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- Sample classroom floor plans
- Basic floor plans and explanations for a traditional classroom, discussions/debates, a horseshoe arrangement, and centers.
- By Mitch Katz.
- 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.
- Chinese art and writing
- In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 11
- Ethnic Chinese populations are found in all urban and trade centers of Vietnam, but they are particularly large in Hoi An. Thus the frequent use of Chinese characters in art and on public buildings. The plaque this artisan is making depicts an outdoor mountain...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Geography centers
- A geography unit in which students investigate and compare their hometowns and other cities. The unit incorporates nine centers: math, science, social studies, reading, writing, computers, puzzles and games, art, and listening. They all have activities that are integrated with the geography unit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Laurie Perry.
- Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center at Purchase Knob
- Visit the Learning Center at Lake Junaluska and participate in a scientific research program that focuses on the scientific method, air quality, or soil health.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Roanoke/Cashie River Center
- Open Tuesday-Saturday, this is a great place to take students to learn more about the wetlands and the history of the area.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Chinese architecture
- In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 9
- The ornamented brick gateway has step-tiered, green tile roofs decorated with carved dragons. A large four-legged ceremonial bronze urn is seen in front of the central doorway, and stylized Chinese characters are visible above the central arches of the first...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- One room, many uses
- Patty Berge converts her eighth-grade science classroom to suit multiple instructional methods. A classroom profile.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Arranging for independence
- Erin Espinoza's kindergarten classroom encourages children to learn on their own. A classroom profile.
- By Sydney Brown.
- Yaws
- Format: image/photograph
- Grassroots Science Museums Collaborative
- Grassroots museums annually serve millions of citizens through general visitation, teacher training and special programs. Programs include both onsite and offsite presentations and reach students in every North Carolina school district.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Savor the rainbow
- Use skittles to help the students practice the concepts of sorting data, recording data, writing the data collected in fraction form (part/whole), changing the fractions into decimals and percents, and taking the data collected and making a spreadsheet, bar graph, and circle graph of the data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Beverly Revis.
- Ravana tempts Sita
- In The Ramayana, page 2.13
- The demon king Ravana visits the captured Princess Sita in a wooden puppet theater performance at Yogyakarta in July 1986. The Ravana puppet, here painted with red skin unlike his green-skinned counterpart in Thai mural art, waves a powerful sword at Princess...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Feathers, fins, fur, scales, and skin
- Using observation, students will identify animal groups by their appearance. The students will move through animal centers looking for similarities and differences of birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science)
- Montessori
- The Montessori philosophy is a holistic view of children that builds on natural curiosity and develops a love of learning by creating environments which foster the fulfillment of children's highest potential. History of Montessori In her medical practice,...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Communities In Schools of Wake County: “Just passing isn’t good enough!”
- The educators of Communities In Schools (CIS) of Wake County, after ascertaining that the average grade of their middle school students was low D to F, determined to change their program drastically. They researched programs across the country that demonstrated success with students with profiles similar to those of CIS students, hired an education consulting company to help them establish measurement matrices, and instituted a range of new policies and activities. As a result, CIS students’ grades improved to C in just six months.
- Format: article
- By Susan B. Hansell.
- Magnetic magic
- Students will explore and experiment with a magnet's mysterious invisible strength by rotating through five hands-on centers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science)
- By Thelma Pike.
- Cactus on the Lost Mine Trail
- Many different varieties of cacti can be found in Big Bend National Park. This photograph shows a cactus which is beginning to bloom. Its purple flowers have yellow centers.
- Format: image/photograph
- Animals, animals, animals
- In this lesson students will learn to observe special characteristics and senses which influence the life of an animal and become aware of threats to animals and their habitats and how this affects everyone.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
- By Joyce Poplin.
- Panorama of rolling hills and agricultural fields
- Pasture land and agricultural fields complete this bucolic portrayal of rural Ecuador. Even though Ecuador boasts thriving urban centers and a bustling port city, the country remains predominately agricultural. Products like wheat, grain, corn, cacao, and...
- Format: image/photograph
