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- Bringing current science into the classroom
- Activities for middle and high school on groundwater, water quality, and environmental stewardship have students exploring current environmental research without leaving the classroom.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Project-based learning
- Project-based learning is a teaching approach that engages students in sustained, collaborative real-world investigations. Projects are organized around a driving question, and students participate in a variety of tasks that seek to meaningfully address this...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Don't put it down, put it up!
- In a fifth grade classroom based around projects, everything has its place. This classroom profile shows you the design and purpose of Debra Harwell-Braun's fifth-grade classroom.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Bringing current science into the classroom
- In Bringing current science into the classroom, page 1
- How your students can experience current environmental research without leaving the classroom.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Michele Kloda.
- Real-world learning in a virtual environment
- Want to try project-based learning to get your students involved in real-world issues? A former North Carolina Technology & Learning Teacher of the Year talks about how she worked with the North Carolina Zoo to get students excited about learning.
- By David Walbert.
- 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.
- Managing a classroom with brain food
- Tina Maples' eighth-grade language arts students are serious about their work they do. When students work on projects they care about — what Maples calls "brain food" — they manage the classroom themselves.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Formulating questions to meet information needs of ESL students
- A multi-activity lesson plan to teach the concept of asking engaging, researchable questions prior to reading which leads to effective inquiries during project work. Using engaging questions creates a sense of connectedness by linking academic contents with students' personal concerns. The lesson is primarily designed for English Language Learners although it can be adapted for mainstream students. This lesson can also be modified for use with grades 4-8.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Deborah Wilkes, Kristi Triplett, and Karen Waller.
- 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)
- Civil rights wax museum project
- In this lesson plan, students will choose African Americans prominent in the Civil Rights Movement and research aspects of their lives. They will create timelines of their subjects' lives and a speech about their subjects, emphasizing why they are remembered today.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Sabrina Lewandowski.
- Two paths to knowledge
- For students who who always finish their class work early or want more information than you have time to give, try curriculum compacting.
- By Waverly Harrell.
- Mummy madness
- This is a lesson for seventh grade Social Studies students to learn and demonstrate the mummification process used in ancient Egypt.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- By Jo Oliver.
- 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.
Resources on the web
- Truman Library: Education Programs
- Doing research on President Harry Truman? Here you will find a student guide with details on all aspects of his life and presidency along with audio clips of his speeches, important documents from his presidency, political cartoons, and photographs. This site... (Learn more)
- Format: website/lesson plan
- Provided by: Harry S. Truman Library
- Thinkfinity- Internet Content for the Classroom
- Thinkfinity.org is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives. It provides high-quality content and extensive professional development training for students, parents, educators and after-school coordinators. (Learn more)
- Format: website/lesson plan
- Provided by: Verizon Foundation
