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- 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)
- Concept maps: an introduction
- Using concept maps can help students make connections among subject areas. This article explains how teachers can use concept maps effectively and provides links to tools for creating them online.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- The Farm Concert
- This lesson teaches basic print awareness along with animal names and sounds through guided reading and the use of a graphic organizer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Kelly Brandon.
- European and South American agriculture
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.3
- In this lesson for grade six, students conduct research about agriculture in South America and Europe and organize the information on a compare/contrast map.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Mandy Matlock.Edited by Julie McCann.
- Making connections between concepts
- In The First Year, page 2.3
- To help students connect what they're learning, make your expectations clear and ask them what they understand and what isn't working.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Finding your way in North Carolina
- Students will become familiar with the regions and local features of North Carolina and be able to write directions for others to find these features on a map.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Sadie Allran Broome.
- Greece: Part 1
- This lesson is one of three created as an interdisciplinary unit on the connection between the art and artifacts of a culture and the values and beliefs of the members of that culture. This unit begins with a class-wide investigation of Ancient Greece and concludes with a visit to the Ackland Art Museum. During the visit, students will have the opportunity to assess their predictions about the Ancient Greeks. In addition, students will look at works of art from other cultures and compare and contrast the visual information provided about those cultures with visual information provided about Greek culture.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies)
- By Winn Wheeler.
- Is Mr. Wolf really a bad guy?
- This lesson is intended to show children the importance of evaluating information as they read. The author's point of view is limited in that it only truly shows one side of the story. There is always another perspective. How the author views a subject colors everything that he or she writes about.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
- 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.
- Farm animal immigrants
- Students will identify a rare or endangered farm animal and then locate its country of origin on a world map. Students will also research the animal and its uses to determine why it was an imported.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)
- By Meg Millard and Pamela Webb.
- Formulating questions to meet information needs of ESL students
- A multi-activity lesson plan to teach the concept of asking engaging, researchable questions prior to reading which leads to effective inquiries during project work. Using engaging questions creates a sense of connectedness by linking academic contents with students' personal concerns. The lesson is primarily designed for English Language Learners although it can be adapted for mainstream students. This lesson can also be modified for use with grades 4-8.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Deborah Wilkes, Kristi Triplett, and Karen Waller.
- Rainy weather
- This is the first lesson in a weather unit. This lesson consists of activities that help students understand the concept of rain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
- By Carol McCrary.
- What do you see? (post-visit)
- In this lesson, students will use observations and reflections made while visiting the Ackland Art Museum to draw conclusions about interpreting artwork (and other works/events), make quality scientific observations, and see how these concepts are related. Students will be reproducing artwork they viewed at the museum, sharing their personal interpretations of various works, and analyzing how the presentation of information (in any situation) can influence our interpretations of a work or event. This lesson is the final lesson in the series of lessons, "What Do YOU See?", which uses the Ackland Art Museum as a resource.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By Reagan West.
- Using percent of change to measure NC growth
- Students will work in small groups to use the internet to gather data on the population growth for each of the 100 counties in NC from 1992 to 1995. From this data students will find the percent of increase/decrease for the counties they have been assigned. As a follow-up, the students will enter their data into a computer spreadsheet and from that spreadsheet, produce graphs of the information.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Computer/Technology Skills, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
- By Wanda Washburn.
- Math in the White House
- This plan uses an online tour of the White House to reinforce the concept of tallying.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Bunnie R. Brewer, Missy Colborn, Kathy Hale, Kim Roberson, and Emily White.
- Solving problems using simple machines
- This lesson uses the familiar story of the three pigs and the big bad wolf to explore how the wolf could have used simple machines to catch the three pigs. By reading, analyzing, and evaluating the wolf's use of simple machines in The 3 Pigs and the Scientific Wolf by Mary Fetzer, the students will design and justify their own machine to help the wolf catch those pigs!
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science)
- By Allison Buckner and Maria Tanner.
- Bubba: A Cinderella story
- This lesson focuses on the whimsical interpretation of the Cinderella story. Students explore the story Bubba, the Cowboy Prince, through rich text and interpretations of the story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Jennifer Fessler and Karen Wright.
- Picturing America at the turn of the twentieth century
- Students link together the literature and the history of the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Questions guide students as they study visual documents. Students also read the teacher's choice of two widely anthologized short stories and an excerpt from a best-selling novel of the period. Two exercises will raise student awareness of the impact that visual images have on their lives: one that is based on internet advertising and a second that results in a student-produced scrapbook.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Scott Culclasure.
- Truth or care? Saving Shiloh
- The students will be able to explain the importance of responsible citizenship and identify ways they can participate in civic affairs after reading the novel Shiloh and completing research of their own on animal abuse. Through this research, they will be responsible for gathering facts to support their stances on the dilemma Marty faces when deciding whether to return Shiloh to his owner, or secretly keep him in order for him to be safe. Students will have real-world experience when they create and are reponsible for caring for their own pet.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Social Studies)
- By Leah Shomaker and Mary Shomaker.
- Math for multiple intelligences
- In Math for multiple intelligences, page 1
- How a middle-school math teacher realized she was boring and jump-started her career — and her students.
- By Gretchen Buher.
