Classroom Resources

This resource provides a list of  20 IR verbs along with a  Quizlet flashcard set that can be beneficial to helping beginning students memorize key vocabulary words. This deck can be used for a variety of review activities such as matching and spelling. This link also provides a printable list of these common verbs as well as a fill-in-the-blank practice activity.

This is a public domain Spanish language copy of Adolfo Gustavo Bécquer´s poetry which includes Rima LIII (53) also known as "Volverán las oscuras golondrinas".This specific Rima is featured on the College Board´s suggested reading list for the AP Spanish Literature and Culture Exam. This resource provides students an opportunity to interpret, restate, and react to what is read in the authentic written text. The text can also be used to describe the main ideas and significant details from the story.

This novice-high to intermediate-low Spanish activity focuses on the correct uses of ser and estar. The provided lesson activity includes 4 heritage speakers describing their past. As students listen they are asked to complete a cloze activity that requires them to specifically listen for examples of how the speakers are using ser and estar. Students then discuss the uses of ser and estar that were observed in the video samples. Finally, students are asked to create their own dialogues showing that they can correctly use these two verbs in the preterit and imperfect tenses.

Learn how technological innovations developed by MIT’s Radiation Laboratory, or “Rad Lab,” helped tip the balance of World War II to the Allied forces, in this video adapted from The Secret of Tuxedo Park: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, hundreds of scientists and engineers rushed to develop an automated radar device to detect and track an enemy aircraft in flight. Microwave radar systems greatly improved the shooting accuracy of defensive weapons and were used to neutralize the German army’s fearsome V-1 rocket bombs.

This is a brief video on World War I: how the war started, the U.S.' involvement, fighting the war, and the aftermath with the Treaty of Versailles.

*Important Note: Italy was originally a member of the Triple Alliance when World War I started. After the war started in 1914, when the Triple Alliance became the Central Powers, Italy joined the Triple Entente. The Triple Alliance was originally a defensive pact against the Triple Entente. After Italy switched sides, the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers.

Atoms are a lot like us. We call their relationships "bonds," and there are many different types. In this video, you will learn that chemical bonds form in order to minimize the energy difference between two atoms or ions; that those chemical bonds may be covalent if atoms share electrons, and that covalent bonds can share those electrons evenly or unevenly; that bonds can also be ionic if the electrons are transferred instead of shared: and how to calculate the energy transferred in an ionic bond using Coulomb's Law.

In this video lesson, students return to some quadratic functions they have seen. They write quadratic equations to represent relationships and use the quadratic formula to solve problems that they did not previously have the tools to solve (other than by graphing). In some cases, the quadratic formula is the only practical way to find the solutions. In others, students can decide to use other methods that might be more straightforward (MP5).

The work in this lesson—writing equations, solving them, and interpreting the solutions in context—encourages students to reason quantitatively and abstractly (MP2).

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Dr. Shini walks us through the differences between series and parallel circuits and how that makes Christmas lights work the way they work.

In this video from PBSLearningMedia, John Green teaches students about the United States as it was in the 1990s. You'll remember from last week that the old-school Republican George H.W. Bush had lost the 1992 presidential election to a young upstart Democrat from Arkansas named Bill Clinton. Clinton was a bit of a dark horse candidate, having survived a sex scandal during the election, but a third-party run by Ross Perot split the vote, and Clinton was inaugurated in 1993. John will teach you about Clinton's foreign policy agenda, which included NATO action in the Balkans and the Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO. He'll also cover some of the domestic successes and failures of the Clinton years, including the failed attempt at healthcare reform, the pretty terrible record on GLBTQ issues, Welfare reform, which got mixed reviews, and the happier issues like the huge improvements in the economy.

**Sensitive: This resource contains material that may be sensitive for some students. Teachers should exercise discretion in evaluating whether this resource is suitable for their class.

In this activity from Khan Academy, students will review their knowledge of ellipse equations and their features: center, radii, and foci. This activity has an embedded video, practice problem with immediate checks for the correctness of answers, an explanation option, and more practice choice at the end of the lesson. This review can be assigned to Google Classroom. 

Khan Academy is a free resource for teachers. Teachers can sign up for a free account to access additional resources.

This game resembles "Plinko" from the game show The Price is Right. The purpose is to improve shooting skills and accuracy while playing a unique archery game. Prior to this lesson, students should have the skills to hit their target from 10-15 yards with consistency. 

Note: Safety is of the utmost importance while teaching or engaging in an archery lesson.

According to statista.com, fitness running is one of the most popular physical activities in the United States with almost 56 million people participating in 2017. That number is an increase of approximately 14 million people since 2007. With that in mind, OPEN and the New York Road Runners have teamed up to bring you an outcomes-based approach for preparing your high school students to enjoy a lifetime of fitness running.

