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- We read every day!
- Students will, through observation outside of the classroom, gather and bring to class five items that exhibit different sources of information comprised of more complex vocabulary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- Scaffolding
- This reference article explains the theory and practice of scaffolding, and surveys relevant literature related to this instructional technique.
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Blueberries for Sal: Counting and correspondence
- This lesson is designed to aid the teacher in teaching the math skills of one to one correspondence, number recognition, and matching numbers to sets. It is also a great lesson to intergrate into a unit on Bears or the color Blue.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Wrenn Smith.
- Running records and you
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.1
- If you teach in North Carolina, you are already "doing" running records. Your school mandates them as a means of assessing student reading. Hopefully you received some training for these assessments, but if your experience was like that of many teachers, you...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- Teaching the features of effective writing
- In The five features of effective writing, page 1
- By organizing your instruction around focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions, you can help students become more effective writers and make your own job easier.
- Format: article
- By Kim Bowen and Kathleen Cali.
- Project-based learning
- Project-based learning is a teaching approach that engages students in sustained, collaborative real-world investigations. Projects are organized around a driving question, and students participate in a variety of tasks that seek to meaningfully address this...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Supermarket sweep: Day 1
- Students will talk about choices that families make when purchasing groceries. Students will make a booklet of frequently purchased grocery items.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Social Studies)
- By Angela Hunt and Melody Holmes.
- Reading comprehension: What works?
- Teach reading comprehension in the elementary grades with flexible strategies that connect reading to the real world, promote independence, and keep students engaged.
- By Mary Rogers Rose.
- Integrating computer use into a Trainable Mentally Disabled Level IV curriculum.
- Students involved in the Trainable Mentally Disabled program will use computers to supplement reading and personal information skills being taught as part of the implementation of student's Individual Education Plan. This activity will also allow students to reinforce fine-motor, visual-motor and behavioral skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By Suzanne Morris.
- Discuss it with discussion boards and forums
- This "Teacher Time Saver" looks at free tools for creating Web-based discussions.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- The Trial of Hamlet
- In this lesson students have the chance to research courtroom procedure to try Hamlet for the murder of Polonius. Then, with some students in the roles of characters from the play, the class will conduct the trial of Shakespeare's most famous anti-hero.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- By Ross White.
- Privacy policy
- LEARN NC recognizes that your privacy is important and that, as a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we have a responsibility to protect your private information. This policy applies to all websites and services provided by LEARN NC.
- Format: policy/help
- Choosing books that are just right
- This teacher research study examines how students select books for independent reading and how teachers can help them make choices more appropriate to their reading levels.
- By Melinda Parks.
- Submitting a lesson plan: Frequently asked questions
- In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 1.3
- Answers to frequently asked questions about submitting lesson plans for publication on the LEARN NC website.
- Format: article/help
- Computer literacy in the ESL classroom: An introduction to formatting
- Word processing software is used to create and print documents. English as a second language middle school students (with an intermediate level of English proficiency) will be introduced to the advantages of word processing with emphasis on text formatting features in Microsoft Works. Both independent and group work is included in the activities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By Milena Dolezel.
- Turning the century
- Students will create a museum display illustrating life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies)
- By Lisa Stamey.
- Solving problems using simple machines
- This lesson uses the familiar story of the three pigs and the big bad wolf to explore how the wolf could have used simple machines to catch the three pigs. By reading, analyzing, and evaluating the wolf's use of simple machines in The 3 Pigs and the Scientific Wolf by Mary Fetzer, the students will design and justify their own machine to help the wolf catch those pigs!
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science)
- By Allison Buckner and Maria Tanner.
- “Der Handschuh” by Friedrich Schiller
- Students will have the opportunity to explore the poem, “Der Handschuh,” through shared reading, shared writing, and phonemic strategies that lead to fluency and comprehension.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Thomas Skinner.
- Spinning spider stories
- This interdisciplinary lesson is designed to introduce students to the purpose and process of comparative literature. The literary selections may be altered according to audience and purpose, from grades 5 through 8.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Play with purpose
- Electronic whiteboards make the internet an active communication vehicle of engagement and learning.
- By Jace Hargis and Tuiren Bratina.
