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

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Adolescent Literacy for Middle Grades (formerly Reading in the Content Area for Middle School Teachers)
Acquire strategies for teaching reading comprehension across all middle school curriculum areas. You'll learn how to help students unlock the text to become more strategic readers.
Take this course: Begins March 23.

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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
Discovery Place and the Charlotte Nature Museum
Discovery Place offers hands-on activities in all areas of science for students at both the Discovery Halls and Charlotte Nature Museum.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Wheelin' fun
In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.6
In this lesson for grade seven, students participate in a car-racing lab, and make observations about how design affects speed. Students discuss how the lab applies to careers in motor sports.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
By Emma Couch.Adapted by Michelle Arias.
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.
Solving problems using simple machines
This lesson uses the familiar story of the three pigs and the big bad wolf to explore how the wolf could have used simple machines to catch the three pigs. By reading, analyzing, and evaluating the wolf's use of simple machines in The 3 Pigs and the Scientific Wolf by Mary Fetzer, the students will design and justify their own machine to help the wolf catch those pigs!
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science)
By Allison Buckner and Maria Tanner.
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 Science)
By Becky Robinson.
Style
In The five features of effective writing, page 5
Style, the fourth Feature of Effective Writing, is what makes an author's writing unique. Here's how to help your students establish a style appropriate to different genres and audiences.
By Kathleen Cali.

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When things start heating up
Intended to give students a general idea of how heat is produced from human-based activities and mechanical and electrical machines. Students will participate in a number of hands-on activities that will help them better identify and investigate what situations... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan
Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science