LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

CEU courses open for enrollment

e-Learning for Educators - Learning and Teaching with Web 2.0 Tools
In this workshop, participants will be exposed to many of the tools of the Read/Write Web and will get the chance to experiment with new tools each week.
Take this course: Begins January 26.

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Place value to the thousands place (review activity)
Students will use number cards with the digits 0-9, and a place value chart with thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones columns to play this game using place value.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
By Beth Evans.
Exploring place value with M&Ms
This lesson will use M&Ms to explore place value. The students are given 8-10 M&Ms and assigned a value for each color from one to hundred thousand. The students will then write their number in standard, written and expanded form. The students will also identify the place and value of various digits.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
By Amy Bullins.
Place the value
This activity allows students to create 3-digit numbers while strategically trying to "out value" their opponents' values.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
By amy cord.
Estimating rational numbers
Students round fractions and mixed numbers to their closest whole number by first changing the rational numbers into decimal numbers.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
By Doreen Castelloe.
Order, please
This lesson lets students interact with rational numbers to create largest and smallest possible numbers.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
By Gail Poteat.
St. James Place Museum
This is a private folk art museum housed in the restored old Robersonville Primitive Baptist Church. It features pieces from the personal collection of Dr. Everette James, Jr., a native of Robersonville and former chair of Radiology at Vanderbilt University.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Hula hoop sorting
Students will use two large hula hoops to form a Venn Diagram. Then, using various colored paper shapes, they will recognize, and identify circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, trapezoids, and parallelograms.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
By Diane Jackson.
Clownfish in anenomes in a Discovery Place display
Clownfish in anenomes in a Discovery Place display
This is a clownfish in anenomes in a display at Discovery Place. Discovery Place is located in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Format: image/photograph
Place value power
This lesson plan incorporates 3 modalities, which will hopefully help students use the ones/units period, the thousands period, and the millions period to compare numbers in a variety of forms.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)
By Becky Boney.
Getting paragraphing down P-A-T
One way to remember when to indent and begin a new paragraph is when (P) the place changes, (A) the action changes, and (T) the time changes (P-A-T). In this lesson, students will learn how to identify appropriate places to indent new paragraphs in their writing.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
By DPI Writing Strategies.
Picture, letter, word
A lesson designed to engage pre-emergent readers in an activity which will enable them to identify pictures, letters, and words in books. It will provide an opportunity for them to work in a small group setting to develop a product and enhance their learning
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
By Linda Kinnamon.
Somerset Place (NC Historic Site)
Located on the banks of Phelps Lake, Somerset Place is a representative antebellum plantation offering a view of life during the period before the Civil War. It became one of North Carolina's most prosperous rice, corn, and wheat plantations.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Subtraction sticks
Using craft sticks, students will practice subtraction of 2 and 3 digit numbers with renaming.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
By Susan Fry.
A dicey stem and leaf plot
After being introduced to a stem and leaf plot, students will be able to create their own stem and leaf plots.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)
By Debbie Newton.
Bennett Place
This is Civil War historic landmark was the location of the largest troop surrender of the Civil War.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
A kitchen at the Bennett Place in Durham, NC
A kitchen at the Bennett Place in Durham, NC
This is the kitchen of the Bennett Place in Durham, North Carolina. A Civil War reenactor explains the food she has made. Bennett Place was the site where General Joseph E. Johnston and General William T. Sherman met to negotiate to the largest troop surrender...
Format: image/photograph
Bennett Place
Bennett Place
At Bennett Place State Historic Site in Durham, North Carolina, the house at which Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrendered to Union General William Sherman has been reconstructed and is open to visitors. The house was rebuilt after it burned in the...
Format: image/photograph
Fall conference 2009
Information about LEARN NC's 2009 fall interactive conference, which took place October 1, 2009. Includes conference agenda, details for participants, handouts, and archived video.
Format: (multiple pages)
Introduction to Venn diagrams
Students will learn how to use a Venn diagram to categorize data. This activity is done as an introduction to Venn diagrams.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)
By Melissa Bancroft.
North Carolina place names
In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.8
This lesson contrasts and compares the names that Native Americans living in North Carolina gave to their villages and places with the names that European and other settlers gave to theirs.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)