Category Archives: Curriculum Units

How Come You Ain’t Never Like Me? Identity Development in August Wilson’s ‘Fences’

January 31, 2018 – 2:36 pm

Annette Teasdell, English/ History, North Mecklenburg HS

Tags august wilson, Disabilities, diversity, Drama, Ethnocentrism, Feminism, Fences, High School, identity development, Intersectionality, Marginalization, Media Images, Racism, Social Development, Stereotypes, the New Racism | Permalink | Comments Off

Understanding the Use of Social Media and Its Impact on School Suspension

January 31, 2018 – 1:21 pm

Vertina Rhim, Math, Whitewater MS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags constant of proportionality, coordinate plane, covariance, equation, Facebook, In-School Suspension, Instagram, Math, Middle School, Origin, Out-of-School Suspension, percent of change, proportional reasoning, rate, ratio, snapchat | Permalink | Comments Off

The Over Incarceration of America

January 31, 2018 – 1:18 pm

Paige Laurain, Math, West Charlotte HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Box and Whiskers Plot, High School, histogram, Linear Regression, Math, Math 1, measures of center, Measures of Spread, Statistics | Permalink | Comments Off

Rational Thinking: Voting, Fairness, and the 2016 Presidential Election

January 31, 2018 – 1:16 pm

Kelly McManus, Math, Martin Luther King, Jr. MS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags ” academic conversations, close reading, critical thinking, integers, literacy, Math, metacognitive “think alouds, Middle School, rational numbers, real-world application | Permalink | Comments Off

Using Google Maps to Explore Food Deserts

January 31, 2018 – 1:13 pm

Katelyn Gardepe, Fifth Grade, Selwyn ES

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Elementary School, Food Deserts, Food Insecurity, Food Secure, Fourth Grade Health, Hunger, Malnutrition, Math, Metric Conversions, Numbers in Base Ten, place value, social issues | Permalink | Comments Off

Immigration and the Mathematical Mind

January 31, 2018 – 1:10 pm

Jimi’ E. Rogers, Kindergarten, Nations Ford ES

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Analyze, attributes, categorization, collect, DACA, data, Elementary School, emigrate, Immigration, immigration policy, interpret, Math, pose, represent | Permalink | Comments Off

Wealth Inequality

January 31, 2018 – 1:07 pm

Jeffrey Barnes, Math, Rocky River HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Appreciate, Asset, base, compound interest, exponential functions, growth/decay factor, High School, Income, increasing/decreasing intervals, Inequality, Math, principal, rate, transformations, Wealth, x-intercept, y-intercept | Permalink | Comments Off

How Did My Favorite Pair of Shoes Come on the Market?

January 31, 2018 – 1:03 pm

Emiko Furuya, Fifth Grade, Waddell Language Academy

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags cheap labor, child labor, data, Math, Mathematics, Statistics, sweatshop | Permalink | Comments Off

Facts and Figures by Graphic Design

January 26, 2018 – 4:39 pm

Antowanna Carpenter, CTE/Business, Butler HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags adobe, desktop publishing, graphic design, High School, infographics, information graphics, multimedia, multimedia and webpage design, social issues, social research, statistical data | Permalink | Comments Off

Curriculum Units Vol 6: It's a Small World! Exploring Science at the Tiniest Scale

Math, Paper, Pencil, Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes, and Buckyballs

June 29, 2017 – 3:51 pm

Joanne Rowe, Math, Northwest School of the Arts

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Buckminster fullerenes (buckyballs), carbon allotropes, carbon fibers, carbon nanotubes, chirality, common ratio, diameter, exponential decay, geometric sequence, graphene, hexagonal, High School, logarithm, Math, micron, nanometer, Nanoscale, orders of magnitude, Science, scientific notation, self-assembly, trigonometry, vector | Permalink | Comments Off

2016 Curriculum Units Vol 7: Tracing the Legacy of Hispanic Cultures - 1492 to Today

Geometry in Spanish Cubism

April 12, 2017 – 11:19 am

Emily Burrell, Math, Piedmont IB Middle School

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags and triangular prisms, area, artists, cubes, cubism, Geometry, hexagons, rectangles, South and Central America, Spain, Spanish vocabulary, squares, triangles | Permalink | Comments Off

2016 Curriculum Units Vol 1: Literacy and Literacies in the 21st Century

Taking a Closer Look at Comprehension

March 28, 2017 – 1:29 pm

Emily Steib, First Grade, Hidden Valley Elementary School

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags close reading, Comprehension, reading levels | Permalink | Comments Off

2016 Curriculum Units Vol 6: It's a Small World! Exploring Science at the Tiniest Scale

What superhero are you?

March 28, 2017 – 1:05 pm

Lisbel Allard, Science, Cochrane Collegiate Academy

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Tags Energy, mitochondria, Nanomaterial, nanomedicine, Nanoscale, nanotechnology, organelles, super hero | Permalink | Comments Off

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