the final product for this lesson, which is pictured above. The title card the 6th-grade student, Boston, created included the following description: "The sunrise in the painting represents the help and hope that Houston is getting. Also, the clouds are eyes, and the sun is a mouth. The face is crying. This represents my sympathy for Texas." Boston had selected "Rising floodwaters overwhelm Houston, other parts of Texas", the third option from Newsela provided in the Google Slides. The choices for articles can be updated each year prior to the activity.
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Cell Communication: Neurons, Synapses and Signaling
(View Complete Item Description)Neuron and action potential basics for AP Biology.
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What's wrong with the fish?
(View Complete Item Description)This brief investigation has students observe the phenomena of fish illness in the Chesapeke Bay and make predications based on data on the cause of the illness and the connection to the greater environmental issue at hand. AP Content Connection: Living WorldB. Natural Biogeochemical Cycles (Carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, water, conservation of matter)
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Cells Inquiry Activity
(View Complete Item Description)This is an inquiry activity that uses either pictures of cells or microscopes and slides to get students thinking about cell structure and function. You could look at prokaryotic vs eukaryotic cells, plant vs animal or different types of cells found in one organism. The objective is to have students begin to make the connection between sructure and function in cells.
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Solving Word Problems with Base Ten Blocks
(View Complete Item Description)Solving word problems with base ten blocks.
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Of Mice and Men Small Group Writing
(View Complete Item Description)This uses the video, Small Group Writing, as a basis for a reflection essay for Of Mice and Men.
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Hands-on Balancing Equations and Reaction Types
(View Complete Item Description)Objectives: To use models and particle diagrams to represent the law of conservation of matter and energy in a chemical reaction.To write and determine the ratio of reactants to products, through the use of adding coefficients. To classify various types of chemical reactions.
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What do I want to Make? What do I have to say? How do I see things differently than others?
(View Complete Item Description)How do I motivate my students to create their own original art work? How to I get my students to start thinking creatively? I have used I See, Wonder and Think activity combined with three ways to think about art as a spring board for motivating students. Imitationalism: This is a belief that art work should be made to represent what we see in the real world. Sometimes it is also referred to as Realism.Formalism: This is the belief that art work should focus on the Language of Art. The artist focus is on using the Elements of Art and the Principles of design as the main focus of the art work. Sometimes referred to as the form, or formal aspects of the work.Emotionalism: This is the belief that art work should express the artist emotion or create an emotional reaction or response from the viewer. This is some times referred to as expressionistic.
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How to use the 4 step process to critique art work.
(View Complete Item Description)This is a unit that I have used for introducing students to the four step process for critiquing art work. I like to use this critique with their design project to reinforce their learning for using the Language of Art. The description (see) part of the activity works well with requiring the students to "Think" about what Elements of Art they used in their design. They are then required to determine how the elements are organized using the Principles of Design.
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Geometry
(View Complete Item Description)Students engage in a competitive group relay to construct formal proofs involving triangles. New proofs can always be written to fit different curriculum and pacing.
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