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Dear LOR user,

Thank you for being a big part of this community. To better support the initiatives around open educational resources in the state of Michigan, all resources on the Michigan Virtual Learning Object Repository (LOR) are being moved to #GoOpen Michigan on September 30th, 2018. During the transition, our LOR will be moved to an archived state, not allowing new user registration or new content to be added. An email with more details was sent to registered users of the LOR in September. To make use of the great resources on the platform, we encourage you to create an account and add your own new resources to the #GoOpen Michigan platform.

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Women's History Month Research Project

Submitted by aruehlmann on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 5:13pm.

During this three week unit, students practice and apply research skills while completing a project on a woman of their choice. Ideally, this project is taught around March, which is Women’s History Month. Summative assessments for this unit include the completed project and an annotated bibliography.

Resource Type: 
Unit
Content Area: 
Language Arts
Grade: 
7
8
9

Argumentative Writing Unit

Submitted by aruehlmann on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 5:04pm.

In this three week unit, students will practice skills related to argumentative writing. They will ultimately write an argumentative/persuasive letter to the school board regarding school safety policy.

Resource Type: 
Unit
Content Area: 
Language Arts
Grade: 
7
8
9

Music Theory/Skills/Composition Unit

Submitted by jchurchville on Sun, 03/11/2018 - 11:09pm.

This unit takes students through fundamental foundations of music creation that is based in both western music notation as well as technology based composition practices. The scope of the unit covers essential musical knowledge used to create music as well as a bevy of online tools used to create, collaborate and publish music. 

Resource Type: 
Unit
Content Area: 
Elective Subjects
Grade: 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Eastern Africa

Submitted by crouchy on Fri, 03/09/2018 - 2:27pm.

Students will study, learn, & demonstrate knowledge of Eastern Africa in the areas of landforms, history, & life today.

Resource Type: 
Assessment
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Grade: 
7

Peergrade

Submitted by jgerlach on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 3:24pm.

Peergrade is a platform that allows teachers to create assignments and upload rubrics. Students upload work and are anonymously assigned peer work to review according to the rubric.

Cost: 
Free
Content Area: 
Language Arts
Literacy
Social Studies
Tool Type: 
Website

Newsela

Submitted by ELuckhardt on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 1:27pm.

Newsela takes articles and current events from its partner news sources and modifies them so that students can read them more easily (options for different lexile levels). There also opportunities to assign to students and add questions. 

Cost: 
Freemium
Content Area: 
Language Arts
Literacy
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies
Technology
Tool Type: 
Website

Classcraft

Submitted by ssicilia on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 2:57pm.

Classcraft is a website that teachers can use to "gamify"  their classroom content and behavior expectations. The design of the website is based on concepts from fantasy games and literature with character classes such as mage, healer, and warrior. Students get to choose which type of character they will have and what that character looks like. They are rewarded by their teacher for making progress or demonstrating good behavior with experience points (XP).

Cost: 
Free(mium)
Content Area: 
Elective Subjects
Language Arts
Literacy
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies
Technology
Other
Tool Type: 
App
Website

3-D Shapes

Submitted by livracine on Tue, 10/31/2017 - 3:18pm.

In this unit, students develop in-depth understanding of volume and surface area. Students should understand volume as a measure of filling and surface area as a measure of wrapping an object. Students should have the opportunity to generate their own strategies for finding volume and surface area.

Resource Type: 
Unit
Content Area: 
Mathematics
Grade: 
7

2-D Geometry

Submitted by livracine on Tue, 10/31/2017 - 3:14pm.

In this unit students will build upon their experiences with geometry in earlier grades. Seventh grade students use these skills to informally construct geometric figures.

Resource Type: 
Unit
Content Area: 
Mathematics
Grade: 
7

Introduction to Algebra

Submitted by JenMoore525 on Tue, 10/17/2017 - 11:45pm.

This unit is designed for students in the 6-8th grade range who are encountering algebra for the first time.  The content of this unit will produce students that are comfortable reading and writing algebraic expressions and equations, performing basic integer operations and finally, putting it all together to solve one-step algebraic equations.

Resource Type: 
Unit
Content Area: 
Mathematics
Grade: 
6
7
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