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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa engineering dbqs
CER Open Response Activity: Analyze & Evaluate Engineers & Biodiversity
In this activity, students investigate how engineers solve problems to protect species. Students use their understanding of biodiversity to evaluate whether a design solution helps or harms ecosystems. Three topics are provided, for student choice. This can be used as a jigsaw activity, or for independent learning. Students are also given the choice of the type of slide they provide their answers on. There are two levels of difficulty of the Claim - Evidence - Reasoning graphic organizer. One ha
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Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-2
, MS-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-3
, 5-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-2
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Kinetic Energy Practice CER and Graphing Data
Are you in need of a resource that allows your students to practice their graphing abilities as well as their argumentative skills? This activity is perfect for you!Included:Student WorksheetAnswer Key---The overarching question for the worksheet is: What are the two variables that affect an object's kinetic energy?Students will answer this question using the Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning format. On the front of the sheet, students are given the data table for a student's trial data from testin
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Grades:
7th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS3-1
Also included in:Â 8th Grade Science Practice CER BUNDLE - NO PREP
Newton's Third Law Practice CER
Do you need a way for your students to demonstrate their understanding of Newtons' Third Law of motion? Do they need practice with claim, evidence, and reasoning? Look no further!Included:Student Worksheet with Background Information and ModelsAnswer KeyInformationThe students are given background information about the scenario as well as six models of force diagrams. The student must figure out which diagrams are correct given the background information and support their claim using evidence fr
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Grades:
7th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS2-1
Also included in:Â 8th Grade Science Practice CER BUNDLE - NO PREP
A Christmas Carol Writing Prompts Distance Learning CCSS
Please click the little green star in the upper right section of this page and select to "Follow" me. I promise you my creative lessons and common core based designs will not disappoint you.I have included 11 constructed response items based on A Christmas Carol. This is one of my favorites. These one page writing assignments can be used as a formative or cumulative assessment for the novel. They are written in the style of the common core MSL and EOC.I have also included 2 rubrics: one for a on
Grades:
7th - 11th
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Also included in:Â A Christmas Carol Unit Bundle of Lessons Distance Learning
Christmas Around the World - Human Geography / Culture Study
This lesson takes a look at what Christmas is like in one country of each inhabited continent. They each have a 1 page reading. Each country also has a half page activity (a different activity for each country - 6 total). The readings are meant to be enjoyable so they are not super challenging and can be used for grades 7-10. They also include doodle art that can be colored (or you can print just a class set to save papers). These can be used in a variety of ways - to explore human geography, in
Grades:
7th - 10th
iRobot Discussion Question Cards
Movie Day that is educational!An easy set up to discuss the Psychological impact of robots in society based on the book and movie iRobot by Isaac Asimov.Set up questions for students to write in their notebooks and share their ideas and beliefs or use as prompts for warm ups. Includes PDF for easy printing and PPT for easy display and whole group discussions.
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Not Grade Specific
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Joyeux Noel (movie) Worksheet -- with answer sheet
Joyeux Noel is one of the greatest movies ever made, and I like to show it just before introducing a U.S. History segment on World War One. My wife, a French teacher, also shows it in her French classes.
This worksheet has a variety of content-based questions requiring 1-3 sentence answers, along with a few that require outside research on the topics of international law and other issues. The questions are designed for a U.S. history class, but can be adapted for the cultural aspects of a Fren
Grades:
10th - 12th
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Science Discussion Sentence Starters (Editable version)
This editable resource is great for encouraging students to engage in MEANINGFUL science discussions. The Talk Tents can be used before, during or after activities such as labs, videos, discussions, readings, etc. With the new science standards in place (NGSS), students need to analyze tables/charts, discuss their ideas and develop their own investigations and these sentence starters will help students develop those skills. The Talk Tents can stay on the desks/tables and students refer to them a
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Inquiry Based Investigation: Cloning
In this Inquiry Based Investigation , students will complete several tasks in order to gain a deeper understanding of cloning and the cloning process, take an informed position either for or against the process, and create a persuasive infographic explaining their argument.What is an Inquiry Based Investigation ?When doing an Inquiry Based Investigation , students do not wait for the teacher to provide an answer. Instead, they are actively seeking solutions, designing investigations, and askin
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Daily Warm Ups / Exit Tickets (science, tech, checking for misconceptions)
This is a (growing) collection comprised of 23 daily warm up or exit ticket ideas that can be implemented as stand alone activities or paired with the unit you are currently teaching.
I assign these as Google Documents that my students submit on Schoology. To allow for content mastery I allow revisions for full credit.
ALL of the included Microsoft Word documents are fully editable allowing you to customize them according to your student and classroom needs.
They are great for checking for
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Not Grade Specific
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Early Cold War: The Space Race
A very brief DBQ featuring a timeline covering the Space Race from 1959-1997. 3 questions. I use this mostly to connect with the Arms Race and have students expand the timeline further and I use this in interactive notebooks, and often have the students color-code anything having to do with communism or socialism with a pink highlighter (pink... red) and then choose another color (I usually had them use blue) for capitalism and for the U.S. I also use this with the PowerPoints "The Arms Race" an
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Grades:
10th - 11th
Also included in:Â Early Cold War: The Arms Race and Space Race
DBQ Introduction Practice
Use this document packet to introduce Document Based Essay Questions (DBQ) to any level history class. Start with the opening warm-up discussion, "What makes a movie a Christmas movie?"Students should be able then to read the 7 documents in the packet and argue whether the movie Die Hard is a Christmas movie or not. Go a step further and have students analyze the point of view for the documents and how it influences their opinion.I also have students write a thesis to practice making their argum
Grades:
9th - 12th
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