[Maillist] Curriki --November Info

[The Morleys]

The following announcement comes from Curriki found on the IAAE web  
site. Be sure to visit Curriki for curriculum ideas and resources or  
to link with others to get ideas for curriculum.

Featured Content
Our featured content this month spans several different subject areas  
and grade levels. Find something that's right for you! Or look for  
just what you need using Advanced Search.

Stellar Curriculum for Grade 10 English
Fiction, Homonyms, Persuasive Writing, Personal Essays, Antigone,  
Socratic Seminars, Julius Caesar, Rhetoric... AND MORE. Each of these  
units has been reviewed individually, but as a collection, this  
resource stands out for its variety, ease of use, creativity and  
depth. A user states: "This collection of 10th grade English  
literature units is an excellent example of how Curriki offers  
teachers high quality content for free. Every single unit is ready to  
use, thorough and interesting."

Earth Systems Curriculum with Hands-On Teaching
One fan of this curriculum comments that "these activities bring the  
abstract into the more tangible realm, while teaching good earth  
science. I can't wait to try these lessons in my classroom!" This  
multi-unit curriculum is meant for students who have already  
progressed through some earth science classes, and there are many  
lessons and activities within the collection that can be pulled out  
and used separately from the curriculum as a whole.

Informal Geometry
Informal Geometry comes to us through MathMastery -- November's  
Featured Partner. This video-rich content provides students with the  
concepts and skills necessary for finding the perimeter, area, surface  
area and volume of common geometric figures; graphing equations on the  
coordinate system and deriving the equation for the third line from a  
pair of points; using the Pythagorean Theorem to solve problems  
involving right triangles; determining if triangles are similar and  
finding an unknown side in similar triangles; and determining unknown  
angles in figures by calculating the sum of the interior angles.

Implementing Algebra, Your Way
The core beliefs of this group: 1) The difference between an okay  
curriculum and a great one is thousands of hours of meticulous  
research and revision. 2) Struggling students are more successful, not  
less so, when they're given complex work that engages their higher- 
order thinking skills, as long as that work is designed appropriately.  
An initial project will be to create alternate units to replace weak  
spots in the generally excellent Carnegie Learning Algebra I  
curriculum, including all the supplementary materials to implement the  
units for students' success. If this project speaks to you, request  
membership to this group, or watch as the curriculum develops!

Ed Options
raymondmorl at gmail.com



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