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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- Introduction to experimental design
- In Critical thinking in science, page 2
- Students will take the Pepsi-Coke Challenge and, at the same time, learn about the scientific method. While practicing their critical-thinking skills in an inquiry-based experiment, students will define and apply experimental design vocabulary . This lesson is written using the 5E learning model.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Daniell DiFrancesca.
- Irrational numbers: Application to natural frequency and resonance
- In A mathematical model to describe fluid behavior, page 1
- After a discussion about the effects of natural phenomena on an object’s natural frequency, students will conduct an experiment to model resonance in plant stems and measure the natural frequency of pine trees. Through these activities, the students will gain an understanding of frequency, natural frequency, resonance, oscillations and square roots.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics)
- By Jenny Rucker.
- Is China to blame?
- In this lesson, students participate in a Paideia seminar about North Carolina's dwindling furniture industry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 Social Studies)
- By Susan Taylor.
- Isolating a potato killer
- In CSI Dublin: The Hunt for the Irish Potato Killer, page 2
- In this lesson, students use Koch’s postulates to demonstrate the causal relationship between microbe and disease by transmitting Phytophthora infestans from an infected potato tuber to a healthy potato specimen.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Rebecca Hite.
- Isotopic pennies
- In Integrating Chemistry and Algebra II, page 6
- In this lesson, student use a system of equations to determine the number of each type of “atom” in a closed container.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics and Science)
- By Jennifer Elmo.
- It's a zoo out there!
- In Proto-ZOO-ology: A problem-based protist inquiry unit, page 3
- This lesson is part of the unit "Proto-ZOO-ology: A problem-based protist inquiry unit." In this lesson, students learn about the diversity of protists.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Science)
- By Cate Colangelo.
- It's alive... or is it?
- In Proto-ZOO-ology: A problem-based protist inquiry unit, page 2
- This lesson is part of the unit "Proto-ZOO-ology: A problem-based protist inquiry unit." In this lesson, students continue to learn about the six characteristics of living things.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Science)
- By Cate Colangelo.
- Learning to use R statistical software for data mining — An extension of linear regression to multiple variables
- In Understanding data mining: Extracting, organizing, and analyzing large sets of data, page 3
- In this lesson, students will use the free R statistical software to navigate through the basics of data mining, a process in which the effects of individual variables can be determined. Students will utilize multiple methods of variable selection — forward selection, backward selection, and stepwise selection — in an attempt to determine which variables are most influential in a given situation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By Dail Midgette.
- Learning to use R statistical software for data mining — Putting it all together
- In Understanding data mining: Extracting, organizing, and analyzing large sets of data, page 4
- Students will mine data to identify the variables that most significantly impact the...
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By Dail Midgette.
- Learning to use R statistical software for linear regression — An alternative to the graphing calculator
- In Understanding data mining: Extracting, organizing, and analyzing large sets of data, page 2
- Students often learn how to do linear regression activities using a graphing calculator. This lesson provides an opportunity to complete these same types of assignments using R statistical software. Students will use this free software to create scatter plots and to develop linear regression models that can be used to make predictions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By Dail Midgette.
- Let's get moving!
- In this lesson, students explore supply chains through a mystery bag activity. This lesson is the first in a two-lesson unit. The lesson that follows is Turning back the wheel of time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Social Studies)
- By Diane Ireland.
- Levers and mechanical advantage
- In Work, power, and machines, page 1
- This lesson is part of the unit "Work, power, and machines." In this lesson, students will be introduced to the basic principles of all machines and review the six simple machines. They will use a first class lever to explore the relationship between fulcrum position and effort force required to operate the lever.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Tara Blalock.
- Light and shadows: Lightness and darkness in space
- In The Earth and Sun: Investigations for the third grade, page 5
- In this lesson, students will learn that light travels in straight lines until reflected or scattered by objects in its path. They will discover how this fact leads to the existence of shadows. Students will explore how an object's size, shape, position, and orientation determines the shadow it creates and how it is affected by a particular light source.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Science)
- By Ronen Plesser and John Heffernan.
- Light and shadows: Pinhole viewers
- In The Earth and Sun: Investigations for the third grade, page 6
- In this lesson, students will construct a simple pinhole viewer. Experiments with the viewer will solidify the concept that light travels in a straight path and demonstrate that if beams of light pass through a small aperture, a coherent image can be produced.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 3 Science)
- By Ronen Plesser and John Heffernan.
- Light and shadows: Shadow-tracing
- In The Earth and Sun: Investigations for the third grade, page 7
- In this lesson, students will measure the length of their shadows at different times during the day. After recording how their shadows change in shape, size, and direction, they will connect this information to the Sun's motion across the sky and properties of light and shadows.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics and Science)
- By Ronen Plesser and John Heffernan.
- Looking closely at a tree: Introduction to phenotype
- In this lesson, students will sharpen their observation skills by looking closely at the parts of a slender tree branch. After learning the terms phenotype and genotype in a presentation and class discussion, they will examine the cambium layer and an apical bud from their branches under a microscope.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Harold Mackin.
- Love songs
- In BioMusic, page 1.4
- In this lesson, students will investigate how birds use song to communicate. After listening to the story Birdsongs and recordings of bird songs, they will identify “words” in the calls and patterns in the songs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- Low-tech PCR
- In Restoring the American chestnut, page 7
- This simulation and manual PCR demonstration is designed for classrooms without a thermocycler and those that do not have enough time to do a full manual PCR. It is designed to give students the concepts and vocabulary as well as give them a visual representation of the process.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Shelley Casey.
- 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 Social Studies)
- By Greg Mitchell.
- Marker-assisted selection
- In this lesson students will learn about marker-assisted selection in trees. Marker-assisted selection is an indirect selection process where a trait of interest is selected based on a marker linked to a trait of interest. Students will conduct two labs. In one, they will extract DNA from a peach and in the other, they will use gel electrophoresis to test tree DNA for frost resistance.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Harold Mackin.
