ELA | Speaking & Listening
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SL.9-10.1 | Speaking & Listening
Grades 9-10
Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
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Colourful Solutions: Chemical Engineering Dyes to Brighten Lives
Students will learn to think like chemical engineers as they delve into the dye technologies that allow us to express ourselves through colourful clothing. They will read and discuss complex texts, analyse concept maps and graphs, and develop an appreciation for indigenous (Māori) dye technology.
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Lessons: 1, 2
In Part 1 and 2, students will need to work together to make sense of the systems put in front of them. They will have flexibility to define roles and strategies for filling out the missing pieces of information from the resources put in front of them.
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3 lessons and 3 supporting media items.
Lesson 1
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Lesson 2
Lesson 3
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Community Immunity: A simulation-based exploration of vaccination choices
Using simulations and role play, students explore how knowledge, social influences, access, and policy all influence whether individuals vaccinate. They then see how vaccination rates of a community determine whether an outbreak turns into an epidemic or gets stopped in its tracks.
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Lesson 2
Students collaboratively discuss their positions regarding participating the polio vaccine trials of the 1950s.
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2 lessons and 5 supporting media items.
Lesson 2
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SciJourneys: Building Resilience in Science
Help students sharpen their skills of inquiry and critical thinking and see that science is all around them! This student-centered, active learning unit helps students build resilience and growth mindsets as they approach scientific methods. Features 3 early career women in STEM!
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Lessons: 1, 2, 3
In Lesson 1, students practice forming and sharing questions through collaborative discussions; in Lesson 2, they engage in collaborative discussions to generate and categorize hypotheses; and in Lesson 3, they participate in discussions to identify and describe various types of data that can be collected to understand phenomena.
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3 lessons and 8 supporting media items.
Lesson 3
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