In this lesson, students learn how adaptations, limiting factors, and predator prey relationships all affect the survival of plants and animals. Predator-prey relationships are simulated in two games, where students record their experiences and display data in story and chart/graph form, and explore the adaptations of animals in terrestrial and aquatic habitats. Extension activities include habitat investigations in natural areas.

The author decribes this activity as follows:
"This activity is a fairly deep exploration of the elements of Newton's Universal Gravitation. In the "Gravity Force Lab" sim, the force between two masses is displayed. Both masses can be changed, as can the distance between them. Mathematical patterns are developed and cobbled together until the full universal gravitation proportionality is constructed."

In this lesson, students examine classic Maya art and monumental inscriptions, as well as an excerpt from an Aztec encyclopedia, to explore how the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan influenced other Mesoamerican societies. Students also reason about contemporary scholars' commentary on the historical sources.

The purpose of this task is for students to decompose a figure into rectangles and then find the total area by adding the area of all of its smaller, non-overlapping rectangles.

The assessment includes three parts:
1. Research of consumer versus institutional promotion. Students will find examples of each type of advertisement and determine why the advertising is effective.
2. Apply knowledge of trade and consumer promotions for one of three companies.
3. Design a promotion plan for the school based enterprise. The class is typically split into teams that match the number of weeks remaining in the semester. Throughout the week, the students keep track of their promotions, as well as if there were increased sales based upon the implemented promotion.

Create a PowerPoint using transitions, animations, timing, etc. Cite sources on each slide using MLA citations. Learn basic PowerPoint skills to have an effective and efficient slideshow.

This resource contains a link to a visually pleasant Prezi and several notesheets that reflect scaffolded learning from asking the students to choose the most important information themselves to guiding the students to specific types of topic sentences only.

This is a geography project for human/environment interaction project, also works for Diffusion.

Students will respresent and compare decimals at they collect data.  For part 1 students work with a partner to each take 10 shots at the trash can with wads of paper.  Before shooting students predict how many they will make.  While shooting students record their results with tallies.  Then they write the results as a fraction and as a decimal.  Students create a poster and compare their data.  Then they write to explain the results and prepare to share their results with the class. Part 2 requires students to combine their data with the data of 9 other classmates.  After recording the data, students create a poster with the data and write to explain the results.  Students then share their results with the class.

Twelve Angry Men, originally written for television by Reginald Rose in 1954 and subsequently adapted for stage (1955), film (1957) and television again (1997), effectively conveys the central importance of the right to a jury trial afforded by Article III of the Constitution as well as Amendments V, VI, and XIV. Focusing on the right to a trial by "an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed," the play/film also addresses related constitutional provisions, including the presumption of innocence until proven guilty and the right to counsel. More broadly, the play/film embodies the central insight of Alexis De Tocqueville in his classic work Democracy in America, that the jury system is one of the most important political institutions for democratic self government. It educates citizens about the law and legal process, helps them understand their duties as citizens and in the best case, improves their deliberations as citizens.
How does "Twelve Angry Men" deepen our understanding of the constitutional guarantee of the right to trial by jury and the role of the jury system in American democracy?
To what extent does a trial by jury provide for equal protection under the law?
Analyze the Constitution to understand what the right to a trial by jury includes.

Analyze the causes and effects surrounding the Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) ruling.

Evaluate the extent to which a trial by jury ensures equal justice under the law.

Tynker is a creative computing platform where millions of kids have learned to program and built games, apps and more. Tynker offers self-paced online courses for children to learn coding at home, as well as an engaging programming curriculum for schools.

Each and every Friday my students take part in completing a typing assessment. The assessment consist of 3 (1) minute timings. This first week is to simply set a baseline. Keyboard strategies are shared throughout the quarter to help teach the correct key placement to ensure better typing speeds. IT1.a.4.m: Demonstrate the touch method of keyboarding on an alphanumeric keyboard at acceptable speed and accuracy levels. (Recommended minimum: 5 wpm x grade level).

This unit introduces students to the three types of irony and then builds on that knowledge over the course of multiple sessions. Students watch YouTube videos to categorize information on a graphic organizer, apply the knowledge from those videos to outside examples of irony, read short stories which employ the three types of irony, and ultimately demonstrate their ability to apply irony to our modern world. Over the course of these five days, through the use of effective formative assessments, students are able to move from identification to manipulation of a skill through the scaffolding provided from the teacher and other resources.

Students are given a scenario for a lawn care business that is currently struggling. In order to improve the business, students will have to develop a plan that includes new business markets. The scenario can be see in the project description along with the rubric. Students utilize the template to complete and present their projects.

The goal of this assignment is for students to grasp the difference between business to consumer markets and business to business markets.

This lesson provides an opportunity for students to apply their knowledge and understanding of adding and subtracting two digit numbers to a mathematical situation. Students are asked to use clue cards to determine how many exercises should be completed

A multi-age primary classroom teacher uses formative assessment as a barometer of student learning. She records anecdotal notes about her students' reading progress within an assessment notebook and references the notes for future instruction.

Students explore volume by trying to pack a moving truck with boxes of specified sizes.
The lesson is structured in the following way:
* Before the lesson, students attempt the Packing It In task individually. You review their responses and formulate questions that will help them improve their work.
* At the start of the lesson, students read your comments and consider ways to improve their work.
* In pairs or threes, students work together to develop a better solution, producing a poster to show their conclusions and their reasoning.
* Then, in the same small groups, students look at some sample student work showing different approaches to the problem. They evaluate the strategies used and seek to improve the arguments given.
* In a whole-class discussion, students compare different solution methods.
* Finally, students reflect individually on their learning.

These lessons will introduce students to the THIEVES strategy for previewing textbooks and non-fiction articles.  The acronym stands for:
T- Title
H - Headings
I - Introduction
E - Every first sentence in a paragraph
V - Visuals and Vocabulary
E - End of chapter questions
S - Summary
Teacher will model, students will practice with a partner and then use the strategy independently.  These short lessons could be applied to any textbook or article in a middle school classroom.

In this lesson, the teacher demonstrates how to use a learning progression to assess a piece of writing and then asks the students to apply the progression to their own writing to make revisions.  The students have been writing informational texts to teach others about a topic.

Per the author, learning new vocabulary words is important for all readers, and an important part of the learning process is finding the definitions. This lesson teaches students how to track unfamiliar words as they read, link these words to their background knowledge, create new sentences for their words, and finally develop a project that displays their new vocabulary. This lesson could be adapted for ELL students or students in grades 6 to 8.