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- The Scrap Exchange
- Tap into your students creativity with a trip to the Scrap Exchange in Durham. Donated scrap materials that were destined for the landfill can be used to make fun art projects and help students learn the importance of recycling.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- China's ancient engineers
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 4.6
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will learn about some of the inventions of ancient China, and will discuss the kinds of engineering skills required to produce them.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies)
- By Meredith Ebert.Adapted by Kenyatta Bennett and Sonya Rexrode.
- Jump start your creativity: question yourself!
- A short webliography of tools to help you ask good questions.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Picture this!
- In this lesson, students will use their imagination and creativity to create an original, five-minute scene from a given picture.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Theater Arts Education)
- By Cindy Lohr.
- Goodbye, Bill Of Rights!
- Students will enact a scene demonstrating life without one of the first ten amendments. Students will be put into groups of three or four and assigned a specific amendment to research.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies)
- By Greg Simmons.
- Sell me on Dewey!
- Students create short, snappy, written commercials about the main categories in the Dewey Decimal System. Commercials are viewed by the class to reinforce Dewey, and help students locate books in the Library Media Center. Dewey Commercials can be used in Library Media Center Orientation for grades 3-5.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Information Skills)
- By Sonja Beckham.
- Using sound in the classroom
- This article discusses the benefits of using sound in the classroom, and shares some activities to help you and your students get the most out of the experience.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Kristin Post.
- Soooooo tall!
- Students will build a figure out of Legos. There are two groups, and each group is competing with the other. Students build their tower of Legos as high as they can and then measure with a ruler or yard stick. The tower has to be free-standing so the children have to think of ways to keep the tower standing by itself.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Mathematics)
- By Beverly Rose.
- American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide
- Each article in this series features an in-depth look at one aspect of the Library of Congress' American Memory with a special focus on North Carolina materials.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Wilmington's Children's Museum
- Younger students will enjoy exploring the Wilmington's Children's Museum with its many hands-on exhibits.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Temperature graphs
- In the following lesson students will locate and record daily high temperatures for several major cities. This data will then be displayed on line graphs. Students will choose one city, and based on its high temperatures, write a paragraph describing appropriate clothing and activities for that location. They will draw a picture of themselves dressed in the clothing and participating in an activity they described.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Kaye Clark.
- Studying simple machines with Rube Goldberg
- Using a copy of a Rube Goldberg cartoon, show how the famous cartoonist drew weird and wacky machines to complete a simple task. Students will develop their own Rube Goldberg-type cartoon, using five types of simple machines, to accomplish their selected feat.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- By Cynthia Corley.
- Introduction: Rethinking reports
- A little creativity can make research a rewarding learning experience for students and teachers alike.
- By David Walbert and Melissa Thibault.
- Reynolda Gardens
- The educational programs provided by Reynolda Gardens are "designed to encourage curiosity and creativity, provide information on topics related to the art and science of horticulture, and to inspire a sense of stewardship for local and world environments."
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Introduction to polar coordinates
- The student will be introduced to the definition of polar coordinates, how to graph them, and how to compare them to rectangular coordinates.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By vicky burlington.
- The effects of the Great Depression in North Carolina
- This lesson is designed to give the students a better understanding of the personal effects of the Great Depression on the people of North Carolina. It also uses the student's creativity to help others understand these effects.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies and Theater Arts Education)
- By Yvonne Carroll.
- LEARN NC goals and guiding principles
- This document describes LEARN NC’s guiding principles and lists our short-term goals for 2009-2010.
- Format: article/help
- Traveling through Africa
- Students will plan a one-week, three country trip through Africa and create a travelogue of places they will visit. The students will create an electronic scrapbook of highlights of the trip (including cultural highlights, historical points of interest, geographic features, etc.)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies)
- By Ren Bryan.
- Montessori
- The Montessori philosophy is a holistic view of children that builds on natural curiosity and develops a love of learning by creating environments which foster the fulfillment of children's highest potential. History of Montessori In her medical practice,...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- The Little Yellow Chicken
- The students will be following an integrated unit on "Helping." They will use reading, math, social studies, science, technology, and other areas of study. Students will read, as a group, the book The Little Yellow Chicken by Joy Cowley. The students will be incorporating prediction, prior knowledge, comprehension skills, and language skills for the word family "-ook", the vowel sound "e", and the exclamation mark. The technology to be utilized by the students consists of use of the HyperStudio for math review, Math Software, Graph Club to create a graph of favorite party foods, Inspiration to guide and create graphic organizers for writing, and the Ultimate Writing Machine to create their own version of The Little Yellow Chicken. They will also incorporate color words to practice the Spanish Language.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By diane williams.
