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"Two Worlds" introductory activity: In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.1; Through the use of a carousel brainstorming strategy, this introductory activity for 8th grade social studies enables teachers to discover what their students already know about the geography and history of North Carolina. Students will work cooperatively and will recognize that they have much to learn about their state.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Carousel brainstorming: Carousel brainstorming is a strategy that requires students to access background knowledge or review what they have learned by thinking about subtopics within a broader topic. This strategy can be used in any discipline.; Format: lesson plan; By Pauline S. Johnson.

Roundtable: In this cooperative learning model, each team member writes one answer on a piece of paper that is passed around a table. Roundtable is highly effective with creative writing and brainstorming activities. This structure encourages responsibility for the group...; By Heather Coffey.

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.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts); By Sue Hunnicutt.

Defining risk: A search for theme in Fahrenheit 451: Students explore their understanding of the notion of risk in relation to their own experiences and in response to a variety of quotes. This exercise serves as a springboard to themes in the novel Fahrenheit 451.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts); By Leatha Fields-Carey.

Reading comprehension and English language learners: Teaching reading comprehension and helping English language learners are the responsibility of every teacher, but they are also within the abilities of every teacher. These articles provide strategies for building content-area reading comprehension before, during, and after reading that can help English language learners — and all learners.; Format: series (multiple pages)

Take action, save the past: In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.8; In their study of archaeological resource conservation, students will use a problem-solving model to identify a problem and solve it creatively.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

Teaching voice: This lesson helps students to develop an effective voice by selecting words that are clear, concrete, and exact. Exercises are based on model sentences from world literature selections.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts); By Pamela Beal.

Habitat happenings (Lesson five): This is lesson five in the series. During this lesson students will put the things they have learned from previous lessons into a creative writing assignment. The students will choose an animal to be and will describe themselves and their living environment.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Kelly Stewart.

Our community helpers: Each student will choose a different community helper. Once they have chosen their helper the student will then draw their community helper using Kid Pix. With the help of an adult they will be required to type one sentence about their helper. These pictures will be used to form a classroom book entitled Our Community Helpers.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills and Social Studies); By Meredith Horne.

Classifying transportation objects: In this lesson the students will sort, classify, and label transportation items by various attributes.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics); By LuAda Skaggs.

Preparing English language learners for reading comprehension: In Reading comprehension and English language learners, page 1; Use KWL charts, circle maps and brainstorming webs, and concept maps to prepare English language learners, content-area learners, and all students for reading comprehension.; By Ellen Douglas.

Dictionary guide words: How do they guide us?: Students have difficulty locating words in a dictionary. This lesson will allow students to learn how to use guide words in a dictionary to locate words.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Anne Campbell and Carol Troutman.

Literature biography project: For this project, students will learn to develop the various processes used in researching and writing a biographical research paper, including brainstorming, note taking, outlining, creating a bibliography, and writing the final draft. This project is designed to act as an independent study geared toward AG or Level 3 and Level 4 students, but each step in the research process can also be taught directly to students in the classroom.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Information Skills); By Sandra Dail.

All about trash: Students will discover which kinds of trash break down naturally and which do not when they make their own landfills.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Science); By Dawn Gilbert.

How to identify search terms in an index: Students will learn to use the index to determine if the source has information about a topic and, if so, how to find the information.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Information Skills); By April Wells, Christina Klonne, Jennifer Tuttle, and and Julie Bingham.

Women of the South in a changing society: This lesson examines the lives of women in Southern Appalachia and other areas of the south during the Civil War and focuses particular attention on analyzing the historical stereotypes of women of the 19th-century.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); By Cindy Mcpeters and Aletha Aldridge.

The four factors of production: Students will learn to identify and explain the four factors of production: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies); By penn pace.

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)

Introduction to Venn diagrams: Students will learn how to use a Venn diagram to categorize data. This activity is done as an introduction to Venn diagrams.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics); By Melissa Bancroft.

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