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Reading, Writing and Research: Integrating Literacy across the Curriculum: Turn your students into savvy consumers of information. Explore reading and writing instruction and information literacy concepts, and learn to effectively integrate these literacy skills into your teaching, regardless of the subject or grade level.; Take this course: Begins May 4.

Tabletop grids: Students will play a review game in small groups using large grids to develop skill in locating and naming points on grid maps.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Monica Delanoy.

Pattern block addition: Students will practice addition, problem solving, and writing equations in the context of a fun and challenging pattern game.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics); By Dawn Potter.

Habitat photo album: Students will use digital cameras and explore the outdoors searching ecosystems for opportunities to take pictures of different habitats and the components that go into them.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Science); By Colleen Buchauer and Lesley Brooks.

Introduction to polar coordinates: The student will be introduced to the definition of polar coordinates, how to graph them, and how to compare them to rectangular coordinates.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics); By vicky burlington.

Common artifacts: Chipped-stone projectile points: Photograph of chipped-stone projectile points found at Occaneechi Town. The Occaneechi and their predecessors used the bow-and-arrow as a weapon. Their arrows were tipped with small triangular points that were chipped from stone. Much earlier inhabitants of...; Format: image/photograph

Beginning lesson on coordinate grids: First quadrant: Students will investigate the first quadrant of the Cartesian coordinate system. They will use online activities developed by Shodor.org to identify the coordinates of points, or plot specific points. Then students will progress to an activity where they direct a robot through a mine field laid out on the coordinate plane. Permission has been granted for the use of the materials as part of the workshop - "Interactivate Your Bored Math Students" by Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Bonnie Boaz.

Basketball: How to shoot: This lesson will give students the ability to succeed at one of the most important skills of basketball. This will be interesting, easy, and fun to learn.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living)

Blackbeard: The most feared pirate of the Atlantic: Students will acquire information about Blackbeard through primary resources and apply their knowledge to create a newspaper article concerning his life.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Carol Holden and Tanya Klanert.

Step right up!: The students will learn to name an ordered pair for a point and plot positions named by an ordered pair on a large grid located on the classroom floor.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Shelley Dodson.

Story surgery: As early as first grade, children can begin to revise their stories using "Story Surgery." In this lesson, students learn how to use scissors to perform "story surgery" by cutting their stories apart at the point where more information can be added.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Trashketball review for ratios, fractions, decimals and percents.: This lesson will help the students with changing from ratios to fractions, fractions to decimals, and decimals to percents.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics); By David Crumm.

Transpiration lab: In this activity, your students will observe the process of transpiration. They will determine the rate of transpiration for one plant branch.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By Sadie Buie, James Caldwell, Jeanette Fredericks, Janice Shue, Katie Wadsworth, and Tracy Watson.

Sample rubric for student binders: Title: Binder Rubric — Exam 1 Name: Binder Section: Exams Subject: ...; By Kristi Johnson Smith.

Family story with research: Using the book, When The Legends Die and a Native American story-telling unit, students gather a family story of their own.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); By Eric Broer.

Be the meteorologist: Students use internet data to plot the path of a hurricane over several days. At designated points, students will decide which areas of the coast to put under a hurricane warning and will justify their decisions. This lesson uses real weather data and allows students to "be the meteorologist."; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)

Classification with pictures: Students learn taxonomy through presenting a project to the class.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By Lemuel Lamb.

Shooting for archery trivia: In this lesson, students will continue to improve target shooting by aiming for index cards placed on their targets. The cards will contain questions pertaining to archery terminology, which will also serve as a review.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Healthful Living)

Pumpkin punctuation: Students will identify different end punctuation marks that are used in a book they read, and then use those punctuation marks in sentences they write.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Sherry Harris.

Polygenic traits with pennies: Uses the results of flipping pennies to represent the functioning of polygenic traits.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By Buie Sadie, James Caldwell, Jeanette Fredericks, Janice Shue, Katie Wadsworth, and Tracy Watson.

Finding your way in North Carolina: Students will become familiar with the regions and local features of North Carolina and be able to write directions for others to find these features on a map.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies); By Sadie Allran Broome.

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