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- The Paideia Seminar: Active thinking through dialogue
- This teacher training manual, provided by The National Paideia Center, provides a valuable set of resources for educators who want to begin using the Paideia approach.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Mathematics Methods: 6-8 Model Lessons
- In Preservice teacher education resources, page 4.4
- Common Core State Standards Ratios and Proportional Relationships Critical Understandings: understanding ratio concepts and ratio reasoning, analyzing proportional relationships and using them to solve real-world mathematical problems...
- Format: article/teacher's guide
- New beginnings
- In The First Year, page 2.11
- Treat January as an opportunity to start fresh, in your relationships with students and colleagues and in your classroom management and instruction.
- Format: article
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.Commentary and sidebar notes by Lindy Norman.
- Dance of the times: African-American expression of jazz
- Explore jazz dance as a social dance form and a uniquely expressive art of African-American culture from the 1920's and 1930's. Students will learn about the complexity of African-American experiences that generated the dance and musical style. The activities develop students' understanding of jazz dance while integrating visual, audio, and kinesthetic learning styles.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Dance Arts Education)
- By Shelese Douglas.
- How is dolphin communication similar to human communication?
- In BioMusic, page 2.10
- In this lesson, students will find several similarities between the ways humans and dolphins use sound to communicate. They will practice making their own dolphin sounds and use them to communicate with a partner. They will also use these sounds to accompany a reading of Dolphin Talk: Whistles, Clicks, and Clapping Jaws by Wendy Pfeffer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Music Education)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- Earthquake-proof homes
- In Design technology: Children's engineering, page 3.5
- For this lesson, students use knowledge gained from previous lessons to design and build an earthquake-proof home. They will test their structures on a “shake table” and see if their houses survive.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- By Erin Denniston.
- What do you see? (pre-visit)
- This lesson introduces students to the importance of making accurate, detailed scientific observations, and the value of learning about others' views and perspectives regarding a specific topic or event. It also serves as an activity to prepare students for a visit to the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC (or any museum, real or virtual). This lesson is the first of three lessons that build upon each other, using the Ackland Art Museum as the focus.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Visual Arts Education)
- By Reagan West.
- An introduction to teacher research
- Every day, teachers develop lesson plans, evaluate student work, and share outcomes with students, parents, and administrators. Teacher research is simply a more intentional and systematic version of what good teachers already do. This article explains the basic process of teacher research, including formulation of a research question, data collection and analysis, and writing up your findings.
- Format: article
- By Amy Anderson.
- The effects of acid rain on the environment
- This is an experiment in which groups of students are given healthy plants to water with different solutions of an acid rain mixture made in class. Students will document and present their findings. This lesson plan has modifications for an Intermediate Low English Language Learner (ESL student).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 English Language Development and Science)
- By Helen Beall and Heather Hughes-Buchanan.
- How do I use all this data?
- An eight-step checklist and questions for making use of various kinds of education data.
- By Chris Hitch and Ken Jenkins.
- Stay still
- In this lesson students will learn about stability. They will design and build an earthquake-proof house that takes into account the forces acting upon it and the materials with which it will be built. The house will be tested in a “shake table.” Students will be assessed by the product itself as well as their analysis of the results of the test.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- By Erin Denniston.
- Sound booth engineers
- In this lesson plan for second grade, students will work in groups to explore the ability of varied materials to absorb sound by designing and prototyping models of sound or audio booths. Students will provide evidence that shows which materials are better at dampening sound.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)
- By Sarah Taylor.
- Art reflects culture or culture reflects art?
- This lesson provides social studies teachers with an opportunity to collaborate with visual arts teachers to create an interdisciplinary learning environment for students to study two works of art. It allows students to learn about two different time periods and cultures through art.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- By Amanda Keller.
- U.S. Census: Using the past to predict the future
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 6.10
- In this lesson, students research census data about a career that interests them to find out how the numbers of people in that profession have changed over time in North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Andrea Stewart, Keisha Gabriel, and Patty Grant.
- Debates in the middle school classroom
- In Arts of persuasion, page 2
- A plan for staging a debate, including choosing a topic, "debate do's," and assessment.
- Format: article
- By Pamela Myrick and Sharon Pearson.
- Copy cat
- In BioMusic, page 1.7
- In this lesson, students will learn many interesting things about mockingbirds. They will explore the difference between a mimic and an echo, then go on a nature walk and record bird observations in their science notebooks.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- Research and strategies for problem-centered math
- A bibliography of research-driven strategies for teaching problem-centered math at all grade levels.
- Format: article
- By Libby Montagne.
- The Civil Rights Movement in Context: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for the course "The Civil Rights Movement in context" which investigates the precursors to the Civil Rights Movement, its leadership, its opposition, and its legacy, including lesser-studied events of the movement and primary sources.
- Format: syllabus
- Healthy and unhealthy foods: What's the difference? (Part 2)
- In I’m on a diet and proud of it: Nutrition through math and science, page 7
- In this lesson, students will participate in three investigations to discover food sources, as well as advantages and disadvantages of fats.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Healthful Living and Science)
- By Karina Colón.
- African American History to 1950: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for the online course "African American History to 1950," which explores African American history in the contexts of United States, North Carolina, and world history.
- Format: syllabus
