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From One Cell to Trillions - a Living Environment unit on the cell cycle and mitosis, run as a week-long case file for a museum's exhibit labels: how many divisions make a body, the cell-cycle clock, mitosis step by step, counting cells in a root tip, and control, cancer and the HeLa line, Special Education and English Learner edition. Six class periods (five teaching days and a test day). Fully trilingual: English, Latin American Spanish and Haitian Creole as three separate single-language files - never a translation table. Day 1 - How Many Divisions? Day 2 - The Cell Cycle Clock Day 3 - Mitosis, Step by Step Day 4 - Counting Cells in a Root Tip Day 5 - Control, Cancer and the HeLa Line Day 6 - Unit test. Every day: a Do Now, an "I can ... by ..." learning target, SUPPORT / STRETCH task tiers, a partner discussion, and an Exit Ticket. Cell counts, cycle times and quotations come from cited sources (Sender, Fuchs and Milo 2016 CC BY; BioNumbers; NIH), and practice values are SAMPLE DATA (invented) and labeled so. No picture is clip art or computer-generated: every picture is a real photograph, micrograph or historical drawing (ZEISS Microscopy CC BY 2.0; E. B. Wilson 1900, public domain) or a graph drawn in code from the numbers shown. WHAT YOU DOWNLOAD (7 ZIP files: English in 3 parts, Spanish in 2 parts, Haitian Creole in 2 parts, because of the size of the slide decks; 37 files in all, including a README and a sources/rights file): - 9 student slide decks (.pptx), 3 per language (81 slides per language) - 15 student papers (.docx), one per day per language - 3 unit tests (.docx), one per language, plus 3 answer keys - 3 argument rubrics (.docx), one per language - 1 teacher guide (.docx, English) and 1 answer guide - a README and a sources/rights file (Download every part for the language you teach. The English files also hold the teacher guide, answer guide, README and sources/rights file.) Unit test: 20 items (17 multiple-choice + 3 written), 27 points, on a new graph and table (BioNumbers cell-cycle times in four kinds of cells) and new items not used on any teaching day; argument rubric included. Editable .pptx and .docx, built to be used online: students type into text boxes. No lined paper. Teacher supplies: Nothing. PLEASE NOTE: The Spanish and Haitian Creole files are generated translations and have not been reviewed by a fluent science teacher. The unit has not yet been tried with students. Single-teacher license.

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - How Do the Parts of a Story Work Together? - a Grade 7 English Language Arts unit on how place, characters and plot shape each other, Special Education and English Learner edition. Eleven class periods: eight story days (one part of the story per day), a seminar day with a cold read, a transfer-task day on a brand-new text, and the Story Check on its own day. Fully trilingual: English, Latin American Spanish and Haitian Creole as three separate single-language sets of files - never a translation table. Day 1 - A flood, a rescue, and a new house Day 2 - The garden, the tailorbirds, and the cobras Day 3 - A small snake in the dust Day 4 - A voice in the dark and a plan Day 5 - A long night in the bathroom Day 6 - A song, a secret, and a broken wing Day 7 - A cobra on the veranda Day 8 - Underground, and then the garden sings Day 9 - A seminar and a text you have not read Day 10 - A brand-new text (the transfer task) Day 11 - The Story Check, on its own day Every teaching day: a Do Now, an "I can ... by ..." learning target, two story words, a SUPPORT / ON-LEVEL / STRETCH choice on every response point, a printed starter under every answer box, two Turn and Talks with the four discourse moves printed (agree, disagree respectfully, build on it, ask for the page), a student self-check, and an Exit Ticket. Day 9 is a structured-controversy seminar with two printed roles. The story is Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" from The Jungle Book (1894, Project Gutenberg eBook #236, public domain), read one part per day with page references; the Day 9 cold read and the Day 10 transfer text are two more Jungle Book stories (public domain). Pictures: thirteen W. H. Drake plates from the 1894 book and three public-domain photographs (Kipling, 1895; two fur-seal photographs from U.S. government archives), plus storybook-style illustrations created for the unit (not photographs), each credited on the slide. WHAT YOU DOWNLOAD (6 ZIP files: each language is split into 2 parts because of the size of the slide decks; 60 files in all, including a README and a sources/rights file): - 15 student slide decks (.pptx), 5 per language (233 slides per language) - 30 student papers (.docx), one per day per language - 3 transfer tasks (.docx), one per language - 3 Story Checks and 3 answer keys (.docx), one per language - 3 story rubrics (.docx), one per language - 1 teacher guide (.docx, English) - a README and a sources/rights file (Download all 6 files. The English files also hold the teacher guide, README and sources/rights file.) Story Check (Day 11): 8 items (6 multiple-choice + 2 written: how a detail of the place decides an event, and how the story would change in a different place), each with a printed starter; answer key and story rubric included. Editable .pptx and .docx, built to be used online: students type into text boxes. No lined paper. Teacher supplies: Nothing. PLEASE NOTE: The Spanish and Haitian Creole files are generated translations and have not been reviewed by a fluent ELA teacher. The unit has not yet been tried with students. Single-teacher license.

