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- Comparing/contrasting characters: A Taste of Blackberries
- This lesson is designed to use with Chapter 1 of the novel A Taste of Blackberries. Students will use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the two main characters and then relate the material to their own lives.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By Denise Caudle.
- Conflict resolution/Self-discipline
- Students will define the character trait self-discipline by listening to the story Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes. They will then learn a 3R strategy: Retreat, Rethink, and React, in order to handle conflicts. This strategy can be applied to the events in this story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- Connecting folktales and culture in North Carolina and beyond
- Students will explore connections to North Carolina culture as they engage in reading and analyzing three folktales of North Carolina Literary Festival author, William Hooks. After comparing these stories to other versions of the traditional tales, students will become authors and storytellers themselves as they rewrite a tale from a new cultural point of view. Opportunities are also included to extend this study to world cultures and folktales.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Jeanne Munoz.
- County government in North Carolina
- Students will become familiar with aspects of county government in North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Sadie Allran Broome.
- Creating an inclusive environment: Understanding feelings
- The students will learn about feelings and how to get along with others in group situations. Students will discuss what makes a friend, how friends make each other feel, what friends do together and how to resolve differences between friends. They will identify the qualities of friendship.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance, Healthful Living, and Social Studies)
- By Dianne Prohn.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 1 (setting goals )
- This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community. Group goal-setting, brainstorming, peer feedback, group decision-making, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure are used to create a safe, supportive environment for learning in the classroom.
In Part 1, students are introduced to the goal-setting process. They will practice the first step of the process as they set individual and class behavioral goals. - Format: lesson plan (grade 1–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 2 (cooperative planning)
- This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community through use of group goal-setting, decision-making, brainstorming, peer feedback, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure. The lessons will help students create and maintain a supportive environment for learning. Part 1 focused on goal-setting process and practice. In Part 2, students will apply knowledge of the goal-setting process by cooperatively creating a plan to work on group goals.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 3 (monitoring progress)
- This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community through use of group goal-setting, decision-making, brainstorming, peer feedback, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure. The lessons will help students create and maintain a supportive environment for learning. Part 1 focused on goal-setting process and practice. In Part 2, students applied knowledge of the goal-setting process and cooperatively created a plan to work on short-term group goals. In part 3, students will monitor the effects of their plan by determining whether short term goals are being achieved.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 4 (rewarding improvement)
- The fourth lesson in a series on improving classroom learning climate, this lesson provides an opportunity to evaluate student progress and to provide positive reinforcement for improvements in behavior. Using a one to ten continuum, students will subjectively evaluate class progress on the ten adjectives listed as class climate goals. After this process, students will publicly recognize those classmates who have helped the class improve or who have personally improved.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- Creating your own rock art
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.4
- Students will use regional rock art symbols or their own symbols to cooperatively create a rock art panel. They will also use a replica of a vandalized rock art panel to examine their feelings about rock art vandalism and discuss ways to protect rock art and other archaeological sites.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- Creature creation: An elaboration writing activity
- This lesson will focus on the writing element of elaboration. It will also tap into higher order thinking skills with the creation of a Coastal Plain imaginary animal and a creative story about the creature. This lesson could be linked to 4th grade Science and Social Studies objectives. For more in-depth knowledge in those other subjects, go to the lesson entitled Researching the Coastal Plain
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Ana Sanders and Heather Ennis.
- Crossed up hundreds board
- Students will experience patterns and problem solving on the Hundreds Board.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Mathematics)
- By Karen Bartlett.
- Culture everywhere
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.3
- In their study of culture, students will use a chart to show the different ways that cultures meet basic human needs and recognize that archaeologists study how people from past cultures met basic needs by analyzing and interpreting the artifacts and sites that they left behind.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Description as mind control: Using details to help readers visualize your story
- Good writers help their readers visualize their stories by including vivid details. Students will listen to passages from Gary Paulsen's novel Hatchet, draw one of the images from the passage, and identify which details Paulsen uses to create these images.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Diamante poetry using environments: Day two
- This lesson will introduce and reinforce learners' understanding of habitat components within an environment. This lesson was designed to be used after the lesson "Animal environments: Day one."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Cheri Cole.
- Dictionary guide words: How do they guide us?
- Students have difficulty locating words in a dictionary. This lesson will allow students to learn how to use guide words in a dictionary to locate words.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Anne Campbell and Carol Troutman.
- Discovering just the right word
- Precise word choice helps show the reader a story and not just tell a story. The purpose of this series of lessons is to help students improve their writing style by strengthening word choice at the word and sentence level by adding adverbs, precise verbs, and specific nouns.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Does one cup of everything weigh the same?
- The student will predict whether one cup of everything weighs the same. Next, the student will estimate the mass of several cups of materials. Then, using a primer balance the student will find the actual mass of each cup of materials in grams. The students will order the cups from lightest to heaviest by mass.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
- By Christy Bunch.
- Don't forget breakfast
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 4.4
- This third-grade lesson plan, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, teaches students that starting every day with a good breakfast helps them get ready for the day by fueling their bodies and brains.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Healthful Living)
- Dream Team basketball stations
- Students will refine their basic skills of basketball by participating in a variety of basketball stations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Healthful Living)
- By Lisa Sinon.
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