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7th–8th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Disasters #2, Caryn G. Jones, Lauren Gatti, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Survival School, Grades 7-8

We will explore the disasters that impact our world, how they happen, what damage they can cause, and how we can be prepared to survive and overcome them.

Lesson 1 • What do we really need? Safety vs survival? What hazards threaten us? Rule of threes

Lesson 2 • Getting safe, Read all about it, Analyze priorities and classify dangers

Lesson 3 • Situational awareness, Getting shelter, food, and water, Finding help

Lesson 4 • Alone of in a group, what changes? Leadership qualities, Choose a leader

Lesson 5 • Review your work this week, Write …

6th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Greece And Rome, Amanda Mclaughlin, Lauren Gatti, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

This week you will travel back in time to the land of Ancient Greece and Rome! These two empires both ruled over large areas of land in modern day Europe. From mythology to engineering, these empires made a significant impact on civilization.

Question Words

Thinking Skills Glossary - Level 3 English

Day 1 • Ancient Greece and Rome vocabulary, Take a Side: Athens vs. Sparta?, Mapping: Ancient Rome, Converting fractions, decimals, and percentages

Day 2 • Reading comprehension challenge: Gladiators, The destruction of Pompeii, Comparing fractions, decimals, and percentages

Day 3 • Roman numerals, Mythology: "A touch of gold," Roll …

11th–12th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Minimalism, Katie Loughrist, Lauren Gatti, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Lesson 1 • What is minimalism? Art and lifestyle

Lesson 2 • Meditation styles: choose your favorites

Lesson 3 • How to understand your values by Joshua Fields Millburn, adapted for English language learners by Katie Loughrist

Lesson 4 • Geometric shapes: minimalist art

Lesson 5 • Reflection: a focus on less

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4th-5th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Nutrition, Claudia T. Yunes, Nicole M. Ponti, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

These packets are self-contained. Everything a child will need to be successful with the activities is provided in the packet. Students will only need a writing utensil. Additional tools like crayons or scissors can be used, but do not have to be.

My Buddy, Choose a Buddy

Nutrition Glossary

Vocabulary Practice

Food from Many Cultures

Healthy Notes

How to Create 5 Days of Healthy Dinner

My 5-Day Dinner Menu Planner

My Physical Activity Planner

Cooking My Favorite Healthy Meal Sensory Poem

Family Cook Together

My Recipe

Math Unit Conversions

Kitchen Conversion Math

Food Components

My Informational Text in 3-2-1

Understanding …

2nd-3rd Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Rainforest, Samantha Monter, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

My Plan for the Week Choose activities from the different content areas to complete each day. You can choose one or two activities from different areas to do during the day. Below is a list of the activities in each content area.

Reading - All about Rainforests - Where are Rainforests - Animals in the Rainforest

Writing/ Grammar - Give a report - If I traveled to a Rainforest story - Interview an Explorer - Compound words Organizer - Compound word matching/sentences

Vocabulary - Dictionary - Vocabulary Matching - Vocabulary Sentences

Math - Crack the Code - Graph the Animals …

K–1st Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Taking Care Of Self, Vickie Neilly, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Vocabulary, Let's move, Who can give me medicine?

Day 2 • Taking care of me, Mix it fix it, Make a ten, Scavenger hunt

Day 3 • Healthy or unhealthy, How to wash your hands, Germ sight words, Let's draw

Day 4 • What makes you happy?, Move with your Buddy, Let's compare!, Let's create

Day 5 • My journal, Let's count, Ways to say no!, Would you rather?, Dictionary

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4th-5th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Careers, Nicole M. Ponti, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Claudia Yunes, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

These packets are self-contained. Everything a child will need to be successful with the activities is provided in the packet. Students will only need a writing utensil. Additional tools like crayons or scissors can be used, but do not have to be.

Instructions Key

My Buddy, Choose a Buddy

Test: What's My Learning Style?

Identify Your Learning Style and Possible Career Choices

Creative Writing

My Dream Career

Labor Day

Interview an Adult about Their Work

Wages Multiplications

Budgets and Wages

Babysitter Wages

Hidden Treasures

Create Your Career Buddy!

Daily Movement Breaks

Career Glossary

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11th–12th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Belief And Doubt, Katie Loughrist, Lauren Gatti, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Lesson 1 • Belief & justification: why do we believe what we do?

