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LEARN NC’s lesson plans span the wide range of curriculum areas for every grade from K to 12. Our collection includes the best instructional plans created by North Carolina educators as well as high-quality materials from state and national partners.
Hot topics and special collections
- North Carolina History
A “digital textbook” of primary sources, background readings, and multimedia.- World Cultures
Photographs and audio with historical and cultural context and related lesson plans.- English Language Learners
Lesson plans with modifications for English language learners.- Academically Gifted Students
Lesson plans with modifications for AG students.
- Kenan Fellows
Unit plans on science, mathematics, and technology that incorporate current research.- CareerStart
Middle-grades lesson plans that connect academic subjects with careers.- Field Trips
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- addition (53)
- Africa (49)
- African American history (34)
- African Americans (63)
- algebra (57)
- alphabet (34)
- American history (278)
- American Indians (117)
- animals (70)
- archaeology (55)
- arithmetic (109)
- arts (201)
- Asia (48)
- astronomy (35)
- biographies (37)
- biology (256)
- careers (149)
- character education (42)
- chemistry (51)
- civics (62)
- colonial (33)
- compare and contrast (46)
- comprehension (38)
- cooperative learning (120)
- counting (56)
- culture (77)
- current events (31)
- data analysis (107)
- data collection (34)
- ecology (46)
- economics (74)
- English language learners (113)
- environmental science (164)
- estimation (33)
- Europe (42)
- exercise (34)
- farming (29)
- folktales (30)
- fractions (44)
- geography (164)
- geology (42)
- geometry (146)
- global education (41)
- government (71)
- graphic organizers (61)
- graphing (57)
- guidance (88)
- habitats (34)
- hands-on (280)
- health (161)
- history (391)
- information literacy (48)
- labs (68)
- language arts (1154)
- letters (31)
- literary devices (34)
- literature (120)
- maps (53)
- mathematics (774)
- measurement (117)
- meteorology (43)
- music (84)
- nonfiction (36)
- North America (44)
- North Carolina (268)
- number sense (126)
- nutrition (67)
- observation (43)
- oral histories (49)
- patterns (60)
- physical education (30)
- physics (65)
- plants (31)
- poetry (125)
- read-alouds (175)
- reading (539)
- religion (34)
- research (41)
- role playing (34)
- science (506)
- second languages (41)
- shapes (43)
- similarities and differences (34)
- slavery (43)
- social studies (650)
- sorting (46)
- South America (30)
- stories (34)
- subtraction (46)
- technology (62)
- technology skills (73)
- United States (118)
- visual arts (32)
- visual literacy (33)
- vocabulary (66)
- weather (32)
- world cultures (45)
- world history (72)
- writing (436)
- writing process (39)
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