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.
Kenan Fellows instructional plans
- Kenan Fellows instructional plans
- Alphabetical listing of unit plans and lesson plans provided by the Kenan Fellows Program.
Resources provided by Kenan Fellows Program
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- Healthy and unhealthy foods: What's the difference? (Part 2)
- In I’m on a diet and proud of it: Nutrition through math and science, page 7
- In this lesson, students will participate in three investigations to discover food sources, as well as advantages and disadvantages of fats.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Healthful Living and Science)
- By Karina Colón.
- Heat racers
- In Design technology: Children's engineering, page 2.5
- In this lesson, students will learn about insulators and conductors by creating sleeves for thermometers that will either raise the thermometer's temperature or keep it the same on a sunny day.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By Erin Denniston.
- How can I make sure I'm getting what I need?
- In I’m on a diet and proud of it: Nutrition through math and science, page 9
- Through mathematics and technology integration, students will further understand what it means to have a balanced diet, as well as explore the causes and effects of healthy and unhealthy eating habits, and eating in moderation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Computer/Technology Skills, Healthful Living, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Karina Colón.
- How can we represent sounds that are in the environment?
- In BioMusic, page 2.2
- In this interdisciplinary lesson, students will listen to frog calls and identify the difference between high and low pitches. They will represent sounds using aural, graphic, and kinesthetic methods.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Dance Arts Education and Music Education)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How can we view and distinguish sounds?
- In BioMusic, page 2.4
- In this engaging lesson, students will listen to recordings of various animals sounds and compare them with their visual representations on sound spectrograms. They will explore topics such as pitch, frequency, timbre, and vibration through animal vocalization, human voice, and instrumental composition.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Music Education)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How do animals create sound to communicate?
- In BioMusic, page 2.3
- In this interdisciplinary lesson, students will experiment with a variety of objects and musical instruments to show how sound is caused by vibrations. They will learn how humans and birds create sound using the larynx and the syrinx, and identify two animals that use objects in their environments to create specific sounds.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How do chemists measure?
- In Why does chemistry matter in my life?, page 2
- In this lesson, students learn about metric conversion and scientific notation by completing a lab in which they mix a gold solution with a sodium citrate solution and observe the subsequent chemical changes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Lisa Hibler.
- How do living things get energy from food?
- In I’m on a diet and proud of it: Nutrition through math and science, page 4
- This lesson will teach students about calories as a measurement of the potential energy found in food and that everything their body does burns calories.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Healthful Living, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Karina Colón.
- How do we help the American chestnut tree?
- In Restoring the American chestnut, page 4
- In this lesson, students learn about biotechnology techniques necessary to create a transgenic organism from start to finish. Students will create a poster that illustrates processes such as DNA extraction, gel electrophoresis, and gene splicing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Shelley Casey.
- How does an animal's environment affect the frequency of its sound?
- In BioMusic, page 2.6
- In this lesson, students will explore the relationship between frequency and pitch. In addition to conducting a simple experiment, they will also examine bat and elephant sound spectrograms. Students will learn how both animals and humans use their environments to create sound for communication.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How does sound travel in different environments?
- In BioMusic, page 2.7
- In this lesson, students will identify mediums that sounds can travel through and use experiments to discover how each medium affects sound. By listening to recordings and viewing sound spectrograms, they will learn about whale song and how these animals transmit sound through water (liquid).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How is dolphin communication similar to human communication?
- In BioMusic, page 2.10
- In this lesson, students will find several similarities between the ways humans and dolphins use sound to communicate. They will practice making their own dolphin sounds and use them to communicate with a partner. They will also use these sounds to accompany a reading of Dolphin Talk: Whistles, Clicks, and Clapping Jaws by Wendy Pfeffer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Music Education)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How much am I supposed to eat?
- In I’m on a diet and proud of it: Nutrition through math and science, page 3
- In this lesson, students compare serving sizes with portions, and discover their personal energy requirements through the integration of math and technology. In the end, students will understand diets are as individual as people.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Healthful Living, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Karina Colón.
- How much heat can a phase change produce?
- In Why does chemistry matter in my life?, page 7
- In this lesson, students apply knowledge of heat energy and phase changes to real-life situations. Students watch demonstrations of an endothermic and an exothermic reaction and use formulas to solve phase change problems. A literary passage and a video help students apply critical thinking to the lesson.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Lisa Hibler.
- How sound is like a wave: Investigating animal echolocation
- In BioMusic, page 2.5
- In this lesson, students will use two models to demonstrate how sound waves occur. They will infer how sound waves travel from a source and weaken as they spread. By demonstrating how sound echoes off objects, students will learn about animal echolocation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How to make a linkage map based on phenotype of offspring
- In Restoring the American chestnut, page 5
- The approximate distance of two genes that are located near each other on the same chromosome can be determined by observing the phenotype of the offspring and calculating how the results differ from the expected Mendelian cross. This lesson walks students through those calculations and shows how to make a linkage map of three traits on the same chromosome. It uses actual traits found in American chestnut trees to teach this concept.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Shelley Casey.
- A hula hoop is like a racetrack: Calculating the circumference, radius, and area of a circle
- In On track learning: Safety through technology and design, page 10
- In this lesson, students will use hoops of different sizes to explore geometry concepts such as circumference, area, and radius. They will also use indirect measurement and calculate percent of error.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–10 Mathematics)
- By Roxanne Moses.
- I’m tired. Can’t we just stay here?
- This lesson explores reasons that may have led to the domestication of plants and animals. A timeline of domestication is presented and students will create plant domestication “baseball cards.”
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Harold Mackin.
- Ice cream containers
- In Design technology: Children's engineering, page 2.6
- Students will use their knowledge to design and build melt-proof containers for ice cream. They will track the temperature changes in the container over a four-hour period to simulate the ice cream in transit from manufacturer to store. Students will draw a diagram that shows how and why the container works.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By Erin Denniston.
- Identifying a potato killer via
- In CSI Dublin: The Hunt for the Irish Potato Killer, page 4
- In this lesson, students use DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction, and gel electrophoresis techniques to identify positive and negative leaf samples for the presence of the plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Rebecca Hite.
