U.S. Westward Expansion: Middle School History Unit

This unit helps students investigate key events and ideas in westward expansion during the antebellum period. Students will use primary and secondary sources, maps, images, and an Literary Design Collaborative debate-focused module to build evidentiary claims, identify multiple perspectives, and consider causal relationships. For easy use and customization, files are available in PDF and Word. The unit can also be downloaded in pieces or in full.
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Report

What Educators Want From Digital Instructional Tools (2.0) — Report

Our initial report, released in April 2014, helped foster a stronger understanding of the ways in which teachers were using digital instructional tools, gaps in availability, teachers’ attitudes toward digital technology, and the perceived effectiveness of these tools. To continue supporting teachers, those obtaining resources for them, and product developers, this follow-up report offers a more up-to-date analysis of how educators’ needs are being met by digital tools.
Toolkit

Algebra 1 Course Outline

This is a course outline for Algebra 1, designed by Ann Shannon & Associates, LLC for the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. This unit provides students with an opportunity to engage in meaningful mathematical investigations, drawing heavily on the eight Mathematical Practices. The objective is to help students understand the importance of seeing, doing, re-constructing, and supposing in learning mathematics.
Toolkit

Representing and Combining Transformations

This Professional Learning Module provides guidelines for implementing the Shell Center’s Formative Assessment Lesson, Representing and Combining Transformations. Educators can use this information to better understand how to apply the lesson, which is compatible with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), to their own instruction.