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Relationships Alternate Education Framework Remix

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These introductory plans will springboard students into the inspirational text, Dolphin Tale: The Junior Novel. This modified text, and a full length feature movie, was inspired by the true story of Winter, an injured bottlenose dolphin, and her recovery. Selected as an anchor text for this unit, Dolphin Tale: The Junior Novel provides many opportunities for third graders to engage in deep comprehension with a motivating and relevant text.  The modified text, was created using more simplistic language while keeping the main idea and characters intact. Students will recount events and identify the many and varied types of relationships presented in the story. Later in this unit, students will read a modified version of, Winter’s Tail, the informative account of Winter’s rescue and her rehabilitation. This set of lessons is intended to span between 6-10 instructional periods and will also set the stage for specific learning structures and routines.  Students will use response strategies to identify relationships among characters and animals.  Through reading and discussion, students will cite key details and evidence that support the main idea of portions of the text read. Contained in this plan are day-by-day lessons.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Lisa Johnson, MSDE Admin, Nancy Schmitt

Grade 4: Natures Wonders and Woes Alternate Education Framework Remix

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These introductory plans will springboard students into the fictional text, Night of the Twister.  This modified text, and informational PowerPoint featuring four natural disasters, was inspired by a real event that happened in Nebraska in 1980.  The modified text was created using more simplistic language while keeping the main idea intact.  Students will recount events and analyze characteristics that define natural disasters, while answering the overarching unit question: How do natural disasters impact us? This set of lessons is intended to span between 5-10 instructional periods and will also set the stage for specific learning structures and routines.  Students will use response strategies to identify how nature can impact us.  Through reading and discussion, students will cite key details and make inferences based evidence that support the main idea of portions of the text read.  Included are examples of text dependent questions and sample questions to guide instruction.  Contained in this plan are day-by-day lessons.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Lisa Johnson, MSDE Admin, Nancy Schmitt

Grade 1: Unit 2- Our Environment: Lesson 1 REMIX

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This is a REMIX of the MSDE Grade 1, Unit 1 Environment Lesson Plan 1. In this lesson, the students will be going on a nature walk to identify what is in their environment. Students will continue to develop an understanding of the word, environment, throughout the lesson and unit. They will listen to a story read aloud about how the Earth was created.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: MSDE Admin, Lauren Byrd, Shannon Copeland, Jennifer Ralston

Grade 1: Unit 2- Our Environment: Lesson 3 REMIX

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Students will participate in either a cooperative learning activity (jigsaw strategy) or a teacher directed activity to help students gather information about the different habitats on earth. Students will share and discuss the information gathered in order to identify some commonalities among all habitats and relate this understanding to environments. Then the teacher will guide the students in developing generalizations about habitats and their connections to environments overall. (A habitat is an animal’s home. A habitat includes all of the things the animal needs to survive. A habitat it found in the surrounding environment. They are connected.)

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: MSDE Admin, Lauren Byrd, Shannon Copeland, Jennifer Ralston

Grade 6: Belonging, Lesson 2 (remix)

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This two-day lesson focuses on the reading and analysis of “The Circuit” by Francisco Jiménez. The goal of this lesson is for students to make inferences about the challenges and changes required of the story’s character, Panchito, and to find evidence of the author’s craft that develops the narrative.Students will reflect upon the relevance of the essential question (In what ways does our need to feel a sense of belonging conflict with our individuality?) to the narrator's experience.  In particular, students should recognize that the reality of the narrator's individual situation acts as an impediment to his efforts to belong to a community.Although "The Circuit" is classified as a work of fiction, the author states that the stories represent the lives of his family members.  Students will appreciate Jimenez's descriptive, character-driven writing. 

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Annmarie Steltzer, MSDE Admin, Kathleen Maher-Baker

Grade 7: Consequences Lesson Seed 3

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Lesson seeds are ideas that can be used to build a lesson aligned to the CCSS. Lesson seeds are not meant to be all-inclusive, nor are they substitutes for instruction.When developing lessons from these seeds, teachers must consider the needs of all learners. It is also important to build checkpoints into the lessons where appropriate formative assessment will inform a teacher’s instructional pacing and delivery. This lesson assumes students have already read through Chapter 3 in preparation for this lesson. Teachers could use a modified version of the PARCC scoring rubric to assess student writing. Full rubric can be found in the resources for teachers to modify for use in their classroom:IMPORTANT NOTE: Consider the need for Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) and/or for captioned/described video when selecting texts, novels, video and/or other media for this unit. See “Sources for Accessible Media” for suggestions. See Maryland Learning Links.Cover Image: "The Assassination of President Lincoln" from Cornell University Library at Flickr.com