Wired to Respond - a Psychology unit on biology and behavior - the brain, neurons and the nervous system - built on sourced documents: NINDS Brain Basics pages, a peer-reviewed paper on the action potential, a build-a-model neuron lab, a placard case file on Phineas Gage, EEG and fMRI, a fishbowl seminar at the case desk, and a cold document (the 2012 Gage connectivity study) on test day, Special Education and English Learner edition. Six class periods (five teaching days and a test day). Fully trilingual: English, Latin American Spanish and Haitian Creole as three separate single-language files - never a translation table. Day 1 - Cells That Carry Messages Day 2 - Signals Jump the Gap Day 3 - Experts in One Brain Day 4 - Case File: Gage, EEG and fMRI Day 5 - The Circle: The Case Desk Day 6 - A Document You Have Not Read (unit test) Every day: a Do Now, an "I can ... by ..." learning target, a partner discussion, and an Exit Ticket. Days 1-3 each read a sourced document with the SOURCE IT routine (who wrote it, when, for whom, and why); Day 2 is a build-a-model neuron lab, Day 4 the placard case file, Day 5 the fishbowl seminar, Day 6 the test. Documents are U.S. government pages (NINDS/NIH) and CC BY open-access papers, quoted with their dates and listed in the sources file; every invented number says SAMPLE DATA (invented). The brain, scan and neuron-model pictures are illustrations created for the unit (not photographs); the Cajal drawing and the Gage portrait are real historical images. Mental illness and drug treatment are not taught; nothing in the unit is medical advice. WHAT YOU DOWNLOAD (3 ZIP files, one per language; 37 files in all, including a README and a sources/rights file): - 9 student slide decks (.pptx), 3 per language (118 slides per language) - 18 student papers (.docx), one per day per language - 3 unit tests (.docx), one per language, plus 3 answer keys - 3 argument rubrics (.docx), one per language - 1 teacher guide (.docx, English) - a README and a sources/rights file (The English ZIP also holds the teacher guide, README and sources/rights file.) Unit test: 36 points (Part A 16 multiple-choice, Part B 8 on a cold document, Part C 12 in four argument boxes), with an argument rubric. Editable .pptx and .docx, built to be used online: students type into text boxes. No lined paper. Teacher supplies: Nothing. PLEASE NOTE: The Spanish and Haitian Creole files are generated translations and have not been reviewed by a fluent social studies teacher. The unit has not yet been tried with students. Single-teacher license.

