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- Moooving to low-fat milk
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 4.2
- This third-grade lesson plan from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, focuses on the nutrition benefits of milk and teaches students about fat, protein, carbohydrates/sugars, and calcium.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Healthful Living)
- Moravian migration: Before a visit to Bethabara
- Students investigate NCECHO site to learn about the 1753 Moravian settlement of Bethabara. Student teams present information to classmates in some visual product in one of five categories. Students also will visit the photos on NCECHO and answer analytical questions to increase understanding of the past as compared to today.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- More vivid word choices: Said is dead
- The students will expand their vocabulary and learn synonyms for overused words. By using the story Chicken Little by Stephen Kellogg, students will see how an acclaimed author uses many different words for "said."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By Linda Justice.
- Motor car and galimoto: An intercultural lesson in pragmatism, creativity, and perseverance
- In this lesson for grade three, students read the book Galimoto, about a young boy in Malawi, Africa, and his quest to gather wire in order to make a toy car. Students discuss the literary elements of the book, study the language used, and complete their own quests to gather wire and create their own galimotos.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Multicultural cross-grade level unit plan
- This unit of study integrates reading, writing, math, and social studies. It is designed to help first and third grade students relate to other cultures of the world. They will understand and compare the similarities and differences of children, families, and communities in different times and places. They will analyze religious and other cultural traditions. They will apply basic geographic concepts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–3 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
- By Shirley Young.
- Mumbling together
- "Mumbling together" is a strategy students can use to edit their own writing and develop an ear for correct language. Students learn to proofread by reading their first drafts aloud to identify left-out words and other errors.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- My North Carolina
- In North Carolina maps, page 1.3
- Using word association and early maps of North Carolina, students will examine their preconceptions about the state and connect them to what they learn. This is intended to be used before any lesson about colonial times or discovery of America in general—the students can consider themselves "explorers" along with the ones they learn about.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Jennifer Job.
- The mystery of the missing hippo!
- In this lesson, students will engage with a variety of primary documents from the Commemorative Landscapes database to learn about the mystery of the missing hippo statue in Orange County.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Kate Allman.
- Narrative writing: Using exact words
- The learner will recognize exact verbs in literature and then use more exact verbs when writing a narrative.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Georgette Rush.
- Narrowing the focus: What's the main event?
- In this lesson, students will learn how to narrow the focus of their personal narrative down to one main event by selecting a more specific title. Good stories are focused on one topic or main event. The reader should be able to tell the most important thing that the story is about. Instead of writing a story about a whole vacation that describes many events, it is a good strategy to write a story about one thing that happened on the vacation - one main event.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Nature journaling: A new way to enjoy nature
- Nature journaling is a way to record and re-create an image experienced in nature. By combining drawing and writing, the student uses their senses to record what they feel, see, hear and touch at a particular point in time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By Steven Sather.
- Navigating Nonfiction
- In order to engage in research processes, students must be able to access informational (nonfiction) books independently. In this lesson they will learn how nonfiction books are arranged. They will then practice putting nonfiction books in order by call number and locating nonfiction books on the shelf.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Information Skills)
- By Kay Sanderson.
- Non-Halloween activity for October 31
- Students will rewrite the lyrics to a well-known song focusing on Autumn sounds, smells and sights, but without any of the usual Halloween trappings.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- North Carolina living through photos, then and now
- Students will examine historical photographs of North Carolinians at work or in social settings. They will develop and share skills of “reading” photographs. Then they will use these skills to identify “historical clues” in a photo and draw their own version of the same person or people in North Carolina today.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Social Studies)
- By Michael Sharp.
- North Carolina regional travel brochure
- The students will cooperatively design travel brochures that describe major physical and cultural characteristics of the regions in North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Deborah Harrell.
- North Carolina regions
- Working in cooperative groups, the students will learn about their assigned regions of North Carolina. A list of questions will be generated. When the research is completed, the students will design a way to orally present the information to the class. This also will integrate Visual Arts and Informational Skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Information Skills and Social Studies)
- By Patricia Britt.
- North Carolina rivers
- Students will locate 28 rivers within the state of North Carolina, noting names and origins of names, directions of flow, navigability, and development of population centers in relation to the rivers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Social Studies)
- By Mike Stevenson.
- Novel study: Lucky Charms and Birthday Wishes
- Although this is a unit developed for instruction in language arts, it has a curriculum focus for healthful living. The unit usually takes about 4–5 weeks to complete. A major piece of this unit focuses on identifying and listing characteristics of people.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By Michael Miller.
- Nutrition and the media: Cereal box consumerism
- This lesson will offer your students the opportunity to explore nutrition and how the media impacts our consumer decisions. Students will design a cereal box and read about how the use of color, slogans, and prizes impacts buyers. This lesson plan is easily adapted for exceptional children and can be expanded and/or adapted to suit your students' needs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts, Healthful Living, and Mathematics)
- By Gloria Simmons.
- Origami geometry
- Students apply their knowledge of geometric terms to follow directions while folding an origami sculpture. Students then solve math problems which relate to the project with follow-up discussions about the project relating to geometric terms such as symmetry, faces, edges, square, triangle, plane, etc.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
- By Cherl Hollada, Libby Morrison, Michelle Kaczynski, and Susan Pope.
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