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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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Employment applications and resumés
In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 1.4
In this lesson for grade seven, students will discuss the parts of a job application and resumé. Students will complete an application and resumé for either a medical job or a construction job, and will compare and contrast the application materials needed for each of the two kinds of jobs.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
By Anissia Jenkins.Adapted by Kenyatta Bennett and Sonya Rexrode.
Composing a Letter of Application
Students will learn the importance of letters of application, what letters of application should contain, and how to format the letters. They will also enhance their composition skills, language skills, and proofreading skills.
Format: lesson plan
By Joyce Shepard.
Invest in Teachers Award
Help fund teacher professional development in your school or school district with LEARN NC's Invest in Teachers Award.
Diagram from Wright brothers' patent application
Diagram from Wright brothers' patent application
Diagram from Wilbur and Orville Wright's patent for a "flying machine," filed March 23, 1903.
Format: image/diagram
Ration canning application
Ration canning application
Format: image/ephemera
Investing in the stock market
This point of this lesson plan is to have students learn about the three major US stock markets through buying imaginary stock.
Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies)
By Bill Estes.
The learning cycle
A three-part model of scientific inquiry that encourages students to develop their own understanding of a scientific concept, explore and deepen that understanding, and then apply the concept to new situations.
Format: article/best practice
By David Walbert.
Intrigue of the Past
Lesson plans and essays for teachers and students explore North Carolina's past before European contact. Designed for grades four through eight, the web edition of this book covers fundamental concepts, processes, and issues of archaeology, and describes the peoples and cultures of the Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods.
Format: book (multiple pages)
Drawings of cotton gin from Eli Whitney's patent application
Drawings of cotton gin from Eli Whitney's patent application
Format: image/diagram
Trees in your own backyard
This activity lets students discover the benefits of urban forests by looking at trees on the schoolyard. Students will read a synopsis of the 400-year history of communal forests, survey their schoolyard trees, and draft a schoolyard tree ordinance.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
By Lucy Laffitte.
Proposed amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act
In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.7
It is declared to be the policy of this Act not to displace the use of cotton or cotton materials and the administrator shall by regulations or by order exempt any work where the application of the provisions of Section 6 may result in the use of other materials...
The Bonsack machine
The Bonsack machine
Format: image/diagram
Spin, toss, and roll!
Students will use hands-on experiments to find the probability that certain events will occur.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
By Carol Baldwin.
Preparing for miscue analysis
In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 2.2
Selecting the text Select a complete text that the student has not previously read. Choose a text that is approximately one level above what the independent reading level has been determined to be. With the higher reading...
By Jeanne Gunther.
Investigating evaporation
Students will investigate evaporation as a cooling process. They will witness that temperature is affected by moisture content and the process of evaporation. Next, they will explore websites related to the processes of evaporation and condensation. Students will apply gained knowledge to real-life situations, and will share their new knowledge with a person outside the classroom.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
By Jessica Bohn.
Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom's Taxonomy is a classification system developed in 1956 by education psychologist Benjamin Bloom to categorize intellectual skills and behavior important to learning. Bloom identified six cognitive levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis,...
Format: article
By Heather Coffey.
Tabletop grids
Students will play a review game in small groups using large grids to develop skill in locating and naming points on grid maps.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
By Monica Delanoy.
Teaching Online Courses: Online course syllabus
Syllabus for the online class Teaching online courses which examines online pedagogy and practical strategies for the online teaching and learning environment.
One Grain of Rice
One Grain of Rice is a mathematical folktale from India that covers the concept of doubling.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
By Katherine Williamson.
Writing a resumé
In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 1.2
In this lesson plan, students practice writing resumés and editing them with peers.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
By Andrea Fedon, Gail Frank, and Cindy Neininger.