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Facilitating Online Collaboration - Carolina Online Teacher Program
Develop the skills to facilitate good online communication, moderate online discussion, and promote better accomplishment of instructional goals within the virtual classroom. Communication is the lifeblood of online courses - learn how to make the most of it.
Take this course: Begins May 5.

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team teaching
Instructional strategy used across subject areas primarily in middle grades in a variety of methods. Teams are typically composed of between two and four teachers working collaboratively to plan thematic units and lesson plans in order to provide a more supportive environment for students. Also known as co-teaching or collaborative teaching.

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Ultimate frisbee
Ultimate frisbee is a game that can be played on a regular gym floor. Students will use a combination of passing and catching skills. Ultimate frisbee is a good cardiovascular workout. Students will also be able to work on teamwork skills.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living)
By Susie Shelton.
Quad soccer
This is a fun variation of indoor soccer. There are four goals and teams instead of only two.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Healthful Living)
By Clay Mohr.
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.
ACC basketball
The students will use ACC basketball statistics to practice the process of converting fractions to decimals then to percents and will learn how to create and edit a spreadsheet. They will then use this spreadsheet to analyze their data. This unit is done during the basketball season.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics)
By Susan Dougherty.
Sports statisticians: Working with systems of equations
In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.10
In this lesson, students use the substitution and eliminations methods to solve systems of equations related to basketball statistics.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
Roll, pass or shoot
The students roll a ball to knock over a bowling pin. Then their group will either pass the ball or shoot the ball.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Healthful Living)
By Sharon Hudson.
Tennis ball can relay
Through tennis ball can relays, reading will be integrated into the physical education program. This will be done with instructions written on slips of paper. In relay form, students will pull them out of a tennis ball can one at a time and perform each task.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Healthful Living)
By Nancy Lee.
Dream Team basketball stations
Students will refine their basic skills of basketball by participating in a variety of basketball stations.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Healthful Living)
By Lisa Sinon.
Passing for success
Student will learn how to pass a basketball, one of the skills necessary to succeed at the game of basketball.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living)
By Pierre Dacons.
Basketball: How to shoot
This lesson will give students the ability to succeed at one of the most important skills of basketball. This will be interesting, easy, and fun to learn.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living)
March Madness and relationship-building
In The First Year, page 3.9
Taking time away from instruction to build relationships with your students can pay off in the long run.
By Kristi Johnson Smith.
Super casino basketball
Students will demonstrate skills in dribbling, shooting, and defense by participating in a game that promotes cooperation and sportsmanship.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Healthful Living)
By Chad Hamby.
Flipping frogs
Using frog beanbags, students will demonstrate skill components of the underhand toss.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Healthful Living)
By Steve Smalley.
Soccer match in Khota Bahru
Soccer (or "football") is indeed a worldwide sport. A match between two local Malaysian towns filled the local stadium in Khota Bahru. In Malaysia, the football audience is almost entirely male. I definitely stood out as the only white female there. Listen...
Format: audio
Effective basketball shooting
Students will learn and demonstrate effective free throw shooting skills: proper hand placement, balance, stance, and focusing eyesight on the target (basketball goal and rim).
Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 )
By Tim Anderson.
Zigzag jump rope relay
Students participate in a jump rope relay race.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Healthful Living)
By Wilhelmina Cartwright.
Literature-based newspaper: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Students will create an Eatonville newspaper depicting the characters and events in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
By Jennifer Swartz.
Shooting for archery trivia
In this lesson, students will continue to improve target shooting by aiming for index cards placed on their targets. The cards will contain questions pertaining to archery terminology, which will also serve as a review.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Healthful Living)
Wheelin' fun
In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.6
In this lesson for grade seven, students participate in a car-racing lab, and make observations about how design affects speed. Students discuss how the lab applies to careers in motor sports.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
By Emma Couch.Adapted by Michelle Arias.
Underhand throwing
The students will perform the skills of throwing underhand. This is the second lesson in Manipulative Activities Unit in 2nd quarter that follows lesson on rolling a ball.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–3 Healthful Living)
By Bozena Mielczak.