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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 Grethel Torrico-Lara at Grethel@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
3 May, 20123 May, 2012
Students will produce and narrate a commercial, advertising the city they live in to potential homebuyers.
Grades: 7-8
Subjects: English Language Arts
Essential Skills: E2, E3, E5, E6, E7, E8, E9, E10, E12, E13
Submitted By: Tanya Hill, Milton Middle School, WV
3 May, 20123 May, 2012
Students will independently collect and organize family data and choose a method of central tendency to best display the data. Results will be displayed in a PowerPoint presentation and must include an Excel spreadsheet, a graph and clear rationale behind the student’s decision to use mean, median, or mode.
Grades: 7-8
Subjects: Mathematics
Essential Skills: E3, E6, E9, E10, E15, E16, M5, M10, M14, M31
Submitted By: Celeste Navarro, Central Middle School, LA
3 May, 20123 May, 2012
After being assigned a mobile technology to research, groups will set boundaries and goals for their research by generating three or four questions to answer. The groups will then collect sufficient data related to their questions, revising those questions as necessary. The groups will then compose a presentation based on the research and will deliver it to the class. The groups will compose summaries of the presentations and the group representatives will then compare summaries and generate ...Read more
Grades: 6-8
Subjects: English Language Arts
Essential Skills: E2, E3, E6, E7, E8, E9, E10, E12, E13, E15
Submitted By: Richard Stull, International Center for Leadership in Education,
3 May, 20123 May, 2012
Students will compose a letter to a manufacturer recommending one product (cereal, chips, cookies, etc.) over another and include a rationale.
Grades: 7-8
Subjects: Math, English Language Arts
Essential Skills: E10, E16, M1, M10, M14, M16, M21, M31
Submitted By: International Center for Leadership in Education, ,
1 May, 20121 May, 2012
Students will select a technological service or product, conduct research and then prepare a presentation called “Tech Bytes” for their school TV. The goal of the presentation is to communicate the human impact of this service or product, the pros and cons of this service or product, and the social responsibility society has when using this service or product.
Grades: 6-8
Subjects: Technical Subjects, English Language Arts, Science, History
Essential Skills: E2, E7, E15, E17, E23, E26, S47, SS13, SS41
Submitted By: Nancy Helmkamp, Dekalb Middle School, IN, ,
1 May, 20121 May, 2012
Students will bring a food label from home and choose a hyphenated ingredient from this label. Students will attempt to find a prefix, root word or suffix in the ingredient. Students will then categorize the ingredient as sodium, carbohydrate, starch, protein, fat, vitamin, or mineral. Students will then research how this ingredient affects the body and determine if this is a necessary ingredient for proper diet and health.
Grades: 6-8
Subjects: English Language Arts, Science
Essential Skills: E1, E6, E7, E8, S10, S11
Submitted By: Adrienne Thompson, Central Middle School, LA , ,
1 May, 20121 May, 2012
After observing and discussing properties of air flow, density, heat and buoyancy, students will develop and perform an experiment designed to determine the best shape for solar tubes. This project will allow them to put into practice their knowledge of air pressure, air flow, buoyancy, convection currents and winds.
Grades: 8
Subjects: Science
Essential Skills: E1, E8, E19, E25, S1, S4, S63
Submitted By: Susan Watts, Central CSS LA, ,
18 April, 201218 April, 2012
Students will produce and distribute products for a service project fundraising event held in. Students will research their product and create a poster and writing that will promote their product.
Grades: 3-5
Subjects: English Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies
Essential Skills: E6, E7, E9, E13, E26, M1, M8, S4, SS9, SS10
Submitted By: E. Hueu, M. Bajet, C. Savea, Aiea Elementary School, HI
18 April, 201218 April, 2012
Students will create a holiday trail mix to sell at the school’s winter fair. Students will research healthy snack choices, study nutritional values of foods and learn how to read food labels. Students will set a price for the mix and create posters to advertise their trail mix. Students will reflect on sales of the trail mix, discuss how to make the mix better, what worked well and what could be improved for the next winter fair.
Grades: 1-5
Subjects: Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies
Essential Skills: E3, E6, E9, E20, S1, S4, S18, SS26, SS50
Submitted By: Grade 3 (R. Narikiyo, J. Keawe, C. Murata), Aiea Elementary School, HI
18 April, 201218 April, 2012
Students will work with a group to plan for a garden on school grounds. They consider measurements and area. Students will also include plants native to the Pacific Rim.
Grades: 3-5
Subjects: Science, Math
Essential Skills: E7, E22, M3, M9, M13, S1, S3, S4, S15, SS6, SS19
Submitted By: C. Savea, E. Hueu, and M. Bajet, Aiea Elementary School, HI


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