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Moodle Training - Carolina Online Teacher Program
Want to teach an online course yourself? Learn the basics of teaching in Moodle, LEARN NC’s course management system, to customize one of our courses for your own classroom.
Take this course: Begins May 3.

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Bulletin boards and other displays
Using your bulletin boards as a teaching tool — not just as decoration.
By Denise Young.
Discuss it with discussion boards and forums
This "Teacher Time Saver" looks at free tools for creating Web-based discussions.
By Bobby Hobgood.
Classroom environment: the basics
Your classroom is "home away from home" for you and your students. Make it attractive, comfortable, and functional.
By Denise Young.
Classroom management
A guide to LEARN NC's collections, designed especially for new teachers.
Format: bibliography/help
The First Year
Essays on the author's experiences in her first year of teaching: the mistakes she made, what she learned from them, and how she used them to become a better teacher — and how other first-year teachers can, too.
Format: book (multiple pages)
Let's be firefighters!!!
In this lesson, we will look at firefighters and the role they play in our community. This lesson will familiarize the students with the types of equipment used by firefighters, the special clothing worn by firefighters, and the responsibilities each of them have in our community.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Social Studies)
By Lavonne Holland.
Interior designers: Working with area
In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.4
In this lesson for grade seven, students will act as interior designers, and will measure the walls of the classroom to determine the area of each wall.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
Designing your gym class
From classroom organization to warm-up procedures, one physical education teacher provides a blueprint for a structured physical education program.
By Bozena Mielczak and Kim Campbell.
Blogging: an introduction
Weblogs, or "blogs" for short, have many uses in education, as tools for publication, research, administration, and more.
Format: article
By Bobby Hobgood.
Twelve rules for arranging your classroom
In The First Year, page 1.1
You'll want to set up your classroom as quickly as possible, but consider these factors before you start.
By Kristi Johnson Smith.
Conventions
In The five features of effective writing, page 6
Conventions — grammar, spelling, and the like — are important to good writing, but should be taught only after the other Features of Effective Writing.
By Kathleen Cali.
Winter Olympics: What a blast!
The following lesson plan outlines an integrated unit on the Winter Olympics from the perspective of Physical Education. All subject areas can participate (suggestions are listed below), but the culminating activity is the Olympic Games organized through Physical Education classes. This lesson plan could be adapted for any grade level by making the Olympic events age appropriate.
Format: lesson plan
By Barbara H. Williams.

Resources on the web

CNN Student News
A dual-focused educational website designed to address both educator and student needs. Teachers will find instructional resources, links, collaboration tools and professional development opportunities. Students can access multimedia news stories, a homework... (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: CNN
Putting It All Together - Fermilab's Teacher Resource Center
A collection of K-12 instructional materials dealing with physics, the history of the Universe, and the flora and fauna of the Fermilab prairie. (Learn more)
Format: website/activity
Provided by: National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermi Education Lab
Walk in the Woods
Take a cyberwalk in the woods and learn about the animals and plants you encounter or write a journal entry or story about nature! (Learn more)
Format: website/activity
Provided by: University of Illinois Extension-Schools Online