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Cowden-Herrick Schools

Six Steps for Substitute Success

For Students K - 12th
Here's a switch--a lesson plan designed for prepare class members for a substitute! The plan highlights six behaviors that demonstrate respect and responsibility. 
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American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Culturally Responsive Rti

For Teachers K - 1st
This series of professional learning modules, released by the National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt), presents Response to Intervention (RTI) as a culturally responsive framework for ensuring...
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American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Progress Monitoring and Decision Making

For Teachers K - 1st
This 2007 PDF brief from Deborah Speece studies an RTI model as a method of identifying children for special education services. The brief illustrates the role of progress monitoring within RTI through two student profiles. This brief...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Family Responsibilities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson that helps students understand that people share responsibilities. Students discuss the jobs families have to do around the house and identify who in the family does each job.
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American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Rti in Middle School: A Guide for Parents

For Teachers K - 1st
This document was developed to help middle school parents and other family members understand the essential components of RTI (screening, progress monitoring, multi-level prevention system, and data-based decision making), ask questions...
Article
American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Secondary Literacy: Life Changing Results

For Teachers K - 1st
This 2007 brief provides an orientation to the Content Literacy Continuum (CLC) model a replicable district-level model of instruction to meet the differentiated needs of struggling adolescents. CLC is a five-level model that is aligned...
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American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention:rti in Elementary School:a Guide for Families

For Teachers K - 1st
This document was developed to help parents and other family members understand the essential components of RTI (screening, progress monitoring, multi-level prevention system, and data-based decision making), ask questions about RTI, and...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Cell Mediated Immune Response

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Do cells really attack other cells? They sure do. When they can, the T cells search out and destroy "bad" cells. In the following tutorial students will identify the...
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Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Immune Response

For Students 9th - 10th
This article will help students learn how to describe the lymphatic system and its functions in the immune response, explain the role of antigens, describe a humoral immune response, identify roles of different types of T cells, define...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: The Seven Roles of the President [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
A worksheet for students to better understand the jobs the President of the United States is responsible for.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Cell Mediated Immune Response

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the roles of T cells in a cell-mediated immune response.
Lesson Plan
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Being a Responsible Borrower

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners watch a role-play to learn about the behaviors of a responsible borrower and answer questions about borrowing.
Article
Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch: The Price of Oil [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A 193-page report that provides an exploration of human rights violations related to oil industries in Nigeria in the 1990s and of the role and responsibilities of the major oil companies. (Published January 1999)
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Lesson 26: Individual vs. Social Responsibility

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using an artistically integrated approach in teaching literary themes helps students to explore more fully the universality of those themes. Rock music is a form of cultural expression which, because of its mass appeal, can become a...
Handout
PBS

Pbs: Roles of Women in Islam

For Students 9th - 10th
The roles of women in Islam are the focus of this article from PBS. Their rights, responsibilities, and the violations to them as well as marriage, modesty, family and public life are each addressed.
Lesson Plan
Wisconsin Historical Society

Turning Points Lesson Plans: Roles of Leadership

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Discuss leadership of the past and today while learning about Indian chiefs Tomah, Black Hawk, Keokuk, and others. This website includes a link to the article "Indian Chiefs and Pioneers of the Northwest," group activity and game ideas,...
Website
US House of Representatives

Office of the Clerk: The Role of the House

For Students 6th - 8th
Why did the founding fathers create two separate chambers in Congress - the House of Representatives and Senate? Find out the reasons for the dual chamber and the responsibilities of each one. Included is a glossary and printable puzzles...
Article
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Made Clear: What Role Do Humans Have in Climate Change?

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how humans are largely responsible for this recent climate change.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Game: Decisions on Deadline

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity explores Decisions On Deadline, a free, fun, and fast-paced browser and tablet-based game where players take on the role of journalists running down stories, working against time and a limited budget while navigating a...
Lesson Plan
iCivics

I Civics: A Very Big Branch

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn how the executive departments and agencies regulate and enforce governmental policies, and they explore the roles and responsibilities of the presidential cabinet.
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Rick Beach

Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Leading Student Responses

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 5 reflection. Intended for high school teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 5. Focus...
Activity
Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: Building Democracy: Every New Generation

For Students 9th - 10th
Activity in which students read and write about whether or not today's generation of youth are prepared for the leaderhip and citizenship roles of tomorrow. Students will evaluate the role of schools and recommend approach to civic...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Structure of Congress and the Legislative Process Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson explores the structure of Congress and the legislative process. There is an introduction, a research activity, an assessment, and a role play activity.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: The Lymphatic System

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Almost all of us have had a sore throat at some time. Maybe you had your tonsils out when you were younger? Why? Your tonsils are two lumps of tissue that work as...