Curriculum Supports

Equals is a standards-based Mathematics curriculum for students of differing abilities. The Curriculum kit, Manipulative kit, Technology Lessons, and a members' only website provide powerful teaching tools.  Pre-readiness math skills such as attending to instruction, cause & effect, and patterns are taught and reinforced. In addition, foundational skills such as numbers and operations, measurement, data analysis and probability, algebra and geometry are taught using manipulatives, real-life situations and Multi-sensory experiences. Each lesson provides three levels of instruction for students with mild, moderate, and severe disabilities. The resource comes with over 100 manipulatives, vocabulary cards, and other hands-on materials.

The Lego Duplo Early Simple Machine set allows students to observe and investigate simple machines through Lego bricks, gears, levers, pulleys, wheels, sails, scales and wings. These manipulatives allow students to discover through problem-solving tasks mechanical principles along with energy, balance, buoyancy, and more.  

A sixteen lesson teacher guide is provided with a curriculum grid that shows specific skills being targeted. Activity Lessons inc lude creating and exploring spinning tops, seesaws, measuring cars and more.

 

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The Beamz Interactive Music System - Classroom Bundle allows learning and skill building to take place through music. Up, down, right, left is represented as an individual  laser beam. Students can tap out syllables using drum beats, or build word recognition through flash cards, and repeated chorus lines from one of the many karaoke songs that highlight words as the song plays. Accompanying activity guides (Sample Guide and Life Skills Lesson Plans) allow teachers to get started right out of the box. Beamz is universally designed and completely accessible, students with all physical and cognitive abilities can actively participate in learning.

http://thebeamz.com/

Each Supercar in  Anki Overdrive is a self-aware robot, driven by powerful artificial intelligence (A.I.) and equipped with 50,000 actions that students explore.  Students build problem-solving skills and test hypotheses throughout the car race. Customize cars and new tracks make this car and track learning experience easy to begin, and nearly impossible to put down. Imagine exploring and learning the scientific method through this high speed car race.

https://anki.com/en-us/overdrive/starter-kit

Put scientific discovery into the hands of your students with the LEGO Education WeDo Combo Kit. It is an easy-to-use, cross-curricular solution that introduces young students to robotics. Students build simple machines featuring working motors and sensors. Taking the learning experience to the next level students can explore programing their models using the special WeDo  Software. The electronic activity pack, includes 12 activities, that allows the students opportunities to explore four different themes: Amazing Mechanisms, Wild Animals, Play Soccer, and Adventure Stories.

http://www.legoeducation.us