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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

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.

Kenan Fellows instructional plans

Kenan Fellows instructional plans
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Alphabetical listing of unit plans and lesson plans provided by the Kenan Fellows Program.

Resources provided by Kenan Fellows Program

Work, power, and machines unit assessment
In Work, power, and machines, page 3
This is the assessment for the unit "Work, power, and machines." Students review what they have learned in the previous two lessons in this unit about work and simple machines by participating in an "Around the world" review game. They will then complete a unit test.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
By Tara Blalock.
World music
In BioMusic, page 1.5
In this lesson, students will understand that birds of the same family can have different songs. While listening to four different thrush songs, they will also learn to read a sound spectrogram and compare it with sheet music.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Music Education and Science)
By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.