Introduction to Signed Numbers
The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand how increases and decreases are expressed and how to combine them. For instance, positive numbers show improvements, profit, or distance above zero. Negative numbers on the other hand show losses, decreasing values, and distance below zero. Being able to understand these values independently and by combining these values through addition and subtraction is a VITAL aspect of Algebra and is foundational for further topics.
GED Content Areas
- Mathematics and Science
Analyzing the Effects of Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling—Can You Make a Difference?
Students will gather information from Internet articles, their own lives, and their classroom; analyze their findings; create a plan of action for recycling; and determine the measurable impact of their plan on landfills (pounds/year).
GED Content Areas
- RLA and Science
Discussing Views on Surface Mining
The purpose of this lesson is to show students how to identify the similarities and differences between two texts that have claims about a similar topic. Comparing and contrasting claims helps students become critical readers and savvy consumers. This lesson also serves to increase students’ knowledge about the pros and cons of surface mining.
GED Content Areas
- RLA and Science
Health Care Jobs
When job-seeking, students will need to understand terminology used, such as median salary, in order to determine whether or not the job will meet their financial needs. In addition to learning the skills necessary to calculate salary information, they will also learn more about their field(s) of interest.
GED Content Areas
- RLA and Science
My POV About Surface Mining
This lesson gives students the opportunity to practice and apply what they have learned about point of view, author’s claims, and evidence up to this point. Students will be able to express their own point of view about surface mining by gathering evidence, which will expand their content knowledge as well. This also translates to the workplace when students will have to express themselves in writing and/or argue specific issues related to their job.
GED Content Areas
- RLA and Science
Uranium-Friend or Foe, Comparative Analysis in Science
Students will use critical reading skills to inform choice and support evidence-based writing.
GED Content Areas
- RLA and Science
What Footprint Will You Leave? Synthesizing and Presenting Information Graphically
As charts and graphs are used across most disciplines, graphic understanding enables the student to assess large amounts of data in order to recognize trends, compare parts of a whole, or compare two or more sets of information. For example, comparisons of weather data over time are usually represented in graphic form.
GED Content Areas
- RLA and Science