You will be assigned one of the attached case studies that relate back to the urine and stool samples that you analyzed during the Excrement Lab Activity. Your challenge is to use the additional patient information combined with the lab results to determine a diagnosis.

Hank takes us on the fascinating journey through our excretory system to learn how our kidneys make pee.

Executive Function is a growing buzz word in education. In my own school, I am hearing it more and more often. Our educational psychologist mentioned that we will all be receiving training soon. I knew that it sounded like something that could impact quite a few of my students. So, I did a little research of my own. I thought I would share my findings with you. I hope this will help you can get a jump start on helping this increasingly identified population, too.

So, what is executive function? What difficulties do these students have? How can we help? Our school's brilliant educational psychologist explains it like this.

What You’ll Learn
Snapshot: What Executive Functioning Issues Are
Executive Functioning Issues
Signs and Symptoms
Other Issues That Can Co-Occur With Executive Functioning Issues
Possible Causes of Executive Functioning Issues
How Executive Functioning Issues Are Diagnosed
How Professionals Can Help With Executive Functioning Issues
How You Can Help Your Child With Executive Functioning Issues

Executive Functioning Issues: Strategies You Can Try at Home.

Quick and practical advice to help children with executive functioning issues.

In over 30 years of clinical practice, Drs. Peg Dawson and Richard Guare have worked with thousands of children who struggle at home and in school. At the center of their struggles are weak executive skills, and through our writing and now this website, we spotlight these skills that are critical for school and life success.

We hope that by sharing what we have learned, we can help parents, teachers, and therapists to better understand the role executive skills play in healthy development and to identify tools and strategies they can use to assist “smart but scattered” kids become successful problem solvers and self-reliant adults.

Dr. Dawson offers a number of workshop options. In addition to the ones described below, she is happy to work with school districts to design trainings that meet their specific needs. These may include:

- workshops directed at regular education teachers to provide an overview of what executive skills are, how brain development governs executive skill development, what are developmentally appropriate expectations for executive skills at different grade levels, and classroom-based strategies to support executive skill development.
- workshops for special educators (including teachers, school psychologists, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, and behavior specialists) to learn how to design interventions both to limit the negative impact of weak executive skills and to help students learn effective coping strategies.
- consultation services to help school districts implement school-wide approaches targeting specific executive skill challenges. We have not found “off the shelf” curricula to be particularly effective for schools that want to do something more comprehensive to address executive skills. Rather, helping schools identify the specific challenges they want to address and to work with them to design an approach that fits the unique needs of the school or district appears to be a more effective approach.
- evening presentations for parents. These are offered to school districts within driving distance of Portsmouth, New Hampshire as a stand-alone offering. When a school district hires Dr. Dawson to do a full-day training with professionals, she is happy to provide a 1l5-2 hour presentation for parents at no additional cost.

(Peg has hosted PD in Saskatchewan before and would likely come back in the future) Has been initiated in the past from this source: http://www.jackhirose.com/

Ce site vous offre des exercices de français pour étrangers: vocabulaire, grammaire, exercices d'écoute, etc.

Fonctionne pour le Core French ainsi que le français en immersion.

Students analyze Dorothea Lange's photographs and identify key themes in her work. They then create a thematic exhibition pairing Lange's work with work by artists who explore the same themes in other media.

Overview of the Intermediate Value Theorem, the Extreme Value Theorem and the Mean Value Theorem.

In our latest NOVA Lab, we’ve created a game that invites students to join in the fun, and trains them to use the very same techniques that scientists use every day in the hunt for exoplanets. Here’s a quick preview:

To start, players watch a brief mission intro video that sets the scene for the game: They’ve been selected to be the lead scientist for the NOVA Space Center’s Galactic Resettlement team, with the job of finding suitable exoplanets for displaced aliens desperately seeking new homes.

Once players arrive at the Lunar base, they start with a training module that explains how the search for habitable exoplanets begins in our own solar system. A series of videos and simulation tools helps them understand the conditions that make Earth so conducive to life – clues about what to look for in other, distant star systems in our Milky Way galaxy.

The purpose of this task is for students to show they understand the connection between fraction and decimal notation by writing the same numbers both ways.

Immerse yourself with a team of scientists, climbers, and Sherpa guides as they embark on an expedition that will help define our understanding of high-mountain environments. Experience the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition, which was not simply a climb of the mountain, but a perilous adventure to learn how climate change is impacting the highest place on Earth.

The purpose of this task is to provide students with an opportunity to explain fraction equivalence through visual models in a particular example.

As a unit end project, students were given a menu of choices to select from. They had to complete two projects - one with respect to characterization in Romeo and Juliet, and the other with respect to themes. One of the creative project options was to complete a Thinglink. Thinglink involves uploading a picture and inserting text, image, video, or sound files into the photo. I provided a tutorial to students prior to beginning the assignment.

Biology Dictionary
Biology is the study of living things. It is broken down into many fields, reflecting the complexity of life from the atoms and molecules of biochemistry to the interactions of millions of organisms in ecology. This biology dictionary is here to help you learn about all sorts of biology terms, principles, and life forms. Search by individual topic using the alphabetized menu , or search by field of study using the menu .

These amazing infographics about explicit instruction can take your students' learning to the next level. These leverage the transfer of responsiblity in a meaningful and explicit manner.

Infographics include:

*Structure of an Explicit Lesson
*Delivering Instruction
*Independent Practice
*Active Participation

Thank you, Jamie Clark!