This lesson provides teachers with support for using text-dependent questions and Common Core literacy strategies to help students derive big ideas and key understandings while developing vocabulary using the text, "The Last Dragon." A young boy, Peter, is hesitant to spend the summer with his great aunt in Chinatown. Peter finds an aging parade dragon in a store and, in restoring it, learns to connect with the dragon and the Chinese community.

« Renseignez-vous sur les nombreuses structures qui composent les cellules végétales ainsi que ce qui différencie les cellules végétales des cellules animales. »

-Résumé de la théorie cellulaire
-Structure & fonctions des cellules végétales
-Organites (diagramme interactif avec explications écrites et à haute voix)
-Ce qui rend les cellules végétales uniques
-Liens utiles: vidéo, jeu, et une autre image interactive

L’élève complètera des activités éducatives en lecture et écriture à l’aide de textes à structures répétées et d’une étude de mots, selon son rythme.

On y trouve aussi des documents à télécharger.

Students gain perspective on the intended purpose of hydraulic accumulators and why they might be the next best innovation for hybrid passenger vehicles. They learn about how hydraulic accumulators and hydraulic systems function, specifically how they conserve energy by capturing braking energy usually lost as heat. Students are given the engineering challenge to create small-scale models from which their testing results could be generalized to large-scale latex tubing for a hydraulic accumulator. After watching a video clip of an engineer talking about his lab-based model to test the feasibility of using an elastomer as an energy accumulator, they brainstorm ideas about how latex can be used in a hydraulic system and how they could test the strength of latex for use in a hydraulic accumulator. The concepts of kinetic energy and energy density are briefly discussed.

When studying the Cold War Era, students often focus on the struggle between the United States and the U.S.S.R. However, as these two powers competed for political, military, and ideological supremacy, the conflict transcended borders to encompass countries and peoples around the world. Indeed, as the Iron Curtain descended in Europe, Latin American countries such as Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador became very real and fertile battlegrounds for the struggle between communism and capitalism. The primary source materials presented here use the example of Cuba to underscore the deep-rooted mistrust and resentment on both sides of the Latin America--U.S. conflict and demonstrate how both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. took advantage of long-standing rivalries and frustrations in the region to advance their own agendas. While the Kennan Memorandum unveils American prejudice and patronization towards Latin America and its peoples generally, the revolutionary fervor found in the words of Carlos Puebla's En Eso Llego Fidel and Alberto Korda's iconic image of Che Guevara convey the dissatisfaction and anger many Cubans felt towards America and the status quo. When considered together, these resources reveal the dynamic and turbulent relationship between the U.S. and an influential Latin American nation during this time, and demonstrate the emotions and ideologies that almost turned the Cold War "hot."

In this lesson, students use blogs to hold discussions about the effect of the factors of culture, history, and environment on Latino poetry.

This example shows how Newton's laws of motion apply to aircraft carriers and introduces the lift equation: the amount of lift depends on the air density, the wind velocity, and the surface area of the wings. The problems stress the importance of units of measure. This resource is from PUMAS - Practical Uses of Math and Science - a collection of brief examples created by scientists and engineers showing how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes have real world applications.

This lesson introduces Family Message Journals - a teacher-tested tool for encouraging family involvement and supporting writing to reflect and to learn.

Students learn about catapults, including the science and math concepts behind them, as they prepare for the associated activity in which they design, build and test their own catapults. They learn about force, accuracy, precision and angles.

This is an activity about rockets. Learners will research facts about Atlas V rockets, which will launch the MMS satellites. After, they will compute the speed of the launch rocket, given a data chart of time vs. distance from lift-off. Then, they will write a report synthesizing their researched information. This lesson requires student access to internet accessible computers. This is lesson two as part of the MMS Mission Educator's Instructional Guide.

Students explore the concept of work, and work typically assigned to women, through artwork depicting laundresses.

This is a lesson about geologic history. Learners will work together to create models of volcanic lava flows and analyze the layers that form on a planet's surface. They will sequence lava flows produced by multiple eruptions. Students will be asked to observe where the flows travel, make a model, and interpret the stratigraphy. Students will use their volcanic layering model to demonstrate the relative dating and geologic mapping principles to later be applied to satellite imagery. The lesson models scientific inquiry using the 5E instructional model and includes teacher notes and vocabulary.

