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Imagination Station
Slither and slide, hop and bop, run and jump, explore and discover Imagination Station where Science rocks and kids rule!
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Get real!
When teaching computer proficiency to at-risk students, make classroom lessons relevant to their lives and take account of different learning styles.
By Skip Thibault.
Incorporating oral history into the K–12 curriculum
In Oral history in the classroom, page 3
Oral history techniques for use with students at all levels, from kindergarten through high school.
By Kathryn Walbert.
Reading comprehension: What works?
Teach reading comprehension in the elementary grades with flexible strategies that connect reading to the real world, promote independence, and keep students engaged.
By Mary Rogers Rose.
Food choice in our everyday lives
Focuses on everyday foods and how these foods relate to the food pyramid. Students will recognize food vocabulary in the target language (Spanish) and will make healthy food choices by creating thinking maps, a school menu in the target language, and exploring food choices from around the world.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Healthful Living and Second Languages)
By Gina Benson and Laura Epting.

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Learning objectives that form the basis for expected student understanding. Competency goals drive curriculum and instruction and describe the core of knowledge and skills students will command upon completion of a unit of study or grade level.

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The North Carolina Standard Course of Study details competency goals for grade levels and subject areas. For example, one competency goal (of five) for fifth grade mathematics is: “The learner will understand and compute with non-negative rational numbers.”