This challenging problem and brainteaser gives first graders an opportunity to compose and decompose squares.

This is an instructional task related to deepening place-value concepts. The important piece of knowledge upon which students need to draw is that 10 tens is 1 hundred.

The objective of this lesson is to gain automaticity counting to 100 and to establish the importance of multiples of ten. The final goal of this lesson is for students to be able to count by tens and articulate the term for this.

This task involves solving equations with rational coefficients, and requires students to use the distributive law ("combine like terms"). The equation also provides opportunities for students to observe structure in the equation to find a quicker solution, as in the second solution presented.

This task presents a real world application of finite geometric series. The context can lead into several interesting follow-up questions and projects. Many drugs only become effective after the amount in the body builds up to a certain level. This can be modeled very well with geometric series.

In this activity, learners use crayons to draw conclusions about rocks and the rock cycle. Learners form crayons ((which can be "weathered"--heated, compressed and cooled--like rocks) into models of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks.

In this activity, students construct their own pinhole camera to observe the behavior of light.

This article discusses how creating Readers Theater scripts from informational text can improve fluency and build comprehension.

This activity gives a visual representation of how we are able to see the different layers of metamorphic rocks.

This activity gives a visual representation of how we are able to observe many colors in a sunrise or sunset.

Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students track their expenses and use Excel to compare them to Seattle/Tacoma averages. Developed for adult students taking English as a Second Language.

This activity will help students learn about Minnesota animals and characteristics that distinguish them from one another.

Students practice crossing from one family to the next in counting forward with this concentration game.

This word problem requires students to create expressions to calculate gas milage for a vehicle.

One common mistake students make when dividing fractions using visuals is the confusion between remainder and the fractional part of a mixed number answer.

Students gain experience with the software/system design process, closely related to the engineering design process, to solve a problem. First, they learn about the Mars Curiosity rover and its mission, including the difficulties that engineers must consider and overcome to operate a rover remotely. Students observe a simulation of a robot being controlled remotely. These experiences guide discussion on how the design process is applied in these scenarios. The lesson culminates in a hands-on experience with the design process as students simulate the remote control of a rover. In the associated activity, students gain further experience with the design process by creating an Android application using App Inventor to control one aspect of a remotely controlled vehicle. (Note: The lesson requires a LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education NXT base set.)

Curriculum Instruction and Assessment for CTE Syllabus

ED 429

Course Description
Build knowledge and skills in curriculum design, instructional strategies, and assessment for successful teaching in a Career and Technical Education and other specialty areas: (a) Agriculture Food and Natural Resource Systems, (b) Arts, Information and Communications, (c) Business Management, (d) Health Sciences (e) Human Resources, (F) Industrial and Engineering Systems, (g) Family and Consumer Sciences, (h) Career Trades.

The purpose of this task is to introduce or reinforce the concept of a function, especially in a context where the function is not given by an explicit algebraic representation. Further, the last part of the task emphasizes the significance of one variable being a function of another variable in an immediately relevant real-life context.