Welcome to LEARN NC!

LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, finds the most innovative and successful practices in K–12 education and makes them available to teachers and students.

What can you do with LEARN NC?

Improve your teaching with articles on curriculum and professional topics and a library of Web resources for research.

Get your CEUs on your own schedule with our instructor-led online courses on topics from classroom management to reading in the content areas.

Find lesson plans to reach your students in our collection of reviewed instructional plans linked to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

Understand the curriculum with our complete guide to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

Get your students working independently in our collection of educational websites.

Succeed from day one with our resources for new teacher support.

Where should you start?

Try our guided search of entire collection of more than 5,000 resources for teaching and learning.

For animated demos and other tools for making use of our resources, see LEARN NC workshop tools.

Or use the blue navigation column at right to browse the following areas:

Teaching and Learning

Lesson Plans

Instructional plans for lessons and units from North Carolina educators and national partners. Each plan includes learning outcomes and assessments and is aligned to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

Articles

In-depth discussions of instructional strategies and educational practice. Our articles offer the collected experience of hundreds of educators, on topics from reading and writing, math, science, and history to higher order thinking skills, differentiated instruction, and professional communication.

Best of the Web

A library of reviewed, thoroughly annotated links to stellar web-based resources for teaching and learning. Our collection includes sites perfect for student research, in-class demonstrations, professional development, and collaborative learning.

Online Courses

Instructor-led courses for teachers and students, taught via the web and available any time, any place. We offer dozens of CEU courses, Advanced Placement courses, and more.

Standard Course of Study

The complete text of the North Carolina curriculum, with links to aligned resources from our collection and the web.

Education Reference

A glossary of terms in education with additional detailed explanations and links to relevant resources from our collection and the web. The perfect place to start your research on a new idea for teaching!

New Teacher Support

A guide for beginning teachers to our resources, highlighting materials for classroom management, building suppot networks, professional communication, and more.

Field Trips

Get out of the classroom and into the world with our guide to North Carolina's local education resources! From museums and libraries to parks and nature preserves, you'll find it here, with suggestions for how to integrate the experience into the curriculum.

Multimedia Library

Images (and soon, audio and video) from across North Carolina and around the world liven your study of history, science, geography, world cultures, and more. Many have detailed descriptions and links to longer resources that provide an instructional context.

For Students

The starting point for each grade from kindergarten through high school.

• Send your students here to begin their research on the web.
• Begin your search for grade-specific teaching ideas with our K–8 "hot topics."
• Find online courses for middle and high school students, from credit recovery to Advanced Placement.