Advanced Accounting course FREE teacher resources and trial access to online course solution as well as a correlation to WI state standards.

Accounting I and II course FREE teacher resources and trial access to online course solution as well as a correlation to WI state standards.

Accounting I & II course FREE teacher resources and trial access to online course solution as well as a correlation to WI state standards.

This activity has students calculating how any boxes of Girls Scout Cookies can fit into the back of a hatchback.

Use this resource to review a possible curriculum for a high school level Global Studies course aligned to the English-Language Arts Common Core State Standards and Wisconsin Social Studies Standards. The goal of this course is to ensure that students are purposeful, motivated readers who make meaning from what they read to be democratic citizens now and in the future. Throughout this course, students will become independent learners that understand the value of reading and writing in today’s global community. This course will foster the 21st Century skills of creativity, collaboration, problem solving, critical thinking, communication, productivity, and innovation within a context that uses standards from both the Wisconsin Social Studies Standards and the Common Core State Standards for English-language Arts (CCSS ELA). Moving throughout the year, students will focus on the five strands of social studies aligned by the Wisconsin Standards:

Geography: People, Places, and Environment

History: Time, Continuity, and Change

Political Science and Citizenship: Power, Authority, Governance, and Responsibility

Economics: Production, Distribution, Exchange, and Consumption

The Behavior Sciences: Individuals, Institutions, and Cultures

Entrepreneurship course FREE teacher resources and trial access to online course solution as well as a correlation to WI state MME & WCCTS standards.

Through ongoing partnership with teachers across New York City, New Visions has developed this course map for a high school biology course fully designed to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the New York State Science Learning Standards (NYSSLS). Each unit follows a common structure: students engage with an anchor phenomenon and develop questions; go through sequences of learning and sense-making to develop and iterate on answers to those questions; then complete a three-dimensional performance task.

Unit 1-Marathon Runner and Unit 3-Evolution of Sick Humans have both been reviewed using the EQuIP rubric, and are available on the Quality Examples of Lessons and Units page.

The outline includes recommendations for both a one semester (18 week) course and a full-year (36 week) course. The full-year course suggests analyzing topics in greater depth and engaging in additional projects and simulations. Selection of appropriate textbooks is the responsibility of individual districts and schools. It is recommended that teachers begin with Unit 1, but after that, the units can be done in any order.

Each of the five units are organized around “driving questions.” These questions relate to the key concepts and core materials (largely primary sources) that help students engage with relevant material to answer the driving questions. Further, each unit contains connections to modern topics so that students can relate their historical understandings
to the world in which they live, and there are recommended assessment activities that utilize higher order thinking and inquiry skills. A significant number of recommended resources can be found on WISELearn, the DPI Open-Educational Resources (OER) platform, with materials specifically aligned to this scope and sequence. Each unit is also supported by associated standards building out detailed content recommendations related to the theme.

Finally, teachers should utilize the Wisconsin Recommended Civics Education Pedagogy and Practices in designing their course, to ensure that the course utilizes these research-based and standards-aligned approaches for teaching civics in an engaging and culturally responsive way.

Filament Games reached out to some of their game-based learning educator allies and asked them how they use games in the classroom, and they had a lot to say! So much in fact that they’ve compiled their insights into a shiny new eBook for your perusal – introducing How to Teach with Games! The eBook is packed with expert perspectives and practical advice, all of which is supplemented by recommended resources and downloadables to help you get started with game-based learning. Whether you’re just getting started with games or have been using games for years, we think you’ll learn something new from these educators’ stories.

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. 

This is a comparison chart of the WI DPI Information Technology Literacy (ITL) and corresponding Business Information Technology (BIT) standards with project ideas. This tool is helpful for teachers for lesson planning and curriculum mapping.

Biology entire year curriculum which allows students to develop their own driving questions which address NGSS standards and will lead them through their learning via collaborative groups of peers. There are six different storylines that cover a year long high school Biology course. The activities are designed for all students and are culturally-responsive. The lesson plans are free for educators, and the materials required are designed to be economically feasible for all students and school's with limited resources. There is also a Facebook working group called Illinois Biology Storylines Group which is also very beneficial for educators to share information about activities.

As we begin to dive into the power of high quality instruciotnal materials (HQIM), our district needed a focused plan to support teachers with a science of reading algined curriculum. The outlined plan and attached resources share with viewers the study behind a shift in reading instruction at our school, the curriculum choosing process, and finally the implementation plan. 

Three resources are included that all provide great tools and links.  These will help provide your school district a guide to aligning your essential standards to the Units of Study for Reading.

This second workshop in the series builds upon participant understanding of UDL and introduces the value of coaching.  Using key points from recent research, participants will understand the impact of coaching on their own practice and on student outcomes.  Participants identify an area of the UDL design framework to focus on with a coach and develop a plan.  The learning targets for this second workshop are...I can explain the role of coaching when implementing change in instruction.I can explain the varied support.I can determine my next step in building knowledge about and implementing UDL.

The Wisconsin Social Studies/Civics K-5 Suggested Scope & Sequence is divided by grade. Each grade has a theme, with K-2 having a common theme of “place” and 3-5 having a common theme of “Wisconsin and U.S. Studies”. Each grade has 4-10 topics, which could align to local units. This formatting was adapted from the 2018 History and Social Science Framework by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and
Secondary Education.

Each topic is further divided into planning ideas tied to specific grade-level indicators from the Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies (2018). These planning ideas include:
• Potential Essential Questions, tied to the standards
• Focusing Questions for the topic
• Driving (DQ) and Guiding (GQ) Questions from the Educating for American Democracy Roadmap
• Specific Social Studies Indicators met with this topic
• Important Terms and Points to Consider
• Supporting Resources to Consider, including lesson plans from trusted resources, and suggested additional texts such as primary sources and trade books.

The essential, focusing, driving, and guiding questions are meant to help guide instruction
and determine quality resources and lessons for use in the classroom.

Sports & Entertainment Marketing course FREE teacher resources and trial access to online course solution as well as a correlation to WI state standards.

Establishing the "why" of both Universal Design for Learning and curriculum mapping is the focus of the first workshop in this series.  During this first workshop, participant learning targets include... I can explain the concepts of UDL.I can describe expert learning.I can explain why clearly defined learning goals are important to both students and teachers.I can apply UDL lesson planning approaches to remove barriers for students.I can contribute to building a respectful, active, collaborative, and growth-oriented learning environment.This presentation could take place in a half-day workshop or broken down into shorter timeframes based on the learning targets.  

This resource focuses on acid rain, the effects of acid rain on the ecosystems, humans, and materials as well as what people can do to help. This resource has a history timeline of the Acid Rain Program, 9 experiments, various activities, and games/puzzles with answer keys to all materials as well.

Library plan slide deck from Mukwonago Area School District. This is a working document.