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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

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Sensing the world around us
Students will review the five senses and listen to an Ezra Jack Keats' story in which a blind man uses his senses of hearing and smelling to learn about his neighbors. Students will then experience the difficulty of using only one sense to identify different sounds.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
By Libby Oxenfeld.
The five senses
The children will learn in this study the five senses through observations and experiments.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
By Nancy Ziegler.
The five senses
This lesson will help students describe how objects look, feel, taste, smell, and sound using all senses.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
By Kathy Gravitt.
The five senses: Hearing
We hear through movement of the ear drum which is tightly stretched across the ear canal and vibrates when air waves push it.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)
By Wicky Porch.
"I Spy": Using adjectives and descriptive phrases
Students will review definitions for adjectives, learn and practice sensory adjectives and imagery, and use adjectives and descriptive phrases in writing a paragraph and/or story.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
By Elizabeth Hutchens.
Teaching voice
This lesson helps students to develop an effective voice by selecting words that are clear, concrete, and exact. Exercises are based on model sentences from world literature selections.
Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
By Pamela Beal.
Millis Regional Health Education Center
Visitors are sure to have fun while they learn about the human body and how to stay healthy at this health education facility.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
An introduction to Stanislavski's method
This lesson plan provides basic guidelines of the Stanislavski system. Exercises are offered to help the student to think creatively and apply this plan to develop their own acting techniques. This plan can be introduced in one class period and practiced throughout the term. Follow these exercises with improvisation. It will help students focus and begin to think on their feet. This plan deals with concentration.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Theater Arts Education)
By Jo Ann Taylor.
Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education
"Specializes in developing programs for youth to address health concerns like childhood obesity, physical inactivity, unhealthy food choices, tooth decay, drug and alcohol abuse, unintentional injuries, and teen pregnancy."
Format: article/field trip opportunity
The Health Adventure: A Health and Science Education Museum
Features information about the museum and its exhibitions. Teachers will find a free lesson plan for 4th and 5th graders about world climate change, reservations for school classes, and downloadable teacher visiting guide.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Animals, animals, animals
In this lesson students will learn to observe special characteristics and senses which influence the life of an animal and become aware of threats to animals and their habitats and how this affects everyone.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
By Joyce Poplin.
SciWorks Science Center and Environmental Park of Forsyth County
Whether it is biology, geology, physics, or health science, "it is fun to learn about science at SciWorks!"
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Look and listen: Exploring the five senses
This group of shared reading lessons is based on the book Look by Jillian Cutting. They are designed to be used as a part of an integrated classroom unit on the five senses.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
Think like a scientist
Written to accompany a sixth-grade science lesson, this article explains important concepts in scientific inquiry, including observation, inference, prediction, classification, model-making, and communication.
Format: article
By April Galloway and Christine Scott.Edited by Julie McCann.
Do you know your body?
Students learn to identify different body parts and how they move. They explore moving and using these parts in general and personal space.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living)
By Bill Knight.
Gingerbread Man Fun
This lesson will allow students to demonstrate sense of beginning, middle, and end of a story. They will also use various objects to create patterns comparing these objects using appropriate vocabulary (small, medium, large).
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
By Rebecca Jones.
Indian painting of Rama's father on bed as he nears death
Indian painting of Rama's father on bed as he nears death
This Indian painting shows Rama's father on his royal bed as he nears death. A wife and son are at his side. In the Ramayana, when Rama's father senses he is approaching death, he decides to declare that his eldest son Rama should succeed him. Rama tours in...
Format: image/photograph
Hanuman rescues and carries unconscious Rama (Thai Ramayana mural)
Hanuman rescues and carries unconscious Rama (Thai Ramayana mural)
Hanuman rescues and carries the unconscious Rama. This Emerald Buddha Temple mural image shows two sequential events painted within the same rocky outdoor landscape. At left, Hanuman finds Rama lying unconscious within a black wire cage. Hanuman balances on...
Format: image/photograph
Discovery Place and the Charlotte Nature Museum
Discovery Place offers hands-on activities in all areas of science for students at both the Discovery Halls and Charlotte Nature Museum.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Exploring pumpkins
This lesson will allow students to use a variety of methods to explore pumpkins.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics and Science)
By Angelia Braswell.