Students use provided materials to design and build prototype artificial heart valves. Their functioning is demonstrated using water to simulate the flow of blood through the heart. Upon completion, teams demonstrate their fully functional prototypes to the rest of the class, along with a pamphlet that describes the device and how it works.

Students prepare an already published scholarly article for presentation, with an emphasis on identification of the author's thesis and argument structure.

In this activity, students explore the importance of adequate sampling strategies when conducting a scientific investigation. They are tasked with determining the average temperature of the Earth, using data sets easily found on the Internet, and determine the kind and size of sample necessary to calculate a representative average. The resource includes a student data sheet and an authentic assessment for the module, where students discuss the establishment of a habitation site on Mars. This is Activity C in module 2, titled "Modeling Hot and Cold Planets," of the resource, Earth Climate Course: What Determines a Planet's Climate? The course aims to help students to develop an understanding of our environment as a system of human and natural processes that result in changes that occur over various space and time scales.

Explore reading strategies using Edgar Allan Poe's 偁ĽThe Raven€_ŕ and other works. Students read Poe's works in both large- and small-group readings then conclude with a variety of projects.

As Public Works Director of Nogales, Arizona, Alejandro Barcenas works to ensure a safe and secure water supply for the city’s 20,500 residents. His task isn’t easy: the city is located in an arid region just north of the United States–Mexico border, and its entire supply comes from groundwater.

Half of Nogales’ water comes from alluvial aquifers that are highly responsive to rainfall events. Though this convenient source of water recharges easily, it is also vulnerable to climate-related changes such as reduced precipitation and increased evaporation. The other half of the city’s groundwater comes from a lower-quality source—this water is more expensive to produce. To optimize the use of the two sources of groundwater into the future, Barcenas is contributing to the development of a modeling tool that simulates how the aquifers may change in response to climate.

This activity was designed for blind learners, but all types of learners can use it to understand the structure of a plant cell. The purpose of this activity is to create an accurate representation of the shape and characteristics of plant cells. The cell models provide both tactile and kinesthetic feedback for students learning the structure of the cell. The bright colors and good contract also work well for students with low vision.

The purpose of this kinesthetic activity is for students to learn the relative motions of the Earth, Sun and Moon. Awareness of these different motions is needed to develop an understanding of the causes of the day/night cycle, the seasons and the cycle of lunar phases. 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.

The primary purpose of this task is to elicit common misconceptions that arise when students try to model situations with linear functions. This task, being multiple choice, could also serve as a quick assessment to gauge a class' understanding of modeling with linear functions.

This blog post talks about Models and Strategies we use for two-digit addition and subtraction. I go into detail about the differences between models and strategies and which ones worked well for us.

Students investigate the ways in which ancient technologies six types of simple machines and combinations are used to construct modern buildings. As they work together to solve a design problem (designing and building a modern structure), they brainstorm ideas, decide on a design, and submit it to a design review before acquiring materials to create it (in this case, a mural depicting it). Emphasis is placed on cooperative, creative teamwork and the steps of the engineering design process.

This art history video discussion looks at Amedeo Modigliani's "Young Woman in a Shirt", 1918, oil on canvas (Albertina, Vienna).

Conçus spécialement pour les élèves du palier secondaire en Ontario, ces modules d’apprentissage autonome visent à renforcer votre littératie financière dans un format interactif et attrayant.

-revenus, dépenses, et établir un budget
-comptes bancaires et cartes de crédit
-emprunter et investir

De multiples relations mathématiques passent inaperçues dans nos activités de tous les jours. Ce module a pour but de faciliter l’analyse de ces relations sous un angle algébrique. Il fournit des stratégies d’enseignement et des idées d’activités qui permettent à l’élève du cycle moyen de montrer un niveau de pensée algébrique assez riche pour l’aider à analyser, à proposer des conjectures et, possiblement, à en arriver à des généralisations

Students make Moebius strips and use them to demonstrate the interconnectedness of an environment. They explore the natural cycles water, oxygen/carbon dioxide, carbon, nitrogen that exist within the environment.

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Ce site vous offre 10 ressources avec quelques outils pédagogiques.