Curriculum Cafe: Feb 2022

Explore our picks for curriculum resources and lesson plans this month: February 2022!

 MATH

• Elementary
  • Fraction Review Snack Mix (lesson)
  • Deductive and Inductive Reasoning (First Grade) (teaching tips)
• Middle
  • Pairs of Linear Equations (interactive)
  • The Slope of a Fitted Line (video)
• High
  • Strange Shapes | MIT's Science Out (video)
  • Statistics and Probability (interactive)

 ELA

• Elementary
  • Read the signs (phonic print awareness, video)
  • The Buzz about Fact and Opinion (lesson)
• Middle
  • How Different Authors Treat Similar Themes (lesson)
  • Conversations with Crescent (animated video series)
• High
  • Is It Real? Using Reverse Image Search (video)
  • Who, Me? Biased?: Understanding Implicit Bias (interactive)

 SCIENCE

• Elementary
  • Light and Color | NASA Online (interactive)
  • How Animals Are Like Us (multiple assets)
• Middle
  • The Transferring of Genetic Information (lesson)
  • Ken Burns Presents: The Gene: An Intimate History (multiple assets)
• High
  • In Da Club: Membranes & Transport | Crash Course Biology (video)
  • The Electromagnetic Spectrum (interactive)

 SOST/HISTORY

• Elementary
  • Women's Suffrage Movement (multiple assets)
  • $martPath (multiple assets)
• Middle
  • Reconstruction 360 (multiple assets)
  • PBS World Explorers (multiple assets)
• High
  • Ideologies of a Divided America | The Gilded Age (media gallery)
  • Wonders of the African World | Explore Cultural Close-Up (interactive)

 THE ARTS

• Elementary
  • Artopia: Painting (multiple assets)
  • Henri Matisse: Jazz & Poetry on Paper (lesson)
• Middle
  • 3D VR - The Columbia Museum of Art | Let's Go! (interactive)
  • A Passion for Music (multiple assets)
• High
  • Georgia O'Keeffe: A Woman On Paper, Part 1 (video)
  • KQED Art School: Dance (multiple assets)

 CAREERS

• Elementary
  • Kids Work (multiple assets)
  • Meet the Helpers (multiple assets)
• Middle
  • Let's Go Careers: Health Science (multiple assets)
  • Hot Shots and Hot Jobs: Science Matters (multiple assets)
• High
  • MEDIA ARTS CAREERS: Film Production (lesson)
  • Careers in Demand (multiple assets)

 ENGINEERING/TECH

• Elementary
  • PBS KIDS ScratchJr (multiple assets)
  • RUFF RUFFMAN: HUMBLE MEDIA GENIUS (multiple assets)
• Middle
  • Engineering Your Future (multiple assets)
  • NOVA: The Design Process (multiple assets)
• High
  • Cybersecurity | I Made It ... You Can, Too (video)
  • Teaching NGSS Engineering Design Through Media (multiple assets)

 HEALTH/PE

• Elementary
  • First Choice Fit ® (multiple assets)
  • Exercise with Smart Cat (videos)
• Middle
  • In Defense of Food (multiple assets)
  • Investigating the Growing Health Crisis of Diabetes (lesson)
• High
  • Youth Mental Health (videos)
  • Move to Include (multiple assets)

 WORLD LANGUAGES

• Elementary
  • Saying Thank You Around the World (document)
  • Oh Noah! (multiple assets)
• Middle
  • Spanish Verb Conjugation (interactive)
  • Decouverte (multiple assets) 
• High
  • Abenteuer (videos)
  • Irasshai (videos)

 Click through to see our picks for curriculum resources and lesson plans this month!