The Protistan Tales of Atlantic White Cedar Swamps WebQuest features a guided exploration of microbial diversity. It introduces students to the extreme habitat of the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp and encourages them to explore characteristics of the microorganisms that live there. The WebQuest applies the personification theme of Aesop's Fables as a means to acquaint students with protists. It challenges them to search for microbial "personality traits" and to implement these traits into a creative storyline. Through the use of on-line images, descriptions, videos, and reference sites, students will carefully research specific protists while independently developing observational skills essential to microbiology. Upon completion of this WebQuest, students should be able to differentiate protists based on physical characteristics and specialized forms of locomotion, describe the microbial diversity of Atlantic White Cedar Swamps, and apply learned observational skills to hands-on laboratory activities.

This game addresses credit cards, interest, choosing credit wisely and credit basics. It can be used to review or introduce credit

CESA #1 EL OER Project

Language Difference versus Disorder

Google Forms help record and save data, identify whether an EL student has a language difference or a disorder. The documents can be used prior to a referral and for any grade level.

Since 1999, Concordia College & University® of Delaware has made it possible for adult learners to finish their college degree online, in one day, while continuing with their daily lives. Life experience degrees are designed for adult learners who exhibit core competencies of knowledge, skill and experience in some field of interest.

As COVID-19 forces education at all levels online, employers are seeing a significant jump in the number of job applicants who have earned or completed a degree online.

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.

Math-Aides is website that generates worksheets.  On the left side of the screen the user will find a list of mathematical topics that ranges from elementary all the way through Algebra II.   It is a great place to go when teachers need to create multiple assignments for large groups, or when one assignment is needed for an individual student.  This site allows teachers to differentiate their classroom without having to use a word processing package to create individual work pages.

This resource will assist students who are having a difficult time with estimation.  The interactive site gives examples of how to estimate and strategies in how to estimate.  The site also has printed materials for the students to use for practice.  An assessment is also included.

Mathwire is a free math resource. It is aligned with the NCTM Standards. It has activities for students in various grades and various topics.

This lesson is designed to help students develop strategies for solving optimization problems. Such problems typically involve using limited resources to greatest effect, as in, for example, the allocation of time and materials to maximize profit.
Before the lesson, students attempt the problem individually. You then review their work and formulate questions for students to answer in order to improve their solutions.At the start of the lesson, students work alone answering your questions.Students are then grouped and engage in a collaborative discussion of the same task. In the same small groups, students are given sample solutions to comment on and evaluate.In a whole-class discussion, students explain and compare solution strategies seen and used.Finally, students revise their individual solutions and comment on what they have learned.
Materials required
Each individual student will need a copy of the  task, some plain paper, a calculator, and a copy of the How Did You Work? questionnaire.Each small group of students will need copies of the Sample Responses to Discuss.Graph paper should be kept in reserve and used only when necessary or requested.
Time needed
Approximately 15 minutes before the lesson, a 1-hour lesson, and 10 minutes in a follow-up lesson.

This is an activity for students to demonstrate how an animal or insect can disperse seeds or pollinate a plant by creating a model. 

This activity serves to get students active and to teach them to work with all students in their class to acieve group success.

This interactive online tool will quiz your students on naming/identifying notes.  It is customizable so you can use treble, bass, grand, alto, or tenor clefs.  Great for practice and reinforcing knowledge.

Hosted by Laura Ybarra, this episode will explore special education programs, resources and services in South Carolina to enable students with disabilities to access and progress in the general education setting.

This may be used as a way of having students present in a persuasive, true-to-life format.  It can be used as a business education/marketing format, as well as a way of having students persuade an audience through both speaking and using visual aids.

In this project, students will design and construct a roller coaster. The materials used in this activity can be found materials (pipe insulation, paper tube, wood dowels, etc. for little or no cost.
For a small fee, Paper Templates for a Paper Roller Coaster can be purchased from paperrollercoasters.com. This kit includes one set of detailed directions with over ninety color photographs, and eleven templates suitable for photocopying. Each set of paper templates may be used for one home or classroom only. You supply card stock, marbles, tape, and a piece of cardboard.
Once constructed the coasters are constructed, students will analyze the physics of motion of a roller coaster car and its occupants in terms of concepts such as speed, acceleration, Newton’s Laws, net forces, normal forces, friction forces, and energy (KE, PE, TME); this description should be both mathematical and conceptual.  

Students can use the Profile Publisher to mock up or draft online social networking profiles, yearbook profiles, and newspaper or magazine profiles for themselves, other real people (including historical figures), or fictional characters. The tool could also be used for profiles of nonhuman living creatures, inanimate objects or abstract concepts (e.g., profile of an amoeba, an historical monument, or friendship).

This task shows three equivalent expressions and requires that students understand the structure and purpose of each one. This is a critical aspect of Seeing Structure in Expressions. 
The primary purpose of this task is to assess students' knowledge of certain aspects of the mathematics described in the High School domain A-SSE: Seeing Structure in Expressions. Specifically, standard A-SSE.3 reads A-SSE.3: Choose and produce an equivalent form of an expression to reveal and explain properties of the quantity represented by the expression. a. Factor a quadratic expression to reveal the zeros of the function it defines. b. Complete the square in a quadratic expression to reveal the maximum or minimum value of the function it defines.
The Standards avoid the term "simplify" as there isn't always an obvious simplest form. The emphasis instead is on, "purposeful transformation of expressions into equivalent forms that are suitable for the purpose at hand." This task shows three equivalent expressions and requires that students understand the structure and purpose of each one. This is a critical aspect of Seeing Structure in Expressions. 
Mathematically this task:
• Prompts students to analyze three equivalent quadratic expressions • Allows students to focus on the structure of the expressions without focusing on the procedural skill of factoring or expanding the expressions • Gives a real-world context for students to interpret the properties of quadratic expressions • Requires students to look for and make use of structure (MP.7)
In the classroom: • Offers students and teachers an opportunity to see an assessment-type task with two response types • Allows teachers to target specific student misunderstandings for reteaching • With follow-up questions, teachers can prompt students to share their thinking about the concepts in this task

This is a project that can be used individually or with groups.  It includes detailed instructions and rubric.