The class forms a "Presidential Task Force" for a week, empowered by the president to find answers and make recommendations concerning the future of the national power grid. Task force members conduct daily debriefings with their research team and prepare a report and presentation of their findings for the president, using an actual policy document as a guide. Although this activity is geared towards fifth-grade and older students and Internet research capabilities are required, some portions may be appropriate for younger students.

This site offers games galore in math, science, ELA, geography, history, art, design, music, languages, health and more.

What is Grief? What can I do about? How can I help a loved one?

« Une rubrique pour les classes de 6ème à 9ème pour évaluer la compétence du 21ème siècle : la pensée critique...

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The Grit Scale was developed by Angela Duckworth, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania

The Grit Scale is used to identify traits that might predict success.

The complete test and more information is available in Angela Duckworth's book: “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance."

GRoW is an advanced robot made for precision greenhouse harvesting. This machine will autonomously move throughout the greenhouse scanning and choosing vegetables ready to be picked from the vine. GRoW moves up and down the rows of the greenhouse unmanned and then is driven to the next row via a phone app. The phone app also lets you configure which ripeness to harvest and where on the vine to make the cut. GRoW will record and predict productivity to ensure optimum performance.

After researching nutrition and analyzing food advertisements, students work in cooperative groups to create their own advertisements for food products.

This art history video discussion examines Baron Antoine-Jean Gros's "Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa", 1804, oil on canvas (Musج©e du Louvre, Paris).

Student teams locate a contaminant spill in a hypothetical site by measuring the pH of soil samples. Then they predict the direction of groundwater flow using mathematical modeling. They also use the engineering design process to come up with alternative treatments for the contaminated water.

In summary, the purpose of this artifact was to increase the amount of group collaboration and critical thinking in my PAA classes. Typically in my PAA class, students pick a project and follow strict plans that will lead to their resulting projects. This group activity will require students to collaborate and think critically in order to come up with their own way to accomplish a simple task.

· Each student takes an item from the mystery bag
· Ask them to organize themselves into groups that they think fit together
· Then after a few minutes say there are 8 groups
· Set out 8 # cards with the title and see what groups you can make now
· Each person briefly describes why they choose that group & then results are graphed.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about grouping with illustrations - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about understanding grouping with illustrations.

This tutorial will walk you through how to make and moderate a group in the Resource Bank.