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Gold Seal Lessons

The Successful Practices Network is committed to incorporating rigor and relevance into classroom instruction. This strong focusis built on the understanding that when a rigorous curriculum is tied to real-world application, students are more motivated to learn and therefore develop a deeper understanding of the content, which leads to greater retention of the information over time. SPN in partnership with educators across the country develop model lessons that reflect this pedagogy.

 

Each lesson is designed to teach to specific standards/benchmarks/objectives and centered around a highly motivating theme, activity, or project. Lessons are typically multidisciplinary and deal with real-world situations or problems. Additionally, Gold Seal Lessons should challenge students to learn and perform in a variety of different ways. They may be asked to research, write, compute, model, demonstrate, build, survey, or report in a variety of academic, technical, work, or community environments.

 

Members can search, access, and download approximately 2000 Gold Seal Lessons. Lessons are searchable by content area, grade level, standards, and keywords.

 

Benefits:

  • Gold Seal Lessons provide teachers model, proven lessons ranging from one day to three weeks that they can implement
  • Because the lessons are aligned to standards, teachers can access alternative methods for teaching and assessing topics that they have identified as needing improvement in their own teaching
  • Teachers seeking to improve their students’ engagement find examples of relevant activities
  • Members are able to share Gold Seal Lessons with colleagues online through the network
Please feel free to use the Featured Lessons by accessing the link below. For more information please contact Ashley Terwilliger at Ashley@spnet.us
 

Please note, by submitting a lesson to the Network for editing and inclusion in the database of Gold Seal Lessons the author grants consent that the lesson may be used by the Successful Practices Network.  As such, the Successful Practices Network may distribute, repurpose, sell or reproduce lessons to fit the needs of the organization at present or in the future.   

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Newest Gold Seal Lessons
22 February, 201222 February, 2012
Students will select a human behavior to test. Students will design an experiment to test in a natural setting. Students will develop a report that thoroughly describes their findings in a 1000 word essay, as a minimum. Students will present their findings to the rest of the class, sharing the methodology and results.
Grades: 9-12
Subjects: Psychology
Essential Skills: E7, E9, E15, E33, E36, E49, SS13, SS28, SS38, SS47
Submitted By: Todd Smrekar, Cambridge Isanti High School, ,
21 February, 201221 February, 2012
Students will design a strength training program to strengthen the muscles involved in a specific physical activity. The strength training program will include the muscles involved with their chosen physical activity and specific kinesiological movements. Students will also identify which muscles generate which specific movements. The strength training program will be listed in a chart format so that it can be easily understood and used.
Grades: 10
Subjects: Physical Education, Health Education
Essential Skills: E1, E6, E14, E25, E31
Submitted By: Neil Jennissen, Cambrigde Isanti High School, MN
21 February, 201221 February, 2012
Students will be presented with the problem, “Each person in your group will create their own paper wreath for Valentine\'s Day, but the paper is not pre-cut or prepared for you. Will you have enough?”

Students will determine how much 12 inch by 12 inch paper their group will need to create a wreath for each person if each wreath needs 12 strips of paper that are 2 inches by 12 inches.
Grades: 3-5
Subjects: Math, English Language Arts
Essential Skills: E1, E10, E15, E16, E18, M1, M2, M10, M11
Submitted By: Heidi Avery, Emerson Elementary, MO
2 February, 20122 February, 2012
Students will compare and contrast Cinderella stories from different cultures. Students will then decide what gift could be given to Cinderella that would help her. Students will then write their own version of Cinderella using this gift.
Grades: 3-4
Subjects: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Essential Skills: E1, E2, E6, E9, E10, E16, E18, E23, SS1, SS19
Submitted By: Lisa Pyck, James R. Watson Elementary School, IN
2 February, 20122 February, 2012
Students will learn about Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” and create a parody of this painting. Students will then complete a graphic organizer to frame a short story based on the parody. The students will then write the short story about their parody and it will be assessed for various literary components.
Grades: 7-8
Subjects: English, Art
Essential Skills: E1, E2, E3, E6, E7, E9, E10, E12, E13, E21
Submitted By: Cindi Shepard, Central Middle School, LA
2 February, 20122 February, 2012
The students will pick a recipe to write or re-write and will incorporate vivid adjectives and verbs into the recipe. The students will collaborate with peers to edit and revise the recipe and will then write a short story, a personal narrative, or a poem that somehow incorporates the food chosen in the recipe. The students will write their stories, collaborate and revise, and then submit the story and recipe. The students will then create the item from the recipe and bring it in to share wit...Read more
Grades: 8
Subjects: English, Family and Consumer Science
Essential Skills: E1, E2, E3, E6, E7, E9, E10, E12, E13, E21
Submitted By: Megan Medley, Chaminade Middle School, CA
2 February, 20122 February, 2012
Students will work collaboratively to invent a new poetic form, and to create a lesson for teaching the class the form. Each group member is required to participate in the lesson, as well as produce one to three poems using the poetic form their group was assigned. The culmination of the assignment will be the students teaching their lesson to the class.
Grades: 8
Subjects: English
Essential Skills: E2, E3, E6, E9, E10, E11, E12, E13, E14, E15
Submitted By: Megan Medley, Chaminade Middle School, CA
2 February, 20122 February, 2012
Students will work collaboratively to manipulate a simple “Play Doh” recipe consisting of five ingredients. Students will ability to increase and decrease ingredients involving fractions, decimals, percentages, and whole numbers. Students will calculate how much of each ingredient will be needed to make enough Play-Doh for the entire class. Students will then apply these skills with a chosen recipe to plan for a party for 100 guests.
Grades: 7
Subjects: Math
Essential Skills: E3, E6, E10, E16, M1, M3, M12, M13
Submitted By: Jaime Smith, Milton Middle School, WV
2 February, 20122 February, 2012
Students will choose a magazine on travel and select two destinations they would like to visit. Students will highlight important information on each location from the magazine to create a compare and contrast list. The students will use this information to write a persuasive essay on why one destination could be chosen over the other, including highlighted similarities and differences of each location. The students will use the essay and list to produce a persuasive Prezi, Power Point, or o...Read more
Grades: 6-8
Subjects: Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science
Essential Skills: E3, E7, E8, E9, E10, E16, E31, E36, M1, M6, M13, M14, M21
Submitted By: Jaime Smith and Kerry Langdon, Milton Middle School, WV
2 February, 20122 February, 2012
Students will work independently and with a partner to complete a lab activity that allows them to differentiate between potential and kinetic energy. Students will construct a rubber band powered racer and measure how certain variables affect the transfer of energy from potential to kinetic. Students will collect, organize and analyze data and present their findings in a written summary.
Grades: 6-8
Subjects: Physical Science
Essential Skills: E1, S1, S15
Submitted By: Tracy Jackson, Chaminade College Prep, CA


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