Students pair Dorothea Lange's photographs with passages from John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath. Students create an oral group presentation and discuss the relationship between the images and text.
Series of 43 page-size maps showing the chronology of the last glaciation's advances and retreats across Wisconsin. Includes a brief discussion about how the maps were made, how lake positions were determined, as well as a list of selected references.
This is a 3 act lesson by Dan Meyer. In this lesson students ask and answer, "How long does it take the sink to fill up?", after viewing a video of a leaky fauct.
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Photo showing a leg bag
Students learn about saving, savings goals, interest, borrowing and opportunity cost by reading Less Than Zero. Students use a number line and a line graph to track spending and borrowing in the story.
This resource is a flexible lesson plan focusing on water pollution and the causes and sources of water pollution. This lesson plan contains directions, teacher advice, concept map, worksheets, and a Powerpoint presentation as resources.
Lesson Plan One: Color in 3-D: A Nature Design Project by Peggy Reeves is a lesson for 6-12 graders, Middle/High School designed to take between 3-4 45 minute class periods.
Students should have prior experience/knowledge of color theory, 2-dimensional shape, 3-dimensional form, Cubism, and Fauvism.
http://www.pbs.org/hanshofmann/
Once in the main web-site, follow the Special Features link to three choices: 1) Push and Pull Puzzle, which is an interactive color painting 2) Texturexploration, featuring a magnifying glass to examine the textural surfaces of a Hans Hofmann painting 3) Hofmannopoly, a reproducable board game which explores Hans Hofmann's artistic career and his personal philosophy of art.
This lesson looks at how the Battles of Lexington and Concord changed the character of American resistance to British rule. America in Class Lessons are tailored to meet the Common Core State Standards. The Lessons present challenging primary resources in a classroom-ready format, with background information and analytical strategies that enable teachers and students to subject texts and images to the close reading called for in the Standards.
This website by Maryville University teaches life stages throughout development. The website provides details about the 8 stages of human development through text and a diagram. As an interactive activity, students should make a chart to organize the 8 stages of development. In the chart, students should include the name of the stage, how people act during that stage, and some drawings and captions to help with memory. The goal of this activity is for students to be able to explain what each stage of development looks like and how people act during that stage.
Linda Godfrey sits down for an interview and shares ideas related to trying out and finding your ideas, reading and writing widely, learning to write to a schedule, giving yourself permission to write horribly, and connecting with others through writing. Part of our Wisconsin Writes series of videos designed to help students and teachers observe how successful authors create their work. http://dpi.wi.gov/wisconsin-writes
Author, investigator, and artist Linda Godfrey describes different writing techniques and technologies, some behind-the-scenes tasks integral to legal considerations for her writing, and differences between her non-fiction and fictional works. Observe as she steps back into a fiction writing process that includes outlining, plot notes, and character profiles. Part of our Wisconsin Writes series of videos designed to help students and teachers observe how successful authors create their work. http://dpi.wi.gov/wisconsin-writes
The National Humanities center presents reading guides with primary source materials for the study of America 1789-1820: Living the Revolution. Primary source materials include autobiographies, plays, essays, orations, addresses, political documents, letters, poems, cartoons, and more. Resources are divided into the topics: Predicament, Religion, Politics, Expansion, and Equality.
The virtual lab includes four modules that investigate different concepts in evolutionary biology, including adaptation, convergent evolution, phylogenetic analysis, reproductive isolation, and speciation. Each module involves data collection, calculations, analysis and answering questions. The “Educators†tab includes lists of key concepts and learning objectives and detailed suggestions for incorporating the lab in your instruction.
It is appropriate for students in high school biology and environmental science classes, and undergraduate biology, ecology, environmental science courses. The focus on observation, measurement, and experimental methods makes the lab a good fit for addressing "science as a process" or "nature of science" aspects of the curriculum. The emphasis on the collection, analysis, and graphing of data, connects to the mathematical dimension of biology and general goals of STEM integration.
Calculate the payment for a loan with given amount, interest, amortization period, and number of payments during one year. (All amounts are rounded to the nearest euro.) Also see the decomposition of the payments into interest and principal repayment parts over the years.
Photo of locating the heel marker on a compression sock.
Students will compare the daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe by an unknown photographer with Poe's writings in an effort to discover the character of this mysterious author.
Emmy award-winning poet, Lucille Clifton, introduces and reads her poem, 'Turning,' about trying to be your own person and taking responsibility for your life.
A look at the history of lumber, lumber camps and lumberjacks in Wisconsin.
Museum of Modern Art Learning Resources. Tools and strategies for engaging with modern and cotemporary art. Download and customize slideshows, worksheets and other resources for use in the classroom or for independent study.
Has follow-up questions, hands- on activities and other opportunities for enrichment beyond the traditional classroom setting.
Utilizes Video, pdf, blogs, E-News, Twitter, FB, Google+ Flickr
You can browse by Themes or by Artists. they have an Advanced Placement Art History Exam, Abstract Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Design, Investigating Identy, and much more.