How is a law passed in the U.S. Congress?
Social Studies, K-12 (Backbone Lesson)
This is a "backbone" lesson for students to learn about how a law is passed. There are only a few learning activities in the lesson Roadmap. The intent is for a teacher to modify the lesson to fit the needs of her/his classroom. For example, a high school teacher might include more text-based materials, while an elementary school teacher might include more video based materials. Feel free to add new learning activities!
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Thermal Energy Lesson Roadmap (Examples of Student Artifacts)
Science, Middle School
This Roadmap is a middle school lesson dealing with issues in Thermal Energy. It took 3 class periods (45 minutes/period) for the students to engage in all the activities. The lesson directs students to create artifacts, e.g., animations. All the artifact creation activities are collaborative. Group size for this lesson was 3 students/group. (This version of the Thermal Energy Lesson Roadmap was used in a 6th grade classroom. Clicking on the nodes in the Roadmap that specify using Collabrify apps will actually open up the apps inside sample student documents. We felt that it might be interesting to educators to see what students actually do when enacting a lesson Roadmap. The artifacts created, for example, in Collabrify Flipbook, were done collaboratively, i.e., students in the classroom were organized into 3 students per team. Please, feel free to play the animations, for example, about Conduction or Radiation.)
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Thermal Energy Lesson Roadmap
Science, Middle School
This Roadmap is a middle school lesson dealing with issues in Thermal Energy. It took 3 class periods (45 minutes/period) for the students to engage in all the activities. The lesson directs students to create artifacts, e.g., animations. All the artifact creation activities are collaborative. The files in this lesson are empty - that is, the files do not contain student work.
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U.S. Elections Lesson Roadmap
Social Studies, Middle School
This Roadmap is meant for middle schoolers, though with tweaking it could work in upper elementary or even high school. The lesson features contemporary videos (e.g., President Obama, President Trump) and contemporary themes (e.g., are elections rigged). The learning activities are meant to be done in a collaborative manner with a group size of 2
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Collabrifed - Movement of the Sun in the Sky
Science, Elementary School
This Roadmap is a series of learning activities concerning the movement of the sun in the sky taken from a 3rd grade science unit http://courses.oermn.org/course/view.php?id=45 developed by Dan McGuire for the MPCC – Minnesota Partnership for Collaborative Curriculum. This version of the learning activities uses apps from the Collabrify Productivity Tool Suite (http://www.imlc.io/apps). This Roadmap is available as free, OER – Open Education Resources. Indeed, all of the MPCC units are available as free, OER. (See http://courses.oermn.org/course/index.php)
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This Roadmap is a series of learning activities concerning the apparent movement of the sun in the sky taken from Grade 3 Science