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- Web of life
- Students will apply their knowledge of the different categories of species that live on Earth. Students will then use a variety of thinking maps to display their information.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By Danielle Pickard.
- Savvy soil
- The students will compare and contrast the physical characteristics of three soils: clay, humus, and sand. They will create double bubble maps and list poems about the soils.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Science)
- By Karen Smith.
- North Carolina's physical and cultural geography
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.3
- In this lesson students will make assumptions about the influence of geography on various aspects of historical human and cultural geography.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Guess The Genre!
- Students apply knowledge of genres to identify different genres from "reading-alouds of excerpts" from selected books representing different genres.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Information Skills)
- By Ann Jenkins.
- Leapin' leprechauns
- This lesson will allow first graders to use their imagination while practicing newly learned writing skills. The end product will be wonderfully creative leprechaun stories.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By JoAnn Lazaro.
- Concept maps: an introduction
- Using concept maps can help students make connections among subject areas. This article explains how teachers can use concept maps effectively and provides links to tools for creating them online.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Economic resources using thinking maps
- This lesson uses several literature selections in order to identify and classify natural, human, and capital resources. Students will work together in small groups to gather information and individually complete a Thinking Map. The assessment includes completing a Tree Map individually and sharing group information with the rest of the class. This lesson will take two days.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Robin Campbell.
- "Twas the Night Before Christmas": Retelling through thinking maps
- After reading and discussing “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” students will work together to create a Flow Map. Each student will then use the map they created individually to retell the story in his/her own words.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By Amy Rhyne, Paulette Keys, and Sarah Carson.
- Rocky Mount Children's Museum and Science Center
- Students will love visiting the Rocky Mount Children's Museum and Science Center. The exhibits are fun, hands-on, and engaging.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Apples on parade
- Children will discover the different varieties of apples after listening to a selected story by describing likenesses and differences of apples, sorting apples, graphing apples, eating apples, and creating apple star trees. This unit can be extended to allow children to cook with apples.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Nancy Haley.
- What in the world does this have to do with maps and globes?
- This lesson focuses on the similarities and differences between a globe and a flat world map. It introduces critical vocabulary relating to cardinal directions and longitude and latitude.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Phebe Watson and Sylvia Easterling.
- Reading images: an introduction to visual literacy
- Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn.
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- A Birthday Basket For Tia
- This lesson will provide your students with an opportunity to brainstorm, predict, and check for understanding throughout this wonderful story about a little girl, Cecilia, who is preparing a special birthday gift for her 90 year-old Aunt Tia. Cecilia collects objects that represent her favorite memories with her aunt. Many uses of technology are suggested to integrate math and science with language and reading.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Jenny Walters.
- Educating leaders for tomorrow
- The intent of this lesson is to demonstrate the need for (student) citizens to assume learning and leading roles and behaviors that will better ensure a successful future.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies)
- By David Newsome.
- 1676 map of Carolina
- 1676 map of Carolina drawn by British cartographer John Speed. This is one of the earliest published maps of the colony, and it reflects the colonists' limited understanding of the territory, as well as some amount of wishful thinking. The map appears to be...
- Format: image/map
- From seed to plant
- This lesson will give students an opportunity to learn about seed parts, how a plant grows, and to compare plants.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science)
- By Gretchen Barkowitz.
- Learning about rocks
- In this lesson, students will be engaged in hands-on experiences while they explore rocks.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics and Science)
- By Debbie Hansman.
- Solving problems using simple machines
- This lesson uses the familiar story of the three pigs and the big bad wolf to explore how the wolf could have used simple machines to catch the three pigs. By reading, analyzing, and evaluating the wolf's use of simple machines in The 3 Pigs and the Scientific Wolf by Mary Fetzer, the students will design and justify their own machine to help the wolf catch those pigs!
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science)
- By Allison Buckner and Maria Tanner.
- Preparing English language learners for reading comprehension
- In Reading comprehension and English language learners, page 1
- Use KWL charts, circle maps and brainstorming webs, and concept maps to prepare English language learners, content-area learners, and all students for reading comprehension.
- By Ellen Douglas.
- Pigs and wolf on a map!
- The students will construct a Double Bubble Map (Venn Diagram) to compare and contrast two versions of a familiar fairytale.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By Cherry Randall.
