This webquest has students explore the process of a trial, explains the difference between civil and criminal and the differece between trial and appellate court. This webquest will pose questions, problems, or scenarios and then provide students with a web link or resource to explore to compose their response.

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.

CESA #1 EL OER Project

Resource to introduce and build background for the themes in Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian.

This project is useful for math classes that have an opportunity to allow students to explore deeper into math related careers.

This resource contains a series of activities, lessons and ideas for introducing Elementary students to the design thinking process. The author includes connections to Empathy and the implications of designing things with others in mind.

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.

Venn diagrams can be used effectively in kindergarten.  Making them user-friendly, hands-on, and developmentally appropriate as a tool and kindergarten students can use venn diagrams with ease. Students are guided toward an understanding of the Venn diagram by physically sorting items into hula hoops. Students are able to move to an interactive 
 As they sort objects into unions and sets in this lesson plan, students make their thinking visible through similar "rough-draft" talk. By thinking aloud about their choices in this lesson, students are invited to be storytellers as they explore the connections between mathematics and language.
Students can complete a self-assessment to determine their learning and working collaboratively in a group.

This lesson provides an introduction to the language and poetics of the epic poem Beowulf. Although this lesson assumes students will read Beowulf in translation, it introduces students to the poem’s original Old English and explains the relationship between Old, Middle, and Modern English. Students are introduced to the five characters in the Old English alphabet that are no longer used in Modern English. As a class, they translate a short, simple phrase from Old English, and then listen to a passage from the poem being read in Old English. Next, students are introduced to some poetic devices important to Beowulf. They learn about alliteration by reading an excerpt from W. H. Auden’s modern English poem “The Age of Anxiety,” then listen for alliteration in the Old English version of a passage from Beowulf. Finally, students explore the poetic functions of kennings, compounds, and formulas in Beowulf.

This resource shows how a teacher educator can unpack a general overview of the connect, explore and engage strands of Wisconsin's Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (WELS) Standards. While pre-service teachers will undoubtedly become immersed in WELS standards during their science and science methods courses, the integration of WELS standards from the very beginning of their teacher certification program is a proactive approach to learning.   The placement of WELS standards into the beginning of their program will hopefully increase the likelihood these future educators will  value this integration as a natural part of their teaching requirements rather than as an additional concept to squeeze in.

This is a worksheet that can be used in a lesson that is meant to connect students between major and realitive (in the same key) minor scales.  This lesson would be appropriate for students in a middle school instrumental setting.  Students in this lesson will first be asked to associate feelings (happy) with a major scale and then spell the major scale on their instrument of choice.  Next, students will learn about the different forms of the relative minor scale (natural, harmonic, melodic), and how it relates to the major scale.  Students will then associate feelings to the different forms of minor scale (sadness, mysteriousness).  By the end of the lesson, students should know that any natural scale can be made by lowering the 3rd, 6th, and 7th degree of a scale, a harmonic scale can be made by lowering the 3rd and 6th step of a scale, and a melodic minor scale can be made by lowering the 7th step of a scale on the way up, and the 3rd, 6th, and 7th step of the scale on the way down. 

This unit will use a variety of resources to give students a guide to understanding Treaty Rights and the importance of Treaty Rights to Indigenous peoples. It is important for all people, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to understand Treaty Rights, how they were established, and how they apply today.

This lesson is an introduction to a strategy that helps students evaluate where web baed information come from and whether it is trustworthy.

Lateral Reading is a strategy for investigating a website or post by going outside the site to determine who is behind a website and its information and deciding if it can be trusted.

Teacher and Student materials are included in this lesson.

This is Lesson Three in the Introduction to the Civic Online Reasoning method of evaluating online resources.

Students will be introduced to the important of verifying and supporting information with multiple information sources. This lesson is to be taught after Who's Behind the Information Saturday School and What's the Evidence lessons. Students will use the fictional scenario and resources to support claims and evidence presented in the information sources.

Teacher and Student materials are included in this lesson.

This is Lesson Two in the Introduction to the Civic Online Reasoning method of evaluating online resources.

Students will practice anaylzing evidence to be able to evaluate online information. This lesson is to be taught after Who's Behind the Information Saturday School lesson. Students will use the fictional scenario and resources to analyze and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the information source and the evidence itself.

Teacher and Student materials are included in this lesson.

Since information is always influenced by its author, analyzing who's behind the information should be a priority when evaluating online content. But too often, students attempt to evaluate information based on elements other than the source, such as the contents of a website, its appearance, or the evidence it supplies. In this lesson, students learn why the source of information is so important and practice analyzing information based on who's behind it.

Note: Civic Online Reasoning is motivated by three driving questions: Who's behind the information, What's the evidence and What do other sources say? This lesson is an introduction to the first concept. Registration is required and free.

This is Lesson One in the Introduction to the Civic Online Reasoning method of evaluating online resources.

Students will practice examining three sources around a fictional scenario, mandatory Saturday school, in this lesson to determine who is behind the information and how their motivation could affect their information.

Teacher and Student materials are included in this lesson.

This link has a teacher guide, 3 student graphing activity sheets, rubric and a complete description of the activities related to climate change and invasive species.

There are thousands of species of insects in our world, and each are adapted to survive in their habitat. In this activity, students will learn what an insect is and what some of their adaptations are. Then they will put their knowledge into play by "creating" an insect that is adapted to live in their assigned environment

This webfolio is a follow-up assignment to an Honors English unit on Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achiebe. In this webfolio, students will take on the role of social scientists interested in learning more about the life of Africans in different parts of the continent. They will each have different aspects of African culture and life to research.The webfolio format emphasizes the power of teamwork and the Internet to learn all about an area of Africa. Each team will learn about one region of the continent, and then they will come together to get a better understanding of Africa as a whole by participating in and observing classroom presentations. The culminating project combines individual research and informational genre format into a first-person travel diary, imagining an actual trip through each region of Africa.

Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School has an annual sugarbush within a few miles of the school.  During the Spring sugarbush season, students are bussed to the site, by class, to do the variety of daily tasks required to successfully produce maple syrup.  The LCO middle school students follow the Ojibwe traditions.  They hear the traditional stories, learn words and phrases in the Ojibwemowin language, tap trees, collect and boil sap, chop wood and build fires. The students learn about tree identification, photosynthesis, and aging trees using cross sections.  They also learn about the importance and uses of Maple trees.  The students learn that the environmental conditions needed to make maple syrup are only found in a very small part of the world that includes Wisconsin.  The combination of hands-on exploration and culturally - relevant texts personalize the learning experience for this region.  This remix adds content related to the sugarbush operated by the Bayfield High School Alternative Education program. 

What coins are in the bank? This 3 Act Task by Graham Fletcher begins with a short video. Coins are added to a bank that totals the value of the coins. Some of the coins and values are hidden as he adds them to the bank. First students make observations and estimates to begin determining which coins could be in the bank to total $1.00. Students then use images of the types of coins used and how many total coins are in the bank. Students are estimating, determining values of coins, problem solving, and adding, to determine coins in the bank.