« Découvrez comment fonctionne la vue et l’oeil humains, ainsi que certains problèmes de vision communs. »

*Texte, illustrations et diaporama (« Comment on voit »):

-La vision humaine
-Fonctionnement du cerveau avec les yeux
-Troubles de la vue
-La myopie
-L’hypermétropie
-La presbytie
-Lentilles cornéennes

Liens annexes: un article anatomique, une vidéo à propos des lunettes et un épisode de C'est pas sorcier.

Students learn the principles of the Law field, the many Law agencies, and federal, state and local laws.The course of study includes: historical perspective of American police agencies, with an emphasis on California law enforcement; philosophy of the origins of crime and the social impact on society; development of the Law system, current trends and their relevance to local and state law enforcement; hiring and testing processes for positions in law enforcement; laws of arrest, search and seizure laws; court process; penal and vehicle codes - what constitutes a crime; child abuse and related offenses; drug and alcohol abuse and related offenses.

This unit models communicative/experiential second language teaching in a multidimensional curriculum. Students prepare themselves for a written exam to obtain a driver’s license. Learning activities include doing a vehicle inspection, studying road signs and their meanings, studying the driving rules of the road, role playing a traffic violation situation, and making the decision to have a designated driver. The experiential goal requires students to create, in small groups, a written exam to obtain a driver’s license, and to pass this exam demonstrating that they are aware and responsible drivers.

For grades 9-12

Ce site a des ressources au sujet du Petit Nicolas à utiliser dans la salle de classe.

«Nous souhaitons mettre à votre disposition un ensemble d’activités et de leçons qui portent sur les plantes et la botanique et qui sont liées au curriculum. ...

L’ensemble comporte six activités distinctes qui s’adressent explicitement aux élèves de la 3e, 4e, 5e et 6e année.

1. Dessins de plantes : pour la science et pour le plaisir (pg. 6)

Le dessin botanique et le dessin floral utilisent le même sujet, mais visent des objectifs très différents. Dans cette activité, les élèves examineront ces moyens d’expression artistique distincts en créant deux illustrations d’après une même plante. Leurs énoncés d’artiste exprimeront les buts et les décisions conceptuelles qui découleront du moyen d’expression employé et du spécimen floral.

2. Les secrets de l’herbier confectionné en classe (pg. 18)

Un herbier est une collection de spécimens végétaux qui sont pressés dans le but de les conserver. Dans cette leçon, les élèves collectionneront et conserveront des spécimens de plantes pour constituer un herbier en classe, et étudieront les différents usages de l’herbier.

3. Les Olympiques de la dissémination des graines (pg. 30)

En disséminant leurs graines loin de la plante mère, les végétaux peuvent réduire la concurrence des autres plantes et accroître leur répartition. Dans cette activité, les élèves étudieront certains des mécanismes dont les plantes se servent pour disperser leurs graines, en créant un modèle de fruit et en évaluant la relation qui existe entre la structure du fruit et sa capacité de disséminer les graines.

4. La salade de fruits mondiale (pg. 37)

Bien qu’on y trouve les terres agricoles les plus productives au Canada, l’Ontario importe plus de produits alimentaires par habitant que toute autre province. Dans cette leçon, les élèves étudieront le concept du «kilomètre-aliment », visiteront une ferme, un marché fermier ou une épicerie, et rédigeront un article de journal ou un éditorial pour résumer leurs conclusions.

5. Faisons la connaissance d’un arbre (pg. 48)

Même si les élèves savent tout de suite reconnaître un « arbre », il arrive souvent que leurs connaissances ne vont pas plus loin que ce descripteur de base. Dans cette leçon, les élèves examineront les feuilles, identifieront l’essence, feront des empreintes d’écorce, mesureront la circonférence, calculeront l’âge et estimeront la hauteur d’un arbre. Ils réaliseront des profils d’arbre qui seront ensuite réunis pour créer une encyclopédie en classe.

6. Comptez sur la dendrochronologie (pg. 57)

Les cernes qui se forment chaque année à mesure qu’un arbre pousse recèlent une foule de renseignements qui révèlent les conditions de croissance de l’arbre pendant sa vie. Dans cette activité, les élèves examineront des cernes annuels et découvriront les secrets qu’ils renferment.»

Students examine great leads in children's literature before writing or revising a lead in their own writing.

Students examine leads in existing texts and create alternative leads for them before revising leads in their own writing.

This story takes place in the 1930s in the Great Plains region of the United States devastated by a great drought. Leah had been given a pony by her father when times were good and crops were growing. Leah sells her pony to Mr. B to help her father. At the end of the story, Mr. B gives the pony back to Leah.