This is a team-created, standards-based rubric for informative/explanatory analytical writing with "I can" statements as well as space for comments.

This is a team-created, standards-based rubric for narrative writing with "I can" statements as well as space for comments.

The primary purpose of Practicum is to provide the student with a practical, hands-on learning experience, which is designed to help the student develop course competencies and confidence in implementing skills within an actual instructional setting.The practicum experience is supervised by a Practicum Site Mentor and a Technical College Instructor.  The Technical College Instructor provides scheduled on-site observations and written evaluations to the student, and written evaluations are provided by the Mentor.  If a student is planning to transfer to a 4-year institution, it is recommended that the Practicums be completed in a special education classroom or working with a student with special needs.

30 Second PSA is designed to be a way to assess students on what was learned during their time in Health Class.  Students must put together a 30 second public service announcement about a topic covered in class and may work with another student to do so.  Topics are chosen by having a class discussion about what was covered over the course of the quarter/semester/etc.  Students can use any means they choose to demonstrate their knowledge (video, presentation, rap/poetry, skit, etc.) but it needs to be sussinct and to the point.  

These handouts accompany the 5th Grade Rain Garden Design Challenge Lesson Plan. The handouts give criteria for identifying areas of erosion and non-point source pollution entering waterways on school property, slope and soil suitability criteria for situating the rain garden, and data collection procedures for phosphate testing. The handouts also include guidelines and criteria for the final poster presentation design and Claim-Evidence-Reasoning, as well as rubrics for scoring and guidelines for peer feedback.

This lesson engages 5th grade students in identifying areas of erosion and non-point source pollution entering waterways on school property, making a claim on the most suitable site to locate a rain garden by conducting field tests on slope and soil type, and testing
for the presence of phosphates in waterways on school forest property. Students then compete in a rain garden design challenge using their data to create a poster presentation, including a map and claim evidence reasoning, for the best rain garden design plan, scored using a rubric.

Small group activity for studnets to work together to create and design a dance.  All students will create,

This lesson provides students with opportunities to read closely and have deeper thinking with text.  Students will read Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parrish.  They will discuss with others text-dependent questions to better understand the character.  With further readings they will be able to Amelia Bedelia's chacter traits and the reactions Mr. and Mrs. Roger have to the same events.  They will generate a trading card for Amelia Bedelia at the conclusion of the lesson.

This is a lesson plan designed to allow students to recall and use the properties of exponents to generate equivalent numeric expressions, identify the appropriate property to use and apply it correctly, and check the numerical value of an expression involving exponents without using a calculator. There is a fun matching activity for students at the end of the lesson to allow students to practice what they have learned and for the teacher to assess their learning by listening to and watching the students work and discuss strategy with each other.

This is a quick way to assess whether or not students can apply the 7 fundamental steps of archery after those steps have been taught and practiced.

This website has National Standard aligned lesson plans, courses art teachers (and others) can take for credit or professional development, and online magazine, videos, and art conferences.  
They cover art: advocacy, assessment, classroom management, creativity, technology, curriculum, differentiation, Instructional strategies, media, techniques, methods, approaches, organization, philosophies, and professional development.

This assessment from the Stanford History Education Group gauges whether students can source and contextualize a document. Students must first examine an interview excerpt on a race riot in Nashville during the Civil Rights Movement, then determine which facts can help them evaluate the interview's reliability. Strong students will be able to explain how the the gap in time between the riot and the interview (Fact 2) and that Cleaver was not present for the riot (Fact 3) make the account less reliable.

This resource is a great formative assessment to check students ability to source and place events in context.  Using a piece from a 1612 newspaper and a list of four facts from the time period, it asks students to consider why the reliability of the newspaper account may be in question.

This resource is useful as a kinesthetic activity to reinforce the content on nucleic acids.  Students can create a model that shows the three dimensional aspect of DNA and understand the helix shaped molecule and its components.  

These tools were designed to be used by instructional coaches as they support secondary teams in reflecting on instructional units in ELA.  Each tool guides a teaching team through a reflective process that support analysis based upon one of the shifts in the Updated ELA Standards.  The goal is to support gap analysis and alignment to the standards so that all students get access to high quality instruction aligned to the Wisconsin State ELA Standards

This unit plan outlines and provides all resources to study Jack London's Call of the Wild.  Within this resource you will fine detailed daily lesson plans including handouts, discussion questions, and grading rubrics.

This multi-disciplinary career exploration unit builds on lesson plans available through the Michigan Agriculture in the Classroom website. Students will spend a week investigating different aspects of agriculture careers, while incorporating skills from math, English, and social studies. The unit culminates in a "Day in the Life" summative writing assignment.

This activity was created for an 11th grade Civics class.The goal of this project is for students to use employability skills to work together while experiencing employment opportunities in political science. Students will work to analyze one of the major or minor political parties in the United States. Group’s will attempt to persuade the class that their party’s solutions to the issues, are the best to lead the country. 

The project is called "Chemistry and Cooking" and it will last about 6 weeks. Students will learn about what matter is, the phases of matter, the difference between physical and chemical properties, as well as physical and chemical changes. The project’s Driving Question, which focuses our work, is “How does an understanding of chemistry impact your cooking?” Students will be involved in hands-on activities and labs that will help them learn the concepts that they will then apply to their final project. The child will work independently on a recipe of their choice to show their understanding of how chemistry impacts cooking.

From the task itself on the Webquest: "Now that our class has completed reading A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, you are going to embark on a journey to ensure that Scrooge does not revert back to his miserly ways. In order to ensure this, you will work both individually and together as a team. Many of the tasks will be completed online, but some involve other skills. Follow these steps and you will help keep Scrooge from ever becoming a misanthrope again!"

These activities include: A Scavenger Hunt that provides links to various sites that enable to students to develop a deeper understanding of Victorian England as the setting of the text; a Holiday Menu (exploring cultural aspects of the holiday); Apology Letters written as Scrooge to various characters); Symbolic Tokens (to enable Scrooge to remember his lessons); all compiled as a group 'gift', which I thought was a wonderful symbol of just exactly what learning is :)