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Calico watercolor cats

This two-class lesson focuses on students learning how to draw a cat using geometric shapes, learning and applying wet-on-wet technique of watercolor painting, and using crayon to create area surrounding cats. The final art product will be a mixed media painting of one cat and one kitten in an indoor or outdoor environment. Students will orally present their completed artwork using prepositions and nouns to describe the location of their cats.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education and English Language Development)

By Barbara Zimmerman and Heidi Summers.

Animal friends

This lesson helps students explore personal beliefs and feelings toward others. Students will examine stereotypes and how they influence interactions. The lesson emphasizes peer relationships, awareness of feelings, understanding/accepting differences and self-knowledge.

Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)

By Beth Lindsey.

Cougar

Photograph of a cougar, taken at the North Carolina zoo. Cougars, also called mountain lions, pumas, and panthers, were once common all through the Western Hemisphere, from Canada to South America. However, due to excessive hunting and habitat destruction,...

Format: image/photograph

Too many pets, too few homes

Students examine the problem of pet overpopulation both in the United States and in North Carolina. Students will learn about the importance of spaying and neutering in combating pet overpopulation.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Social Studies)

By Barbara Lapointe and Kathleen Johnson.

Integrating the internet into the Curriculum: Eric Carle author study

Eleven different activities focusing on books by author/illustrator Eric Carle will be used to integrate the curriculum. Each activity will take about 30 minutes with a class multimedia presentation created at the conclusion.

Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills)

By Barb Thorson.

M&M madness

Students will explore fractions, decimals, percents, and circle graphs with M&M's.

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)

By Donna Reble.

Using a Venn diagram to compare & contrast two types of bears

Students use their research on black bears and one other bear (panda, polar or grizzly) to complete a Venn Diagram.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

By Susan Lovett.

Watching the weather

In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.5

In this lesson for grade seven, students discuss the work that meteorologists do and brainstorm ways to collect data about the weather without using instruments. Students collect weather data over a two-week period.

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)

By Emma Couch.Adapted by Mitzi Talbert.

Classification and attributes

In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.7

In their study of classification and attributes, students will use “doohickey kits” to classify objects based on their attributes, and explain that scientists and specifically archaeologists use classification to help answer research questions.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)

One, two, three... go Poe!

In this lesson, students will be able to compare and contrast three short stories they have read by Edgar Allan Poe. The assignment will be divided into three parts: (1) They will have read and discussed or completed other classroom activities on each of the three stories. (2) They will work in small groups to brainstorm and create comparison/contrast charts that will be shared with the class. (3) Students will create their own graphic organizers based on the ideas shared in step two and then create a draft and final paper.

Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)

By Janie Peak.

Look and listen: Exploring the five senses

This group of shared reading lessons is based on the book Look by Jillian Cutting. They are designed to be used as a part of an integrated classroom unit on the five senses.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)

Organization

In The five features of effective writing, page 3

Organization, the second Feature of Effective Writing, should be addressed after a writer has established a focus and will help strengthen that focus.

By Kathleen Cali.

Learning language strategies through repeated readings of storybooks

This lesson will guide and teach students how to process and produce language at higher levels through meaningful, redundant, contextually appropriate, and intrinsically rewarding center-based activities related to a storybook theme.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Information Skills)

By Elizabeth Winborne.

Nature's checks and balances

This unit introduces students to several essential understandings. They will learn that plants and animals depend on one another for survival and organisms interact within nature to create a balance. They will also learn that humans can influence and manipulate nature.

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Science)

By Nicolette Heise.

Comics in the classroom

Graphic novels aren't just “literature lite”: they're a genre you can use to explore philosophy, history, human interactions, visual literacy, and more with soon-to-be adults in a high school English class.

Format: article

By Ross White.

Matchmaking

Students examine the benefits of pet adoption. Students will learn about the responsibilities associated with pet ownership and how to make a good match between pets and potential owners.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Social Studies)

By Barbara Lapointe and Kathleen Johnson.

Making reading passages comprehensible for English language learners

English language learners can read the same content-area material as their peers, but may need special help. Teachers can make difficult reading comprehensible by building vocabulary, decoding difficult syntax, and teaching background knowledge.

By Ellen Douglas.

Perimeter and area around the North Carolina zoo

Students learn about perimeter, area and scale drawings of various geometric shapes. As they learn they apply their knowledge to different animal enclosures at the North Carolina Zoo. To gather information about design of animal enclosures the classes visit the zoo. The students then compile all they learned by creating a scaled drawing and model of an human habitation exhibit for a zoo.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)

By Susan Hoercher.

The life of a Civil War soldier

In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 5.1

Article describes the food, equipment, camp life, drill, and discipline of soldiers in the U.S. Civil War. Includes video of a Civil War reenactment.

Format: article

Resources on the web

Look at Me: Looking Back and Moving Forward

Students create pictographs and bar graphs based on data collected, including the ages of classmates, cats owned, and number of teeth missing. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics