After learning the basics of how to use PowerPoint, students will use the skills learned to create a PowerPoint presentation on a major US city. The students will need to use basic Powerpoint skills such as transitions, animations, word count per slide, title & conclusion slides, and more. 
Students will research a major US city to find basic city facts, three unique restaurants, three hotels (at varying price ranges), and three attractions that visitors to the city may wish to visit.
Each student should choose a different city to avoid duplicate presentations and to provide a unique experience for each student.
Students can then present their PowerPoints to the class. 

As part of a greater classwide congressional simulation, this assessment could be used to guide student research and essay writing.

Students close read biographies of the accused and the accusers and primary source transcripts of the Salem Witch Trials to accompany their reading of The Crucible. By examining the historical documents as well as literature, students grapple with the question of how mass hysteria occurs and what makes historical events worthy of dramatic interpretation. Students read and act out key scenes in the play as they research the historical figures. A final project asks students to come up with an idea for dramatizing a past event and to describe, in writing, why the event would make good drama and how it could be dramatized. A separate blog post entitled "Arthur Miller's The Crucible: Witch Hunting for the Common Core" provides further resources for teachers. http://edsitement.neh.gov/blog/2014/10/28/arthur-millers-crucible-witch-hunting-common-core

Students will use the Hopscotch or Tynker App (either on an iPad or web-based) to create their own video game.  This project is designed for grades 6-8 but could be adopted to other grades.  The project is intended for use after students complete the 20 hour course on introduction to coding on Code.org (https://studio.code.org/s/20-hour)

CodeMonkey is a great way for students to gain a better understanding of how programming works.  It is an engaging platform where programming knowledge is acquired alongside 21st century skills through collaboratively playing and solving puzzles, inventing, creating and sharing.

The lesson helps students understand the background and impact of the Columbian Exchange both now and in the past.

To read a review of standards alignment, go to: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WFF3rHfOobKe3bBZ8o9_WDJ9FQbT6Wah/edit

In this lesson, students will perform a comparative close reading of select informational texts from the Scottsboro Boys trials alongside sections from To Kill a Mockingbird. Students analyze the two trials and the characters and arguments involved in them to see how fictional “truth” both mirrors and departs from the factual experience that inspired it.

This research article provides the details of a current immunotherapy study performed by scientists at MIT. Immunotherapy is a relatively new and very promising cancer treatment that is now a focus of many cancer research labs. The article discusses what immunotherapy is, how T cell activation works, and how the treatment has eliminated some tumors in mice. As an interactive activity, students can practice making annotations in the margins of the article to check for understanding. Overall, students who read and dissect this article are learning how to comprehend complex biomedical research studies. As a supplemental activity, teachers can distribute the worksheet quiz posted in WISELearn. This set of questions (true/false, fill in the blank, multiple choice, short answer) assesses the students' comprehension levels of the current MIT immunotherapy research. An answer key is provided. The skills learned from investigating this article can hopefully be used to investigate other current biomedical research for human diseases and disorders.

This lesson would be a great tool to use for a online literacy course and even a business law. Cyberbullying and the Law reviews hypothetical scenarios with online bullying as well as goes over every Province and Territories law regarding bullying. Even though this lesson is developed for Canadian laws, it can easily be translated to fit into the United States laws.

In this lesson, students will engage in an interactive activity that will enhance their understanding of story structure and story elements. After the teacher models the process of developing a plot, students work in cooperative groups to create semi-impromptu skits. Paper bags containing five unique props are distributed to each group; these props provide the impetus for the development of creative skits. Students then use online tools to outline the story elements in their skits. The lesson also promotes listening skills and critical thinking as students view other groups' performances and determine the conflict and resolution of each.

This resource provides a checklist to use as a guide when selecting digital tools and an evaluation rubric to be filled out to determine the educational effectiveness of the tool once its been introduced into the curriculum.

EVERFI is a free online learning platform that provides free digital mini-courses to K-12 teachers. You will need to create an account, but then all access is free! This course can be assigned to students to work on individually, and will score assessments. It divides African American History into 4 periods, followed by a summative capstone essay:

1. Slavery Period: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Phyllis Wheatley, Underground Railroad
2. Emancipation & Reconstruction Period: Frederick Douglass, Hiram Revels
3. Jim Crow Period: Tuskegee Institute, W.E.B. Du Bois, Harlem Renaissance
4. Civil Rights Period & Beyond: Brown v. Board of Education, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Rides,
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Mae Jemison
5. Capstone Essay

This is the world's largest site for arts integration and STEAM in K-12 education. Contains standards-aligned lesson plans, free printables, online courses, certification and conferences for professional development credit. They cover arts integration, advocacy, research, assessment, classroom management, curriculum, organization, PBL and the arts and classroom strategies.

This resource contains a lesson plan that aims to review conditional forms, review useful verbs related to enviornment, and discuss problems and solutions for enviornmental issues. This resource has warm-up, activities, homework, worksheets and there are options of socially distanced classrooms.

Included in this site is a complete lesson on writing with exponential notation. The lesson includes an introduction activity and discovery, practice, and an exit ticket along with suggestions for the teacher to use throughout the lesson. Students will use integer exponents and discover when to use parentheses for their bases. You will need to insert parentheses where necessary before delivering the lesson or using the worksheet since they are missing around fractions and negative bases if they haven't been fixed by the time you visit their lesson site.

The overview for this lesson is for students to work together in peer review utilizing the strategy of warm and cool feedback based on the sixt traits of writing.  After this lesson, students will take the feedback that they have given to each other and revise their essay, specifically revising to show growth on the goals that they made over the course of this lesson.

This food truck project ties into the Hospitality & Tourism career cluster, as it focuses on business planning, marketing/advertising, menu planning, food costing, equipment sourcing, floor planning, packaging, cooking, and food presentation. Students who are considering entering into a hospitality or tourism career will greatly benefit from the skills and knowleged gained through this project, as well as from taking the courses in the Family & Consumer Sciences department. This project also provides students with opportunities to practice teamwork, cooperation, problem-solving skills, math skills, and creativity. This project provides a unique, hands-on learning experience that reinforces skills that will be useful in many different types of careers.

A family of free, online social-studies courses, OER Project curricula are adaptable to a variety of local curricular standards. OER Project teachers also gain access to professional-development opportunities and a community of teachers, scholars, and learning experts.

Generation Genius is a K-8 teaching resource that brings school science standards to life through fun and educational videos paired with lesson plans, activities, quizzes, reading material and more. Our videos are produced in partnership with the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA), and aligned to standards in all 50 states.

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This resource is a project that allows students to explore careers related to the topic of Genetics.  Students will research a career that interests them related to Genetics, create a presentation, then present to the class.