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- Is Mr. Wolf really a bad guy?
- This lesson is intended to show children the importance of evaluating information as they read. The author's point of view is limited in that it only truly shows one side of the story. There is always another perspective. How the author views a subject colors everything that he or she writes about.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
- A circular journey to imaginative narrative writing
- This lesson will help the teacher show students how to bring their imaginative narratives to a logical ending. Students often have difficulty while writing imaginative narratives. They tend to get off to a good beginning and then cannot maintain focus well enough to bring their story to an end. Two well-known stories will be used as effective models. The first story will be analyzed by the whole class and the second will be used in an individual hands-on practice activity. Finally, students will summarize what they have learned and how they can use this information when they write an imaginative narrative.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Sharon MacKenzie.
- Cloudy with a chance of... what?
- Students will enjoy reading about a town where no one ever goes hungry because the sky provides food while learning about weather, healthy and unhealthy foods, and creating a database.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts and Science)
- By BJ Larson and Paula Sharpe.
- Weaving picture books into narrative writing
- Children's picture books are the perfect medium for mini-lessons in narrative writing. Teachers provide books which demonstrate the qualities the students need to develop in their own writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Jan Caldwell.
- Mystery: Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
- This is a three part lesson on mysteries using the novel Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald Sobol.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Christine Weaver.
- Write on!: Hooking the reader
- Students will recognize new and innovative ways to write a narrative by discovering various ways to "hook" the reader with catchy beginnings and using figurative language and writing components to write an interesting story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Tina Duckwall.
- American History
- This selection of American history resources found on LEARN NC takes students from the very infancy of our country to modern times.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Geography centers
- A geography unit in which students investigate and compare their hometowns and other cities. The unit incorporates nine centers: math, science, social studies, reading, writing, computers, puzzles and games, art, and listening. They all have activities that are integrated with the geography unit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Laurie Perry.
- Salt trading in Asia
- In this interdisciplinary lesson, students explore the mineral salt from a variety of perspectives — scientific, geographic, and cultural. The lesson incorporates images of salt production in Nepal and Vietnam, and may be used with grade 4 or grade 7.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 7 Science and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Differences across the curriculum: Part 2
- This set of lessons can be used with "Differences across the curriculum: Part 1" as an integrated approach to exploring diversity with eighth graders. The unit will revolve around the use of the drama version of "The Diary of Anne Frank." Students will learn how diversity creates bias, which leads to conflict, where students confront their bias and practice tolerance. These parts reflect the four core curricula in an interwoven approach to teaching students to confront their biases, learn tolerance, and infer the impact of these on today's society. This activity, Part 2, is meant to augment the pre-reading activities completed in Part 1 in a Social Studies class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Lynn Carter.
- Creating a community
- Students will design a community and take into consideration the structures and human resources necessary for a balanced community. They will evaluate their community as they evaluate differences between wants and needs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Social Studies)
- By Helen Byrd.
- Black American Leaders as Responsible Citizens: Their Roles, Their Contributions, Their Diversity
- The focus of this lesson will be to help third grade students to clearly identify the need for having leaders arise from the citizenry of a given community. Students will review factual information to guide them in distinguishing the positive and negative qualities of leaders. Techniques will include guided reading of factual historical text during a Jigsaw, student note taking, student development of open-ended questions, and student engagement in a Socratic seminar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies)
- By Debbie Rollins.
- Where am I? Mapping a New World
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.2
- Early European travelers to the Americas reported bits and pieces of information back to Europe. Over the centuries, mapmakers assembled these reports into maps. As time went by, explorers and mapmakers compiled an increasingly accurate understanding of the Americas and of the world. To do so, they had to invent new tools for mapmaking, embrace radical new ideas about the shape of the world, and discard cherished beliefs.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Seven directions: Making connections between literature and American Indian history
- This middle school lesson uses picture books to integrate American Indian culture and belief systems with language and visual arts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Edie McDowell.
Resources on the web
- Charting characters for a more complete understanding of the story
- This ReadWriteThink lesson introduces the instructional strategy of Character Perspective Charting. This method is designed to reflect the actual complexity of stories that may not be reflected by the use of traditional story maps. A practical instructional... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Mapping characters across book series
- In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students are introduced to a character from a literature series. The class critically looks at the character and his or her development over the course of the story. Students read critically to learn about the character's... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Once upon a time rethought: Writing fractured fairy tales
- Students listen to fairy tales, identify common characteristics, and select a fairy tale to be re-written in this lesson. After a discussion of familiar fairy tales and the elements that are required for a story to be a part of this genre, students group... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Mapping the National Parks
- Americas National Parks are featured in this Library of Congress: American Memories Collection. The story of these parks are reflected through the maps; from the initial stage of discovery, then exploration, and finally accurate mapping. The site contains... (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: Library of Congress
