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LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Education,
finds the most innovative and successful practices in K–12 education and makes them available to the teachers
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- Arachnid anatomy!
- This lesson is part of a science unit entitled “Spiders: Fact and Fiction.” During this lesson, learning will focus on specific body anatomy, functions and distinguishing characteristics of spiders.
- Author: Susan Sharples
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- How Much is that Doggy in the Window?
- Using internet sources, students will explore information associated with owning a dog. Students will access a controlled collection of websites regarding owning a dog within the scavenger hunt.
- Author: Kathy Beck
- Format: lesson plan (grades 1–2)
- Moravian Migration: Before a Visit to Bethabara
- Students investigate NCECHO site to "read all about" the 1753 Moravian settlement of Bethabara within our social studies curriculum topic on Life Long Ago. The Historic Bethabara Park website has historic background in narrative and diary form. After reading and discussing this information in teams with the teacher, student teams present information to classmates in some visual product in one of five categories. Students also will visit the photos on NCECHO and answer analytical questions to increase understanding of the past as compared to today.
- Author: Wrenna Haigler
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Snails- Fact and Fiction
- This lesson on snails integrates Science, Language Arts, Technology and Math. Teacher will share a fictitious snail story with students. Students will complete a K-W-L chart on snails with the help of the internet. As a related activity, students will take a poll on snail preferences and graph it.
- Author: Jody Shaughnessy
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Tarantulas
- Students will read Tarantula by Jenny Feely. Then they will summarize what they have learned about tarantulas by writing descriptive words or phrases on a graphic organizer. Finally, using the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe (or other similiar drawing program), students will write sentences about tarantulas and make an illustration.
- Author: Jody Shaughnessy
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Using Venn diagrams to compare and contrast
- In order to be able to compare and contrast weather in other places around the country and the world, the students will learn how to use a graphic organizer (Venn diagram) to visualize likeness and differences between two things.
- Author: Kelly Sharpe, Kathleen Hughes, Ruffin Priest, Sondra Walker and Sandra McKee
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Animal study: From fiction to facts
- Describes how to use selected fiction and nonfiction literature and careful questioning techniques to help students identify factual information about animals.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Comparing fiction and nonfiction with "Little Red Riding Hood" text sets
- In this lesson, students explore similarities and differences among various versions of “Little Red Riding Hood.”
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Connect with low-literate families: A three-tiered approach
- This ReadWriteThink lesson involves giving children from low-literate families stories to read at home to enhance the home-school connection.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- The frog beyond the fairy tale character: Searching informational texts
- In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students consider their prior knowledge about frogs by predicting whether eight statements are true or false. Students verify their predictions through the guided use of the website The Somewhat Amusing World of Frogs.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- I wonder: Writing scientific explanations with students
- In this lesson, students are encouraged to ask questions about a specific topic, choose a particular question to explore in detail, and research the question using a variety of resources.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Integrating Language Arts Using "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"
- This lesson, from ReadWriteThink, uses Laura Joffe Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to combine word-skill work with prediction and sequencing practice.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- It's okay to be different: Teaching diversity with Todd Parr
- This lesson for first and second graders uses Todd Parr's picture book It's Okay to Be Different to help students understand what diversity means and how it applies to them.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 1–2)
- A journal for Corduroy: Responding to literature
- This lesson from ReadWriteThink leads first-grade students to reflect on and respond to literature through journal writing. Students read books in the Corduroy record their own adventures with Corduroy, share their stories with the class, and create a class book using the computer.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 1–2)
- Listen, look, and learn: An information-gathering process
- This lesson models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on the information wheel.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 1–2)
- Living the dream: 100 acts of kindness
- Students study Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and what he believed in, then apply those lessons to a month-long project.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–5)
- Pioneer America: Legendary westerners
- Students study legendary westerners during the period of westward expansion in U.S. history.
- Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–4)
- Predicting and gathering information with nonfiction texts
- Supports second-grade teachers in introducing nonfiction to their students and using it for informational purposes.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Rain, ice, steam: Using reading to support inquiry about the water cycle
- In this lesson, students discover the repetitive cycle of water through read-alouds that introduce the topic of rain, hands-on experiments, and classroom centers.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Reading informational texts using the 3-2-1 strategy
- In this lesson, students in grades K–2 learn to use the 3-2-1 strategy, which involves writing about three things they discovered, two things they found interesting, and one question they still have.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)