6-8 Resources
Curriculum with Digital Resources:
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Math
SVMI Performance Tasks & Problems of the Month: POMs may be sent home with students and/or shared online. Also, you may send home and/or share online any of the 1999-2009 performance tasks. There are approximately 475 tasks, from this time period, for teachers to select and send home. The only restrictions are for performance tasks written with copyright dates of 2010 – 2020. Those tasks must remain secure and not sent home. Finally, the Teacher Notes for all POMs and rubrics for all performance tasks must remain secure and never sent home.
Illustrative Math- Content Standards: Click on desired grade level and then choose by desired standard
Illustrative Math- Practice Standards: Click on a desired math practice standard and see examples of what the standard looks like in a variety of grades. Embedded videos also provide examples
Mathematics Assessment Project: Supplemental lessons and tasks to deepen students' understanding of mathematical concepts. Tasks split between middle and high school tasks. Look at standards to determine grade level.
Language Arts
My Perspectives (access through the waffle in your Google Drive)
Lit2Go: Free online collection of stories, poems, and passages in Mp3 (audiobook) format. Books and passages are available to download as a PDF.
Storyline Online: Readings of children's books by authors with animations. Use a model and have students make their own as a storyboard drawing or using WeVideo.
Science
CA Academy of Sciences: Lesson plans, videos, info graphics, teaching strategies. Can filter by category, content, SEPs, and also by language.
NewsELA Science: Standards-based integration of science and literacy, including special events.
NSTA: Free 30 day membership to access digital resources and tools.
NSTA eBooks: Interactive eBooks+ are both engaging and inspiring with animations, simulations, videos, and review questions.
Discovery Education: Digital Resources including lessons, videos, activities
Social Studies
TCI (access through Clever)
Social Emotional
Common Sense Media (Digital citizenship lesson plans and Google Drive integrated student activities. Click login, and then sign up with Google)
E.L.D.
Career Technical Education
VAPA
The Art of Education: Site for teachers to get lessons they can share in their google classrooms.
Supplemental Digital Resources:
Math:
Inside Mathematics: Professional resources including problems of the month and performance tasks.
BitPaper: Digital Whiteboard: BitPaper is a digital whiteboard that enables users to collaborate, explain, draw, share online.
Robert Kaplinsky: A growing list of free real world problem-based lessons for kinder through high school. Each problem includes links to a CCSS aligned mini-lesson.
Which One Doesn't Belong?: A website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles for math teachers and students alike. There are no answers provided as there are many different, correct ways of choosing which one doesn't belong.
You Cubed Tasks: Youcubed’s Math Tasks are open, visual and creative with a mission to inspire all learners. Each task includes lesson plans that integrate brain science, mindset and other important messages to learners.
Teaching Channel: Teaching Channel is a thriving online community where teachers can watch, share, and learn diverse techniques to help every student grow.
Wonderopolis: Wonderopolish poses intriguing questions—the Wonder of the Day—and explore it in a variety of ways. Teachers can use the daily Wonder to jumpstart their students' critical thinking, for content that relates to specific themes and student interests.