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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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Vietnam War Blended Learning

Submitted by erin.sharp on Mon, 06/25/2018 - 7:24pm.

This blended learning unit of the Vietnam War allows for students to rotate through stations, assess their knowledge and work in small groups with an instructor.  It also provides links to Web 2.0 tools utilized to create instructional videos, quizzes and projects.  It follows Michigan State standards for US History at the high school level. 

Resource Type: 
Unit
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Grade: 
9

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
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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
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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

Virtual Grade 9 Grammar Unit

Submitted by dstoops on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 4:15pm.

Grade 9 Grammar Culmination Unit

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

The Odyssey

Submitted by ross.holliday on Wed, 09/20/2017 - 9:09am.

This is a unit plan for teaching ancient Greek literature in the form of The Odyssey to ninth graders.  This unit is aimed at a population of struggling readers.  It utilizes kahoot and quizlet online, and asks students to develop their own "kahoots", where students will develop the comprehension questions for each other.  Links are provided in the unit plan.

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

Collaborative Editorials

Submitted by adamknappx on Wed, 07/26/2017 - 4:36pm.

The goal of this assignment is for students to write an editorial, either by themselves or with a partner. This topic will be something they are interested in or passionate about and hold a particular opinion that they wish to share with others. The learning cycle will focus on students exploring topics and finding one they hold an opinion about.

Resource Type: 
Lesson
Content Area: 
Language Arts
Grade: 
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