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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 (36)
- African Americans (67)
- algebra (59)
- alphabet (34)
- American history (295)
- American Indians (125)
- animals (70)
- archaeology (54)
- arithmetic (108)
- arts (200)
- Asia (48)
- astronomy (37)
- biographies (37)
- biology (259)
- careers (149)
- character education (42)
- chemistry (51)
- civics (63)
- colonial (46)
- compare and contrast (46)
- comprehension (37)
- cooperative learning (119)
- counting (56)
- culture (79)
- current events (31)
- data analysis (107)
- data collection (36)
- ecology (46)
- economics (76)
- English language learners (113)
- environmental science (181)
- estimation (33)
- Europe (42)
- exercise (34)
- folktales (30)
- fractions (44)
- geography (186)
- geology (44)
- geometry (149)
- global education (41)
- government (72)
- graphic organizers (61)
- graphing (57)
- Great Depression (30)
- guidance (87)
- habitats (33)
- hands-on (279)
- health (163)
- history (432)
- information literacy (46)
- labs (68)
- language arts (1157)
- letters (32)
- literary devices (33)
- literature (118)
- maps (75)
- mathematics (778)
- measurement (120)
- meteorology (44)
- music (84)
- nonfiction (36)
- North America (43)
- North Carolina (319)
- number sense (129)
- nutrition (66)
- observation (42)
- oral histories (53)
- patterns (60)
- physical education (30)
- physics (74)
- plants (31)
- poetry (126)
- read-alouds (174)
- reading (530)
- religion (34)
- research (42)
- role playing (34)
- science (541)
- second languages (41)
- shapes (43)
- similarities and differences (34)
- slavery (45)
- social studies (700)
- sorting (46)
- South America (30)
- stories (34)
- subtraction (46)
- technology (63)
- technology skills (69)
- United States (120)
- visual arts (32)
- visual literacy (33)
- vocabulary (66)
- weather (32)
- world cultures (42)
- world history (69)
- writing (432)
- writing process (39)
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