LEARN NC

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

I am a 4th Grade Teacher in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City schools. I designed these lesson plans while in a workshop sponsored by the NCSSM, The Ackland Art Museum, and LEARN NC.

Resources created by Becky Robinson

Let's make it simple (pre-visit)
This lesson focuses on the student's ability to recognize objects in nature that could become tools to make work easier (simple machines). It is the first in a series of three lessons, the others being Lesson 2: Make it simple: Now find it (museum visit) and Lesson 3: Simple: Now compound (post-visit).
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
By Becky Robinson.
Simple: Now compound (post-visit)
This lesson focuses on the process of combining two or more simple machines to form a compound machine. It is the third in a sequence of lessons on machines. The others are Lesson 1: Let's make it simple (pre-visit) and Lesson 2: Make it simple: Now find it(museum visit).
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Science)
By Becky Robinson.