In this lesson, students will investigate error. As shown in earlier activities from navigation lessons 1 through 3, without an understanding of how errors can affect your position, you cannot navigate well. Introducing accuracy and precision will develop these concepts further. Also, students will learn how computers can help in navigation. Often, the calculations needed to navigate accurately are time consuming and complex. By using the power of computers to do calculations and repetitive tasks, one can quickly see how changing parameters likes angles and distances and introducing errors will affect their overall result.

In this lesson, students learn how to determine location by triangulation. We describe the process of triangulation and practice finding your location on a worksheet, in the classroom, and outdoors.

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What is Parent Engagement
Why is Parent Engagement Important
Parent engagement activities

Planning Parent Engagement Toolkit (external link)

“Hospitality and invitation remain empty gestures until they are made with the genuine intention to open up the school space and agenda, to co-create it with parents and other caregivers as well as with students” - from Parent Engagement: Creating a Shared World (external PDF) by Debbie Pushor, PhD

Parent engagement increases student achievement and fosters positive learning outcomes. To increase parent engagement in your school, follow these simple steps to get started:

Assess:
Parent engagement checklist
Getting started:
How to make parent engagement “come alive”
Increasing involvement:
Barriers and strategies for success

This is an independent unit for the novel Ghost of Spirit Bear that students have 5 weeks to complete. They read the novel and answer questions as well as complete a minimum of 4 assignments in order to cover 4 outcomes. This unit can also be changed to incorporate a different novel.

This art history video discussion examines Alberto Giacometti's "Palace at 4am", wood, glass, wire and string, 1932 (MoMA).

This lesson for English Language Learners (ELLs) introduces everyone's favorite animal, the giant panda. In this lesson, learners will practice reading, listening, speaking and writing. All activities are automatically graded with feedback provided to the learner upon submission.

After reading "The Mysterious Giant of Barletta" by Tomie DePaola, about an ancient Roman statue that comes to life, students create a paper sculpture based on ancient Greek and Roman statues in the Getty Museum. They then write a narrative story told from the viewpoint of their sculpture.

The first of these word problems is a multiplication problem involving equal-sized groups. The next two reflect the two related division problems, namely, "How many groups?" and "How many in each group?"

The purpose of this task is to show three problems that are set in the same kind of context, but the first is a straightforward multiplication problem while the other two are the corresponding "How many groups?" and "How many in each group?" division problems.

In this fun engineering activity, you are challenged to build a gingerbread house that meets specific design requirements.

Holiday fun!

Gingerbread men and gingerbread houses enjoy special popularity around the holidays, but many of these gingerbread activities are timeless and complement literature titles that teachers use at the beginning of school or after the holidays. It's very easy to incorporate mathematics into a study of gingerbread men, and students will enjoy the data collection activities and games while learning math skills and deepening their understanding of important mathematical concepts. Look through these math activities and add some to your repertoire. Consider broadening the gingerbread math to include measurement, games and problem solving this year.

This art history video lecture Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker discuss Giorgione's "The Tempest" c. 1506-8. At the Accademia in Venice.

In this Smarthistory art history video Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker discuss Giorgione's "Three Philosophers", c. 1506. At the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

This art history video discussion looks at Giotto di Bondone's St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata with predella scenes of the Dream of Innocent III, The Pope Approving the Rule of the Order, and St. Francis Preaching to the Birds, c. 1295-1300 (originally, Church of San Francesco, Pisa), tempera and gold on panel, 3.13 x 1.63m, original frame inscribed: "OPUS IOCTI FIORETINI".

This art history video discussion examines Giotto's "The Ognissanti Madonna", 1306-10, tempera on panel, 128 x 80 1/4" (325 x 204 cm). Painted for the Church of Ognissanti, Florence.

This art history video discussion examines Giotto's "The Lamentation", c. 1305 (Arena Chapel, Padua).

This art history video discussion examines Giotto's "The Entombment of Mary", 1310, tempera on poplar, 75 x 179 cm (Gemaldegalerie, Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Verein, Berlin).