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Michael Griffith, MSDE Admin, Kathleen Maher-Baker

Grade 7: Consequences Lesson Seed #1

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Lesson seeds are ideas that can be used to build a lesson aligned to the CCSS. Lesson seeds are not meant to be all-inclusive, nor are they substitutes for instruction.When developing lessons from these seeds, teachers must consider the needs of all learners. It is also important to build checkpoints into the lessons where appropriate formative assessment will inform a teacher’s instructional pacing and delivery.Text Model: Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural SpeechPrologue to Chasing Lincoln’s KillerIMPORTANT NOTE: Consider the need for Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) and/or for captioned/described video when selecting texts, novels, video and/or other media for this unit. See “Sources for Accessible Media” for suggestions. See Maryland Learning Links: http://marylandlearninglinks.org.Cover image: Abraham Lincoln Birthday Observance at the Lincoln Memorial from the National Park Service at nps.gov

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Michael Griffith, MSDE Admin, Kathleen Maher-Baker

Grade 8 Does Speech Matter Lesson 3 Speech Text (MDK12 Remix)

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This lesson spans multiple days and explores the value of debate teams in schools. During the first week of the unit, students learned to identify claims and warrants in texts. This week, students will build upon that knowledge by writing a basic argument and learning about the types of support that are used to build an argument. This will culminate with an assessment in which the students choose a position to take after reading a text and develop their claims and warrants with appropriate support and analysis.Cover image: "[Booker T. Washington, half-length portrait, seated]" by Frances Benjamin Johnston from the Prints & Photographs Onlince Catalog at loc.gov  

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Laura Knapp, MSDE Admin, Kathleen Maher-Baker

First Grade: Design Dilemma

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The purpose of Design Dilemma is to encourage students to use resourceful and creative behaviors to think like a scientist. Students will demonstrate these behaviors to design and build a suitable structure for a fourth little pig. Although the use of the book The Fourth Little Pig is helpful, the module may be taught without it. This module is meant for all students. The classroom teacher should work with a specialist or special educator to find or develop alternate activities or resources for visually impaired students, where appropriate.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Amy Tubman, MSDE Admin, Melinda Wilson, Kathleen Hogan, Gwen Lewis, Marcella Brown, Kathleen Gregory, Bruce Riegel, Jessica J. Reinhard, Heidi Strite, Margaret Lee

First Grade: Thinking Big

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OverviewThe purpose of Thinking Big is to immerse students in a series of research-based cognitive behaviors that are foundational to school and life success: creativity, logical reasoning, memory, and spatial reasoning.Thinking Big was developed by Frederick County Public Schools and is made up of single-day experiences designed to instruct students in the behaviors and elicit them without additional prompting. While arranged in order of difficulty, lessons may also serve as “stand-alone” experiences throughout the year grouped by cognitive focus. Most lessons use mathematical thinking prompts and manipulatives. The focus of the unit is not on math, but on thinking and reasoningThe lessons have also been mapped to the relevant gifted behaviors that are taught and observed through the PTD Program. There are two scoring guides: one that allows the observer to record the names of those students who exhibit a command of the cognitive behavior(s); and a REPI-aligned continuum, which allows the observer to note the affective behavior that undergirds a student’s high-level completion of the cognitive behavior. This module is meant for all students. The classroom teacher should work with a specialist or special educator to find or develop alternate activities or resources for visually-impaired students, where appropriate.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Amy Tubman, MSDE Admin, Bruce Riegel, Melinda Wilson, Kathleen Hogan, Gwen Lewis, Marcella Brown, Jessica J. Reinhard, Kathleen Gregory, Heidi Strite, Margaret Lee

Second Grade: Preservation Problem Solvers

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The purpose of Preservation Problem Solvers is to encourage students to use leadership and resourceful behaviors to think like a scientist. This module extends the Essential Strategies of Attributes, Questioning, and Creative Problem Solving introduced in Kindergarten and First Grade, is for all students. The classroom teacher should work with a specialist or special educator to find or develop alternate activities or resources for visually impaired students, where appropriate.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Amy Tubman, MSDE Admin, Bruce Riegel, Melinda Wilson, Kathleen Hogan, Gwen Lewis, Marcella Brown, Kathleen Gregory, Jessica J. Reinhard, Heidi Strite, Margaret Lee

MSDE Accessibility Presentation

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Accessibility presentation presented at the Inspired Designer session. The session includes an overview of the legal requirements that must be met when creating or evaluating digital resources, and the various tools used to analyze websites and documents. Activities are included that allow participants to use their own devices to create Microsoft Word and PowerPoint resources that will be accessible to all students.

Material Type: Lecture

Authors: Morrall Thompson, Gregg Ford, MSDE Admin

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