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Animal report
After studying the various animal groups, students write a report about an animal of their choosing using well-formed paragraphs.
Author: Kay Sims
Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
Blackbeard: The Most Feared Pirate of the Atlantic
Students will acquire information about Blackbeard through primary resources and apply their knowledge to create a newspaper article concerning his life.
Author: Carol Holden and Tanya Klanert
Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
Bubba: A Cinderella story
This lesson focuses on the whimsical interpretation of the Cinderella story. Students explore the story Bubba, the Cowboy Prince, through rich text and interpretations of the story.
Author: Jennifer Fessler and Karen Wright
Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
Cloudy with a chance of...what?
Students will enjoy reading about a town where no one ever goes hungry because the sky provides food while learning about weather, healthy and unhealthy foods, and creating a database.
Author: BJ Larson and Paula Sharpe
Format: lesson plan (grades 2–4)
Connecting Folktales and Culture in North Carolina and Beyond
Students will explore connections to North Carolina culture as they engage in reading and analyzing three folktales of North Carolina Literary Festival author, William Hooks. After comparing these stories to other versions of the traditional tales, students will become authors and storytellers themselves as they rewrite a tale from a new cultural point of view. Opportunities are also included to extend this study to world cultures and folktales.
Author: Jeanne Munoz
Format: lesson plan (grades 4, 8)
Creature creation - an elaboration writing activity
This lesson will focus on the writing element of elaboration. It will also tap into higher order thinking skills with the creation of a Coastal Plain imaginary animal and a creative story about the creature. This lesson could be linked to 4th grade Science and Social Studies objectives. For more in-depth knowledge in those other subjects, go to the lesson entitled Researching the Coastal Plain
Author: Ana Sanders and Heather Ennis
Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
Dear Peter Rabbit
Students will identify formal language and sentence structures in friendly letters. They will use similar formal language and style to create friendly letters to other story book characters.
Author: Caroline Annas, Elizabeth Gibson and Stephanie Johnson
Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
Giving can be fun
The purpose of this lesson is to incorporate the use of writing in a friendly letter format to foster the spirit of giving and sharing within the classroom. Using word processing, the students will create a friendly letter that will be shared with classmates in the spirit of giving and sharing.
Author: Sue Hunnicutt
Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)
Haiku and Photography: a Natural Connection
This lesson will allow students to combine photographing nature with creating a Haiku poem to express what they see in the photograph.
Author: steven sather
Format: lesson plan (grades 3–4)
Let's Become Chefs!
The following is designed to teach students the characteristics of a recipe. The characteristics to be taught about this genre are: the step-by-step directions, ingredient words and numerical measures.
Author: Sarah Ann Parker
Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
Love Letters: Using imagery to convey feelings
After listening to Arnold Adoff's Love Letters, students will write and share their own love letters. This lesson is especially fun around Valentine's Day.
Author: Jennifer Reid
Format: lesson plan (grades 2–4)
A Million Fish....Serving up Exaggeration
Students will become familiar with the term "exaggeration" and how it can be used in stories to catch the reader's attention. Students will create narrative stories of their own using exaggeration.
Author: Jennie McGuire
Format: lesson plan (grades 3–4)
Mystery- Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
This is a three part lesson on mysteries using the novel Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald Sobol.
Author: Christine Weaver
Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
Non Halloween Activity for October 31
Students will rewrite the lyrics to a well-known song focusing on Autumn sounds, smells and sights, but without any of the usual Halloween trappings.
Author: Vince Floriani
Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
North Carolina Cherokee Indians: The Trail of Tears
In this two week unit, students will study the Cherokee by participating in literature circles, learning about Native American story telling, writing a letter to Andrew Jackson to protest against the Creek War, and more.
Author: Gina Golden
Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)
North Carolina Regional Travel Brochure
The students will cooperatively design travel brochures that describe major physical and cultural characteristics of the regions in North Carolina.
Author: Deborah Harrell
Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
Pigs and Wolf on a Map!
The students will construct a Double Bubble Map (Venn Diagram) to compare and contrast two versions of a familiar fairytale.
Author: Cherry Randall
Format: lesson plan (grades 2–4)
Polar bears and their adaptations
In this introductory activity, students will be introduced to the concept of adaptation by exploring how a polar bear's body adapts to survive in the harsh environment in which it lives.
Author: Heather Spradling
Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
Site robbers
Students will use an interview with a Native American to write a newspaper article or letter that expresses concern about robbing archaeological sites.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
Sweet Potato Fun
These activities allow students to gain knowledge of the North Carolina state vegetable and have fun while doing it! Activities include describing, analyzing and comparing facts about sweet potatoes, creative writing and dramatization, taste testing and completing an online scavenger hunt.
Author: Amy Luna and Kathy Beck
Format: lesson plan (grade 4)

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