How to Use this Lesson Guide
HOW TO USE THIS LESSON GUIDEEach lesson in OER Project includes a detailed guide to support your teaching. These lesson guides offer an overview—complete with a description, driving question, learning objectives, and key vocabulary—as well as step-by-step instructions for using each lesson resource, and more detailed instructions for that lesson. You’ll also find suggestions for modification, adaptation, and differentiation throughout the lesson. (Check out the full guide here.) Click on any resource in the lesson outline to jump right to the instructions, tips, and see estimated classroom time for planning.For activities, you’ll find preparation needs, step-by-step instructions, and sample answers, where applicable. While nearly all student activities have been designed to accommodate individual completion (with the exception of simulations), the lesson guides expand on what is presented in student worksheets to offer opportunities for differentiation and adaptation such as group work, discussions, jigsaws, and other collaborative formats.For texts and videos, you’ll find sample answers for the guiding questions. You can provide these guiding questions to your students by using the lesson guide or by copying and pasting directly from the website. Guiding questions are built around the Three-Step Reading Strategy:1. Preview: Skim the material to get oriented before reading/watching. 2. Understand: Respond to content-specific questions to ensure key understandings are attained. 3. Analyze: Answer questions that require evaluation and analysis, and that emphasize connections. (No sample answers are provided for these questions as student answers will vary widely.)Additional teacher support is available by clicking on the hammer icon . Support includes relevant tips, guides, and community resources.