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Differentiation for High Achievers a Framework

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Differentiation for High Achievers a Framework

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What Could You Do With This Pancake Flipping Robot?

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I love videos of robots messing up tasks. This one in particular struck a chord, because we get to see the robot learn from his mistakes. Let's have students write him some advice...

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Teaching with Literature in the Primary Grades

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By and large, we underestimate the learning capabilities of young students, beginning in preschool and extending through first or second grade. We tend to focus

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Carol Hurst's children's literature website- lists of trade books by content and concepts

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Weather in Children's Literature: Featured Subject

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This classroom theme includes activities, related books of fiction and nonfiction and internet links.

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Check out the thematic units

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What is bundling? "Bundles" are groups of standards arranged together to create the endpoints for units of instruction. Bundling is just one step in a curriculum development process; many other steps are required to create instructional materials designed for the NGSS.

Why bundle? Bundling is helpful step in implementing standards because it helps students see connections between concepts and can allow more efficient use of instructional time.

As is highlighted in the Introduction and Guide, there are a variety of things to consider in thinking through how to build bundles for courses.

These example bundles are not intended to represent the only ways to organize courses, but rather to provide some well thought out, concrete examples of what bundles might look like.

For each grade, two different examples are provided to motivate users to compare the different examples and think about what works in their local context:

For each grade K-5, an example is provided that organizes the bundles based on the Topics arrangement of the NGSS and one that focuses on a particular theme that builds across each year.

For grades 6-8, an example is provided that bundles based on the Topics arrangement of the NGSS, and one that bundles by focusing on phenomena that hold standards together.

The examples for grades 9-12 are built from two of the Model Course Maps of Appendix K.

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What is bundling? "Bundles" are groups of standards arranged together to create the endpoints for units of instruction. Bundling is just one step in a curriculum development process; many other steps are required to create instructional materials designed for the NGSS. Why bundle?

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Illinois State Standards grade level books

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Illinois State Standards grade level books

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Created by ISBEfor each grade level

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Notable Social Studies Trade books for Young People

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Notable Social Studies Trade books for Young People

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The books that appear in these annotated book lists were evaluated and selected by a Book Review Committee appointed by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and assembled in cooperation with the Children's Book Council (CBC). NCSS and CBC have cooperated on this annual bibliography since 1972.

Books selected for this bibliography are written primarily for children in grades K-8. The selection committee looks for books that emphasize human relations, represent a diversity of groups and are sensitive to a broad range of cultural experiences, present an original theme or a fresh slant on a traditional topic, are easily readable and of high literary quality, and have a pleasing format and, when appropriate, illustrations that enrich the text. Each book is read by several reviewers, and books are included on the list by committee assent; annotations do not necessarily reflect the judgment of the entire committee.
See Notable Trade Books for Young People Lists from years past, which are open access; the current year is NCSS member access.
Publishers' names appear in abbreviated form; complete names and addresses are available in such standard reference works as Literary Market Place (Bowker) and from the Children's Book Council (CBC). Titles are arranged by broad subject categories and subthemes. Although many are appropriate for more than one subject category, they have been placed where their usefulness in social studies education appears greatest. Annotators have also indicated the thematic strand of National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies to which the book relates. Although many titles have multi-strand applications, space restraints dictate including a maximum of three strands per title.

The Notable Trade Books for Young People list is published each year as an insert to the May/June issue of Social Education.

FOR PUBLISHERS WISHING TO SUBMIT A BOOK: CBC receives submissions beginning in June (for books published the previous year). Check for updates at www.cbcbooks.org/notable-social-studies.

Further questions can be addressed to Laura Peraza, Children's Book Council, at 212-966-1990, e-mail laura.peraza@cbcbooks.org. (NCSS helps with the review of books for the list, but CBC manages the process.)
Information on the Notable Tradebooks Selection Committee

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Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

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The books that appear in these annotated book lists were evaluated and selected by a Book Review Committee appointed by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and assembled in cooperation with the Children's Book Council (CBC). NCSS and CBC have cooperated on this annual bibliography since 1972.

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Lists about: Best Historical Fiction, Best Woman-Authored Books, YA Books Far Better than Twilight, Best Historical Mystery, Smart Summer Reads, Recommen...

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Extreme heat in 2016 damaged Australia's Great Barrier Reef much more substantially than initial surveys indicated, according to ongoing studies that have tracked the health of the coral treasure. The heatwave caused massive bleaching of the corals that captured worldwide attention.

In a paper published on 18 April in Nature, researchers report that severe bleaching on an unprecedented scale triggered mass death of corals. This drastically changed the species composition of almost one-third of the 3,863 individual reefs that comprise the Great Barrier Reef.

