Kenan Fellows Program
Home page: http://www.ncsu.edu/kenanfellows/
The Kenan Fellows Program of North Carolina State University is designed to:
- Develop teacher leaders in the classrooms across North Carolina and advance the art of teaching
- Enrich teachers’ content knowledge in mathematics, science and technology through strategic partnerships with businesses and higher education
- Develop innovative and inquiry-based relevant curricular tools and resources in partnership with the NC Department of Public Instruction to be disseminated to teachers and students across our state
- Foster teaching based on inquiry, problem solving and real life application
- Build a cohort of teacher leaders across North Carolina
LEARN NC works with the Kenan Fellows Program to publish resources developed by fellows.
Resources provided by Kenan Fellows Program
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- AIDS in Africa Symposium
- Students will take on roles of those with a unique perspective on the AIDS crisis in Africa. Taking part in a symposium, each character, famous and ordinary, makes a statement and participates in a question-answer period.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Greg Mitchell.
- Diseases throughout human history
- Students will trace the historical impact of disease on humankind and research key events in the history of disease.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Greg Mitchell.
- Float, sink, flink!
- In this lesson, students will learn to make things flink, meaning they neither float to the top nor sink to the bottom of a fluid. They will discover that whether an object floats or sinks depends not only on the properties of the object itself, but also on the properties of the fluid (either gas or liquid) in which it is situated.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)
- By Erin Denniston.
- Mapping HIV infection in Africa
- Using statistical information and maps, students will note the correlation between socio-economic factors and the impact of HIV/AIDS in the countries of Africa.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Greg Mitchell.
- Stay still
- In this lesson students will learn about stability. They will design and build an earthquake-proof house that takes into account the forces acting upon it and the materials with which it will be built. The house will be tested in a “shake table.” Students will be assessed by the product itself as well as their analysis of the results of the test.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- By Erin Denniston.
- Wife inheritance and the AIDS epidemic in Africa
- When an African man dies, it is the responsibility of his brother to inherit his widow. This has become a key factor in the spread of the AIDS virus. This plan looks at this tradition and the AIDS epidemic in African countries and students will discuss possible solutions in a Paideia seminar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Greg Mitchell.
