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- Fitness with a jumpstick
- The lesson includes a variety of activities for strength, endurance, and flexibility with the use of a jumpstick. Intervals of jogging and exercises of major muscle groups include an element of fun. The teacher's leading role adds intensity and excitement to these activities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Healthful Living)
- By Bozena Mielczak.
- Sweetgrass
- Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia filipes) is a perennial grass native to the southeastern United States ranging from North Carolina south and west to Texas. In the fall, sweetgrass flowers, giving it the purple hue seen in this photograph. Because...
- Format: image/photograph
- Exploring the families of instruments
- Students will learn about the families of instruments and conclude the lesson by constructing a model instrument from one of the families studied.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Music Education)
- By Leslie Cothern.
- North Carolina e-Learning for Educators
- A description of the North Carolina e-Learning for Educators program, a series of high-quality, low-cost professional development courses.
- Format: article/help
- "I Declare, I believe this document May Flower!"
- The learner will apply ideas of self-government as expressed in America's founding documents. To be used with/for SLD and other exceptional students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies)
- By Gary Peterson.
- Science as a verb
- Inquiry science requires active relationships between students, teachers, and science. Building these relationships is a three-step process that involves thinking about inquiry as a process of science, as a pedagogical strategy, and as a set of skills and behaviors to encourage in students.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Amy Anderson and David Walbert.
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, affirmed and remanded (1955)
- In Brown II the court delegated the task of carrying out the desegregation to district courts with orders that desegregation occur “with all deliberate speed.”
- Format: court decision/primary source
- Caucusing in the middle school classroom
- In Arts of persuasion, page 1
- Caucusing enables students to practice the elements of responsible citizenship, including persuasive writing and speaking.
- By Pamela Myrick and Sharon Pearson.
- Team teaching
- Also known as co-teaching or collaborative teaching, team teaching is an instructional strategy used across subject areas primarily in middle grades in a variety of methods. Teams are typically composed of between two and four teachers...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Sticky-note discussions
- Sticky-notes discussions are fun, add variety to reading, and allow students to respond to the written text immediately. They are easy to implement in all content areas. Sticky-note discussions are effective when used individually, in a small or large group, or a combination of settings.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–8 English Language Arts)
- By Kim Rector.
- Primary fitness skills unit
- The main focus of this unit is primary physical fitness skills assessment and development. With PE class scheduled once a week, fitness assessment becomes a challenge. This unit keeps students moving and at the same time assesses their primary fitness skills in each lesson.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Healthful Living)
- By Bozena Mielczak.
- Change in a democratic society (Lesson 1 of 3)
- This lesson will demonstrate how art can imitate society. Students will learn about democracy in America through an examination of and a Paideia seminar on "The Sword of Damocles," an oil painting by British painter Richard Westall. This lesson should be used after a study of colonial times in America and through the American Revolution.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Sharyn West.
- Get real!
- When teaching computer proficiency to at-risk students, make classroom lessons relevant to their lives and take account of different learning styles.
- By Skip Thibault.
- Strive to survive: Part 2
- Students will explore the concepts of survival and natural selection from scientific and historical points-of-view using inquiry-based investigations, internet research and other strategies.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Jeffrey Bell.
- Number sense every day
- Number sense – an intuitive feel for numbers and their relationships – develops when children solve problems for themselves.
- By Lisa Wilson Carboni.
- Math for multiple intelligences
- In Math for multiple intelligences, page 1
- How a middle-school math teacher realized she was boring and jump-started her career — and her students.
- By Gretchen Buher.
- Why study a foreign language?
- Foreign language study enhances academic skills, raises SAT scores, and prepares students for careers.
- By Bernadette Morris.
- Making the best of testing
- Two teachers offer a four-point plan for preparing students for end-of-grade tests without "teaching to the test": Teach to students' needs, integrate tested concepts into the curriculum, focus on learning before test-taking, and reduce students' stress.
- By David Walbert.
- 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.
- Back to the future!
- In this lesson plan, students research the history of an important invention and present what they've learned through an annotated timeline, historical fiction journal accounts, and VoiceThread technology.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Information Skills)
- By Diane Ruby.
