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- Modern art pottery
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 20
- Figure 18 shows some examples of the finished product of the potter's art. These amazingly large objects were made by Mark Hewitt and fired in the kiln shown in Figure 15. These pots represent the acme of modern Piedmont art pottery in North Carolina. They...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Why inquiry?
- The rationale for using discovery learning methods in teaching science.
- Educator's guide: The arrival of Swiss immigrants
- Teaching suggestions to help your students synthesize the information in the article "The Arrival of Swiss Immigrants."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- Bloom's Taxonomy is a classification system developed in 1956 by education psychologist Benjamin Bloom to categorize intellectual skills and behavior important to learning. Bloom identified six cognitive levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis,...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools
- These articles provide background on Latino immigrants in North Carolina, administrative challenges in binational education, and strategies through which teachers can build on what Latino students bring to their classrooms to create a learning environment that meets the needs of all students.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Introducing simple machines: A machine walk
- This is an integrated lesson exploring simple machines. The poetry response part of this lesson serves to spark the students' interest as well as allow the teacher to identify students' prior knowledge of machine concepts and vocabulary. The machine walk gives a baseline assessment of students' understanding. The majority of students originally focus on complex machines; this will be evident by the types of machines they identify on their list.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Terri Fannin.
- Understanding vocabulary in their own terms
- This lesson focuses on vocabulary development. Students will work together in small groups to identify at least three to four unknown vocabulary words in a given passage. Vocabulary meanings will be learned through contextual means, previous knowledge and dictionary use. Students will then find a relevant way to illustrate the meaning of the word so that others can understand easily.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts)
- By Christa Schneider.
- A home for Lars
- Our lesson plan is based on the book, Ahoy There, Little Polar Bear, by Hans de Beer. We will use the book to introduce the polar bear's habitat and will elaborate on the necessary things a polar bear needs to survive in this habitat.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education and Science)
- North Carolina American Indian stories
- In this lesson students will select and read stories from some of the North Carolina American Indian tribes. They will compare and contrast two stories of their choice and complete a Venn diagram. Students will use the information on the Venn diagram to write three paragraphs. After reading several American Indian tales or legends, students will then create their own legend using the narrative writing process.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Janice Gardner.
- Fraction funnies
- Students complete a fraction exercise in which they are given clues to find the answer to a joke, and then make up their own "Fraction Funny" sheet using their own jokes (riddles) and clues.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
- By Alisan Royster.
- Inside-outside circle
- During inside-outside circle, students either sit or stand facing each other in two concentric circles. Students respond to teacher questions or note-card prompted questions and then rotate to the next partner. In the end of this type of structure, students...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Funds of knowledge
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 2.1
- Teachers can use "funds of knowledge," the knowledge students gain from their family and cultural backgrounds, to make their classrooms more inclusive.
- By Janet Kier Lopez.
- Working with patterns
- Students use their knowledge of patterns to discover the remaining members of an established pattern as set forth in the Shodor activity called "Pattern Generator." Permission has been granted for the use of the Shodor materials as part of the workshop- "Interactivate Your Bored Math Students" by Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
- Mandarin Chinese II | 中文课程2
- Part two of an online textbook for learning Mandarin Chinese.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Bones and muscles
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.4
- In this lesson for grade seven, students draw bones inside an outline of a human body, and then conduct experiments exploring how muscles work.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- By John Boyd.Adapted by Mitzi Talbert.
- The Piedmont's first human inhabitants
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 4
- The first human inhabitants of the Piedmont to make use of its clays were the American Indians. People who lived along the banks of the Potomac and Savannah Rivers discovered the seemingly miraculous transformation of mud into stone by heat about 4500 years...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Discovery learning
- This reference article explains the theory of discovery learning and discusses its history and its use in the classroom.
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- World War I political debate
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.7
- In this lesson for grade six, students will use their knowledge of World War I to debate whether Germany should have paid reparations following the war.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Shea Calloway.
- Pets
- Students will categorize their family pets and indicate a pet they would like to have. Students will then write sentences about their pets.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Kathy Beck.
- 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.
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