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Affixes/Morphemic Analysis Activities from the Florida Center for Reading Research

FCRR; antonyms/synonyms

Students will participate in activities designed to explore the themes, characters and volatile moral issues raised in Shakespeare's Macbeth.  Students will explore the themes of power, ambition and the social status of women in the play and in this production set in the 1920's.  By engaging students with text from main characters in the play, students will explore their response to the play's key question:  what is the tragedy of Macbeth?  

Folger Education offers a world of online resources for teachers, from individual teaching modules to curriculum guides to videos.

PISA. It found that the most successful students are those who feel real "ownership" of their education. In all the best performing school systems, said Schleicher, "students feel they personally can make a difference in their own outcomes and that education will make a difference for their future."

Constitution Day lesson plans for K-12 teachers from the Center for Civic Education. These lessons are available for free and many are downloadable as pdfs.

Computational thinking (CT) involves a set of problem-solving skills and techniques that software engineers use to write programs that underlie the computer applications you use such as search, email, and maps. However, computational thinking is applicable to nearly any subject. Students who learn computational thinking across the curriculum begin to see a relationship between different subjects as well as between school and life outside of the classroom. Specific computational thinking techniques include: problem decomposition, pattern recognition, pattern generalization to define abstractions or models, algorithm design, and data analysis and visualization.