The Lab Pass Challenge - a science-skills boot camp on lab safety, variables and graphing, run as a week-long case file: read a chemical hazard label, read a data sheet, plan a fair test, build a graph, and close the file by reading a real climate graph, Special Education and English Learner edition. Six class periods (five teaching days and a test day). Fully trilingual: English, Latin American Spanish and Haitian Creole as three separate single-language files - never a translation table. Day 1 - Read the Label Day 2 - Read the Data Sheet Day 3 - Plan a Fair Test Day 4 - Build the Graph Day 5 - Close the File: Read the Graph Day 6 - Unit test. Every day: a Do Now, an "I can ... by ..." learning target, SUPPORT / STRETCH task tiers, a partner discussion, and an Exit Ticket. Hazard ratings, safety data and the graphs come from NIH PubChem, CPSC/NIOSH, OSHA, USGS, NOAA and NASA GISS pages and files (public U.S. government information, credited on each source line); practice values and test items are SAMPLE DATA (invented) and labeled so. Pictures: two credited photographs (an eyewash station, CC BY 4.0; the Mauna Loa Observatory, NOAA, public domain) and illustrations created for the unit (not photographs). WHAT YOU DOWNLOAD (3 ZIP files, one per language; 35 files plus a README and a sources/rights file): - 9 student slide decks (.pptx), 3 per language (78 slides per language) - 15 student papers (.docx), one per day per language - 3 unit tests (.docx), one per language, plus 3 answer keys - 3 argument rubrics (.docx), one per language - 1 teacher guide (.docx, English) and 1 answer guide (The English ZIP also holds the teacher guide, answer guide, README and sources/rights file.) Unit test: 20 items (17 multiple-choice + 3 written), 27 points, on a new graph (NASA GISS global temperature change) and new items not used on any teaching day; argument rubric included. Editable .pptx and .docx, built to be used online: students type into text boxes. No lined paper. Teacher supplies: Nothing. PLEASE NOTE: The Spanish and Haitian Creole files are generated translations and have not been reviewed by a fluent science teacher. The unit has not yet been tried with students. Single-teacher license.

The Emperor's New Clothes - What Is the Theme? - a Grade 4 English Language Arts unit on theme and point of view, Special Education and English Learner edition. Seven class periods: six story days (one part of the story per day, read aloud first) and a story test day. Fully trilingual: English, Latin American Spanish and Haitian Creole as three separate single-language files - never a translation table. Day 1 - An emperor who loved new clothes Day 2 - The empty looms and the old minister Day 3 - Two men praise a cloth they cannot see Day 4 - The emperor goes to look for himself Day 5 - The dressing and the canopy Day 6 - The procession and the ending (and the transfer task, The New Bell) Day 7 - The story test Every day: a Do Now, an "I can ... by ..." learning target, two story words, a SUPPORT / ON-LEVEL / STRETCH choice on every response point, a printed starter under every answer box, a Turn and Talk with the four discourse moves printed (agree, disagree respectfully, build on it, ask for the page), a student self-check, and an Exit Ticket. The story text is Mrs. H. B. Paull's 1888 translation from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (public domain), read one part per day with page references; the transfer passage, The New Bell, is an original practice text written for this unit. Pictures: one 1888 plate from the same book (public domain) and six storybook-style illustrations created for the unit (not photographs). WHAT YOU DOWNLOAD (3 ZIP files, one per language, 42 files in all): - 9 student slide decks (.pptx), 3 per language (104 slides per language) - 18 student papers (.docx), one per day per language - 3 transfer tasks (.docx), one per language - 3 story tests and 3 answer keys (.docx), one per language - 3 theme rubrics (.docx), one per language - 1 teacher guide (.docx, English) - a README and a sources/rights file (The English ZIP also holds the teacher guide, README and sources file.) Story test (Day 7): 6 items (4 multiple-choice + 2 written, each with a printed starter in this edition), plus a Do Now, a partner discussion and an Exit Ticket on the test day; answer key and theme rubric included. Editable .pptx and .docx, built to be used online: students type into text boxes. No lined paper. Teacher supplies: Nothing. PLEASE NOTE: The Spanish and Haitian Creole files are generated translations and have not been reviewed by a fluent ELA teacher. The unit has not yet been tried with students. Single-teacher license.