The Human Microbiome offers an opportunity to learn about microbiology and ecology. Here is a collection of companion activities to help explore the subject further. Includes culturing microbes activity.

In this course, learners will be introduced to employment-related functions and practices healthcareorganizations utilize to develop and maintain an effective workforce while complying with local/federallaws. Multiple times of media and assessment are utilized throughout this course-project/case study based.  

This is a 3-Act-Task in which students will solve the problem 9 - 5 = ? or 5 + ? = 9. 
No guidance is given as to how to solve the task, so student can invent a strategy that works for them. Solutions may include drawing a picture, writing a number sentence, etc. Discussion should be centered around how to represent the context of this scenario with pictures, words, and numbers. 
For information on how to implement 3-Act-Task lessons, visit: http://blog.mrmeyer.com/2013/teaching-with-three-act-tasks-act-one/

Early Literacy Specialists and Educators may use this power point individually or with staff for development of literacy practices K -2. This tool was designed by the Early Literacy Wisconsin State Reading Association Leadership team. This tool has been used with with teams wishing to deepen their early literacy understanding by reading, discussing the book. The use of the power point will enable educators to strengthen individual and team practices. This tool enables educators to dynamically dig into I am Reading by Kathy Collins and Matt Glover generating close reading and conversation of educators.

Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into a meditative journey exploring the history of freakdom, vision, and (in)visibility. Shot from director Reid Davenport's physical perspective - mounted to his wheelchair or handheld - I Didn't See You There serves as a clear rebuke to the norm of disabled people being seen and not heard.

Smart Kids with Disabilities, Inc. is a free website that focuses on resources, information, legal education, etc. for parents and/or educators of students with disabilities.  The mission of the website organization is: Our mission is to educate, guide and inspire parents of children with learning disabilities or ADHD. Our aim is to help parents realize their children’s significant gifts and talents, and to show that with their love, guidance, and the right support, their children can live happy and productive lives.
Jane B. Ross, M.S. is the founder and executive director of Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities. She is a former publishing executive and consultant who was determined to help other parents who were as clueless as she was when she discovered that her bright and resourceful 10-year-old son could not read. Today her son holds a Masters degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and works as an architect in New York.
The site also allows educators and parents many option to review accomodations and modifications.  It has mutltiple links for all of the aforementioned queries as well. These include but are not limited to tech tools, definitions of disabilities, evaluating the child, RiT, etc. 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and one of his first encounters with racial discrimination.  This resource can be an aid in a unit of nonfiction/history/civil rights.

This is a really nice task as it is open to everyone, can be solved in different ways and can also extend to work in combinatorics – a nice way of organizing counting. Ask students to work on this task in groups, and to display their results on posters. Often we name students' different approaches and strategies.

I utilized this activity in my seventh grade math intervention group to reinforce Geometric Shapes and the properties they have and the commonality of those shapes. This activity also connects to fractional understanding and spacial relationships as well as symmetry when solving the third activity.

Using the Michael Battista's Cognition Based Assessment materials, and used this activity to conceptually work and investigate the common properties of shapes.

As a class or small targeted groups, student identify positive, negative, and neutral leadership characteristics; then prepare a role play focusing on a set of leadership characteristics.

The Iditarod is a dog sled race across Alaska commemorating the Iditarod trail and the sled dog tradition of Alaska. Tour Builder will give students a way to record all the checkpoints that the Iditarod race has taken their musher and it can be a useful tool for students to write about Iditarod topics. Incorporating the race into your classroom during your non-fictional informational text unit can build engagement and motivation with the students.

The resource was developed as a part of the Creating Lessons Using Transformative Technology - Platteville Public Schools OER Grant.

Based on a Tumblr site, this Huffington Post article showcases six recent pop songs translated into the style of Shakespearean sonnets. While there is no explicit education purpose, teachers can imagine many uses especially when introducing Shakespearean language to students.

Students use data on space debris, analysis of rates,  and regression in order to model situations.

This WebQuest has students explore immigration and why people "came to America". It also has students look at what it means to be a citizen, what the requirements are, and the process of naturalization that new citizens take part it.

Instructor Notes: Teachers can assign this content to their students in iCivics account and then Clicking the Assign button on this activity. Teachers will then have the option to add a Class into iCivics OR Sync a roster from Google Classroom. This will allow teachers to see student's responses. There are also Downloadable Resources available to support this learning activity.

Developing environmentally literate citizens is the primary goal of environmental science.  One of the four components of environmental literacy is "connecting to nature".  Culture plays a key role in the way individuals connect to their environment.  Understanding culture also supports the development of a culturally responsive classroom and helps students develop an understanding of environmental justice, another key concept of environmental science.  This lesson helps students explore their own culture and compare and contrast it with other cultures.

Students extend their knowledge of proportions to solving problems dealing with similarity. They measure the heights and shadows of familiar objects and use indirect measurement to find the heights of things that are much bigger in size, such as a flagpole, a school building, or a tree.

"The Right Question Institute’s “Why Vote?” Tool is used to foster a strong sense of urgency to vote. Voting is framed as a self-advocacy role students can and will want to play. Whether students can or cannot yet vote, they will:

Understand the connection between specific public services they rely on or issues they care about and the role of elected officials
Name for themselves the importance of voting
Ask questions using the Question Formulation Technique (QFT)
Explore ways (in addition to voting) that people can take action and advocate for public services they rely on or issues they care about
This lesson plan is designed to bring elements of the ‘Why Vote’ Tool into the classroom and can be used in remote, hybrid, or fully in person settings."

This website provides information regarding the indicators of intellectual, emotional, social, and physical health. A description of the indicators of health in each of these areas is provided, along with tips on how to reach optimal wellness. The website is very clear and informative to educate students regarding dimensions of health, how to recognize intellectual/emotional/social/physical health, and how to achieve wellness. As a supplemental activity to check for understanding, teachers can distribute the worksheet quiz linked in WISELearn. The worksheet provides 8 scenarios, and students must identify if the scenario describes physical, emotional, social, or intellectual indicators of health. The student must also identify if the patient is in good or poor health in that dimension. An answer key is provided on WISELearn.

This Demonstration shows the instantaneous rate of change for different x values for polynomial functions of degree 2, 3, or 4, an exponential function, and a logistic function.