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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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23 March, 201023 March, 2010
This is an interdisciplinary lesson that connects music and technology. Students will compose a rap song, and will use PowerPoint presentation tools and iMovie to share the final performance. Students may choose to work alone or with a partner, and must choose an interdisciplinary topic to rap about that promotes or encourages learning of peers or younger students. In the rap, students may not say anything negative about the people or the topic, and must tell the story of the topic in a rhyme...Read more
Grades: 6-8
Subjects: General Music
Essential Skills: E1, E4, E5, E6, E8, E25
Submitted By: Kerri Olson, Central Clinton Middle School, IA
16 January, 201016 January, 2010
Students will choose a poem from the book My Man Blue by Nikki Grimes. Students will read the poem in a small group (three to four students). Students will identify and relate to the class the meaning(s) of their poem by performing the poem, as a group, for the class. As a group, students will then craft a narrative piece based on the poem that they have chosen. Upon completion, the groups will publish their narratives for the rest of the class to read.

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Students will listen to the...Read more
Grades: 4
Subjects: Language Arts
Essential Skills: E1, E2, E4, E7, E8, E9, E10, E14, E18, E23, E44, E45, E48
Submitted By: Brandon Crosby, Meadowlark Elementary School, WY
8 April, 20108 April, 2010
Students will write an essay in Spanish about themselves using the vocabulary and grammar from 1st Semester, and then send their file electronically to the teacher. Upon receiving the rough draft back from teacher with necessary revisions, they will electronically edit and revise their essay using word processing tools and resend the final draft electronically. They will then record themselves reading the final draft of the essay and send this audio file electronically to the teacher.
Grades: 8-12
Subjects: Spanish
Essential Skills: E1, E4, E6, E9, E15
Submitted By: Derek DeNileon, Rocky Heights Middle School, CO
27 January, 201027 January, 2010
Students will read and analyze a Consumer Report article. The students will apply what they have learned about the article format to develop a rubric that will be used to evaluate Consumer Reports-type articles written by other students. Students will engage in a report development process that will include (a) choosing a product, (b) determining relevant criteria, (c) collecting data, (d) developing a chart or graph that communicates results, and (e) synthesizing findings in a written report...Read more
Grades: 9
Subjects: English, Technical Writing, Consumer Education
Essential Skills: E1, E2, E4, E6, E7, E9, E10, E13, E14, E15, E20, E25, E31, E32
Submitted By: Brad Weidenaar, Marshalltown High School, IA
16 January, 201016 January, 2010
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The students will demonstrate their abilities to evaluate print media such as a newspaper and then apply those components of feature article layout and design through their assessment and modeling of printed feature articles.
Grades: 11 - 12
Subjects: Journalism, English Language Arts
Essential Skills: E1, E3, E6, E9, E12, E20, E21, E30, E31, E32
Submitted By: Jeanne Holub, West High School, IA
16 January, 201016 January, 2010
After instruction and practice on formal business letters, students will draft, edit, and revise a letter to a contemporary author of his/her choosing. This letter will allow students to make connections between their reading and writing. They should be encouraged to communicate their opinions and questions to the author. Most important, students will make a real-world connection in the relevance of learning professional letter writing. These letters are mailed to the authors with an anticipa...Read more
Grades: 9
Subjects: English
Essential Skills: E1, E6, E23, E37, E39, E43, E44, E45, E48, SS13, SS16
Submitted By: Veronica Graves, Greenwood, KY
16 January, 201016 January, 2010
In this unit, students will be asked to create an original description of an artist and artwork as found in a museum. They will see a PowerPoint introduction to 20th century art movements and artists to introduce or reinforce the student's art history knowledge.
Students will then select one artist to research. Students need to apply their knowledge of art vocabulary through writing. Students will complete the K and W sections of the KWL chart (attached in the Artist Research Guide) as a pre...Read more
Grades: 9-12
Subjects: Art (Art History), English Language Arts
Essential Skills: E1, E7, E15, E16
Submitted By: Kellie Kelck, Midland High School, IA
16 January, 201016 January, 2010
Students will read newspapers daily and news magazines on a weekly basis to learn about a problem or issue of local, state, national, or international concern. Students will research a chosen issue, write an editorial, and submit it to either a newspaper or news magazine of their choice.
Grades: 11
Subjects: Language Arts, Reading, Writing
Essential Skills: E1, E2, E4, E6, E7, E9, E13, E20, E21, E24, E25, E26, E27, E28, E30, E33, E36
Submitted By: Harriett Schilit, Atlantic Community High School, FL
16 April, 201016 April, 2010
This lesson will expose students to the various styles of 20th century composition and allows students to create a melody of their own using any one of the techniques studied
Grades: 10-12
Subjects: Music History
Essential Skills: E3, E10, E24, E25, E44
Submitted By: David Cooper,, Elk Lake High School, PA
3 May, 20123 May, 2012
In small groups, students will study a step of The Writing Process or The Six Traits of Writing and present a lesson to the class that includes a paraphrased definition of the step/trait, a graphic representation of the step/trait, and a brief lesson that demonstrates how to use this step/trait as they write. Using various source materials provided on the writing process and the six traits of writing, students will read and analyze the materials to discover what a writer does to apply this tr...Read more
Grades: 9-12
Subjects: English Language Arts
Essential Skills: E2, E3, E6, E7, E8, E9, E10, E12, E13, E15
Submitted By: Roxanne Charlson, Cambridge Isanti High School, MN


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