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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Estimating Length Using Scientific Notation

This Professional Learning Module provides guidelines for implementing the Shell Center’s Formative Assessment Lesson, Estimating Length Using Scientific Notation. 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.
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Making it Real: Pre Scoring Video to Clarify Expectations for Effective Teaching

Pre-scoring videos contain segments of recorded lessons that anchor an observation rubric to actual examples of teaching. This guide can help a school system build and strengthen a pre-scoring process in which expert observers create examples of accurate and well-supported ratings of teaching.
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Cold War: Common Assignment 3 (LDC Module) For Students

This is the LDC Module section (for students) of History Unit: Cold War, a unit that helps students investigate the causes of domestic conflict in the early Cold War. Students will read and analyze primary sources, timelines, maps, historical testimonies, and even political cartoons to build complex evidentiary claims. For easy use and customization, files are available in PDF and Word.