9th and 10th grade Outdoor Artist Activities
Complete activities such as making a decoupage journal from leaves, exploring and sketching outdoor art, and other nature-inspired art projects made as gifts or for personal use.
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Complete activities such as making a decoupage journal from leaves, exploring and sketching outdoor art, and other nature-inspired art projects made as gifts or for personal use.
Across 6 lessons, students perform and refine athletics techniques (sprint start and running, middle-distance pacing, triple jump, shot put, javelin, relay/high jump), work in pairs/groups to evaluate peers' technique, record and compare performance times/distances against personal bests and benchmark standards, and…
Review key election/political-viewpoint term definitions, complete a reflective-writing warm-up on opinions, take a survey to place themselves (and discuss with a family member) on political-viewpoint questions, review a comparison of what liberals and conservatives believe, and write a reflection on the activity.
Distance Learning Daily Slides for Middle School & High School The Distance Learning Daily Slides for Middle School & High School is an essential teaching resource in this age of distance learning. Designed specifically with middle and high school educators in mind, they facilitate a smooth transition to providing…
In groups, brainstorm and select a workable controversial research topic; evaluate source types (research papers, news, opinion, propaganda, fake news); use a shared Google Form/Sheet to submit and share research sources; take on individual 'job' roles within the group (e.g. researching, formatting, works cited) via a Research Paper…
Follow a fill-in-the-blank guided-notes outline while viewing a slide presentation covering lunar facts, the Collision-Condensation origin theory, the Roche Radius, orbital paths and Kepler's laws, perigee/apogee and 'super moons', the Moon Illusion, phases of the Moon, tides (spring/neap), and solar/lunar/annular…
Students work through ten steps of renting a place: calculating a rent budget using the 30% rule, computing initial move-in costs (first/last month rent, security deposits), learning about references, writing a practice rental inquiry email, preparing for a showing, understanding lease signing, filling out a practice…
Read a daily personal-finance passage, learn day-specific vocabulary, answer comprehension questions with textual support, and respond to a real-life application writing prompt (e.g. describe using money as a medium of exchange this week).
Read a daily passage, learn day-specific vocabulary, answer comprehension questions with textual support, and analyze a personal decision using economic concepts (trade-off, opportunity cost, incentive) in a writing prompt.
Read a daily nonfiction passage on an economics/finance topic, learn topic vocabulary, answer four comprehension/analysis questions, and complete a related writing prompt; also take periodic unit quizzes, a diagnostic, and a final exam.
Follow along with teacher/student presentation slides (fill-in-the-blank notes format), watch embedded videos, and complete a handout and exit ticket.
Simplify and factor algebraic expressions, solve equations and systems, compute areas/volumes/circumference, evaluate and graph functions, calculate mean/median/mode/range/standard deviation, compute probabilities, evaluate trig ratios, and perform basic differentiation/integration.
Students complete separate practice tests across five subject areas; the confirmed math test covers Algebra II / Pre-Calculus topics including complex numbers, polynomials, and trigonometric functions, with work shown for open-response items.
Listen to conversations and presentations and answer questions, complete oral speaking tasks scored 0-3 by rubric, read passages and answer reading-comprehension questions, and produce short written responses scored by rubric, across the four ELPAC language domains.
Three full-length CAASPP ELPAC (English Language Proficiency Assessments for California) practice tests for Grade 11, used to build English learners' confidence across all four language domains ahead of the real ELPAC.
Simplify/factor/expand algebraic expressions, solve equations and systems, find quadratic roots and vertices, compute areas/volumes/surface areas of various shapes, evaluate and analyze functions (domain/range/composition/even-odd), and calculate statistical measures and probabilities.
Working in a literature-circle group, read an assigned/selected historical fiction novel, complete a notetaking guide, spoke diagram, plot diagram, character chart, sensory description chart, and other-literary-elements chart; build a storyboard; track daily accountability for homework/classwork; complete a…
Practice hatching, cross-hatching, and stippling on a shading worksheet, then apply shading and creative imagery within one of eight bottle-shaped drawing templates.
In small groups, select numbered squares on a 64-square point board and answer the corresponding personality-psychology question to earn points, with a steal mechanic for incorrect answers and one 'Bazinga' bonus square.
Rotate through stations (10-15 minutes each): read provided background readings (e.g. on the Elizabethan Age, religion, education, British peerage) and fill in blanks on a notes worksheet, compare a historical map of Shakespeare's London to a modern map and discuss differences in groups, and play a 'Who Said It?'…
A planning and assessment presentation supporting a video game coding project, providing a two-week work schedule and detailed 4-level rubrics for coding and design.
Study character relationships and genealogy, complete multiple-intelligences project options, engage with a Jeopardy-style review game, and map characters/plot on a love-and-hate schematic.
Watch instructional videos and complete accompanying video worksheets, participate in a hands-on "Penny Wise" budgeting simulation activity (adapted from a Bean Salary game), and compile the pieces into a personal budget project; a paperless Google Slides copy of the project is also provided via a linked Google Drive…
A creative-writing project that has students rewrite a well-known fairy tale, fable, or myth from the villain's first-person point of view, supported by an assignment sheet, rubric, and a peer-editing process.