This video from Khan Academy gives an overview of the events leading up to World War II. The video is 7 minutes 54 seconds in length.  It can be played during an introduction to World War II.

In this video excerpt from NOVA scienceNOW, explore how advances in information technology are making cars increasingly susceptible to cyber attacks. Modern cars are highly dependent on computers to control many features including lights, braking, steering, door locks, and GPS. A team of security experts demonstrates how it is possible to hack into a car and gain control of it from a remote location by taking advantage of its built-in cell phone system. This video comes with discussion questions. 

Today, we’re going to build the ticking heart of every computer - the Central Processing Unit or CPU. The CPU’s job is to execute the programs we know and love - you know, like GTA V, Slack... and PowerPoint. To make our CPU, we’ll bring in our ALU and RAM we made in the previous two episodes, and then, with the help of Carrie Anne’s wonderful dictation, (slowly) step through some clock cycles.

"Old meme is old." But why is this such a bad thing? Once the height of internetiness, the sight of a LOLCat is now unforgivable. Memes become passe very quickly: after just months or even weeks of a new meme, we tire of the once hugely popular joke. Why does this happen, and so rapidly? Is it a reflection of the sheer volume of visual information we absorb from the internet? Or, does it say something about this specific visual culture? 

Your online activities and communications are as much a part of your life as your offline activities and communications; they are interconnected and can affect your life and relationships in the same way.

The lesson elements in this module teach students about the privacy principle: “The online world is inseparable from the ‘real’ world”. They are designed to be independent and flexible, so you can incorporate them into any size lesson plan. Student resources are available at https://teachingprivacy.org/online-is-real/. 

Summary of Learning Objectives: Students can give examples of how online and offline activities affect each other; students can think imaginatively about the potential consequences of their posts for themselves and others.

Target Age: High school, college undergraduate.

Learning Objectives:

1. Students can critically examine the relationship between online and offline activities. They can outline example scenarios in which information originating online could affect their offline interactions and vice versa.
2. Students can explain how their online presence (both their intentional posts and other parts of their information footprint) might have a larger audience than that of which they are aware, and give examples of who might be in that larger audience.
3. Students can identify privacy settings on a particular app or site they use regularly and edit their settings according to their preferences.
4. Students can explain how interacting with privacy settings allows them to minimize who can see their personal information and posts.
5. Students reflect on the content that they choose to post, and can discuss the impact a post might have, or the reaction it might evoke, in a greater offline audience — not just within their circle of friends or followers.
6. Students can describe how they might approach a friend or family member to discuss privacy preferences.

Every computer device you have ever used, from your school computers to your calculator, has been using algorithms to tell it how to do whatever it was doing. Algorithms are a very important topic in Computer Science because they help software developers create efficient and error-free programs. The most important thing to remember about algorithms is that there can be many different algorithms for the same problem, but some are much better than others!

In this chapter, students will examine algorithms, including searching and sorting algorithms.

This video shows an entertaining way to introduce Computer Science to students. It also offers an explanation of a public encryption key in a way that students can easily grasp. Students find out things they thought were safe on the internet are not safe.

This free resource from PE Central is an assessment for the volleyball underhand serve. The purpose is to assess the students' ability to underhand serve a volleyball trainer over a net and the presence of the critical elements of the skill. The resource includes a downloadable and printable Underhand Volley Serve Checklist.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

After students have studied the basics of fusion and fission as well as the splitting of the atom, groups of three choose a nuclear chemistry topic to research, finding the “what, how, where, and why” of their subject. After conducting their research, students use the free Web 2.0 tool Timetoast to construct an online timeline that features fifteen important facts with images and captions about their topic. Students then use the timelines to present their newly acquired knowledge to the class.

This lesson is a student's first exposure to programming in App Lab. The lesson begins with a quick reflection prompt. Then students are introduced to the practice of pair programming before beginning to program. For this lesson, the students' view is limited to only a very few simple “turtle” commands to draw graphics on the screen. After a few warm-up exercises, using only combinations of four drawing commands, students must figure out the most “efficient” way to draw an image of a 3x3 grid. The lesson concludes with a sense-making discussion about the meaning of efficiency in programming and the reason behind beginning with such a limited set of programming tools.

Students will be able to:
- use App Lab to write programs that create simple drawings with “turtle graphics.”
- create a program with a partner following the pair programming model.
- explain different ways one might measure the efficiency of a program.

Note: You will need to create a free account on code.org before you can view this resource.

