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- Bring history to life with a Living History Day!
- In Rethinking Reports, page 3.4
- A Living History Day turns students into teachers and challenges them to think historically.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- CareerStart lessons: Grade seven
- This collection of lessons aligns the seventh grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.
- Format: (multiple pages)
- CareerStart lessons: Grade six
- This collection of lessons aligns the sixth grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.
- Format: (multiple pages)
- Intrigue of the Past
- Lesson plans and essays for teachers and students explore North Carolina's past before European contact. Designed for grades four through eight, the web edition of this book covers fundamental concepts, processes, and issues of archaeology, and describes the peoples and cultures of the Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Reaching every learner: Differentiating instruction in theory and practice
- This series of articles, which balance theory, research, and practice, address a variety of topics within differentiation through text, graphics, and video.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Rethinking Reports
- Creative research-based assignments provide alternatives to the President Report, Animal Report, and Famous Person Report that ask students to think about old topics in new ways, work collaboratively, and develop products that support a variety of learning styles.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Staging history: Charter School Teacher of the Year John Hall brings lessons to life
- This article shares some of the instructional strategies of John Hall, 2009-10 AT&T Charter School’s Teacher of the Year. Mr. Hall brings social studies lessons to life by incorporating drama and art.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Dan Lewandowski.
- Who cares?: Using real-world perspectives to engage academically gifted learners
- In Reaching every learner: Differentiating instruction in theory and practice, page 5
- This article shares strategies for engaging gifted learners by creating assignments in which students adopt real-world perspectives on curriculum objectives. The result, the author suggests, is rich, rigorous, challenging learning for those who are ready to go beyond proficiency. Includes step-by-step instructions and sample assignments.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Linda Pigott Robinson.
Resources on the web
- The Multicultural Pavilion Teacher's Corner
- Provides a “Multicultural Teaching Toolbox” of classroom resources, concepts and philosophies, and much more. (Learn more)
- Format: website/activity
- Provided by: EdChange.org