Lesson 2 • They did WHAT? Give it a try, and believe in yourself!

Lesson 3 • Stranger than fiction: a brief history of our weird world

Lesson 4 • Two truths and a lie: a guessing game of belief and doubt

Lesson 5 • Reflection: a focus on belief

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K–1st Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Space, Vickie Neilly, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

These packets are self-contained. Everything a child will need to be successful with the activities is provided in the packet. Students will only need a writing utensil. Additional tools like crayons or scissors can be used, but do not have to be.

Day 1 • Vocabulary trace, Label My Buddy, Space shapes, Let's move

Day 2 • Reading passage, Mix it fix it, Space dot-to-dot, Window or walk

Day 3 • Vocabulary matching, Let's compare, Astronaut writing, Move with your Buddy

Day 4 • Space graphing, Space addition, If I lived in space, Let's draw

Day 5 • My journal, …

6th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Mesopotamia, Amanda Mclaughlin, Lauren Gatti, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

You will travel through time learning about ancient civilizations and their impact on our world today. You will begin by discovering Mesopotamia, the first recorded civilization in history.

Day 1 • Mesopotamia vocabulary, Intro reading: Life in Sumerian times Mesopotamia, Comprehension quiz, Map of Mesopotamia scavenger hunt, Intro to Fractions

Day 2 • Vocabulary crossword puzzle, Primary source: Code of Hammurabi, Inventions of Mesopotamia, part 1, Sumerian writing, Comparing fractions

Day 3 • Secondary source: Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Inventions of Mesopotamia, part 2, Creative writing: The Epic of Gilgamesh, part 1, Comprehension quiz, Equivalent fractions

Day 4 • Reading: …

K–1st Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Cycles, Vickie Neilly, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Vocabulary, Label My Buddy, Let's move, Life cycle patterns

Day 2 • Life cycles, Animal actions, Mix it fix it, Let's sort

Day 3 • Let's draw, Math word problems, Scavenger hunt

Day 4 • What's inside?, Let's match, Move with your Buddy, Would you rather?

Day 5 • Window or walk, My journal, Let's create, Nouns and verbs

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7th–8th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Disasters #3, Caryn G. Jones, Lauren Gatti, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Pandemic! Grades 7-8

Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lesson 1 • Define and classify diseases, Reflections

Lesson 2 • Psssttt...DON'T pass it on, Reflections

Lesson 3 • GROSS...anatomy (It's not really gross!), Systems of the human body, How do you feel?, Reflections

Lesson 4 • Treatment vs cure vs vaccine, Symptoms can be beneficial, Diagnose it, doctor!, Beyond diagnosis, Use your knowledge: Diagnose and treat, Reflections

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K–1st Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Taking Care Of Self 2, Vickie Neilly, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Vocabulary, Label My Buddy, Let's move, Counting by 10s

Day 2 • Taking care of me, Mix it fix it, Make a list, Label My Buddy

Day 3 • Time for bed, Bedtime routine, Let's sort, Let's draw

Day 4 • Window or walk, What's in my lunchbox?, Let's draw, Food addition

Day 5 • Describing words, Make a balanced meal, Would you rather?, My journal, Dictionary

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9th–10th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Exploration, Ayah Issa, Lauren Gatti, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Animal habitats

Day 2 • Forest (extinction of the dodo bird), Math refresh

Day 3 • Forests and meadows: "Grizzly man" (Timothy Treadwell), Break time, Culture connection

Day 4 • Life in the rainforest, Quick math review, Brain break: habitat word puzzle

Day 5 • Review, Reflection, Quiz

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Measuring The Occurrence Of Antibiotics In Surface Water Adjacent To Cattle Grazing Areas Using Passive Samplers, Nasrin Naderi Beni, Daniel D. Snow, Elaine D. Berry, Aaron R. Mittelstet, Tiffany Messer, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt

Nebraska Water Center: Faculty Publications

A wide variety of antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals are used in livestock production systems and residues passed to the environment, often unmetabolized, after use and excretion. Antibiotic residuesmay be transported frommanure-treated soils via runoff and are also capable of reaching surface and groundwater systems through a variety of pathways. The occurrence and persistence of antibiotics in the environment is a concern due to the potential for ecological effects and proliferation of environmental antibiotic resistance in pathogenic organisms. In the present study, the occurrence and seasonal variation of 24 commonly-used veterinary antibiotics was evaluated in surface water adjacent to several livestock …

Research And Creative Activity, July 1, 2019-June 30, 2020: Major Sponsored Programs And Faculty Accomplishments In Research And Creative Activity, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln, Office Of Research And Economic Development, University Of Nebraska–Lincoln

Office of Research and Economic Development: Publications

Foreword by Bob Wilhelm, Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development:

This booklet highlights successes in research, scholarship and creative activity by University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty during the fiscal year running July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020.

