Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, Immigration, and Deportation DACA and DREAMERS  Detention Centers: Who benefits?  Names given to U.S. Border Detention Centers Stories of the Undocumented: What is it like? From Undocumented to Documented (racial disparities in the time frame of becoming a U.S. permanent resident) Did your ancestors come “legally”? Journey to cross the border (immigration timeline within Latin America Path to travel) Vocabulary: DACA, DREAMERS, Detention Centers, Undocumented, Deportation 

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms How does it feel to be a Latino/Latina looking for work? What are the common occupations held by Latinos/Latinas in the United States? Who makes more money, Latino men or Latina women? Discuss the role of gender and race in the workforce. Discuss factors that lead to the Hispanic unemployment rate in the United States. Why and how did COVID-19 affect the Latino unemployment rate?  COVID-19 affects the Latino community at a higher rate than Whites. Why? Discuss how low-wage workers are prone to higher COVID rates. 

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Importance of education What does the data tell us?  Policies that hinder or enhance educational access  Policies that increase incarceration rates Ramifications for African American/Black and Puerto Rican/Latinos Breaking away from historical stereotypes and perceptions (e.g., NASA recruiting from University of Puerto Rico School of Engineering for the best candidates)  

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms Where is Connecticut going? Sense of Family, Community, and Pride among Puerto Ricans and Latinos  Resourcefulness and Innovation Constantly evolving and creating: new images and identity 

This unit focuses on privacy and security and basic computer functions.  Learning in this unit will enable students to:Practice staying safe online;Understand clicking, dragging and dropping; andBe introduced to basic hardware terminology

Unit Overview/Summary - FOCUS: This unit focuses on counting and cardinality. This is supported with measurement and data within the unit. Learning in this unit will enable students to: Know number names and the count sequence. Count to tell the number of objects. Compare numbers. 

Unit Overview/Summary - FOCUS: This unit focuses on numbers and operations involving fractions.  Learning in this unit will enable students to: •    Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions. 

Witness the unfolding drama of the Constitutional Convention and the contributions of those whom we have come to know as the Founding Fathers.  In this lesson, students will become familiar with four important, but relatively unknown, contributors to the U.S. Constitution Convention: Oliver Ellsworth, Alexander Hamilton, William Paterson, and Edmund Randolph.

To what shared principles did the Founding Fathers appeal as they struggled to reach a compromise in the Constitutional Convention? In this lesson, students will learn how the Founding Fathers debated then resolved their differences in the Constitution. Learn through their own words how the Founding Fathers created"a model of cooperative statesmanship and the art of compromise."

A brief refresher on the Cartesian plane includes how points are written in (x, y) format and oriented to the axes, and which directions are positive and negative. Then students learn about what it means for a relation to be a function and how to determine domain and range of a set of data points.

This lesson introduces students to the idea of biomimicry or looking to nature for engineering ideas. Biomimicry involves solving human problems by mimicking natural solutions, and it works well because the solutions exist naturally. There are numerous examples of useful applications of biomimicry, and in this lesson we look at a few fun examples.

Focusing on the means used by the Incas to send messages over long distances, the lesson introduces students to the Inca Empire, which extended from northern Ecuador to central Chile and from the Andes to the west coast of South America between 1200 and 1535 CE.

Heavily influenced by social and scientific theories, including those of Darwin, writers of naturalism described"”usually from a detached or journalistic perspective"”the influence of society and surroundings on the development of the individual. In the following lesson plan, students will learn the key characteristics that comprise American literary naturalism as they explore London's "To Build a Fire" and Crane's "The Open Boat."

Students learn about the physical force of linear momentum movement in a straight line by investigating collisions. They learn an equation that engineers use to describe momentum. Students also investigate the psychological phenomenon of momentum; they see how the "big mo" of the bandwagon effect contributes to the development of fads and manias, and how modern technology and mass media accelerate and intensify the effect.

In this lesson, students find their location on a map using Latitude and Longitudinal coordinates. They determine where they should go to be rescued and how best to get there.

Huckleberry Finn opens with a warning from its author that misinterpreting readers will be shot. Despite the danger, readers have been approaching the novel from such diverse critical perspectives for 120 years that it is both commonly taught and frequently banned, for a variety of reasons. Studying both the novel and its critics with an emphasis on cultural context will help students develop analytical tools essential for navigating this work and other American controversies. This lesson asks students to combine internet historical research with critical reading. Then students will produce several writing assignments exploring what readers see in Huckleberry Finn and why they see it that way.

Most historians agree that the world has never come closer to nuclear war than it did during a thirteen-day period in October 1962, after the revelation that the Soviet Union had stationed several medium-range ballistic missiles in Cuba. This lesson will examine how this crisis developed, how the Kennedy administration chose to respond, and how the situation was ultimately resolved.

Students examine the anthropological perspective of human culture, including such institutions as kinship, politics, and religion, and evaluate the interrelationship between culture, environment and biology. Students explore the effects of globalization on culture while developing critical thinking skills through the application of essential anthropological approaches, theories, and methods.Login: guest_oclPassword: ocl