San Antonio Pathways Unit and Lesson Frameworks

History

• Pathways Toolkit: History
  
  
  • Unit Framework: The Great Depression
    • SOAPSTone or SOAPS
      
      
  • Unit Framework: Civil Rights - How would you resist?
    • Teacher Resource: Guiding Principles for activity cut outs
    • Optional Twitter activity for students
    • "Civil Rights - You Choose" scenario PowerPoint activity
    • "Civil Rights - You Choose: To Fight, or Turn the Other Cheek" speeches and critical concepts
    • Discussion Circles Rules, Guide, and Rubric
    • Rubric
    • Student Resource: SOAPS critical thinking fill-in sheet with prompts or SOAPS fill-in sheet without prompts
    • Compare/Contrast of MLK and Malcolm X
    • Scaffold Discussion Circle Questions
      
      
  • Unit Framework: Through the Peoples’ Eyes - The American Home Front During World War II
    • Engage: Vocabulary
    • Explore: Home Front Group
      • Character Biography
    • Explain: Character Discussions in Home Front Groups
      • Handout:  Interview of Eileen Hughes
      • Handout: SOAPSTone or SOAPS
    • Explore: Home Front Primary Source Stations (in character groups)
      • Women
      • Latino
      • Propaganda
      • Internment
      • The Home Front
      • African American
      • Handout:Positive and Negative Consequences Foldable
    • Explain: Political, Economic, Social Conversation - Character Writing Document
    • Elaborate: No additional documents needed
    • Evaluate: World War II Graffiti Wall or Mural
      

Science

• Stand-alone Lessons or Activities
  • Analysis of a Science Article - Steps
  • Analysis of a Science Article - Template

• Unit Framework: Student Independent Research
  • Lesson Frame 1: Student Independent Research - Topic Selection and Refining a Testable Question
    • Elements of Student Research - Teacher Notes
    • Elements of Student Research - Student Notes
    • Development of Research Question/Proposal
    • Answering Research Questions or Solving the Problem Guidelines
    • Scientific Conclusion Writing
    • Scientific Research Paper and Presentation Instructions and Rubric
    • Scoring for Presentation (Excel)
  • Lesson Frame 2: Student Independent Research - Experimental Design and Data Collection
    • Answering Research Questions or Solving the Problem Guidelines
    • Performance Task Assessment Lists and Rubrics
    • Scoring
  • Lesson Frame 3: Student Independent Research - Data Analysis, Conclusions and Communications
    • Scientific Conclusion Writing
    • Data and Analysis

English/language Arts

• Stand-alone Lessons or Activities
  • Reflective Writing - Template
  • Writing Break - Template
  • Critical Reading: Analyzing Nonfiction Texas

• Unit Framework: Teaching Research through Literature

Mathematics

• Unit Framework: Graphing Lab
  • Graphing Stations - Teacher Outline
  • Graphing Stations - Student Data Sheet
  • Station 5 Graphs
  • Graphing Stations Lab - Template