Finding lesson plans on the LEARN NC website

This document explains how to find lesson plans by browsing the collection, by goal & objective of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study, and by searching.

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Related pages

• How to submit a lesson plan: This document explains how to submit a lesson plan for publication on the LEARN NC website.
• Instructional writing: Writing a lesson plan for other teachers to use isn't like writing one for yourself. When you write for the web, you're practicing instructional writing.
• Lesson plans collection policy: LEARN NC's policies for accepting lesson plans for publication and managing its collection of lesson plans.

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• Learn more about LEARN NC and lesson plans.

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What you’ll find in the collection

The LEARN NC lesson plan collection contains thousands of top-quality, reviewed instructional plans and units. Each plan includes learning outcomes and assessments and is aligned to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

The lesson plan collection can be divided into two categories:

LEARN NC lesson plans

These plans are written by North Carolina educators and reside on the LEARN NC website. The title link in your search results will take you directly to the lesson plan and North Carolina Standard Course of Study alignment.

External lesson plans

These plans have been written and published by partners associated with Thinkfinity (previously MarcoPolo) and other organizations. Click the title link in your search results to read a brief description of the plan and find the North Carolina Standard Course of Study alignment. On this page, follow the link to leave the LEARN NC website and go to the resource.

Finding lesson plans

The LEARN NC website helps you find what you need intuitively with a feature called guided searching. From the home page or the search page, click the drop down menu that asks, “What kind of resources are you looking for?” When you select “I need a strategy for teaching my students about” and enter a term or phrase of interest, your search results will contain lesson plans as well as websites from the “Best of the Web” collection that contain lesson plans, activities, best practices, and problem sets. Resources from the “Best of the Web” do not contain specific alignment to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

Browsing the collection

Perhaps, you’d like to just browse through the lesson plans and see what sparks your interest. On the lesson plan page, select the grade you are teaching to find a list of all lesson plans appropriate for that grade level. Even though you’ve found only the lesson plans appropriate for your grade, there will still be hundreds of results and you probably won’t want to scroll through them all. That’s why we’ve designed a feature that allows you to narrow your results by curriculum area. Once you’ve done that, you can narrow your results even further by goal and objective of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

Searching for lesson plans

Need more searching options? Try the advanced options on our search page.

While your search results won’t be limited only to lesson plans, you can use these options if you want more control over your search by using the following options:

• with at least one of the words
• with all of the words
• with the exact phrase
• without the words