Denise Young
Denise Young is responsible for Morehead Planetarium and Science Center’s educational programming including summer camps, children’s classes, adult classes and “visitor experiences” — a new approach to traditional museum exhibits that will debut in 2007. After arriving at Morehead Center as Morehead Planetarium and Science Center’s first ever full-time outreach educator in 2002, Denise became the education director in July 2004.
Denise holds a master’s degree in school administration from UNC-Chapel Hill, as well as a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and American studies, also from the University. She is a North Carolina Teaching Fellow and was also awarded the prestigious North Carolina Principal Fellowship. She has served North Carolina’s public schoolchildren as a classroom teacher, a gifted education specialist and a school-based curriculum facilitator. In 1998, she was awarded National Board Certification for demonstrated excellence in teaching.
Resources created by Denise Young
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- Building your own support network
- How to take charge of your own professional development and break through the isolation of the classroom.
- Format: article
- By Denise Young.
- Bulletin boards and other displays
- Using your bulletin boards as a teaching tool — not just as decoration.
- By Denise Young.
- Classroom environment: the basics
- Your classroom is "home away from home" for you and your students. Make it attractive, comfortable, and functional.
- By Denise Young.
- Classroom routines and procedures
- Establishing clear classroom routines and procedures is necessary for ensuring that your classroom runs smoothly.
- By Denise Young.
- Time - Light and shadow (pre-visit)
- Students examine the interplay of the earth and the sun by studying shadows. Students construct a sun clock and record shadows several times during a school day in order to use the earth and the sun to measure time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics and Science)
- By Denise Young.
- Time - Light and shadow (visit)
- This lesson focuses on light and shadow. Students will examine several paintings at the Ackland Art Museum for light and shadow.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education)
- By Denise Young.
