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Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dolan Dna Learning Center: Learn About Genetics: Genetic Screening

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how genetic screening is used to identify people who are healthy genetic carriers for diseases that occur more often in certain populations.
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Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dolan Dna Learning Center: Learn About Genetics: Genes & Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
An animation introducing the basic concepts of cells, DNA, recessive inheritance, and Punnett squares.
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Interactive
Other

The Math Learning Center: Pattern Shapes

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Students use pattern shapes to explore geometry and fractions, creating their own designs, or filling in outlines. As they work with the shapes students explore geometric relationships, think about angles, investigate symmetry, and...
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Professional Doc
American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Identification of Learning Disabilities

For Teachers K - 1st
This PDF brief addresses significant changes from previous regulations to current regulatory requirements regarding the identification of specific learning disabilities. It was produced by the Office of Special Education and...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mendel's Laws of Genetic Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity, adapted from the Dolan DNA Learning Center, uses Punnett squares to illustrate Mendel's laws of inheritance and how a particular gene combination results in a 3-to-1 ratio of dominant-to-recessive traits.
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Professional Doc
Other

Duke: Center for Inquiry Based Learning

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Duke University has established the Center for Inquiry-Based Learning. It serves to enhance math and science lessons. Click on Resources for good examples of Inquiry-based lesson plans.
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Professional Doc
American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Culturally Responsive Rti

For Teachers K - 1st
This series of professional learning modules, released by the National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt), presents Response to Intervention (RTI) as a culturally responsive framework for ensuring...
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Article
American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: A Family Guide to Response to Intervention

For Teachers K - 1st
This family guide provides an overview of the basic components of RTI and includes questions parents may want to ask their child's school regarding how they can get involved in the RTI process. The guide also addresses the relation of...
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Professional Doc
American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Parent Page: Responsiveness to Intervention

For Teachers K - 1st
This 2007 brief provides an overview of Response to Intervention (RTI) and its primary components. It was created by the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities and could be of particular interest to families who are looking...
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Primary
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Wilson Center: Modern Korean History Portal

For Students 9th - 10th
If you are interested in learning more about Korea this website includes resources to do just that!
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Handout
National Institutes of Health

National Center for Biotechnology Information: Phylogenetics Factsheet

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed website that explains the history and process of classifying animals using evolutionary, molecular, and physical characteristics relationships. Website also contains information on evolution and evolutionary processes....
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Activity
Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: What's a Percentage?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this site to learn about percents, and how they relate to decimals and fractions with this interactive online lesson. You will learn about percents, convert percents into fractions and decimals, and find equal parts of a whole.
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Interactive
Other

The Math Learning Center: Math Tools Number Frames

For Students 1st - 5th
Number Frames help students structure numbers to five, ten, twenty, and one hundred. Practice counting using these interactive number frames. Tap a frame to add it to your workspace, or design your own frame, then drag and drop counters...
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Interactive
Other

The Math Learning Center: Number Rack

For Students K - 1st
Number rack facilitates the natural development of children's number sense. The movable, colored beads encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens, helping them to explore and discover a variety of addition and subtraction...
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Handout
Other

Western Michigan University: Richard Rawlinson Center: Anglo Saxon Studies

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about Anglo Saxon studies and research from the Richard Rawlinson Center. The page provides a wide range of links to different medieval resources.
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The New Student [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"The New Student" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a little girl who was nervous about starting a new school, but she makes friends the first day. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from...
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Semantic Maps for Word Learning [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about semantic maps, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement semantic maps, understand how to measure progress with semantic maps, find research that supports semantic...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: My First Baseball Game With Q & a Key [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"My First Baseball Game" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a boy and his sister going to their first baseball game and learning what it means to be Chicago Cubs fans. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Character Map [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
Teachers will learn about importance of character maps. Teachers will learn how to implement character maps; measure progress with character maps; and find research to support the use of character maps. Several reproducible character...
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Venn Diagram [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teachers will learn how to use Venn Diagrams in their classrooms. Teachers will learn how to implement Venn Diagrams; measure progress with Venn Diagrams; and find research to support the use of Venn Diagrams. A blank Venn Diagram is...
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Event Map [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Teachers will learn how to use event maps with students. They will learn how to implement event maps with literary and informational texts; measure progress with event maps; and find research to support event maps. A reproducible event...
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Question Answer Relationship (Qar) [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers will learn about the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy with students. They will learn how to implement QARs; measure progress with QARs; and find research to support the QAR strategy. A reproducible QAR strategy chart...
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Interactive Journals [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about interactive vocabulary journals, engaging instructional strategy tools. They will learn how to implement interactive jounals, understand how to measure progress with interactive journals, find research...
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Word Play [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
Classroom teachers will learn about word play, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement word play, understand how to measure progress with word play, find research that supports word play, and find a list...