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- Creating community in the classroom: Part 4 (rewarding improvement)
- The fourth lesson in a series on improving classroom learning climate, this lesson provides an opportunity to evaluate student progress and to provide positive reinforcement for improvements in behavior. Using a one to ten continuum, students will subjectively evaluate class progress on the ten adjectives listed as class climate goals. After this process, students will publicly recognize those classmates who have helped the class improve or who have personally improved.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- The seven deadly sins of data analysis
- Commit one of the Seven Deadly Sins of Data Analysis and you run a significant risk of missing AYP under No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
- By Chris Hitch.
- Examining effective openers and closures in writings
- Students will listen to a reading of Dr. Seuss' and Jack Prelutsky's Hooray for Difendoofer Day! Students will then work cooperatively to edit one another's rough drafts of analytical essay, focusing on openers and closures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Heather Bower and Michele Hicks.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 1 (setting goals )
- This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community. Group goal-setting, brainstorming, peer feedback, group decision-making, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure are used to create a safe, supportive environment for learning in the classroom.
In Part 1, students are introduced to the goal-setting process. They will practice the first step of the process as they set individual and class behavioral goals. - Format: lesson plan (grade 1–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- 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.
- How do I use all this data?
- An eight-step checklist and questions for making use of various kinds of education data.
- By Chris Hitch and Ken Jenkins.
- What do you see? (pre-visit)
- This lesson introduces students to the importance of making accurate, detailed scientific observations, and the value of learning about others' views and perspectives regarding a specific topic or event. It also serves as an activity to prepare students for a visit to the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC (or any museum, real or virtual). This lesson is the first of three lessons that build upon each other, using the Ackland Art Museum as the focus.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Reagan West.
- Making the best of testing
- Two teachers offer a four-point plan for preparing students for end-of-grade tests without "teaching to the test": Teach to students' needs, integrate tested concepts into the curriculum, focus on learning before test-taking, and reduce students' stress.
- By David Walbert.
- Working together to get writing right
- Philosophical and practical reasons to support writing across the curriculum in high schools. A WebQuest for teachers.
- Format: article
- By Kim Bowen.
- Observing connections: Art, poetry and the environment (Lesson 1)
- Students will explore the poem of Pat Lowery Collins, “I Am An Artist” and create their own poem from what they see and experience. They will then illustrate their poems with a visual design. This is the first lesson in a series of three in which students are creating art based on their observations: Observing Connections —Art, Poetry, and the Environment (Lesson 1); Observing Connections—Changing Landscapes (Lesson 2); Observing Connections—North Carolina Pottery and Face Jugs (Lesson 3)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By Lisa Mitchell.
- Change in a democratic society (Lesson 1 of 3)
- This lesson will demonstrate how art can imitate society. Students will learn about democracy in America through an examination of and a Paideia seminar on "The Sword of Damocles," an oil painting by British painter Richard Westall. This lesson should be used after a study of colonial times in America and through the American Revolution.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Sharyn West.
- Observing connections: Changing landscapes (Lesson 2)
- The students will learn about the changing environment through study and observation. They will reflect on these changes in the environment and create their own landscape and habitat. This is the second lesson in “Observing connections,” a series of three in which students are creating art based on their observations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Visual Arts Education)
- By Lisa Mitchell.
- Education and literacy in Edgecombe County, 1810
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 5.4
- In this 1810 letter, Jeremiah Battle of Edgecombe County describes the lack of education in eastern North Carolina and the consequences for society and politics. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Archibald Murphey proposes a system of public education
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 4.6
- Report of a joint legislative committee, 1817, laying out a complete plan for statewide public education, including primary schools, academies, and the University of North Carolina. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: report
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- A room for students
- A learning environment where students feel that they belong is the key to success for this eighth-grade language arts teacher. A classroom profile.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Observing connections: North Carolina pottery and face jugs (Lesson 3)
- This is the third lesson in a series of three in which students are creating art based on their observations: Lesson 1 Observing connections—art, poetry and the environment; Lesson 2 Observing connections—changing landscapes; Lesson 3 Observing connections—North Carolina pottery and face jugs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- By Lisa Mitchell.
- Designing your gym class
- From classroom organization to warm-up procedures, one physical education teacher provides a blueprint for a structured physical education program.
- By Bozena Mielczak and Kim Campbell.
- "Where Am I?" Reading guide and activities
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 3.3
- This lesson for grade 8 will help students to understand the article "Where Am I? Mapping a New World" through the use of a graphic organizer and a reading guide.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Children's literature promotes understanding
- Bibliotherapy and critical literacy are two ways to use books to help children better understand themselves, others, and the world around them. This article explains both strategies and provides resources for selecting appropriate books.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Winter Olympics: What a blast!
- The following lesson plan outlines an integrated unit on the Winter Olympics from the perspective of Physical Education. All subject areas can participate (suggestions are listed below), but the culminating activity is the Olympic Games organized through Physical Education classes. This lesson plan could be adapted for any grade level by making the Olympic events age appropriate.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Barbara H. Williams.
