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The Civil Rights Movement in Context: Investigate the precursors to the Civil Rights Movement, its leadership, its opposition, and its legacy, including lesser-studied events of the movement and primary sources.; Take this course: Begins February 2.

basic interpersonal communication skills: Social language first used by English (or foreign) language learners.
oral history: A method of collecting historical information through recorded interviews with individuals who are willing to share their memories of the past.

Learn to communicate: Students will try to duplicate a pattern based on verbal directions from a partner.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Healthful Living); By Danetta Samuels.

The value of oral history: In Oral history in the classroom, page 1; Why use oral history with your students? Oral history has benefits that no other historical source provides.; By Kathryn Walbert.

Cooperation, trust, and interdependence: This activity involves two group initiatives designed to give students the opportunity to experience what it is like to depend on others for their safety. These initiatives will be used to explore trust, cooperation and interdependence while using problem-solving skills and effective communication.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Guidance); By Laura Janson.

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)

Ordinals concentration: Ordinals Concentration is a matching game that provides practice and review identifying ordinal numbers to ten.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

Everybody show: This math game teaches number recognition and progression, and strengthens rote counting skills.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics); By Mary Waldrup.

Which word is it?: Students will determine the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary words using Context Clues, a dictionary, and structural analysis within a game format.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); By Donna Harkey.

Australia: Learn more about the history, cultures, and geography of the “land down under” with this sampling of great educational resources found on LEARN NC.; Format: bibliography/help

Pattern writing using nouns and adjectives: In this lesson plan, students will think and write creatively using nouns and adjectives. They will experience all phases of the writing process.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts); By Susan S. Craver.

Media submission guidelines: In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 2.1; LEARN NC welcomes submissions of images, audio, and video of educational value for our Multimedia Library, and we encourage authors of lesson plans, best practices, and learning materials to include media where appropriate. Photographs We welcome...; Format: policy/help

Justice for all?: To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time to Kill: Following a study of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, students will view the courtroom scenes in To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time to Kill and determine factors which influenced the verdicts in each trial.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Becky Ackert and Deborah Belknap.

Plan for a panel discussion regarding the validity of the Lincoln Administration: This lesson encourages students to investigate all sides of the issues within the context of the Civil War era. Students will become “experts” on the Lincoln administration and accept the responsibility of sharing their expertise with their classmates through oral communication in a panel discussion.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)

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.

Marketing Song of Roland: The Movie: This enrichment and review lesson ties the French epic poem Song of Roland to workforce development marketing skills. It allows students to imagine themselves as entrepreneurs engaged in marketing schemes for Song of Roland: The Movie as they read the epic in English world literature class.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts); By Betty Eidenier.

Character education: What would you do?: This lesson is designed to teach character development, problem solving, and teamwork. It can also be used with exceptional students in a high school setting.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Guidance)

To Kill A Mockingbird role-play: A Maycomb pig pickin': Somewhere near the middle of reading the novel, students start to become confused about characters. This fun role-play activity works especially well just after Chapter 21 and allows students to get to know characters beyond Jem and Scout. It also can be a springboard into further discussions of point of view, theme, and stereotypes.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts); By David Ansbacher.

Grandparent interview: Students will interview a grandparent and write a news article based upon their interview. They will also do research on historical events to develop questions to be asked during the interview.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts); By Jim Carson.

Wall-to-wall project-based learning: A conversation with biology teacher Kelley Yonce: This article explains the process of project-based learning (PBL) as it is practiced by Kelley Yonce, a high-school biology teacher who uses PBL throughout the school year. Concrete guidelines for a DNA project are included, as well as rubrics, assessment criteria, and other relevant documents.; Format: article/best practice (grade 9–12 Science); By Dan Lewandowski.

The American Dream: In conjunction with a unit on Puritanism, students will define and illustrate their personal definition of the American Dream or their concept of the dream in general.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Becky Ackert and Deborah Belknap.

More than just a rainy day: The water cycle: Students will identify water sources in the school environment in order to understand the origins of our water and to gain perspective about the students' place in the water cycle. Students will learn about the water cycle using a variety of resources and discover connections between the water cycle and the water that they use every day.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Development and Science); By Kelly This and Leigh Thrower.

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