Gwinnett County Public Schools
Analysis of the Tuck Everlasting and The Birchbark House Text Exemplars
Looking to introduce some text-based questions into your ELA lessons? Practice the kinds of skills the Common Core demands with the seven text-based questions and the essay prompt provided here. Designed to be a three-day lesson, day one...
Boys Town
More Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School
Put an end to wasted instructional time with this lesson on responsibility and preparedness. After completing this series of activities students will learn the importance of these social skills not only in the classroom, but at home and...
Curated OER
Playing the Vocabulary Game
This wonderful game is a terrific way to reinforce important vocabulary words across the curriculum
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Heat Energy- Temperature
Second graders investigate the meaning of temperature. They determine what happens to a thermometer when the temperature rises or falls. They place thermometers in different classroom locations in order to compare the temperature in a...
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Introduction to Topographic Maps
Tenth graders create a topographic map and see how it represents different elevations. In this topographic maps lesson students read and interpret topographic maps.
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Let Us Be Sensible
Students describe the five senses. They perform an investigation using sensory organs associated with each of the senses. Students identify, describe and extend repeating relationship (pattern) found in common, objects, sounds and...
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Intro to 1D Kinematics with Physlets
Twelfth graders examine illustrations and animations on a Physlets CD in which they must describe motion, analyze graphs, and calculate initial velocity. The Physlet assists in providing active class participation in discussion.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Pattern Match: Colors
Young learners will have fun selecting correct colors in order to "complete the pattern." Choose from four levels (easy, basic, hard, touch) and score points as you work against a timer.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe Triangle Perimeters
Students are shown two triangles touching points on a coordinate grid and are asked to answer questions about their perimeters. The purpose of this task is to apply the Pythagorean theorem to calculate distances and areas. Aligns with...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: g.c Inscribing a Circle in a Triangle I
The goal of this task is to show how to draw a circle which is tangent to all three sides of a given triangle: that is, the circle touches each side of the triangle in a single point. Aligns with G-C.A.3.