Edie McDowell
Edie McDowell has been a teacher in North Carolina and Washington State for fifteen years. Her areas of certification are English (grades 6–12) and Academically and Intellectually Gifted (K–12). She attended Mars Hill College for her undergraduate degree in English and has completed all but her thesis for a Masters of Arts in English at Wake Forest University.
Her interests include art, photography, botany, oral history, creative writing, reading, hiking, and dance (especially clogging and ballet). Someday, she would love to travel. In addition to teaching, she loves running up and down the mountains of Western North Carolina. She has also been writing an “embarrassingly lengthy children’s book,” learning to paint, and researching facts for another book to be set in Appalachia.
Resources created by Edie McDowell
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- I, the basket: Writing a first-person story as an inanimate object
- In this interdisciplinary lesson for grade seven, students explore the first-person point of view through children's literature and images of Nepal. Students exhibit their understanding of first-person narrative by writing a children's story from the perspective of an inanimate object.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Picturing Vietnam
- This lesson plan is intended to introduce students to Vietnam’s geography, climate, culture, history, natural history, arts, economics, and government. Students will view a collection of documentary photographs and use these for making logical observations, drawing conclusions, and as a basis for creative writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Regions of Nepal: A virtual trek
- This lesson for grade seven helps students understand the connections between geography and culture. Students experience a virtual trek through the different regions of Nepal, conduct research about the ethnic groups living in each region, and maintain travel logs documenting what they've learned.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Salt trading in Asia
- In this interdisciplinary lesson, students explore the mineral salt from a variety of perspectives — scientific, geographic, and cultural. The lesson incorporates images of salt production in Nepal and Vietnam, and may be used with grade 4 or grade 7.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 7 Healthful Living, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Seven directions: Making connections between literature and American Indian history
- This middle school lesson uses picture books to integrate American Indian culture and belief systems with language and visual arts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Spinning spider stories
- This interdisciplinary lesson is designed to introduce students to the purpose and process of comparative literature. The literary selections may be altered according to audience and purpose, from grades 5 through 8.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Vietnam waterways: Ecology and conservation
- In this interdisciplinary lesson for grades 6-8, students will examine the relationship between the physical environment and cultural characteristics of the Mekong River valley in Vietnam. Students will evaluate the current conditions of the Mekong River and suggest long-range solutions for improving, restoring, or preserving the quality of the river.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Information Skills, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
