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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)
- Sorting again and again!
- Students will discover that beans have many attributes and they will sort them accordingly.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Melanie Kush.
- Classifying transportation objects
- In this lesson the students will sort, classify, and label transportation items by various attributes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By LuAda Skaggs.
- Penguin possibilities: Sorting by attributes
- This lesson is designed to help students observe details and explore ways that objects, in this case penguins, can be sorted by various attributes such as size, color, etc.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Shyrl Stadler.
- 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.
- Books we've read
- This lesson plan creates a classroom database collecting information on books that students have read over a period of time determined by the teacher and/or students. By sorting and filtering, students evaluate the data and can later create other products from their findings.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills and Information Skills)
- By Mary Rizzo.
- Listening while you work: Using informal assessments to inform your instruction
- In The First Year, page 2.2
- Ongoing classroom assessment can be informal, but it provides invaluable information about what students are actually learning.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Water cycle word study
- Students will look at the written similarities in the words used to describe the water cycle (ex., evaporation, transpiration, precipitation, accumulation, condensation), focusing on suffixes and prefixes as a way to gain understanding of those terms. Students will group words by meaning and label a blank water cycle chart based on the categories for the groupings they create. This lesson is designed in conjunction with “More than just a rainy day—the water cycle.”
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science)
- By Kelly This and Leigh Thrower.
- Dear Tootsie Roll company
- The students will measure the surface area and wrapper area of five pieces of candy. Using appropriate formulas and measuring techniques, they will complete information needed for a spreadsheet and database. Students wrap up the lesson by writing a letter to the company with the most wasted paper to explain how the waste affects them as consumers and a suggestion for correcting the problem.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Tonya Thompson.
- Change in a democratic society (Lesson 1 of 3)
- This lesson will demonstrate how art can imitate society. Students will learn about democracy in America through an examination of and a Paideia seminar on "The Sword of Damocles," an oil painting by British painter Richard Westall. This lesson should be used after a study of colonial times in America and through the American Revolution.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Sharyn West.
- When you don't have all the answers
- Linda Dow suggests freeing yourself from the necessity to be the eternal expert and descibes techniques for sharing the responsibility for learning and teaching alongside your students.
- By Linda Dow.
- A road map to reading
- Students struggle with informational texts and websites. Understanding the structure of these texts is essential to efficient information gathering. The "Road Map" is a pre-reading strategy. Like the road map in your atlas, this mapping activity will help students visualize the layout of the text before they start reading so they will have an idea of where they are going (or where to find the information they are looking for) when they start reading. This lesson will also address active-reading strategies students can use to find information for research in print and electronic sources.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies)
- By Elizabeth Hubbe and Melissa Thibault.
- Survival in Abel's Island: Segment 1
- This is the first segment of a literature study on the book Abel's Island by William Steig. This unit is centered around the concept of survival. The instruction involves the student in analysis of all that is involved in what we simply term "survival". It prepares students for situations in their real worlds that are symbolized by events in the novel as well as hopefully increasing their understanding and ability to analyze these situations, break them down and make logical decisions supported by evidence and higher level thinking skills.
This unit is especially appropriate for gifted students, using different models (Bloom, Bruner, Kohlberg) in the lesson formats. It contains intense analysis of passages from the novel and questioning strategies that pull the students into a higher realm of thinking and reasoning.
This first lesson is a combination of an introduction to natural disasters (which is the first major conflict in the book), the start of a diary and analysis of a passage. - Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts)
- By Courtney Pickett.
- Soil and erosion unit: Section 1
- This two week unit will involve descriptive information on North Carolina soil types and how the presence of plants affects soil erosion. Upon completion of Section 1, you may continue to Section 2.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Amy Robertson.
- Labor unions in the cotton mills
- This lesson for grades 11–12 will help students recognize the value of primary sources in studying and understanding history. Students will learn about the labor union movement in the U.S. by listening to oral histories, and will deliver a persuasive speech arguing for or against unionization.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- Good medicine
- Students will examine changes in technology, medicine, and health that took place in North Carolina between 1870 and 1930 and construct products and ideas which demonstrate understanding of how these changes impacted people living in North Carolina at that time. To achieve these goals, students will employ the eight intelligences of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Leslie Ramsey.
- The North Carolina mountains in the early 1900s through the writing and photography of Horace Kephart
- Students will develop an understanding of daily life and culture in the mountains of North Carolina during the early 20th century through photographs and written sources; practice visual literacy skills and gain experience analyzing visual and written sources of historical information; and learn to revise their early analyses of historical sources and to synthesize the information found in different kinds of primary documents by planning a museum exhibit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Seven directions: Making connections between literature and American Indian history
- This middle school lesson uses picture books to integrate American Indian culture and belief systems with language and visual arts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Winter Olympics: What a blast!
- The following lesson plan outlines an integrated unit on the Winter Olympics from the perspective of Physical Education. All subject areas can participate (suggestions are listed below), but the culminating activity is the Olympic Games organized through Physical Education classes. This lesson plan could be adapted for any grade level by making the Olympic events age appropriate.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Barbara H. Williams.
- Among the Tuscarora: The strange and mysterious death of John Lawson, gentleman, explorer, and writer
- They've taken his clothes, picked the straight razor out of his pocket: one brave fingers it, touches the blade — bright blood springs from his thumb and he laughs. The pitch pine split by the women is ready, a clay pot full...
- Format: article
- By Marjorie Hudson.
