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. 

Remix this template to upload your ACP lesson and unit plans into WISELearn.

Remix this template to upload your ACP lesson and unit plans into WISELearn.

This lesson introduces students to lateral reading, a strategy for investigating who's behind an unfamiliar online source by leaving the webpage and opening a new browser tab to see what trusted websites say about the unknown source. Students watch the teacher model lateral reading and then have a chance to practice the strategy to determine who is behind a website and, ultimately, whether that website is trustworthy.

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 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.

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.

In 2013, Kurt Squire and Constance Steinkuehler led the "Video Games and Learning MOOC" at University of Wisconsin-Madison. This video series, presented by Learning & Literacy Specialist, James Paul Gee, was a part of that course.

This quick-to-view, accessible video series explores the 13 "Good Learning Principles" found within well-designed video games; these learning principles align precisely with similar beneficial learning principles that are widely embraced within successful classrooms and other educational environments. The series' components were originally identified and discussed in James Paul Gee's book "What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy" (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781403984531/whatvideogameshavetoteachusaboutlearningandliteracysecondedition).

The videos offer educators of all types that are interested in the learning principles of well-designed games a swift yet comprehensive overview of usable language and pedagogical concepts related to effective games-based learning; this information can be used to spark further research and discussion, or could be utilized to develop new learning pathways and methodologies in libraries and classrooms.

YouTube Video Description: "Video games aren’t just fun, they can be powerful vehicles for learning as well. In this course, we discuss research on the kinds of thinking and learning that go into video games and gaming culture, benefits and drawbacks of digital gameplay, tensions between youth culture and traditional education, and new developments intended to bridge that growing divide."

An educator's guide to invasive plants of Wisconsin. Includes a variety of interactive lesson plans for grades K-12, from learning vocabulary to collecting and identifying plants on school grounds.

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.

Students will collaborate in small groups to come up with a list of careers within the hospital setting. Lists will be shared out as a class, with each student then choosing one job with which to create a Google slide presentation. Ideally, this would follow the How to Become a Clinical Laboratory Scientist lesson plan found in WISELearn.

Students will begin to collaborate in small groups, to come up with a list of careers within the hospital setting. Lists will be shared out as a class, with each student then choosing one job with which to create a Google slides presentation for their class

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In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a scientist explains the unexpected heat source fueling widespread volcanic activity on Io, a moon of Jupiter that many had previously assumed to be frozen.

In this episode, Myles talks to people with autism and explores what acceptance of neurodiversity could look like. Watch and then let us know: How can the social model of disability change how society views autism?

In this video segment from Greater Boston, learn about conflicting theories regarding the cause of autism.

By building an edible coral polyp, students will learn the anatomy of coral and be able to explain why corals are animals, rather than plants.

At JA BizTown, students operate banks, manage restaurants, write checks, use debit cards, and vote for a mayor. They connect the dots between what they learn in school and the real world.