New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 3
Teachers turning into learners? It's not Freaky Friday! It's a thoughtful workshop that teaches participants how to plan professional development for staff. Third in a 15-part series, the workshop provides a platform for the other...
Transforming Education
Social Awareness Toolkit
A 32-slide professional development presentation introduces administrators, counselors, and teachers to the social awareness competency. The presentation includes specific strategies to help learners develop social awareness, identifies...
New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 11
You'll C-E-R a difference in classroom achievement after using a helpful lesson plan. Designed for economics, civics, government, and US history classes, participants practice using the CER model to craft arguments about primary and...
New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 2
Flipped classrooms and online tools killed the chalkboard! An awesome, hands-on technology workshop asks teachers across all content areas. to examine model lessons, become familiar with research, and explore tech tools they can...
New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 7
Designed specifically for math instructors, the seventh workshop of a 15-part series allows time to explore Webb's DOK, ponder open-ended questions, and create lessons to apply what is learned. Teachers craft high-quality math problems...
New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 5
Are video games sports? Pupils investigate this question as well as various nonfiction selections to learn more about claims and the support that defines them. All of the selections mimic the rigor on state tests and encourage close...
EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 12
How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...
Other
Ccsso: The Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (In Tasc)
The Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) is a consortium of state education agencies and national educational organizations dedicated to the reform of the preparation, licensing, and on-going professional...
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Modernization
A comprehensive learning module on modernization that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students will examine the impacts of development in...
Other
Alaska Department of Education: A Place for Teachers
The Alaska Department of Education & Early Development provides various resources specifically dedicated for teachers. Content includes teacher certification information, assessment information, curriculum and instruction...
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Agriculture
A learning module on agriculture that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include factors that led to the development of...
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: u.s. History: Do Our Parks Do What They Are Supposed to Do? [Pdf]
A comprehensive learning module on America's national park system that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students learn about Frederick Law...
Other
E Learning Developers' Journal: What Is Personalized Learning [Pdf]
This article takes on the complex issues of designing personalized learning strategies for web learning instruction and environments. What do students do when teachers are not there to provide motivation, direction, goal setting and...
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Declaration of Independence
A learning module on the significance of a declaration of independence by a country. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students will...
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Great Compromise
A learning module on the Great Compromise and the role it played in developing the US Constitution in 1787. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance...
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: New France
A comprehensive learning module on New France that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include where the French explored and...
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Pilgrims and Wampanoag
A comprehensive learning module on relations between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered...
A to Z Teacher Stuff
A to Z Teacher stuff.com: Fire Safety
This site provides links to elementary information about fire safety. Find lesson plans, craft ideas, songs, games, poems and more when you explore this resource.
Other
Desmos: Charge!
In this interactive application of linear modeling, students make a prediction about the length of time it would take to charge a smartphone. They then work through a series of steps where they sketch their prediction, extend a table of...
International Reading Association
Reading Online: "Side by Side": A Technology Education Model
This article from Reading Online's Electronic Classroom encourages practicing and future teachers to advocate for professional development programs that will allow for pairing inservice and preservice teachers for the purpose of...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Reading Development
Explore an interactive article to experience reading development firsthand. Listen in as a typical child from each grade reads aloud, and compare reading strategies and skills as children progress from kindergarten through third grade.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: 5 Ps1 1: Particle Model of Matter
A collection of work samples, phenomena, assessment templates and videos that help teachers create lessons to show that matter is made up of small particles. Through these materials students will see that matter is too small to be seen.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Ideas That Lead to Probability
This lesson plan sets the ground work for an introduction to and then exploring the concepts that are the foundation for probability. Lots of resources are available for teachers and learners at this website.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: It's a Kid's World: A Change of Mind
Explore the cognitive development of deception and devise a game or mock trial in which one determines who is lying and who is telling the truth. Research brain activity and make a working model of neural divergences using a set of...