Students form literature circles, read "Esperanza Rising" or "Becoming Naomi Leon" by Pam MuĐoz Ryan, use a Critical Thinking Map to discuss social issues, and use a class wiki.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
In this lesson, students use blogs to hold discussions about the effect of the factors of culture, history, and environment on Latino poetry.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Through a series of picture book read-alouds, students engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Students name unnamed chapters in a novel they are reading. They discuss possible chapter names, considering accuracy, word choice, and connotation, before settling on a choice.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Many people speak more than one language, like the narrator in this poem. How does being bilingual affect you? These resources would be a good way to share different cultures and identities.
Material Type: Reading
Este texto describe el problema de los desechos plásticos y cómo este tipo de contaminación podría afectar el futuro del planeta.
Material Type: Reading
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices for foreign language instruction at the high-school and college levels. It features 12 interactive media-rich modules taught by different professors from the University of Texas at Austin. Modules include Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, Grammar, Pragmatics, Culture, The Language Learner, Technology, Classroom Management, and Assessment.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Syllabus
A little guide for foreign language teachers and parents! Please check out my Workbook 'German for Children' and my website: www.beebilingual.org How to teac...
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This unit introduces children to a number of concepts related to water. First, students activate and build on prior knowledge as they explore various places where water is found (e.g., lakes, rivers, swimming pools). In the second lesson, students differentiate between water found naturally (e.g., a lake) and artificially (e.g., a swimming pool). The third lesson focuses on the uses of water and its importance for human life. Next, students learn about the various states (solid, liquid, gas) that water can be found in. In the final lesson, students learn what people can do to conserve water and care for this natural resource. Throughout the lessons, students are exposed to songs and books about water. The unit culminates with as assessment that asks pairs of students to create a nonfiction question-and-answer book about a specific representation of water. Description of the assessment task with an optional technological application is also included.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The FLLITE website contains a collection of lessons in second language literacy for various languages. The website is the focal point of the FLLITE Project, which takes the creative moments found in everyday language use as the basis for lessons in second language literacy. By emphasizing language play as central to communication, FLLITE lessons aim to develop language awareness as well as communicative abilities through the integration of speaking, reading, listening, and writing tasks. The goal of the FLLITE Project is the publication of classroom-tested lessons based on authentic texts in different languages, for example, blogs, Internet memes, YouTube videos, slam poetry, and so forth. All FLLITE lessons carry an open license that allows you the teacher to… …access, adapt, and re-use any lesson; and …contribute a lesson for editorial feedback and publication.
Material Type: Lesson
Migration is one of the most fascinating practices of animals. Find out how it works in this text.
Material Type: Assessment, Reading
Can you imagine a party where you celebrate dead people? This festival is celebrated in some Latin American countries, including Mexico, whose tradition of placing altars for the dead is world-renowned.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson, Reading
En este cuento tradicional japonés un niño le da una lección de valentía y bondad a todo un pueblo.
Material Type: Reading
This task addresses many standards regarding the description and analysis of bivariate quantitative data, including regression and correlation. Students should recognize that the pattern shown is one of a strong, positive, linear association, and thus a correlation coefficient value near +1 is plausible. Students should also be able to interpret the slope of the least-squares line as an estimated increase in y per unit change in x (and thus for a 3 unit increase in x, students should expect an estimated increase in y that equals 3 times the model's slope value).
Material Type: Activity/Lab
One goal of this task is to help students develop comfort and ease with adding fractions with unlike denominators. Another goal is to help them develop fraction number sense by having students decompose fractions. Because the Egyptians represented fractions differently than we do, it can also help students understand that there can be many ways of representing the same number.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about mixed problems in fractions.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture
The purpose of this task is to help students understand and articulate the reasons for the steps in the usual algorithm for converting a mixed number into an equivalent fraction.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about finding the reciprocal of fractions.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture
Students learn about the role engineers play in designing and building truss structures. Simulating a real-world civil engineering challenge, student teams are tasked to create strong and unique truss structures for a local bridge. They design to address project constraints, including the requirement to incorporate three different polygon shapes, and follow the steps of the engineering design process. They use hot glue and Popsicle sticks to create their small-size bridge prototypes. After compressive load tests, they evaluate their results and redesign for improvement. They collect, graph and analyze before/after measurements of interior angles to investigate shape deformation. A PowerPoint® presentation, design worksheet and data collection sheet are provided. This activity is the final step in a series on polygons and trusses.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This lesson is about the estimation of the value of Pi. Based on previous knowledge, the students try to estimate Pi value using different methods, such as: direct physical measurements; a geometric probability model; and computer technology. This lesson is designed to stimulate the learning interests of students, to enrich their experience of solving practical problems, and to develop their critical thinking ability. To understand this lesson, students should have some mathematic knowledge about circles, coordinate systems, and geometric probability. They may also need to know something about Excel. To estimate Pi value by direct physical measurements, the students can use any round or cylindrical shaped objects around them, such as round cups or water bottles. When estimating Pi value by a geometric probability model, a dartboard and darts should be prepared before the class. You can also use other games to substitute the dart throwing game. For example, you can throw marbles to the target drawn on the floor. This lesson is about 45-50 minutes. If the students know little about Excel, the teacher may need one more lesson to explain and demonstrate how to use the computer to estimate Pi value. Downloadable from the website is a video demonstration about how to use Excel for estimating Pi.
Material Type: Lecture
