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- Rethinking Reports
- Creative research-based assignments provide alternatives to the President Report, Animal Report, and Famous Person Report that ask students to think about old topics in new ways, work collaboratively, and develop products that support a variety of learning styles.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Beginning biography research
- Encyclopedia research skills will be taught using biographies of famous people. This is one lesson in a collaborative unit taught by both the classroom teacher and library media coordinator
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Joan Milliken.
- Oral history and student learning
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 2
- Oral history enriches historical knowledge; enhances research, writing, thinking, and interpersonal skills; gives students a connection to the community; and helps all students feel included.
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Alternatives to the famous person report
- In Rethinking Reports, page 3.1
- This "rethinking reports" series of articles provides alternative research assignments that challenge students to think critically about historical actors.
- By David Walbert and Melissa Thibault.
- Cotton mills from differing perspectives: Critically analyzing primary documents
- In this lesson, students will read two primary source documents: a 1909 pamphlet exposing the use of child labor in the cotton mills of North Carolina, and a weekly newsletter published by the mill companies. Students will also listen to oral history excerpts from mill workers to gain a third perspective. In a critical analysis, students will identify the audiences for both documents, speculate on the motivations of their authors, and examine the historical importance of each document.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- Benchmark assessments
- This reference article discusses the concept of benchmark assessments, including arguments for and against standardized benchmark testing and best practices in creating teacher-developed benchmark assessments.
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Children at Work: Exposing child labor in the cotton mills of the Carolinas
- In this lesson, students will learn about the use of child labor in the cotton mills of the Carolinas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They will learn what life was like for a child worker and then write an investigative news report exposing the practice of child labor in the mills, using quotations from oral histories with former child mill workers and photographs of child laborers taken by social reform photographer Lewis Hine.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- Storytellers in the Mountains of North Carolina
- Students will study five famous North Carolina storytellers: Jackie Torrence, Ray Hicks, Donald Davis, David Holt, and Sheila Kay Adams. They will research how their stories were collected and how they developed their storytelling styles that distinguish them from other tellers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Martha Hayes.
- Animal research: A multimedia approach
- Students will be working with a partner to research a favorite animal. They will be required to use a wide variety of resources which include multimedia software packages, the Internet, and various books. The students will be looking up general information about their animal, such as its habitat, place on the food chain, size, etc. Ultimately the students will be responsible for presenting the information they have gathered in some form of multimedia presentation. This activity is primarily student-oriented rather than teacher-oriented in that the students will be selecting what animals they want to research and what materials they want to use in creating their report. The teacher will give some basic requirements and guidelines to ensure that students are on task.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Information Skills and Science)
- By Amy Edwards.
- The not-so-famous person report
- In Rethinking Reports, page 3.2
- Instead of teaching the history of the famous, use research in primary sources to teach students that the past and present were made by people like them.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Organization
- In The five features of effective writing, page 3
- Organization, the second Feature of Effective Writing, should be addressed after a writer has established a focus and will help strengthen that focus.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- Does my vote count? Teaching the electoral college
- In Election 2008, page 4.4
- Students will learn about the electoral process and its history through reading, research, and discussion. They will then convene a constitutional convention to debate altering this process.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies)
- By David Walbert.
- Conventions
- In The five features of effective writing, page 6
- Conventions — grammar, spelling, and the like — are important to good writing, but should be taught only after the other Features of Effective Writing.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- 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.
- 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.
- Computer literacy in the ESL classroom: An introduction to formatting
- Word processing software is used to create and print documents. English as a second language middle school students (with an intermediate level of English proficiency) will be introduced to the advantages of word processing with emphasis on text formatting features in Microsoft Works. Both independent and group work is included in the activities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By Milena Dolezel.
- Effects of civil action
- In this lesson, secondary students will analyze primary source materials to investigate how 4-H clubs made an impact on the home front in completing projects that supported the war effort during World War II. This lesson should be taught at the end of a World War II unit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Solar sizzlers
- Group projects of building solar cookers or collectors provide arena for learning about energy sources and transformation. Gathering data for comparison and analysis exercises students' graphing skills and thinking.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Information Skills and Mathematics)
- By Larry Parker.
- Fundamental concepts: Introduction
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.1
- British archaeologist Stuart Piggott once called archaeology “the science of rubbish.” There is truth to his statement. Archaeologists spend lifetimes investigating the abandoned remains of ancient societies.
- 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.
