Cowden-Herrick Schools
Six Steps for Substitute Success
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.
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention: Culturally Responsive Rti
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...
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention: Progress Monitoring and Decision Making
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...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Family Responsibilities
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.
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention: Rti in Middle School: A Guide for Parents
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...
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention: Secondary Literacy: Life Changing Results
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...
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention:rti in Elementary School:a Guide for Families
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Cell Mediated Immune Response
[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...
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Immune Response
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...
Scholastic
Scholastic: The Seven Roles of the President [Pdf]
A worksheet for students to better understand the jobs the President of the United States is responsible for.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Cell Mediated Immune Response
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the roles of T cells in a cell-mediated immune response.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Being a Responsible Borrower
Learners watch a role-play to learn about the behaviors of a responsible borrower and answer questions about borrowing.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch: The Price of Oil [Pdf]
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)
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Lesson 26: Individual vs. Social Responsibility
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...
PBS
Pbs: Roles of Women in Islam
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.
Wisconsin Historical Society
Turning Points Lesson Plans: Roles of Leadership
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,...
US House of Representatives
Office of the Clerk: The Role of the House
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...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Made Clear: What Role Do Humans Have in Climate Change?
Find out how humans are largely responsible for this recent climate change.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Game: Decisions on Deadline
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...
iCivics
I Civics: A Very Big Branch
Students learn how the executive departments and agencies regulate and enforce governmental policies, and they explore the roles and responsibilities of the presidential cabinet.
Rick Beach
Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Leading Student Responses
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...
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Building Democracy: Every New Generation
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...
PBS
Structure of Congress and the Legislative Process Lesson
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: The Lymphatic System
[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...