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Accessibility, Usability and Visual Design - Carolina Online Teacher Program
An introduction to basic web design, accessibility, and usability principles. You will learn how much the placement of materials, the use of graphics, and even color and font styles can affect students' success in your online course.
Take this course: Begins March 10.

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The election of 1860: Results by state
Table of electoral votes by state in the 1860 U.S. presidential election.
Format: data set
Writing a fish book: Number and color details
Students will learn and write color words and number words.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
By Stephanie Phelps.
North Carolina's Governors, 1789–1836
Timeline of governors of North Carolina in the early national period, with political party affiliation.
Format: timeline
Extensions
In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 2.9
As you become adept at miscue analysis, you may find other additions to your coding that are particularly helpful. Although it is not suggested in any texts I have read on miscue analysis, I find it helpful to code student miscues while the student is reading...
By Jeanne Gunther.
Colorful fruit bowl
Students learn color theory by exploring color mixing. Students will use overlapping to show simple perspective in their picture.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education)
By Marilyn Carter.
Graphing with second graders
Second graders will sort M & M's and then enter the data into a spreadsheet in order to create a simple graph.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills)
By DPI Integration Strategies.
Spin away
Children will work in groups using spinners with 4 colors to make predictions about probability, gather and record data, and make conclusions about outcome.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
By Gloria Wilson.
Keys on a keyboard
Kindergarten students learn five keys located on a computer keyboard: the space bar, the enter key, the shift keys, the number keys, and the letter keys. Each key is identified by the teacher and the children are asked to color the key or keys a particular color on their paper keyboard. Students are also asked to locate the letters that spell out their name on their keyboard.
Format: lesson plan (grade K )
By Jeanie Smith.
Practicing multiples using Pascal's Triangle
This lesson will introduce students to Pascal's Triangle. Students will be introduced to the patterns in Pascal's Triangle and complete a 9 level triangle. Then they will color the multiples of specified numbers. This lesson uses resources of Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. Permission has been granted for the use of the materials as part of the workshop "Interactivate Your Bored Math Students".
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
By Bonnie Boaz.
Graphing with food
Students will use a variety of foods to make graphs. Each food should be used for a separate lesson for a total of ten lessons.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
By Bunnie R. Brewer.
Easter egg math
Using colored Easter eggs, students will sort by color, count eggs, and graph data.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
By Marie Messer.
Keys to computing the alphabet
This lesson gives the students practice in locating the alphabet on the computer keyboard, using the space bar, printing their product, and finally, using these printed letters to make words.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
By Jessie Smith.
Color mixing
Students are introduced to the basic steps in mixing secondary colors from primary colors of paint.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education)
By Gwen Auman.
What do you see?
This lesson is designed to teach color vocabulary and some basic animal names to novice level ESL students in grades 1-2 using Bill Martin's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
By Cindy Young.
Keith Haring and Radiating Figures
Students will examine the work of Keith Haring and then look at how simple figures and patterns create movement in an artwork.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education)
By Marion McClure.
Thanksgiving cornucopia
Students will create a cornucopia using pages from magazines to cut the fruit, vegetables and nuts to fill the cornucopia.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education)
Transition to northern hardwood forest
In Elevations and forest types along the Blue Ridge Parkway, page 6
At elevations above the chestnut oak forest — but not necessarily above variants of the rich cove forests — the Blue Ridge supports forests of hardwoods more commonly found in the the northern reaches of the United States and in Canada. In the...
By Dirk Frankenberg.
Eighteenth-century pottery (2)
In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 10
Figure 8 shows a further range of jugs and jars, a churn, and a pitcher. Note that each of these is of slightly different shape and color. Each represents the specific potter and glaze. Potters have individual styles even when repetitively making similar objects...
By Dirk Frankenberg.
Body graphing
"Body Graphing" is an interactive graphing activity involving manipulatives to compare graphing results. With the use of ropes and unifix cubes students will learn to compare and contrast their body with classmates. The graphing activity can be extended to graph differences with height, hair and eye color, and other physical attributes.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
By patsy morgan.
Exploring colors
The learner will develop the ability to use science process skills through exploration with primary colors.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Visual Arts Education)
By Kristin Gray.