In this PhET Activity, students will explore the relationships between the pressure, volume, temperature, and density of ideal gases. As an extension, students can visualize, using graphs, how the temperature and pressure of a gas impact the speed and kinetic energy of particles. This activity can be used as an exploratory introduction to the behavior of gases, as a digital lab, or to reinforce student knowledge of confined gases.

This YouTube video will help explain how to teach multiplying polynomials using a worksheet from Kuta Software. Kuta Software is free software for math teachers that creates worksheets in a matter of minutes. There are a series of three videos available to fully teach this concept. The videos are labeled Multiplying Polynomials Part 1, Multiplying Polynomials Part 2, and Multiplying Polynomials Part 3. This video can be played to introduce a lesson on multiplying polynomials. This video is 12 minutes and 56 seconds in length and can be assigned through Google Classroom.

In this lesson, students explore a variety of documents highlighting various issues and perspectives that led to the Cold War and address the question: Who was primarily responsible for the Cold War, the United States or the Soviet Union? Students will read and analyze four primary documents about the Cold War including excerpts from Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech and the Truman Doctrine, to answer the essential question. 

The website includes lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, primary source documents, and student graphic organizers. Teachers will need to create a free account to access the materials. 

This informational material will explain how to evaluate integrals with infinite limits to find the value of a variable. It gives examples of integrals with limits of infinity or negative infinity that converge or diverge. There are corresponding videos available. Practice questions with a PDF answer key are provided.  

Humans thrive and survive within a narrow range of air pressures. When air pressures are out of this range, we have more physical problems. What happens when humans go into space? How have engineers made it possible to survive when air pressure approaches zero?

This informational material will relate the precalculus concept of limits of functions using a real-world issue--engineering astronaut spacesuits. There are embedded videos within the text. 

This novice mid to novice high French activity allows students to review and use food vocabulary. The warm-up activity requires students to match food items with printed sentences describing each photo. These photos and sentences cards are provided in the resource. Students are then asked to plan two days' worth of meals. On day one they are to select and describe home-cooked meals and on day two they are to select restaurant meals. After creating their meal plans, students ask each other about the meals they have chosen using interpersonal speaking skills.

This novice mid to novice high ASL activity provides students an opportunity to practice vocabulary related to holidays and celebrations as well as asking questions. Students start with a quick warm-up in which they review how to use American Sign Language to stay each holiday. Then, students use the provided cards to play a game similar to Go Fish in which students ask for holidays rather than numbers.  After the Go Fish game, students will use a series of prepared question cards to practice using question words while conversing with peers. The holiday and question activities can be used together or separately depending on the goals for each classroom.

This novice low to novice mid Chinese activity helps students describe their daily routines. The activity starts off by quickly reviewing how to tell time using a provided clock printout (with Chinese numbers). Students then randomly select 4-5 activity cards (provided) and use these verbs to create a daily schedule. The goal is to be creative based on the actions that were drawn. Upper level students can use these resources to work in pairs to interview each other about their daily activities.

When we think about the ways in which our world is connected, systems of global trade, international travel, or economics come to mind. But as pandemics like COVID-19 or the Spanish Flu have taught us, public health is one of the most critical aspects of our reliance on each other.

Novice low and novice mid learners will study family vocabulary early on during their language learning. This printable resource allows students to see most vocabulary words in context. It is a family tree showing the relationship of each person to the student or tú. The most common vocabulary words are included on the family tree without English translations. Only words that do not directly relate to the student are translated into English. This resource can be copied for individual student use or printed as a poster to hang in the classroom.

This middle school-aged activity shows young students how artists can use their work to inspire change for the good of individuals and their communities. In this activity, students examine two different posters designed by Puerto Rican artists to convey a positive message. After examining these pieces of art students work in groups to brainstorm a list of issues that affect their school or community. Then, they select one to focus on to share with the class. Working as a group, students will create a bilingual slogan to promote their chosen issue as well as a poster to present to the class. As an extension students can display their posters around the school in an effort to meet the community standards. This activity is provided in both English and Spanish. Novice level students should complete the activities in English but their posters should include bilingual messages. Intermediate-level students should complete the activities completely in the target language.

In this short video, students will learn about the duties of exercise physiologists. An exercise physiologist's job is to assess, plan, or implement fitness programs that include exercise or physical activities such as those designed to improve cardiorespiratory function, body composition, muscular strength, muscular endurance, or flexibility.

All Trails is an online and app based resource that can be used to identify walking, running, biking, and hiking trails all over the globe. This resource categorizes trails in different categories based on difficulty, length, and terrain.  Using the app, users can track their real-time position on specific trails. This is a great tool that can make users feel comfortable exercising on a new trail. 

There is a free and upgraded (pro) version.