Material Type | Description |
Activity/Lab | Supplemental, student-facing resource requiring students to provide answers or feedback based on taking specified steps. |
Assessment | Student-facing question or prompt that measures understanding of a topic or idea. |
Case Study | When actually occurring events or scenarios are used to illustrate scientific or academic principles. |
Data Set | A collection of related sets of data. |
Diagram/Illustration | Visual media, including but not limited to pictures, graphics, diagrams, figures, illustrations, charts, and maps. |
Full Course | A series of units and lessons used to teach the skills and knowledge required by its curriculum. |
Game | A game designed with an educational purpose. |
Homework/Assignment | An activity engaged in by the learner for the purpose of acquiring certain skills, concepts, or knowledge, whether guided by an instructor or not. |
Interactive | A visual tool in which students can move items around, enter variables, and/or answer questions. |
Lecture | Recording or transcript of an educational speech. |
Lecture Notes | Instructor-created notes to support student understanding of lectures. |
Lesson | Lessons organize content within a course and may cover one or more concepts or topics. Typically used in K-12 education |
Lesson Plan | A teacher-facing description of a course of instruction. |
Module | Modules organize content within a course; may cover one or more concepts or topics.Typically used in higher education. In K-12 may be used to organize the presentation of several units. |
Primary Source | Original document or object created at the time of the period of time being studied, i.e. newspaper article or government document. |
Reading | The body of a printed work, to include reading passages. |
Simulation | Imitation of a physical process over time. |
Student Guide | A student-facing supplement to a course that provides additional content and tutorial instruction for a specific course or topic. |
Syllabus | An outline of the contents and requirements of a course. |
Teaching/Learning Strategy | Method or strategy to facilitate effective teaching and learning. |
Textbook | A book used in the study of an academic or scientific subject. |
Unit of Study | A plan of instruction on a particular concept; it contains multiple lessons that are related. |
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Modified on: Mon, 4 Jan, 2021 at 1:43 PM
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