Transforming Education
Social Awareness Strategies
What are the benefits of developing social awareness? Using the resource, readers learn strategies for fostering civil discourse, creating a participatory classroom, and enhancing family involvement. Scholars also take a personality...
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Nature's Partners: Pollinators, Plants, and You [Pdf]
Teachers will love this comprehensive Grades 3-6 curriculum on pollinators. There are six modules of detailed plans and accompanying materials. Pre-assessment activities and teacher background information, as well as supplemental...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Waves Performance Assessment Part 1
Students will use a variety of objects to participate in a partner activity and communicate using light and sound waves. Resources include a video, pictures and videos of the lesson plan in action, and examples of student work.
Student Achievement Partners
Student Achievement Partners: Are Fractions Numbers? [Pdf]
In this assessment, students use reasoning to justify if fractions are numbers.
Student Achievement Partners
Student Achievement Partners: How Many Teams? [Pdf]
Students are assessed on understanding the meaning of the quotient and remainder to solve real word prolems.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Reading Fluency
This lesson engages students in reading fluency practice. Teachers will modeling auditorily, use timed self-assessments, and ensure partners give feedback to motivate the students.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: The United States and Globalization
This self-guided unit addresses the economic interdependence of communities and countries across the globe and the economic development that is taking place. Included are lessons, self-assessments, background information, and learning...
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Badminton Partner Singles
Here are some ideas for planning a badminton round-robin tournament in physical education class. Includes ideas for assessing learners' participation and effort.
Education.com
Education.com: Sl.2.1.a Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to practice the Common Core standard of following agreed-upon rules for discussions. Also included is a formative assessment for speaking and listening.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity 3: Lighting an Orange (Virtual)
This activity focuses on understanding how to light a virtual orange. It is in the format of an assessment.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Claim Testing Snap Judgment
An activity to show students how to assess claims that are made either academically or socially throughout life.
Council of Foreign Relations
North America's Second Decade (Nafta)
A ten year evaluation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. in Foreign Affairs, a scholarly academic journal, is presented. Discusses the potential for further integration between trading...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Decorative Arts Quiz
Test your knowledge of decorative arts by completing this 7-question quiz.
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Global Schoolhouse: Harnessing the Power of the Web
This online tutorial shows K-12 teachers how to harness the power of the World Wide Web for classroom use, and in particular for interaction, collaboration, distance education, cultural understanding and cooperative research -- with...
Student Achievement Partners
Achieve the Core: Professional Dev: Understanding Text Dependent Questions
Understanding Text-Dependent Questions is a 1-4 hour module designed to promote understanding of how text-dependent questions support the key shifts required by the Common Core State Standards for ELA/Literacy. It includes the following:...
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Sample Guided Reading Lesson [Pdf]
This text on the topic of Women's Rights from Scholastic has been reformatted into a guided reading activity where young scholars can see annotated examples of active reading, stop at logical places in the text to answer discussion...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Science of Attraction
Romantic chemistry is all about warm, gooey feelings that gush from the deepest depths of the heart right? Not quite. Actually, the real boss behind attraction is your brain, which runs through a very quick, very complex series of...
James Madison University
James Madison University: Reflective Listening Exercise
This exercise in reflective listening is designed to be done with a partner. Instructions are tailored to classroom use, complete with assessment sheets. There is also quite a bit of background material for those doing the exercise....