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Adolescent Literacy: Social Studies Comprehension Strategies
The ability to read and comprehend information is crucial to understanding society around us, as well as making decisions and defending one’s views and opinions. Help your students develop the reading skills that will help them achieve higher in social studies--and in life
Take this course: Begins April 6.

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Integrating character education: A lesson on responsibility
Activity on the character trait of responsibility.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
By Cheryl Stafford.
Roundtable
In this cooperative learning model, each team member writes one answer on a piece of paper that is passed around a table. Roundtable is highly effective with creative writing and brainstorming activities. This structure encourages responsibility for the group...
By Heather Coffey.
Mr. Griggs' Work
The students will learn about the importance of responsibility, dependability, punctuality, honesty, and effort in the workplace through the reading of the book Mr. Griggs' Work. The students will have the opportunity to explore these character traits in their own work setting.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
By William Hodge.
Respect and responsibility character traits: Cut and paste activity
Using 20 different quotations that are out of sequential order--each with a relationship to the respect and responsibility character traits--students are to cut and paste the text in ascending sequential order, save, and print.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Computer/Technology Skills)
By Jane M. Harris.
Houses built too close to shore
In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 14
Figure 11 shows a row of houses near those in Figure 10. These were not set back far from the average high tide line. All of these houses are now on the upper edge of the beach, and sea water washes around their foundations at high tide. There is a real question...
By Dirk Frankenberg.
Wife inheritance and the AIDS epidemic in Africa
When an African man dies, it is the responsibility of his brother to inherit his widow. This has become a key factor in the spread of the AIDS virus. This plan looks at this tradition and the AIDS epidemic in African countries and students will discuss possible solutions in a Paideia seminar.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
By Greg Mitchell.
Reading comprehension and English language learners
Teaching reading comprehension and helping English language learners are the responsibility of every teacher, but they are also within the abilities of every teacher. These articles provide strategies for building content-area reading comprehension before, during, and after reading that can help English language learners — and all learners.
Format: series (multiple pages)
Activity: Quinceañera
In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 3.2
Form a committee with some friends who can take you to a Latino tienda or mercado in your community. Divide up responsibility for finding certain articles that are used for a quinceañera,...
Format: activity
Team tag
Students communicate, collaborate, and commit to their team and to the team's strategy. A team's desire for hard work and unselfishness makes for their success.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Healthful Living)
By B.A. Byerly.
Moodle Terms of Use
This document lists the terms of use for using LEARN NC's Moodle learning management system.
The end (for now)
In The First Year, page 4.5
I was a first-year teacher, driving to school and thinking about a thousand things I should have done yesterday and a thousand more that required my attention as soon as possible. If I hadn't needed both hands on the steering wheel, I would have started adding...
By Kristi Johnson Smith.
Privacy policy
LEARN NC recognizes that your privacy is important and that, as a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we have a responsibility to protect your private information. This policy applies to all websites and services provided by LEARN NC.
Format: policy/help
Matchmaking
Students examine the benefits of pet adoption. Students will learn about the responsibilities associated with pet ownership and how to make a good match between pets and potential owners.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Social Studies)
By Barbara Lapointe and Kathleen Johnson.
When you don't have all the answers
Linda Dow suggests freeing yourself from the necessity to be the eternal expert and descibes techniques for sharing the responsibility for learning and teaching alongside your students.
By Linda Dow.
Scaffolding
This reference article explains the theory and practice of scaffolding, and surveys relevant literature related to this instructional technique.
Format: article
By Heather Coffey.
Women cooking in a mountain house in western Nepal
Women cooking in a mountain house in western Nepal
In Nayathanti, Nepal, an elderly woman sorts through a bunch of broad-leafed mustard greens while a young woman works over the hearth. They are probably cooking food for the trekking tourists and their porters. The smoke from cooking and heating the home is...
Format: image/photograph
World War I political debate
In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.7
In this lesson for grade six, students will use their knowledge of World War I to debate whether Germany should have paid reparations following the war.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
By Shea Calloway.
Science as a verb
Inquiry science requires active relationships between students, teachers, and science. Building these relationships is a three-step process that involves thinking about inquiry as a process of science, as a pedagogical strategy, and as a set of skills and behaviors to encourage in students.
Format: article/best practice
By Amy Anderson and David Walbert.
Reading comprehension: What works?
Teach reading comprehension in the elementary grades with flexible strategies that connect reading to the real world, promote independence, and keep students engaged.
By Mary Rogers Rose.
Solving workplace problems: Refining the use of argument
In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 1.8
In this lesson plan, students are presented with two writing prompts that describe workplace problems. Students complete a graphic organizer to help them map out the problem-solving process.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
By Andrea Fedon, Gail Frank, and Cindy Neininger.