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- Collecting family stories
- Students will interview relatives and compose a family story on the computer. This lesson was completed in conjunction with two other lesson plans (art and media) using the same theme but could be used alone. Student work from all three lessons was compiled in a student portfolio.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 English Language Arts, Guidance, and Social Studies)
- By Amy Honeycutt, Chris Furry, and Diana Hicks.
- Comparing governments: International
- This lesson focuses on comparing and contrasting national governments in North America and/or Central America. It is the second of two lessons about government. The other is Comparing Governments: Local, State, and National. This plan could be easily adapted for eighth-grade or high-school ESL students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 and 7 English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Tami Weaver and Wendy Pineda.
- Comparing governments: Local, state, and national
- This lesson on comparing governments will focus on looking at the similarities and differences between local, state, and federal governments in North Carolina and the United States. It is suggested that this lesson be followed by Comparing governments: International. This plan could be easily adapted for eighth-grade or high-school ESL students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Tami Weaver and Wendy Pineda.
- 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.
- Coordinate plane artwork
- For this lesson students will go to the computer lab and use the General Coordinate Game applet created by the Shodor Foundation to obtain a more specific understanding of the coordinate plane, its parts, and how it can be used to graph points. Afterward, the students will practice using the coordinate plane by drawing a picture on a coordinate plane and then writing out directions (using coordinates) for that picture to be replicated exactly by another student, who will not see the picture but will follow the directions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Mathematics)
- By Erin Foerster.
- Creating a Mini Page
- This activity allows students to take their knowledge from previous lessons or research projects and turn it into a newspaper, modeled after the Mini-Page, to share with their classmates. The focus of this activity is not research and writing instruction; rather, it is meant to be used as a culminating activity.
- Format: activity/lesson plan
- By Summer Pennell.
- 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)
- De Soto in America
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 3.4
- In this lesson for grades 5-8, students will evaluate the effectiveness of the De Soto expedition through the interior of the southeastern United States in the years 1539-1543. They will examine the impact of that trip on the Native Americans. Students will engage in historical empathy as they put themselves in the place of the Native Americans and the Spanish soldiers who encountered them on the expedition.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Decomposition
- Students will observe decomposition in a pile of grass clippings and in a compost heap over time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- By Monica Dubbs.
- 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.
- A dicey stem and leaf plot
- After being introduced to a stem and leaf plot, students will be able to create their own stem and leaf plots.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Newton.
- The digestive system
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 5.1
- This lesson plan for grade four, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, teaches students about the digestion process and the organs of the digestive system.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Healthful Living)
- Domino fractions
- This is a review activity on the lesson of adding and simplifying fractions. This activity will provide a new approach to seeing a fraction and simplifying it, and the activity will allow students to set up and solve equations. This activity also works for subtraction of fractions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)
- By Angelica Young.
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