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- Education Reference: Collection Policy
- The purpose of LEARN NC's Education Reference is to provide definitions of common terms in K–12 education as well as information that contextualizes the terms and, where appropriate, links to examples and resources that will help teachers implement teaching ideas in their classrooms. These guidelines explain our policy for including entries in the Education Reference.
- Format: article/help
- Hurricane satellite image
- Format: image/photograph
- I have, who has...?
- A chain drill involving teacher made cards on the skills of adding and subtracting fractions, and equivalent fractions. This lesson can serve as a review for many math concepts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)
- By Sherry Russell.
- Is ATP worth the investment?
- In this lesson plan, students learn about ATP using an economic analogy. Students use simple financial tables to explore the concepts of cost, revenue, and return on an investment as it applies to ATP in aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By MaryBeth Knight Greene.
- Zone of proximal development
- This article explores the history and theory of the concept of the zone of proximal development and discusses its application in the classroom.
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Area of solids
- Finding area of rectangular solids and cylinders by cutting them into flat pieces and adding the areas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–12 Mathematics)
- By Dorothy Carawan.
- Economics: Market surveys
- This lesson plan is for an accelerated, academically gifted 4/5th grade combination class. The unit of study is economics (social studies). The SCoS goals and objectives cross grade levels and curriculum areas because of the nature of the children for whom this lesson was designed. This lesson was designed as a supplemental lesson for a unit I taught called Mini-Society (supported by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership). I taught this unit for the first time this year after attending a workshop at Chapel Hill, NC. This lesson enhances the Mini-Society unit in which children create their own businesses.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Social Studies)
- By Denise Delp.
- Helping parents understand
- In Math for multiple intelligences, page 5
- The more ongoing, positive communication you have with parents, the more they'll be willing to work with you.
- By Gretchen Buher.
- The learning cycle
- A three-part model of scientific inquiry that encourages students to develop their own understanding of a scientific concept, explore and deepen that understanding, and then apply the concept to new situations.
- Format: article/best practice
- By David Walbert.
- In it Goes, Out it Comes
- Students will work with input and output using numbers and letters.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
- By Angeli Jarman.
- Just like Brian Wilson did: Using allusion to teach imagery & theme
- Beginning ENG I students are introduced to the general concepts of imagery (including symbolism) and theme in short literature in a lesson that features two contemporary pop songs and their lyrics. Serves as a useful attention getting exercise for low-level ENG I students who must become familiar with general literary concepts and terms for the ENG I EOC.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- By Jeffrey Weeks.
- Cause and effect in the workplace
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.10
- This lesson for grade 6 will help students understand cause and effect and how these concepts apply to the workplace.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Student teams achievement divisions
- In this learning model, teams are arranged after a teacher-led lesson. Team members tutor one another in order to achieve mastery of new concepts. Then, students take individual quizzes, but the team evaluation is based on individual scores. Student teams...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- 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.
- Experiential education
- This article explains the history and theory of experiential education, which combines active learning with concrete experiences, abstract concepts, and reflection in an effort to engage all learning styles.
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Understanding the WIDA English Language Proficiency Standards
- The NC English Language Proficiency Standard Course of Study is the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) English Language Proficiency Standards [approved by the State Board of Education June 5, 2008]. These standards are K-12. English...
- Format: document/policy
- Story sequencing
- This multi-faceted lesson teaches students how to sequence stories. It reinforces the following concepts: first, last, before, after, left, right. This lesson can also focus on carryover of articulation skills to answering questions as well as story telling.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Michele Christon.
- Buy, sell, and tell
- This is a whole language lesson for Speech Language Pathologists that incorporates food vocabulary, basic concepts of matching, color, and number, as well as the pragmatic skill of turn taking for language-delayed kindergarten students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Karen Ring.
- Looking at things from different angles
- This lesson will introduce students to angles using a resource 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 6 Mathematics)
- By Beth Jorgensen.
- Arctic animals
- This is a whole language lesson for Speech Language Pathologists incorporating listening comprehension, categorizing, following verbal directions, and basic vocabulary and language concepts for First grade students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Susan Ayers.
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