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This new one-week unit is designed to help support your teaching and to develop students' social-emotional skills in order to engage in an open and supportive classroom community. These first class periods are important to establish classroom norms and an inclusive environment where students honor and value differing perspectives, question assumptions, and actively listen to others.
This is the link to the resource:
​​www.facinghistory.org/back-to-school/teaching-toolkit/

Research-based instruction strategies can help educators reach all of their students regardless of the differences among them. Not only do these strategies offer proven evidence for what does and doesn’t work, but they also propose ideas and tactics that educators may have never even thought of implementing in their classroom.  
We’ve compiled a list of research-based methods for maximizing literacy instruction. Check out the links below for ways to improve the reading experience of our students:

• “Should We Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies?” settles a classic debate in reading instruction through literacy research.
• If you’re concerned about how to motivate or improve the progress of low performers in the classroom, “Bringing Low Reading Achievement Into Focus” provides a comprehensive guideline.
• “Disciplinary Literacy and the Value of Making Connections” delves into the importance of stepping away from general reading strategies and instead turning to focused ones that can be used to make sense of texts from specific academic disciplines.
• Given the growing primacy of digital reading, “Extending Text-Based Strategies to Digital Environments” is a crucial article that teaches educators how to prepare students to apply their text-based reading strategies to a digital world.

Of course, just like every student, every classroom is also different. A concept that works well in one (or many) may be ineffective in another. The most important part is that educators never stop trying until they find the most effective strategies to complement each unique group of students.
Literacy Daily/ILA

Texts (and videos!) for ELA, Science, and Social Studies with scaffolds and higher-order questionsFind what you teach and great texts & videos to pair with it. Or add anything you like.
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Population Explosion. 
In this activity, you will use a computer model to observe population explosions.
Can populations go out of control?
A population is a collection of individual organisms that can interbreed, such as a single species of gray squirrels or a species of dandelion.
In the natural world, such populations of animals and plants increase and decrease with changing environmental conditions. Over time, however, many populations are relatively stable. They don’t grow forever, and they don’t disappear.
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learn.concord.org/resources/658/population-explosion

 Science is taking on a greater role in helping students learn strategies for reading nonfiction texts. In the process, students are becoming more skilled in their ability to understand the text and the scientific content within it. Teaching nonfiction reading strategies helps students get more information out of a text and supports them in gaining skills that they will benefit from throughout the school year and beyond.