It lists investigators, project titles and funding sources on major grants and sponsored awards received during the year; fellowships and other recognitions and honors bestowed on our faculty; books published by faculty; performances, exhibitions and other creative activity; and patents and licensing agreements issued. Based on your feedback, the Office of Research and Economic Development expanded this publication to include peer-reviewed journal …

An Evaluation Of The Usda's Policy To Reduce Listeria Illnesses In Ready‐To‐Eat Meat And Poultry Products, Travis Minor, Matt Parrett

United States Food and Drug Administration: Publications

Using 1998–2008 data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on foodborne illnesses and outbreaks, we examine the economic impact of the United States Department of Agriculture's proposed and final rules to reduce the incidence of Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) in ready‐to‐ eat meat and poultry products. Using a difference‐in‐ differences approach, we find that these rules together reduced meat‐related Lm illnesses by about 60 per year, which we attribute to reductions in both the number and average size of meat‐related Lm outbreaks. We then monetize this illness reduction using an underreporting and underdiagnosis multiplier of 2.3 and an …

Perivascular Macrophages In The Neonatal Macaque Brain Undergo Massive Necroptosis After Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection, Diana G. Bohannon, Yueying Wang, Colin H. Reinhart, Julian B. Hattler, Jiangtao Luo, Hamid R. Okhravi, Jianshui Zhang, Qingsheng Li, Marcelo J. Kuroda, Woong-Ki Kim

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

We previously showed that rhesus macaques neonatally infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) do not develop SIV encephalitis (SIVE) and maintain low brain viral loads despite having similar plasma viral loads compared to SIV-infected adults. We hypothesize that differences in myeloid cell populations that are the known target of SIV and HIV in the brain contribute to the lack of neonatal susceptibility to lentivirus-induced encephalitis. Using immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence microscopy, we examined the frontal cortices from uninfected and SIV-infected infant and adult macaques (n = 8/ea) as well as adults with SIVE (n = 4) to determine differences in myeloid …

9th–10th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Nature In America, Morgan Spanel, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Exploring the world around you: The United States, "America the Beautiful," Practicing with adjectives

Day 2 • History of National Parks, Describing National Parks, Comparing National Parks

Day 3 • Biomes in the United States, Biomes of North America: outline map, Calculating the climates of biomes

Day 4 • Exploring the world around you: community walk, Identifying trees, Excerpts from A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, 1949

Day 5 • Adjective practice, Journal: what would you preserve?

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Time And Date [Students With Interrupted Formal Schooling], Jessica Millen, Brooke David, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Calendar and time review, Numbers 1-100, Numbers chart

Day 2 • Celebration vocabulary, Celebrations reading, Evelin's celebration

Day 3 • Happy New Year!, How do you celebrate the new year?

Day 4 • Ku Moo's holiday, What time is it?, How important is time in your country?

Day 5 • What do you celebrate?, Today is a holiday!

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Migrations And Family [Students With Interrupted Formal Schooling], Jessica L. Millen, Brooke David, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Migration and geography vocabulary, What are verbs?, Numbers 1-10, Introduce someone else

Day 2 • Family vocabulary, New vocabulary, Where are you from?

Day 3 • Vocabulary review, What are pronouns?, Family relationships reading, Write about your family, My family compare and contrast, Compare and contrast Ahmed's family, Compare and contrast your family

Day 4 • , Ku Moo's journey

Day 5 • Where are you from?

