2023 marked the ten year anniversary of my son Alex Araeipour’s passing. I decided to pay tribute to him by publishing his book Colors that he wrote and illustrated for a high school English class assignment. He suffered from a mental illness starting in ninth grade. He experienced and observed examples of acceptance and compassion over his lifetime along with experiences of intolerance and discrimination based on being “different” in appearance or personality etc. to those a
What an appropriate title for an exploration of the field of archaeology! In this award-winning unit for grades 2-4, students are put in the role of junior archeologists at a research museum and discover that construction work has been halted on a new school because historic artifacts were discovered. To determine whether or not the dig is important enough to halt building the school entirely, students learn to excavate and actually conduct the dig -- carefully seeded with "historic artifacts."
In this unit, students explore 2- and 3-dimensional shapes with a focus on their properties, relationships among them, and spatial visualization. The reasoning skills that they build upon in this unit help them to develop an understanding of more complex geometric concepts.
The Teacher Guide is designed to provide background information on the mathematics being taught in this unit, the learning envi
OpenSciEd Middle School science program addresses all middle school NGSS standards. This comprehensive science curriculum empowers students to question, design, investigate, and solve the world around them.
Change is all around us. In this module, students explore changes in the environment. Starting with their immediate surroundings, they ask three questions: "What was it like before?", "What changes have happened?", and "What changes will occur in the future?" They then look more closely at the processes of weathering and erosion and at rocks and fossils.
Each Teacher Guide includes:
OpenSciEd Middle School science program addresses all middle school NGSS standards. This comprehensive science curriculum empowers students to question, design, investigate, and solve the world around them.