The world's largest coral reef is unlikely to recover soon. The damage is a harbinger of what a warming future might hold for a wealth of tropical reef ecosystems, says lead study author Terry Hughes, director of the coral-reef centre at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. "If we fail to curb climate change, and global temperatures rise far above 2 °C [above the pre-industrial level], we will lose the benefits they provide to hundreds of millions of people."

Fatal loss

Hughes and his team of ecologists closely examined the 2,300-kilometre Great Barrier Reef after the 2016 heatwave. Extensive aerial surveys revealed widespread coral bleaching between March and April 2016. This phenomenon occurs when excessive heat kills or expels algae called zooxanthellae, which have a symbiotic relationship with reef-building corals. The algae provide the corals with energy and nutrients from photosynthesis; without them, the corals often die.

But to gauge the full extent of heat damage, Hughes's team conducted more-comprehensive underwater surveys of coral mortality, both at the peak of the observed bleaching in March and April, and again eight months later.

Many corals - especially those in the northern third of the reef - died immediately from heat stress. Others were killed more slowly, after their algal partners were expelled. The composition of coral assemblages on hundreds of individual reefs changed radically within just a few months of the heatwave. On severely bleached reefs, fast-growing coral species - which have complex shapes that provide important habitats - were replaced by slower-growing groups that shelter fewer sea creatures.

"The study paints a bleak picture of the sheer extent of coral loss on the Great Barrier Reef," says Nick Graham, a marine ecologist at Lancaster University, UK. Approximately one-third of the world's coral reefs were affected by bleaching in 2016. On the Great Barrier Reef, less than 10% of reefs escaped with no bleaching, compared with more than 40% in previous bleaching events.

"It is now critical to understand how governance and local management can maximize recovery between recurrent heatwaves," Graham says.

Global impact

Tim McClanahan, a conservation zoologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society in Mombasa, Kenya, says the study's findings might not predict how other reefs will cope with a warmer world. Responses might depend on the corals' life histories and local environmental conditions. "Global warming will result in more heat-stress events," he says, but "there is accumulating evidence that corals do acclimate".

Global coral bleaching had been observed just twice, in 1998 and 2002, before the extreme 2016 incident. Coral colonies can recover from such events, especially given that the species most susceptible to dying from heat stress are among the fastest-growing corals. But harmful warming events are occurring more frequently, and scientists think that full recovery is becoming increasingly difficult.

Researchers have also found that local protection of reefs and surrounding waters does little to make corals less sensitive to heat. Rather, global changes such as ocean acidification might further increase environmental stress.

The fate of tropical coral reefs - including the iconic Great Barrier Reef - therefore depends on efforts to mitigate climate change, says Graham. "A future with coral reefs, their rich diversity and the livelihoods they provide to people is quite simple. It will only be possible if carbon emissions are rapidly reduced," he says.

But even if that happens, tomorrow's reefs might look different from today's, as the mix of species changes in favour of those that can best cope with inevitable climate change, says Hughes. "This transition is already under way, faster than many of us expected," he says. "The Great Barrier is shifting radically, a trend that will continue for the next century or more."

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great barrier reef saw huge losses from 2016 heatwave

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Center for Educational Outreach - Baylor College of Medicine

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Great Barrier Reef saw huge losses from 2016 heatwave

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Extreme heat in 2016 damaged Australia's Great Barrier Reef much more substantially than initial surveys indicated, according to ongoing studies that have tracked the health of the coral treasure. The heatwave caused massive bleaching of the corals that captured worldwide attention.

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Grade 5

Make your own flashlight; learn how the Grand Canyon was formed, and observe how plants produce sugar through photosynthesis. These are just a few examples of appropriate science activities for fifth grade students.

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Mass

Classify matter based on physical properties, including: mass, magnetism, physical state (solid, liquid and gas), relative density (sinking and floating), solubility in water, and ability to conduct or insulate thermal or electric energy.

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Life Science: Organisms and Energy Interactions

Learn more about living and nonliving organisms, their basic needs and how energy flows through ecosystems in this presentation by Dr. Nancy Moreno. Download the slide set from the December 2011 workshop here.

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Physical States of Matter

Students will classify matter based on physical properties, including mass, magnetism, physical state (solid, liquid, and gas), relative density (sinking and floating), solubility in water, and the ability to conduct or insulate thermal energy or electric energy.

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Center for Educational Outreach, Baylor College of Medicine

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Make your own flashlight; learn how the Grand Canyon was formed, and observe how plants produce sugar through photosynthesis. These are just a few examples of appropriate science activities for fifth grade students.

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Find Lexile Levels of any book

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Book Wizard: Teachers, Find and Level Books for Your Classroom | Scholastic

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Level your classroom library or find books at just the right level for students with Book Wizard, the book finder from Scholastic with Guided Reading, Lexile® Measure, an

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Standards by topic

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Riverside presentation