16 The Revised Fine Arts TEKS
This course will provide an overview of the benefits of fine arts education for students and various aspects of fine arts programming, as well as the application of the revised TEKS for each discipline. This training, previously available in Texas Courses, is now openly available but does not earn course provider credit and no certificate will be offered.
20 Science Academies for Grades K–4, Part 1
The Science Academies for Grades K–4, Part 1 provides pedagogical and content knowledge support for elementary science teachers. This training, previously available in Texas Courses, is now openly available but does not earn course provider credit and no certificate will be offered.
Working on Work
This resources is appropriate for Tier I instruction for the scientific concept of work.
Mechanisms of Evolution Beyond Natural Selection
Learners analyze and evaluate the effects of other evolutionary mechanisms.
Evidence for Evolution
Learners analyze and evaluate how evidence of common ancestry among groups is provided by the fossil record, biogeography, and homologies, including anatomical, molecular, and developmental.
What's Happening with the Weather?
This resource shows how to observe and describe weather changes from day to day and over seasons.
Human Impact
This resource can be used, in conjunction with best practices, for Tier I classroom instruction.
Conservation of Momentum
This resource was created to support TEKS IPC(4)(E).
Classification of Organisms
This resource provides flexible alternate or additional learning opportunities for students to identify the characteristics of organisms that classify them into currently recognized Kingdoms, Sixth Grade Science TEKS (6)(12)(D).
Interactions in Ecosystems
This resource is focused on Tier I instruction for Grade 5. This could be used as a bridge for students struggling with Biotic and Abiotic factors in Grade 8.
Abiotic and Biotic Factors in an Ecosystem
This resource scaffolds the investigation of biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem and how organisms rely on these components for survival.
Potential and Kinetic Energy
This resource provides Tier I instruction ideas for Grade 6+ science teachers in the area of potential and kinetic energy.
Laying the Foundation
This course is designed to demonstrate the application of the 5E instructional model in a K-4 classroom, specifically in the area of science, and develop and deepen understanding of the CCRS, ELPS, and RtI frameworks.
Force and Motion: Engage
Vertically aligned Engage activities for Engage portion of the 5E lesson model.
Force and Motion: Explain
Vertically aligned Explain activities for Explain portion of the 5E lesson model.
Force and Motion: Elaborate
Vertically aligned Elaborate activities for Elaborate portion of the 5E lesson model.
Grade 4: Electrifying Energy
This resources provides a grade 4 energy lesson.
Kindergarten: Energy is Everywhere
Kindergarten Energy Lesson