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Welcome to Hacking EdTech for Equity! In this video we talk about using SMART Goals tool in school.

This lesson aims to cultivate students’ awareness and appreciation of STEM concepts in their everyday lives, fostering critical consciousness and cultural competence.

Engage students in the captivating world of photography composition with our lesson on the rule of thirds. By exploring visually appealing photographs and drawing on their own experiences, students will learn the significance of the rule of thirds in creating stunning compositions.

This lesson continues the processes started in the lesson “Mapping STEM in school”. It engages students in reflecting on their school community and exploring STEM-related areas through the creation of school maps.

This lesson engages students in reflecting on their school community and exploring STEM-related areas through the creation of school maps. It can be utilized as a stand-alone activity or as the introductory lesson to showcase STEM places within schools.

Word Choice Matters is a lesson designed to look at different parts of speech and touch on textual examples of figurative language through translanguage. The lesson goes beyond identifying to asking students to create their own sentences using the text as a structural model.

Is Lebron better than Steph Curry? Are Fords faster than Chevys? Will IU beat Purdue next year? Find out by engaging and creating your own statistical analysis, using measures of center and spread! After all, statistics do not lie.

Wow! Word Choice Matters! is a lesson designed to look at nouns and verbs specifically. The lesson goes beyond identifying and asks students to create their own sentences (replacing the nouns and verbs) using a translanguaging text as a structural model.

Using character traits, students will be able to explore their own personal identity. This lesson will help students make the connection of identifying their traits to later doing character analysis in a story.

This lesson is designed to look at the elements of a story, specifically; setting, characters, problem, and solution. It allows students the chance to discuss and share with their peers how the big and little parts of a story matter in understanding the story, the world, and ourselves.

Sequencing events in a story is a lesson designed to look at the beginning, middle, and end events in a story specifically while utilizing story elements, setting, characters, problem and solution. It allows students the chance to move, discuss and share out with their peers.

This lesson helps young students gain an understanding of places to display art, the Art and History of creating the Statue of Liberty, immerse in Art Appreciation, and engage in Art Making activities throughout 3 modules.

Experience one of the most important equations of your life: the mortgage equation! Do you know the price you are paying for your level of credit? Crunch those numbers to find out!

Welcome to Optimization Week where you will have to solve a real world problem and share with the world why your solution is better than all other possible solutions!

Understanding Point of View in Racial Injustice is a lesson designed to look at how situations are discussed from different points of view. The lesson addresses sensitive subject matter and prompts students to identify character traits and summarize the targeted text.

Tell Me How You Feel: Opinion Writing is a lesson designed to break down paragraph writing into a step-by-step process using the OREO graphic organizer. The lesson provides video examples of each step with teacher checks and a Blooket to start.

Scale up your students’ knowledge of dilation and scale factor by having them work through scale drawings!

This lesson is designed to prove the difference between what we think we see and what actually exists in the physical world. Students will use a variety of methods and concepts such as foreground, middle ground, and background, spatial illusion, and atmospheric perspective.

In this interactive lesson, students will learn about meiosis, fertilization, heredity rules, genotypes, phenotypes, etc. through building marshmallow dragons (or reebops). Through this lesson, they will be able to understand and explain genetic and physical diversity from generation to generation.

This lesson will help students learn to identify key pieces in a text, used to support arguments for various types of literary essay foci. The lesson focuses on the Notice and Notes structure to teach students note taking and citation strategies, in order to create a solid thesis/essay after close-reading a text.

This lesson will help your scholars deconstruct proof level thinking. By utilizing Delta Math, students can progress from the visual level of thinking about triangle congruence and transform themselves into writing proof like arguments.

In this lesson, students will learn how to calculate distances in real life situations by using the distance formula and the Pythagorean Theorem. The interactive Nearpod is included in the lesson.

This interactive Nearpod lesson will help you teach your students about trigonometric functions in right triangles. To calculate heights of real-life structures, or sides of triangles, they will make use of the Pythagorean Theorem, sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant, and cosecant.

In this lesson, students will learn more about points, lines, planes, and intersections by connecting these sometimes intangible Geometry concepts to real world examples. A pre-made Nearpod with assessments is included.

This lesson will help students discover how to analyze and cite a text through interacting with peers and through finding authentic connections between novels and their own lives. This lesson can be used as a guide to help students analyze any novel or text of the teacher or students’ choosing.

Welcome to Hacking EdTech for Equity! In this video we talk about using FlipGrid in new and different ways!

Welcome to Hacking EdTech for Equity! In this video we talk about the different ways FlipGrid can benefit student’s learning experience!

Welcome to Hacking EdTech for Equity! In this video we talk about how to use FlipGrid and how to introduce it into your classroom!

We talk a bit more about the surveillance tool Pear Deck has which allows you to see what participants are doing in Pear Deck in real-time. It is important for you to know how to use this feature equitably!

Use Pear Deck to push students to think more about issues of equity in the US.

Peardeck allows all students to have a voice during any presentation.

Step-by-step video tutorial resource for educators using Canva

step-by-step video tutorial resource for educators in using Adobe Spark

step-by-step video tutorial resource for educators in using Canva when creating cards

This lesson digitizes Kim Foglia’s beloved “Building Macromolecules” assignment using a self-paced Google slideshow with embedded prompts and instructions that provide important scaffolding to the inquiry. This lesson contextualizes the assignment for students to examine differential food accessibility through a critical lens.

Canva is a free graphic design platform that’s great for making invitations, business cards, Instagram posts, and more.

Step-by-step video tutorial resource for educators in using GoNoodle.

Step-by-step video tutorial resource for educators in using Quizizz.

This lesson helps students understand how people are different and similar through the meals they prepare, eat, and who they share meals with.

step-by-step video tutorial resource for educators in using ck-12

step-by-step video tutorial resource for educators in using EdPuzzle

Step-by-step video tutorial resource for educators in using Hypothes.is

The lesson helps students understand not only what culture is and how beliefs, customs, traditions, rituals, and ways of knowing are different and similar to their own culture; additionally it will help students understand that these aspects of culture are sometimes used to unite and divide groups of people. This lesson increases students’ awareness of their own cultural positionality, which affects their perspectives of the world.

The Abuela Book Module is a bilingual guided and interactive read aloud activity paired with potential inquiries around human enhancement & limitations, immigration, human rights, multiculturalism and multilingualism.