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9th–10th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Full Of Energy, Morgan Spanel, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Full of energy: what is energy?, Identifying types of energy, Word search

Day 2 • Transfer versus transform, Energy transformation, Draw your own Rube Goldberg machine

Day 3 • History of cars, Calculating gas mileage and speed, Design your own car

Day 4 • Raul's day, Raul's day: identifying energy types, Measuring your energy

Day 5 • Renewable vs. nonrenewable energy, Compare and contrast renewable and nonrenewable energy, Energy is all around us

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11th–12th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: U. S. Bill Of Rights, Trevin Wurm, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • What is the Constitution?, Your rights in the United States, Science: water cycle

Day 2 • Your rights in the United States: journal, What is the Bill of Rights?, Bill of Rights chart, Condensation and precipitation

Day 3 • Your rights in the United States: protest, Using your vocabulary, Opinion writing, Clouds

Day 4 • Your rights in the United States: journal, Vocabulary review, States of water

Day 5 • Your rights in the United States: draw a picture, How does your picture show equality?, Solids, liquids, and gas examples

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11th–12th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Susan B. Anthony, Trevin Wurm, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Journal: in your opinion, why is it important to vote?, Who was Susan B. Anthony?, Science: climate and biome where you're from

Day 2 • Journal: what are some things you are good at?, Past and present tense, Past and present tense: play, Science: weather near the equator, Biomes

Day 3 • Journal: what was your favorite day of school?, Picture analysis, Science: climate far from the equator, Forests, Draw a picture

Day 4 • Journal: what is a time you convinced someone to do something?, The 19th Amendment, Science: clothes near the equator, Grasslands, Deserts

Day …

11th–12th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Martin Luther King, Jr., Trevin Wurm, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Journal: who is an important person from your country's history?, Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?, Science: Draw a picture of your favorite animal, Animal adaptations

Day 2 • Journal: who inspires you in your life?, Compound sentences, Science: Physical adaptations: camouflage

Day 3 • Journal: what is a dream you have for your life?, Analyzing a quote, Science: Butterflies from Wappingers Schools

Day 4 • Looking at a protest, The March on Washington, Science: Great white shark, elephants

Day 5 • Journal: what is an important event in the history of your country?, Drawing a protest, …

11th–12th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Dolores Huerta, Trevin Wurm, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Journal: think about a job you have or want to have, Who was Dolores Huerta?, Science: What are landforms?

Day 2 • Journal: what are some ways you can help the students in your school?. Strikes and boycotts, Compare and contrast, Science: Landforms, adjectives

Day 3 • Journal: how is Dolores Huerta similar and different from Susan B. Anthony?, Strike or boycott?, Is and are, Science: Landforms, adjectives

Day 4 • Journal: what is an example of a job many people have?, Strike and boycott: draw a picture, Science: identifying and describing landforms

Day 5 • Journal: …

9th–12th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: School, Mary Royers, Tricia Ramaekers, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Reading daily practice

Roll your sight words

Prepositions introduction

School vocabulary

Vocabulary cards: prepositions

Similarities and differences

Drawing prepositions

Class vocabulary

Class schedule

My schedule

Class symbols

Facts and opinions about classrooms

Compare and contrast

Safe and unsafe

People at school

Job description

Matching vocabulary

Make a safety plan

Your turn!

Essential question

Vocabulary dictionary

Angles and polygons

Let's take a break!

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K–1st Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Shapes, Lacey M. Farmer, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Writing new words, Shapes memory, Make a pattern, Building sentences

Day 2 • Writing new words, Matching, Today's number (63)

Day 3 • Showing location, Exercise addition, Sorting shapes

Day 4 • Shapes walk, Journal writing, Today's number (23)

Day 5 • Searching for shapes, Making pictures from shapes, Write about a picture, Dictionary

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K–1st Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: In The Garden, Lacey M. Farmer, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Writing new words, Garden memory, Make a pattern, Building sentences

Day 2 • Writing new words, More than one, Today's number (18)

Day 3 • Corn counting, Sequence writing, Read the story: The garden, Measuring worms, Draw a picture and write the length

Day 4 • Graphing, Journal writing, Today's number (55), Leaf rubbing

Day 5 • Leaf "painting," Can you find...?, Write about a picture, Dictionary

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K–1st Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Ocean, Lacey M. Farmer, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Writing new words, Ocean matching, Make a pattern, Building sentences

Day 2 • Writing new words, Ocean yoga, Read the story: In the ocean, Today's number (42)

Day 3 • Fish matching, Sequence writing, Measuring sharks, Draw a picture and write the length

Day 4 • Addition to 20, Journal writing, Today's number (36)

Day 5 • Origami, Connect the dots, Write about the picture, Dictionary

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