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Around the world in one semester!

This lesson is a semester-long project that focuses on countries that speak the target language. Students will research a chosen country and do an oral presentation for the class. They will then research and present a current event weekly for the remainder of the semester.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)

By Crystal Humphrey and Michelle Chrismon.

Opening an Hispanic restaurant

This lesson focuses on vocabulary and currency associated with food, restaurants, and menus. Students conduct research to create an authentic menu with a companion recipe books. The lesson culminates in short presentations and food samples.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)

By Susan Canipe.

Turning the century

Students will create a museum display illustrating life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies)

By Lisa Stamey.

Post-EOG activities: Student products

In this project, students will become entrepreneurs. They will have a business that makes items with 3-dimensional shapes. They will receive various tasks that will require that they make decisions as any other business owner would have to do.

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)

By Geneva Williams.

Seasonal farm landscapes

Students will have visited the farm landscape four times throughout the year, recording their observations during four seasons. The drawings will incorporate their knowledge of farms from our visits, their exposure to the seasonal landscapes of Grant Wood and Claude Monet, and their knowledge of landscape art and its elements of color and perspective developed at the Museum. The final project will be individual student books containing their landscape drawings and text.

Format: lesson plan (grade K Visual Arts Education)

By Jamie Barnhill.

The drought causes conservation

The students will use their knowledge of the importance of water to learn about the hydrosphere. The drought being experienced will be explored through graphs and a personal plan for water conservation.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Science)

By Linda Cummer.

The hero connection: From Beowulf to Batman

After reading Beowulf,students will identify Beowulf's heroic traits, generalize from these traits a list of typical traits for heroes, and then use these traits to compare Beowulf with contemporary heroes. As a culminating activity, students will define their concept of hero and then create a booklet of personal heroes from various areas.

Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)

By Hilda Caldwell.

Caucusing in the middle school classroom

In Arts of persuasion, page 1

Caucusing enables students to practice the elements of responsible citizenship, including persuasive writing and speaking.

By Pamela Myrick and Sharon Pearson.

Writing stories with person-ality

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the concept of adding figurative language to their narrative writing. Through teacher modeling and sharing of appropriate picture books, students will learn to recognize and create personifications for their stories.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)

By Janice Lane.

Asian action I: Character details

Students will use drawing and writing to study characters in Asian art, focusing on the potential stories hinted at by the many details depicted in the art examples. This lesson draws on the richly detailed and expressive human and animal characters depicted in the arts of Asia. Is there a reason why Durga has so many arms? What about Ganesha and that elephant head?

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education and Information Skills)

Collecting family stories

Students will interview relatives and compose a family story on the computer. This lesson was completed in conjunction with two other lesson plans (art and media) using the same theme but could be used alone. Student work from all three lessons was compiled in a student portfolio.

Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 English Language Arts, Guidance, and Social Studies)

By Amy Honeycutt, Chris Furry, and Diana Hicks.

Decomposition in freshwater

This lesson includes hands-on activities to demonstrate the process of decomposition in a freshwater ecosystem. It also focuses on the importance of decomposition and its critical role in the food chain.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)

By Heather Lanier.

Using extended similes to elaborate and add style

Students will analyze a series of extended similes, develop criteria for strong and weak extended similes, and begin using extended similes as a tool for elaboration in their own writing.

Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)

By Jennifer Smyth.

Picturing America at the turn of the twentieth century

Students link together the literature and the history of the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Questions guide students as they study visual documents. Students also read the teacher's choice of two widely anthologized short stories and an excerpt from a best-selling novel of the period. Two exercises will raise student awareness of the impact that visual images have on their lives: one that is based on internet advertising and a second that results in a student-produced scrapbook.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

By Scott Culclasure.

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.

Good medicine

Students will examine changes in technology, medicine, and health that took place in North Carolina between 1870 and 1930 and construct products and ideas which demonstrate understanding of how these changes impacted people living in North Carolina at that time. To achieve these goals, students will employ the eight intelligences of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies)

By Leslie Ramsey.

Learning language strategies through repeated readings of storybooks

This lesson will guide and teach students how to process and produce language at higher levels through meaningful, redundant, contextually appropriate, and intrinsically rewarding center-based activities related to a storybook theme.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Information Skills)

By Elizabeth Winborne.

First Americans of North Carolina and the United States

This lesson will use shared reading, center time, hands-on projects, and journal writing to help learners discover facts about first Americans, particularly those in the region that is today North Carolina, while at the same time developing their English language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Development and Social Studies)

By Adriane Moser.

English historical newsletter project

This is the major research activity for my senior English students enrolled in MHS average English. It is a term-long project that coincides with their ongoing thematic portfolios in British literature. These portfolios with other class ingredients (including this research activity) culminate in a final showcase portfolio which is their final exam. Students pick (first come, first served) from a list of decades (i.e. 1790-99, 1800-1809, etc.) and become an English subject of that decade. In this role, they are to publish a documented newsletter reflecting a week (covering 10 areas) of their life in the decade. They must also generate an annotated bibliography to document their multiple types of sources (20). Students must report on 3 required items (popular writer's latest effort, a new invention from the decade and a new clothing fashion). The remaining 7 areas come from a supplied list: a concert they attended, a new medical discovery, etc.

Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)

By Joe Huddleston.

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