SAS+in+Schools+-+Curriculum+Pathways




 * Overview: **

SAS delivers online curriculum resources with a proven impact on increasing student learning and teacher effectiveness. Lessons, activities, tutorials, and interactive tools are available in all disciplines for students in grades 6-12. This resource encourages active, collaborative and cooperative learning that challenges students to become critical thinkers. The innovative approach of doing, seeing and listening encourages insights that conventional methods cannot.


 * Benefits: **
 * Targets higher-order thinking skills
 * Integrates content and technology into the classroom at ** no cost ** to educators
 * Employs a learner-centered approach
 * Integrates various instructional strategies
 * Incorporates formative as well as summative assessments
 * Provides eco-friendly delivery and content


 * Features: **
 * Interactive Tools
 * Inquiries
 * Web Lessons
 * Audio Tutorials
 * Core Disciplines

Virtual labs clarify concepts in unique ways that provide a practical means of instruction. Interactive materials enable students to visualize processes that occur on a micro-scale or understand interactions on a macro-scale.
 * Science **

Students can visualize key concepts and practice fundamental skills. Use of the interactive features, animations and immediate feedback can mean the difference between comprehension and confusion. Algebra modules align with the Common Core Essential Standards.
 * Math **

The audio and video material enhances reading comprehension and writing proficiency including everything from essay organization to sentence structure and punctuation. The writing reviser is an award winning tool which helps students ask the kind of questions experienced writers ask automatically. In the process, students develop the judgment that is essential to effective writing.
 * English/Language Arts **

A unique case study approach encourages critical thinking about complex issues. Audio and video stimulate interest and encourage rigorous scholarships, and an interactive tool helps students analyze documents as well as write more effectively.
 * Social Studies **

Students enhance reading, listening and writing skills by immersing themselves in practical situations and in specific cultural contexts.
 * Spanish **

// In the era of increasing accountability, Curriculum Pathways enable the teacher to see how the lessons relate to the standards. All lessons have measurable outcomes which require students to apply, evaluate or synthesize information. //

// Adapted from: // [|http://www.sascurriculumpathways.com]

Some of Renee’s Favorites


 * ** Subject Category ** ||  ** QL# **  ||  ** Lesson **  ||  ** Type of Lesson **  ||
 * Science || 453 || Property of Elements || Web Activity ||
 * Science || 42 || Structure and Properties of Water || Inquiry ||
 * Science || 866 || Measures and Concentration || Interactive Tool ||
 * Math || 1319 || Simplifying Expressions using Order of Operations || Interactive Tool ||
 * Math || 1288 || Division by Zero || Audio Tutorial ||
 * Math || 1015 || Slope of Handicap Ramps || Web Lesson ||
 * Math || 82 || Solving Equations and Show Your Work || Inquiry ||
 * Social Studies || 2000 || Interactive Atlas || Interactive Tool ||
 * Social Studies || 1300 || The Amazon Rainforest || Audio Tutorial ||
 * Social Studies || 202 || Battles of the Revolutionary War || Inquiry ||
 * Social Studies || 606 || Native American Tribal Governments || Web Lesson ||
 * Spanish || 1410 || Spanish Language Builder: Grammatical Elements || Interactive Tool ||
 * Spanish || 1237 || El Castellano: Understanding Parts Speech || Interactive Tool ||
 * Spanish || 1515 || Greetings and Farewells || Audio Tutorial ||
 * Spanish || 220 || Telling Time || Inquiry ||
 * English Language Arts || 1242 || Writing Reviser || Interactive Tool ||
 * English Language Arts || 946 || Sentence Choices || Interactive Tool ||
 * English Language Arts || 1333 || Misused Experssions || Audio Tutorial ||
 * English Language Arts || 129 || Pronoun Usage || Inquiry ||
 * English Language Arts || 134 || The Setting of Rostand’s Cryano de Bergerac || Inquiry ||