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Jack-o-Light

We use pumpkins to demonstrate that fire needs air to burn. This goes really well with Fire Safety Week and our pumpkin unit. Also, we 'guesstimate' how many pumpkin seeds are in the pumpkin. We roast them afterwards by following a recipe. You can also create a Kids Pix picture of pumpkins.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics and Science)

By Michele Tipton.

Incorporating oral history into the K–12 curriculum

In Oral history in the classroom, page 3

Oral history techniques for use with students at all levels, from kindergarten through high school.

By Kathryn Walbert.

When you don't have all the answers

Linda Dow suggests freeing yourself from the necessity to be the eternal expert and descibes techniques for sharing the responsibility for learning and teaching alongside your students.

By Linda Dow.

Summer safety!

The children will learn to identify unsafe situations and name hazardous activities they may encounter or see during the warm months between May and September.

Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living)

Ten questions for planning an oral history project

In Oral history in the classroom, page 4

Plan ahead to avoid frustration and to ensure that your students get as much as possible out of an oral history project.

By Kathryn Walbert.

Edith Vanderbilt's relationship with estate families

George Vanderbilt’s marriage to Edith Stuyvesant Dresser in June 1898 precipitated a special celebration when the Agricultural Department won a tug-of-war competition with nursery workers, foresters, and Biltmore House employees and received a “handsome...

Format: article

By Sue Clark McKendree.

Planning a successful (and educational) field trip

The world can be your classroom -- but ensuring that your field trip is a productive learning experience for students takes planning. This article helps you prepare your students, yourself, and others for a successful field trip.

Format: article

By Bobby Hobgood and Lesley Richardson.

Resources on the web

Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching

A collection of learning materials and annotated strategies organized into categories. Submissions are peer-reviewed and accepted submissions are eligible for Learning Material Awards. This is a well organized, user friendly site. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: California State University Center for Distributed Learning

North Carolina Council on the Holocaust

The Council provides broad and diverse rsources, educational materials and commemorative services to remind us never to forget the Holocaust and to teach our children about the horror of this historic period so that it will never happen again. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction