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Ready-to-teach units for Miami teachers, from a high school ecosystem management unit and a climate change data lab to calm ocean-themed art projects for Grades K–4 and a Spanish course for teens.
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Miami teachers work within Florida's statewide standards and testing, and the main school system is Miami-Dade County Public Schools. These are the points that shape planning in 2026–27.
| Curriculum framework | Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards (Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking) for ELA and math. |
|---|---|
| State authority | Florida Department of Education (FLDOE). |
| Key assessments | FAST for ELA reading and math, B.E.S.T. Writing, the Statewide Science Assessment in grades 5 and 8, and End-of-Course exams such as Algebra 1, Geometry, Biology 1, Civics and U.S. History. |
| Main school system | Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS). |
| Graduation policy | Students who entered grade 9 in 2023–24 or later must earn 0.5 credit in Personal Financial Literacy to graduate. |
| Local teaching hook | Ocean and coastal ecology, bilingual classrooms, and the Atlantic hurricane season, which officially runs from June 1 to November 30. |
We chose these eight resources for Miami teachers who cover science, art, Spanish and ELA. Every one is a digital download for print or screen use.
Students in Grades K–4 paint or color their own underwater scene on a printable template, then describe what happens in it. Includes a visual art prompt, a written response area and extension ideas for marine themes.
A high school unit on biodiversity, succession, food webs, trophic cascades, resilience and restoration ecology. Students work with scientific case studies and inquiry tasks across approximately 60 printable pages.
Students study the anthropogenic greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, tipping points and climate justice, and analyze real datasets. A complete unit of approximately 60 printable pages in six learning modules for high school.
A 45-page data lab where students read charts and tables on temperature trends, sea level rise and extreme weather, calculate trends and compare regions. Includes differentiated worksheets, slides and answer keys.
A Spanish course for teens in Grades 7–12 with vocabulary building, grammar exercises and activities, plus answer keys. It offers over 100 pages of material for print or digital classrooms.
A calm art activity for Grades K–4. Students paint a turtle from a template with a simple visual guide, explore texture and color, and can answer optional reflection prompts for SEL.
Students in Grades 5–7 follow the frog life cycle, adaptations, food webs and threats such as habitat loss. Includes informational texts, structured worksheets, inquiry tasks, differentiated versions and answer keys.
Grade 5 practice on nouns, verbs, adjectives and pronouns, sentence types and punctuation. Tasks include sentence correction, fill-in-the-blanks, matching and creative prompts, with editable versions and an answer key.
Need more than one unit? Browse the collections below, grouped by subject and grade band.
Use these suggestions to extend your planning. Local examples and activities below are teaching ideas to add, rather than a list of files included in every product.
After working through the food web section of the Ecosystem Management unit, students build a food web for a local coastal habitat, such as mangroves or a seagrass bed in Biscayne Bay. They remove one species and predict what happens to the rest.
Before starting Secret Underwater World, show K–4 students photos of local marine life, such as manatees, sea turtles and reef fish. Students include at least one real animal in their painting and label it in English and, if they choose, in Spanish.
Pair the extreme weather work in the Climate Change Data Lab with the official Atlantic hurricane season, June 1 to November 30. Students chart a season's named storms from public data by month and describe the peak in two sentences.
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No. TeachLessons is an independent publisher with no affiliation to Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the Florida Department of Education or any school. Teachers choose our resources themselves and decide how they fit their own school's pacing and curriculum.
They build the reading, writing, math and science skills Florida's tests measure, but none was written for a specific test. Florida uses FAST for ELA reading and math, B.E.S.T. Writing, the Statewide Science Assessment in grades 5 and 8, and EOC exams such as Biology 1.
Check the grade band on each product card first, then read the product description for reading load and task types. Units with differentiated worksheets can stretch across two or three grades, so a Grades 6–10 data lab can serve both middle and early high school classes.
All resources are instant digital downloads. You can print worksheets for paper-based lessons or use them on screen. Several units include slides and editable files, and answer keys come with the products whose descriptions list them.
Use local places and events as examples: coastal habitats for ecology, hurricane season for weather and data, marine animals for art, and students' home languages for Spanish and ELA. The ideas above give three short extensions you can add to a lesson.
Choose one resource above, check its grade band and add a local extension from the ideas section. For a wider choice, browse the science, art and world languages collections, which cover elementary through high school.