Browse Interactives

Decorative Boxes

Students need to cover 24 boxes with decorative paper. Observe as they use geometry and measurement to determine the area of one box in order to estimate the total amount of paper needed.

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Teacher

Design a Schedule

Map out a week-long schedule with time allotments so that you have at least 90 minutes of reading and writing each day.

Discipline: Literature
Audience: Teacher

Determine Conferencing Practices

Organize and navigate a challenging parent-teacher conference. Decide which factors contribute to a successful conference, and which factors influence a difficult one.

Discipline: Literature
Audience: Teacher

Differentiate Instruction in a Class

Group children with varying literacy abilities and choose the best instruction to address their literacy needs.

Discipline: Literature
Audience: Teacher

Elements of Authentic Instruction

Analyze three classroom segments and identify teaching strategies that illustrate authentic instruction. Give examples to support your answer and compare your answers to those of other teachers.

Discipline: Social Studies and History
Audience: Teacher

Engaging With Communities

Plan an outing to a local restaurant where the wait staff speak your target language. Consider how you will prepare your students, monitor interactions during the visit and debrief afterwards.

Discipline: Foreign Language
Audience: Teacher

Evaluate Student Writing

Evaluate a piece of student writing and weigh the student's strengths and weaknesses. Decide which content and conventions are the most important things to address.

Discipline: Literature
Audience: Teacher

Evaluating Evidence

Evaluate primary sources to determine their support of a given thesis. Using the Civil War as an example, rank the relevancy of sources in relation to four common beliefs as to the cause of the war.

Discipline: Social Studies and History
Audience: Teacher

Examine Cueing Strategies

Examine the cueing strategies (graphophonic, syntactic, semantic) that readers use to comprehend text. Learn how to use these strategies to support English Language Learners.

Discipline: Literature
Audience: Teacher

Examine Writing Techniques

Identify writing techniques involving the use of detail and dialogue from different children's books. Then compare your response to a sample answer.

Discipline: Literature
Audience: Teacher

A well-organized classroom supported by purposeful reading routines helps children develop their literacy skills. Explore a classroom environment and observe the effective use of classroom space and related routines.

Discipline: Literature
Audience: Teacher

Ferris Wheel

Observe as the students diagram the facts of the problem. They then identify and graph the relevant functions to represent the motion around a Ferris wheel.

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Teacher

Find the Unfamiliar Words

Read an excerpt from <em>My Name is María Isabel</em> by Alma Flor Ada and highlight words based on how you would teach them to English language learners.

Discipline: Literature
Audience: Teacher

Fish Derby

Students have to calculate the optimal number of bass and carp that a pond can support. They determine and graph information about feeding and breeding areas and solve an algebraic equation to get optimal numbers.

Discipline: Mathematics
Audience: Teacher

5-Question Survey: Chemical Change

Find out your or your students' basic knowledge of concepts like matter, molecules and open and closed systems. Afterwards you can see how others answered the questions.

Discipline: Science
Audience: Teacher