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- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- North America
- Discover Canada, Mexico, and Central America from this selection of great resources.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Bulletin board of story elements
- This lesson will introduce young children to the elements of stories starting with characters. Children will be involved with interactive writing as they respond to shared reading lessons. Students will illustrate a caption of a character to be displayed on a bulletin board.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- Benchmark assessments
- This reference article discusses the concept of benchmark assessments, including arguments for and against standardized benchmark testing and best practices in creating teacher-developed benchmark assessments.
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Children and families in North Carolina
- In this lesson plan, elementary students will analyze photographs of children from North Carolina provided by the Green ‘N’ Growing collection from the Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University. They will investigate how individuals and families are similar and different, and to begin to acquire an understanding of change over time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Cooleemee's Textile Heritage Center
- This historic center was built so that the people of the Carolina mill industry would not be forgotten. The center celebrates and strives to preserve their values and their way of life to share with future generations.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- 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.
- Welcome to the New World
- This lesson provides students an opportunity to read and interpret writings of the late 1500's and to transfer the information provided in the writings into a visual medium as a means of understanding and interpretation. The lesson also provides students practice in persuasive techniques.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Barbara Jean.
- Cloudy with a chance of... what?
- Students will enjoy reading about a town where no one ever goes hungry because the sky provides food while learning about weather, healthy and unhealthy foods, and creating a database.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts and Science)
- By BJ Larson and Paula Sharpe.
- 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.
- Courses and causes
- You don't need special skills, great physical abilities, or a lot of money to participate in environmental workshops — just the interest. Learning opportunities like those discussed in this article can invigorate your teaching, inspire your students, and get you involved in causes outside your school.
- Format: article
- By Linda Dow.
