A mini-poetry project allows students to practice public speaking, listening, and critical analysis skills. Students practice formative assessment throughout the unit by participating in peer assessments. Students use accountable talk to provide classmates with constructive feedback based on anecdotal notes taken during the podcast.  Students also participate in self-assessment and think about what skills they need to practice to meet proficiency.

Students build a collage that have words and pictures related to their personal and work values. Students have the opportunity to present and highlight their collage to the class after completion.

The Visual Patterns resources provides teachers with a "patter of the day."  Once a pattern has been selected, teachers can ask the students for the following types of responses:
1)  Written descriptions of the pattern
2)  Numerical representations of the pattern
3)  A rule or formula that can be used to generate the pattern
4)  Ways of using current mathematical vocubulary to classify the patterns being discussed
5)  Create a new sequence with the same pattern as the one represented

This is a peer-assessment designed for use in a volleyball lesson. 

Using three-dimensional scaffolds, these materials address the following topics:  - Cells and cell function- Animal growth and development- Digestion & cellular respiration - Biosynthesis Each packet is broken into five parts - data dive, core ideas, investigations, asssessments, and life connections. Formative assessments and checkpoints are embedded throughout each packet. The final packet prepares students for a summative assessment, with a provided practice assessment.Implementation instructions are embedded for each component of each packet. PDFs are included as attachments (in case the file formats are altered by this system). 

Using three-dimensional scaffolds, these materials address the following topics:  - Structure & Function of DNA. - DNA Replication via Polymerase. - Transcription & Translation.  - Codons & Amino Acids Sequences. Each packet is broken into five parts - data dive, core ideas, investigations, asssessments, and life connections. Formative assessments and checkpoints are embedded throughout each packet. The final packet prepares students for a summative assessment, with a provided practice assessment. Implementation instructions are embedded for each component of each packet. PDFs are included as attachments (in case the file formats are altered by this system). 

Using three-dimensional scaffolds, these materials address the following topics:  - Interactions among living species.- 10% rule and carrying capacity.- Ecosystem disruptions, including climate change.  - Sustainability.  Each packet is broken into five parts - data dive, core ideas, investigations, asssessments, and life connections. Formative assessments and checkpoints are embedded throughout each packet. The final packet prepares students for a summative assessment, with a provided practice assessment.Implementation instructions are embedded for each component of each packet. PDFs are included as attachments (in case the file formats are altered by this system). 

Using three-dimensional scaffolds, these materials address the following topics:  - Plant Cells and cell function in comparison to animal cells. - Photosynthesis- Biosynthesis - Planning and conducting investigations & experiments. Each packet is broken into five parts - data dive, core ideas, investigations, asssessments, and life connections. Formative assessments and checkpoints are embedded throughout each packet. The final packet prepares students for a summative assessment, with a provided practice assessment.Implementation instructions are embedded for each component of each packet. PDFs are included as attachments (in case the file formats are altered by this system). 

Using three-dimensional scaffolds, these materials address the following topics:  - Relationships between DNA, proteins, and traits.- How mitosis enables each cell to receive a copy of DNA.- How gametes like sperm and eggs are formed and transmit parents' genes to offspring.  - Predicting traits based on parents' genotypes and phenotypes using Punnett squares.  Each packet is broken into five parts - data dive, core ideas, investigations, asssessments, and life connections. Formative assessments and checkpoints are embedded throughout each packet. The final packet prepares students for a summative assessment, with a provided practice assessment.Implementation instructions are embedded for each component of each packet. PDFs are included as attachments (in case the file formats are altered by this system). 

This lesson helps student develop a concrete understanding of the connection between a graph and the situation it models.  Students start by graphing a simple case with a chance to check their work, then move on to more complicated cases.  Students must also answer extenstion questions.  Finally, students create their own situation and can try those created by their peers.  The teacher can view student products throughout and after the activity.

This is math activity task I created to have my students apply/review thier skills and understanding of deciamls: ordering, rounding, and muiltiplying by powers of 10 in a real world situation.

This task asks students to classify shapes based on their properties. The task itself is straightforward, but there are a number of opportunities to present this task in class and push the level of discussion and reasoning. For example, the rule for the bottom circle is that all shapes must have all sides with the same length. Some students will likely conjecture that the rule is either that all shapes must be regular polygons or that all shapes must be equiangular. Either of these would be true except for the rhombus.

Though this would likely extend beyond the scope of 5th grade understanding, it might be interesting to look at the pentagon with the right angle. In the eyes of a 5th grader, it looks as if it might have sides of equal length. They have not yet derived any rules about the sum of interior angles in polygons, but they should be pushed to see that mathematicians cannot make assumptions based on the appearance of shapes. We only know that each of the shapes in the bottom circle is equilateral because the tick marks indicate that the sides are the same length. In that same line of reasoning, we must be careful to specify in part b that the rectangle does not have equal sides. A deep discussion would allow students to construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others (MP 3) and attend to precision (MP 6).

We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution
In this lesson you will discuss some important questions about the responsibilities of citizens. You must develop your own answers to these questions. We hope this lesson will help you develop good answers.

This is an introduction to marketing packet. I use it to help prompt discussion and thinking. 

Teacher resources explain monetary policy and provide links to interactive games that simulate the effect of monetary policy decisions

This is a Monday assignment in my Native American Lit. Class. Students read articles on current topics in Indian Country and write about or present their findings to the class on Tuesdays to spark discussion. At the beginning of the year, I usually show a video or clip about a current hot topic to gain their interest. This year I showed the documentary AWAKE about the Dakota Access Pipeline and the protests there, which prompted debate and discussion, and ignited their interest in topics related to Native Americans.

This worksheet for students gives them a chance to identify the three different classifications of business risk.

This series of classroom activities were written to support educators who use the 2022 video series "Elections 101" from the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC).
"Who is Voting in My Community " helps students answer the question "What are the requirements to register to vote in Wisconsin?". Teachers will use the video "Elections Overview" from the WEC to research how to register to vote, view a mock ballot online, and find their voting place in their community.

We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution

This lesson introduces you to some of the basic ideas which were of great importance to the Founders. They used these ideas when they developed our government. You will learn why they thought we need a government in the first place. You will also learn how they believed governments should be created and what they ought to do.

Terms: Natural rights, Philosopher, Government, absolute power, state of nature, consent, social compact or social contract

This resource is a link to an interactive game-based formative assessment on writing expressions. Students are able to practice taking written expressions and turning them into algebraic expressions in a game-based fashion.