The purpose of these materials is to help future public school teachers of Spanish in their assessment of learners' levels of proficiency. These materials not only present videos of learners interacting with an interlocutor, but also direct the viewer to notice features about the learners' language and proficiency levels. The website also presents information on proficiency levels to help the viewer develop a greater awareness of differences in learner language.

This course will provide you with a comprehensive introduction to spreadsheets; it is designed for first-time users with very little or no exposure to the subject.

Melanie Fey is a Diné (Navajo) writer and Indigenous feminist from Tuba City (Dinétah), Arizona. Her work seeks to celebrate the LGBTQ/two spirit community, raise awareness about violence against Native women, and explore the challenging conflict between – and combination of – rural and urban Native life. In "Stereotype This" a Native American speaker experiences both the grief and fortitude that they receive from the collective of ancestors long past.
As you read, take notes on the feelings expressed in the italicized lines.

An online pedagogical reference grammar of the French language that combines authoritative grammar explanations, self-correcting exercises and online audio with surreal dialogues and cartoon images.

A survey of several time management tools and techniques that can be applied to most work and life situations.

This lesson plan explores elements of wonder, distortion, fantasy, and whimsy in The Nursery "Alice," Lewis Carroll's adaptation for younger readers of his beloved classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Tá Falado includes 46 podcast lessons on the pronunciation and grammar of Portuguese, specifically designed to help those who already speak Spanish. The lessons are built around Portuguese dialogs that are repeated in Spanish, providing a direct comparison of the two languages. All lessons include downloadable PDF files with the transcripts and notes, mp3 audio files, and blog discussions. Additionally all of the dialogs present cultural scenarios that illustrate differences between North American and Brazilian culture.

Understanding Biodiversity presents an overview of biodiversity, its importance and relevance to humans, all living things, and the Earth. It includes species pages and a template to engage and involve students in real-life data collection.

In this unit, students build a deeper understanding, appreciation, and respect for the wide variety of religions found in the world by reading two core texts: What Is Religion? and One World, Many Religions: The Ways We Worship. In today’s society, illiteracy regarding religion is widespread and fuels prejudice and bullying. The negative impacts of religious illiteracy and intolerance can be minimized by teaching religion in a non-devotional, academic perspective. Therefore, this unit challenges students to build a broader awareness and understanding of religion by exposing students to a diversity of religious views and educating students about some of the most common religions. It is important to note that this unit is not intended to promote the acceptance of one particular religion or serve as a place to practice religion. Instead, it is our goal that this unit will help students better understand the differences and similarities among the religions and cultures of their classmates, and begin to appreciate and respect differences in religion.

As readers, this unit challenges students to synthesize information across two texts to build a deeper understanding of a topic. Students will analyze how authors support points, what structures they include to emphasize key ideas, and how different texts provide different perspectives and information about similar topics.

In this unit, students explore the relationship between living things and their environment and how the environment can both positively and negatively impact a species’ ability to survive. Using the Next Generation Science Standards as a guide, students will learn about different species, what they need for survival, their life cycle, and how they have adapted for survival. Then students will be challenged to create arguments that explain why some organisms are able to survive well, some survive less well, and others can’t survive at all in certain habitats. Through this unit, along with others in the sequence, students will use the scientific information they learn to think critically about the world around them.

The Science of Living Things texts were chosen as mentor texts for this unit because the author, Bobbie Kalman, uses text features and clear language to clearly communicate complex concepts about the animal kingdom, life cycles, and animal adaptations. As readers, students will be challenged to constantly ask and answer questions about key details in the text, explicitly referring to the text to support an answer or a question. Over the course of the unit, students will also deepen their understanding of how Bobbie Kalman uses text features to not only organize information, but to help a reader learn new information and facts about a subject. Students will also work on using context clues to figure out the meaning of genre-specific vocabulary, find the main idea of a section, and explain cause and effect in relation to scientific concepts.

Determine the technical meaning of words using context clues and reference texts to develop an understanding of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.

“Every year in March, we honor our Virgin Islands' exceptional history and culture, as well as the achievements and contributions of its people. As Virgin Islanders, it is critical that we honor our forefathers' fortitude and continue to build on their great successes.This PowerPoint slide has hyperlinks for teachers to use in celebrating the significant celebration for virgin islands History Month.

This middle school geometry lesson is submitted by Andre Douglas, Secondary Mathematics Teacher in the Virgin Islands Department of Education.  Mr. Douglas extends this lesson beyond geometry to help students gain an appreciation of the fish and wildlife in this US territory.  Teachers using this lesson plan can extend this lesson through information provided by the National Park Service website: https://www.nps.gov/viis/learn/kidsyouth/queen_parrotfish.htm  

This lesson was developed for students in the U.S. Virgin Islands who are familiar with the edible "conch," a sea snail enjoyed on the islands. Connecting this math lesson to that which is familiar to students, strengthens students' knowledge of their home and makes for a deeper, more meaningful lesson.

Beginning in 1955, the United States and the Soviet Union began competing in the Space Race, a race to determine who would achieve superiority in spaceflight. The following text describes some of the people who made significant contributions to this race and who were, until recently, hidden from popular history.
As you read, take notes on the challenges that each woman faced due to prejudice based on her race and gender.

This course is designed for the novice who has little or no word processing experience; it provides an introduction to word processing. In it, you will explore word processing skills while also learning to create a basic business letter and a business memo.

Daily activity options for distance learning.
Below you will find attachments for daily writing and reading assignments. I would print this paper to have as hard copy reference as well. There are live links, so knowing how to access here will help.