High-quality, informational webpage that uses a superhero analogy to describe how the immune system works. Additional sections about vaccines, specific diseases and microbes.
Students learn about trophic levels in a marine food pyramid. Students play a game and complete mathematic equations to learn what happens to coral reef health when shark populations decrease.
This is a quick video showing how child care educators teach their students about emotions.
This is a corresponding infographic to the blog post "Ready to Set Goals With Your Students? Six Tips to Get Started."
Students observe live insects and examine insects depicted in a seventeenth-century drawing. They identify the three characteristics of an adult insect: a three-part body (head, thorax, and abdomen), six legs, and antennae. They collect and draw live insects, incorporating a variety of shapes and lines.
Students observe and study insects depicted in a seventeenth-century drawing. They identify characteristics common to all insects and those unique to particular species. Students research and draw insects, incorporating a variety of lines and shapes and using value to depict three-dimensionality.
Photo showing examples of foam boot used to support a patient's ankles and keep the heels floated off the bed.
Photo showing closeup of patient's arm with nurses fingers placed at wrist and elbow.
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.
Photo showing closeup of an insulin syringe
This ITS ePrimer provides transportation professionals with fundamental concepts and practices related to ITS technologies. This resource can help practicing professionals and students better understand how ITS is integrated into the planning, design, deployment, and operations of surface transportation systems. The ePrimer is both a stand-alone reference document for the practitioner as well as a text for education and training programs.
This animation helps students visualize the rock cycle.
This series of videos feature Wisconsin educators demonstrating effective use of learning strategies-using prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating, synthesizing-with students. Programs combine actual classroom footage with dialogue and teachers' personal reflections on instructional practices.
The Teachers area of the Into the Book website provides additional information about the classrooms featured in each episode of Behind the Lesson. Click on "Teacher Video" to find information and extra video clips from Dr. Mike Ford's interviews of each teacher.
Photo showing Intramuscular Injection at Vastus Lateralis Site
This lesson builds on students understanding of partitioning and introduces the concept to of fractions as a number that can be represented on a number line. Lesson provides students multiple opportunities to identify the unit fraction.
Photosynthesis is the means by which plants make use of chorophyll and light to produce energy. This section covers the basic stages in the light reactions of the photo-synthetic electron transport chain.
The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) is a simple, but rigorous, step-by-step process designed to help students produce, improve, and strategize on how to improve their questioning techniques. The QFT allows students to practice three thinking abilities in one process: divergent, convergent and metacognitive thinking.
Introduction to histological staining and step-wise guide through conducting a Haematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) stain known as the International Stain.
This is an activity about magnetism. Learners will experiment using horseshoe and bar magnets along with various materials in order to identify the effects of magnets on each other and on other materials. This is the third activity as part of the iMAGiNETICspace: Where Imagination, Magnetism, and Space Collide educator's guide. Instructions for downloading the iBook educator's guide and the associated Transmedia book student guide are available at the resource link.
The purpose of this lesson is to show learners how to keep a nature journal. How to reflect, respond, and question the observations they see in the world.