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Reading, Writing and Research: Integrating Literacy across the Curriculum: Turn your students into savvy consumers of information. Explore reading and writing instruction and information literacy concepts, and learn to effectively integrate these literacy skills into your teaching, regardless of the subject or grade level.; Take this course: Begins May 4.

curriculum: The organization of subject matter to be taught over a prescribed period of time.
hidden curriculum: The norms, values, and beliefs transmitted to students through educational practices and content.
interdisciplinary curriculum: Applying methods and language from more than one academic discipline to examine a theme, issue, question, problem, topic, or experience. Interdisciplinary methods work to create connections between traditionally discrete disciplines such as mathematics, the sciences, social studies or history, and English language arts.
curriculum compacting: Curriculum compacting is a content acceleration strategy that enables students to skip parts of the curriculum they have already mastered and move on to more challenging content and activities.

About the North Carolina Standard Course of Study: An explanation of the state curriculum and how LEARN NC aligns resources to it.; Format: article/help

Understanding the curriculum: A guide for new teachers (and teachers new to North Carolina).; Format: bibliography/help

Teaching about North Carolina American Indians: This web edition is drawn from a teachers institute curriculum enrichment project on North Carolina American Indian Studies conducted by the North Carolina Humanities Council. Resources include best practices for teaching about American Indians, suggestions for curriculum integration, webliographies, and lesson plans about North Carolina American Indians.; Format: book (multiple pages)

Finding resources for students: On the LEARN NC website, resources that can be used by students are called "learning materials." You can access them in a number of ways: 1. Site navigation menu On the site navigation menu in the left sidebar, select "Learning...; Format: article/help

Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach: This collection of kindergarten lesson plans uses classic nursery rhymes to teach curriculum objectives in math, English language arts, science, and healthful living.; Format: (multiple pages)

Alternatives to the animal report: In Rethinking Reports, page 2.1; Year after year, students are assigned an animal report, a factual report on a species of their choice. My son chose the Harpy Eagle for his third-grade animal report — and proceeded to re-submit that report with only slight modifications for years thereafter!...; By Melissa Thibault.

Women's ACC Basketball Tournament School Day curriculum: Four collections of basketball-based units for grades K–8 teach all areas of the curriculum through the lens of the 2010 Women's ACC Basketball Tournament.; Format: activity

Screech Owl Farm School: Students will learn about farm ecology when they participate in one of the tailor-made field trips at one of the local partner farms.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Center for Diversity Education: The CDE is entirely curriculum-focused to assist teachers in embedding a knowledge base of many peoples into the daily content of the classroom in grades K-12. It is the mission of CDE to prepare all students with the necessary skills to maintain a pluralistic democracy in an increasingly complex and diverse nation and world.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

LEARN NC Virtual Mentoring Program: LEARN NC mentors are experts in their subject matter and have effectively mentored teachers in their own school systems. Whatever the challenge, LEARN NC will be there from the first day of class through the final bell of the year.

To know them is to teach them: We must maintain high standards and expectations, incorporate students' experiences into the curriculum, and use culturally relevant materials.; By Barbara Rush.

Sea Grant North Carolina: With a variety of research and outreach programs, this organization provides several educational opportunities for marine science educators including workshops, marine science and environmental education curriculum development, research opportunities and grants, and field trips.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Interdisciplinary teaching: This education reference article explains the concept of interdisciplinary teaching and discusses considerations for developing interdisciplinary curriculum.; Format: article; By Heather Coffey.

Tobacco bag stringing: Educator's guide: Elementary lesson plans Elementary lesson plans based upon Tobacco Bag Stringing: Life and Labor in the Depression will help students understand what tobacco bag stringing was, study primary source documents and visuals,...; Format: lesson plan

CareerStart lessons: Grade seven: This collection of lessons aligns the seventh grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.; Format: (multiple pages)

Robeson Planetarium/Science and Technology Center: A part of the public schools of Robeson County, this planetarium and science center specializes in programs geared to 3rd through 8th grade science.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

CareerStart lessons: Grade eight: This collection of lessons aligns the eighth grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.; Format: (multiple pages)

Airborne and Special Operations Museum: Relive military history from World War II to the present through exhibits at the Airborne and Special Operations Museum.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Introduction: Rethinking reports: A little creativity can make research a rewarding learning experience for students and teachers alike.; By David Walbert and Melissa Thibault.

North Carolina Thinking Skills: An introduction: There are five dimensions in the model of thinking skills used to classify questions for the state's assessment tests.; Format: article; By Tom Munk.

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