CTE: Career Technical Education

Source: Algebra Lab Order of Operations Activity page (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

Algebra Lab is an online learning environment that focuses on the high school math topics and skills called upon in introductory science courses.  It has an excellent glossary and math topics appropriate for our learners. These include fractions, decimals, exponents, order of operation, and word problems. It provides vocabulary development and practice of language in a context related to math and science. Includes extensive teacher support, lesson plans, practice exercises, comprehension exercise, and more. For this activity, you will be presenting Order of Operations.

Source: Algebra2Go Homepage (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

This Web site is filled with tools to assist teachers as they set up their math course as well as students looking for individual help. The site includes class notes, video worksheets, video lectures (using different formats if you cannot access YouTube), homework sets, topic quizzes to assess if students are able to skip the topic, and much more.

This is the Algebra2go Prealgebra course from Saddleback College with all lesson and class resources available for immediate download in one large zip file (1.14GB). 

Source: Create Monthly Calendars Tool (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

Flickr Toys, also known as Big Huge Labs, is the Website for doing creative, fun projects with digital images that the user uploads, or by using Flickr images, Photobucket images, or entering the URL (Web address) for an online image.

By uploading a photo, a wide range of special effects can be added, including adding a museum-style matte, making a jigsaw puzzle from a photo, making a mosaic from several pictures, adding photo frames, giving a photo a Warhol effect (a la Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe pop art—see sample below), transforming a photo into bead art, making a cube of photos, making a photo collage, and creating a pocket-sized photo album.

For literacy, ABE, and other classes, the site's other image tools can be used as the bases for writing and speaking assignments. The types of projects both instructors and students can do using the site are numerous.

For this activity, have students make a monthly calendar with a class photo.

This lesson plan will give you several activites to introduce breathing techniques in the classroom.