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- Writing for the Web
- How teachers can more effectively communicate information and ideas via the World Wide Web, to students, parents, colleagues, administrators, and the world.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Using RAFT to determine how to write an informational essay
- Students will use RAFT as a tool to determine how to write an informational essay. They will also design a graphic organizer for the assignment as well as compose a rough draft. This is the second lesson in a series of three based on the LEARN NC 9th grade writing exemplars.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- By Kim Bowen.
- Snap! Crackle! Box!
- The student will create a new cereal and design an original box as their final for Art 1. This is a cumulative assignment incorporating the skills and techniques studied and developed throughout the course of the year.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education and English Language Development)
- By Joan Lansford and Peggy Peck.
- Understanding and using fonts
- In Writing for the Web, page 7
- Serifs, sans serifs, and when to use them.
- By David Walbert.
- Simple: Now compound (post-visit)
- This lesson focuses on the process of combining two or more simple machines to form a compound machine. It is the third in a sequence of lessons on machines. The others are Lesson 1: Let's make it simple (pre-visit) and Lesson 2: Make it simple: Now find it(museum visit).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- By Becky Robinson.
- Piedmont cultures graphic organizer
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.3
- This activity will assist students in understanding Piedmont cultures as they read the article "Peoples of the Piedmont."
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Finding hidden messages in advertising
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.3
- In this lesson for grade six, students will look for hidden messages in magazine advertisements and will create their own ads with hidden messages.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Dance Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Catalog display for The Family Under the Bridge
- This project is a culminating activity for the novel The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson. Rather than writing the traditional book report, students will create a catalog of items, characters, places, themes, ideas, etc. from the novel. The students will create the catalog on the computer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Jane Hudson.
- 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.
- Reading for relevance in literature
- A unit-length instructional plan for using graphic organizers to promote active reading of novels, using The Count of Monte Cristo as an example.
- By Suzanne Micallef.
- Tour the United States via HyperStudio Stacks
- Students will combine classroom, library time, and computer lab time to research and construct knowledge about 49 U.S. states. (Students will not research their home state.) Students will use their new research knowledge and the resources provided to construct a HyperStudio stack on their assigned state.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies)
- By Karl Schaefer.
- Tessellations with M.C. Escher
- This lesson familiarizes students with tessellations, designs created by images placed against each other with no empty spaces. It also introduces the work of M. C. Escher. It can be used in conjunction with math lessons in geometry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education)
- By Judith Riddle.
- Autobiographical expression
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.2
- This lesson for grade 6 introduces students to the theory of multiple intelligences. Students consider what their personal strengths are according to this theory.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Ruth Roberts.Adapted by Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Jewelry: Then and now
- This lesson integrates fifth grade social studies with the visual art curriculum through a study of jewelry, both of the present and the past. Students will assemble a necklace from the beads and pendant that they create.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education)
- By Michelle Morris.
- North Carolina regions
- Working in cooperative groups, the students will learn about their assigned regions of North Carolina. A list of questions will be generated. When the research is completed, the students will design a way to orally present the information to the class. This also will integrate Visual Arts and Informational Skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Information Skills and Social Studies)
- By Patricia Britt.
- "We the People"
- Students will gain a better understanding of the U.S. Constitution by exploring the language of the Constitution.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Karen Creech, Terri Hodges, Megan Lawson, and Mary Ostwalt.
- 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
- Local authors database
- Search through more than 200 authors in 15 minutes to answer specific questions. Add records and fields to an incomplete database.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By DPI Integration Strategies.
- Evaluating multimedia presentations
- A PowerPoint presentation is just another form of communication, and the same rules apply to multimedia that apply to writing or verbal communication. This article offers guidelines for using and assigning multimedia presentations in the classroom and includes a rubric based on the Five Features of Effective Writing.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Further reading
- In The five features of effective writing, page 7
- An annotated bibliography on the Features of Effective Writing.
- By Kathleen Cali.
