Academic Teachers Classroom Resources
Introduction
The lessons and problems found in teacher resources are intended to involve your students with information gathering, teamwork, analytical practice, problem-solving, and project management.
We hope that the lesson you’ll find in the lesson plan section challenge students to apply their mathematical, reading, writing, reasoning, and communication skills. Many of the lessons are hands on and require some basic materials, so it is important that you access the teacher resource pages when they are available. If you have a problem identifying or locating the materials listed, use the question/comment application to ask for assistance. Many of the lessons also suggest business partners. If you would like assistance identifying an individual from industry to assist with a lesson, use the question/comment application to make that request.
Individuals choose between alternatives based on their ability to imagine themselves in each alternative. One goal of using these lessons and problems as part of your instruction is to immerse students into technical experience where they can begin to imagine themselves in a technical career. Along with the lesson, teachers may want to engage students in a conversation about their reaction to the lesson and whether they could imagine a job that focused on the activities covered in the lesson.
Finally, we would like your feedback. After you have used a lesson in its original or modified state, we would like to hear how it went. We would like to practice a continuous improvement model so that teachers and students get the greatest return on their investment of time and energy.
