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Changing One's Tune: A Music Therapy STEM Integrated Project
A music therapy STEM integrated project combines science and language arts. Pupils listen to music, learn about music physics, build and play instruments, write songs, and share their musical creations. They study different intervals and...
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CORE Math Performance Assessment Modules: Grade 5
A set of CORE math assessments for fifth graders begins with a three-part task that checks pupils' ability to find the product of fractions and whole numbers, mixed numbers, or fractions. For other assessments, learners show their...
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CORE Math Performance Assessment Modules: Grade 3
Assess the math skills of third graders by casting them in the roles of cookie makers, data collectors, farmers, gardeners, delivery people, theatre attendees, muralists, and window washers. The CORE Math Performance Assessments in this...
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Common Core Algebra 1, Unit 6: Linear and Exponential Sequences
The Linear and Exponential Sequences unit begins with a video introduction to sequences, notations, and graphs. Viewers use full sentences to describe the sequence and how to get from one term to the next without writing an expression...
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Common Core Algebra 1, Unit 7: Exponential Functions
The three lessons in the Exponential Functions Unit cover exponential growth, exponential decay, and linear vs. exponential. In the first lesson, learners watch a quick review on function notation as they prepare to learn more about...
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Common Core Algebra 1, Unit 11: Solving Quadratics
The final unit in the Algebra 1 Common Core Flipped Classroom series focuses on solving quadratics. First, scholars review how to simplify radicals and add and subtract radical expressions with different radicands. The second of five...
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National Constitution Center: Hall Pass Videos
The National Constitution Center offers this collection of informative and entertaining videos intended to start conversations and develop critical thinking skills. Viewers learn about the rights granted by the constitution, about the...
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Common Core Algebra 2, Unit 3: Rational Expressions
The five videos in the flipped classroom Common Core Algebra 2, Unit 3 series take up rational expressions. The first video demonstrates how to find values that are excluded from the domain of rational expressions. Viewers then see how...
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Common Core Algebra 2, Unit 4: Radicals
Algebra 2 scholars will flip over a unit focused on radical equations. Designed for out-of-class learning, the four-lesson unit addresses Common Core standards and covers adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing radicals as well as...
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Common Core Algebra 2, Unit 6: Complex Numbers
Three lessons and a review make up Unit 6: Complex Numbers in the Common Core Algebra II series. Designed for the flipped classroom, topics covered are Imaginary Numbers, Complex Numbers, and the Quadratic Formula. Videos explain to the...
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Common Core Algebra 2, Unit 11
The two videos in Unit 11 flipped classroom, Common Core Algebra II series, examine sequence. Pupils first learn about the two primary sequences, arithmetic and geometric, and discover the general explicit formulas for both types....
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Common Core Algebra 2, Unit 8
A unit module contains high-school-friendly videos that examine logarithms—graphs, properties, and exponential equations. Use the series of videos for flipped assignments or visual aids in the classroom. Videos are intended for teacher...
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Common Core Algebra 2, Unit 9
Flip your classroom, or offer engaging visual aids to your lessons with a series of videos that explore the concept of trigonometry. After an introduction to the topic, high schoolers investigate reference triangles, unit circles, and...
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Social & Emotional Learning in High School: Relationship Skills
Building strong relationship skills is a critical part of Social and Emotional Learning. Working in book circles as lab partners, research teams, and project-based learning groups requires specific relationship skills. The units, lesson...
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Abigail Adams, the Writer: “My pen is always freer than my tongue.”
Sixteen lessons from the Massachusetts History Society comprise the “Abigail Adams, the Writer: ‘My pen is always freer than my tongue’” unit. Each lesson has scholars examining Adams’ letters and diaries to gain an understanding of what...
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Learning for Justice: The Color of Law
Three powerful, pertinent, and thought-provoking lessons make up the “The Color of Law: The Role of Government in Shaping Racial Inequity” unit. High schoolers examine primary sources, watch videos, and read testimonies that document how...
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Emotional Intelligence: High School
Yoda may believe “Luminous beings are we" but many teens find it difficult to believe the Jedi master's teachings, to believe in the Force within them, and to let their light shine. Brighten the beginning of the school year with lessons...
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Winter Solstice
The winter solstice is the subject of a collection of materials that has young scientists watching videos, conducting experiments, and making calculations, all to investigate the scientific concepts behind the shortest day of the year.
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When is a Theme Not a Theme?
When is a theme not a theme? The resources in this collection explain the difference between subject, motif, and theme, model how to determine the theme(s) in literature and art, and offer opportunities to practice identifying the themes...
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Intellectual Rights And Responsibilities: Banned Books and Censorship
Two lessons comprise the "Intellectual Rights and Responsibilities: Banned Books and Censorship" series designed for high schoolers. In the first lesson, students read articles about the pros and cons of “Trigger Warnings” and then state...
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The K20 Chronicle Unit
The four-part K20 Chronicle unit teaches young journalists how to create informative and engaging news articles. They also learn how to conduct interviews, how to include quotations and photographs, and how to credit and cite sources. A...
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Social & Emotional Learning in High School: Self-Awareness
21st Century Learners face an array of challenges. This collection is designed to help students develop the social and emotional self-awareness skills and healthy habits they need to make responsible decisions now and in the future. The...
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Core Knowledge Kindergarten ELA Curriculum
A kindergarten ELA curriculum designed by the Core Knowledge Foundation is comprised of a series of 12 read-aloud units. Each unit takes 3 weeks to complete and consists of several lessons following a common routine of introducing,...
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Middle School World History
A 22-lesson Middle School World History unit uses a unique problem-solving approach to teach tweens economic history. After reading articles that provide background information, pupils engage in activities and simulations that require...