All AVID Open Access Classroom Resources

This lesson introduces students to coding while connecting cause–effect thinking with prior knowledge about healthy food choices.

In this lesson, students will digitally explore the environmental impact generated through the manufacture and use of cell phones across the world, make personal connections to the learning, and develop a plan to reduce their own carbon footprint.

Students will use design thinking and computational thinking to complete the task of cleaning a room.

Kiki Prottsman unpacks computational thinking and practical ways that teachers can recognize Computer Science Education Week with their students.

Review the four elements of computational thinking and how you can use these during Computer Science Education Week.

Cherie Spencer, a Social and Emotional Learning Coordinator from Galveston, Texas, helps us celebrate the Thanksgiving season by breaking down the benefits of being grateful.

Discover three online note-taking tools as well as three integration ideas for using these with video in your classroom.

Use the four parts of the BIAS acronym to guide your students in identifying bias.

Dr. John Spencer helps us unpack the benefits of empowering students and introduces us to the LAUNCH process as a classroom strategy.

Review five strategies for marking up digital text as well as five digital annotation tools.

Dr. John Spencer shares strategies for empowering students while also identifying the benefits to our classroom and our students.

Explore five digital mind mapping tools as well as seven strategies for using these in your classroom.

Use this lesson to introduce students to the engineering design process by guiding them through the steps of creating a musical instrument.

Use this lesson to introduce students to the engineering design process by guiding them through the steps of engineering a space capsule.

Hear Dr. Catlin Tucker explain how to leverage blended learning to reduce workload, rethink assessment, improve equity and relationships, and relieve multiple classroom pain points.