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The
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the Web: Internet Research Tips |
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Yahooligans:
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Kidz
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Protecting
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EdSITEment
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Education
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AIMS
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Storytelling
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Read-Write-Think.org
Lessons a collection of language arts lessons organized by grade level~many
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Between
the Lions: 10 Minute Activities to Help Your Child Become Stronger Readers
Here are some useful and engaging
expert-approved ideas to help you teach your child to read, and have fun
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Choose
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Writing
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Active
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Reading
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Mini-Lesson
on the Semi-Colon |
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Journaling
Activity Bank a new way of journaling for students; includes different
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From
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Reading |
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Geometric
Character Analysis By listing geometric shapes to represent
characters and arranging them on paper to suggest their inter-relationships,
students explore and discuss possible characterizations and conflicts. |
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Interrupted
Book Report |
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Dialog
Jacket character analysis activity |
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Literature
CyberGuides K-3 units based on books or stories |
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Literature
CyberGuide 4-6 units based on novels and stories |
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Phonics
in the Classroom lessons and activities for teaching phonics |
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Name
Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Relationships in the Classroom lesson |
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Responding
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Fairy Tales |
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Fairy
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Fairy
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Fairy
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Writing
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Poetry |
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Colonial
Williamsburg: Teacher Gazette |
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Civil
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Choosing Revolution It's the summer of 1775 and you need to choose to support the Patriots or
Loyalists. Learn more about the Revolution and decide which side you are on! |
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The American Revolution Read the lessons, try the activities, then take a quiz. This includes 15 lessons with active learning activities that enhance each lesson. Some of the activities include role playing, in-class simulations, voting, mapping activities, graphing, making secret messages, etc. |
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Revolutionary War Learning Centers Centers created for the Revolutionary War |
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Yahooligans Sites on Revolutionary War |
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Informational Sites for Revolutionary War |
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Revolutionary War Games The first two games in this list are educational and strategy games. The last two games are more for fun. |
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The American Revolution for Kids Reference a timeline, and read about the uniforms, women, and leaders of the
period. See drawings of American and British flags and symbols, from the fourth
graders of Pocantico Hills School. |
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Road to the Revolution Check out this interactive quiz that tests your knowledge of the Revolutionary
War. Every correct answer gets you a step closer to winning independence. |
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The Shot Heard 'Round the World - Schoolhouse Rock Lyrics, sound, and video of this SchoolHouse Rock cartoon which describes the
Revolutionary War. |
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Women Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War
Discusses specific women who contributed to Revolutionary War efforts. |
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| History |
Avast
Ye Mateys-Learning About Blackbeard the Pirate Using both print and
Internet sources, students will explore a collection of information associated
with Pirates and Blackbeard, in conjunction with their studies of North
Carolina History. from LearnNC |
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Write
a Ghost Story Building upon the students' knowledge base of Blackbeard
the Pirate, the numerous shipwrecks off of the N.C. coast, myths, and legends
of the Carolinas, and/or The Lost Colony, students will write a ghost story
or mystery narrative of their own. |
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Blue
Ridge Parkway Travelogue Students plan and develop a week-long trip
along the Blue Ridge Parkway, from beginning to end. The virtual tour culminates
in the creation of a travelogue that will outline the trip. from LearnNC |
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Finding
Your Way in North Carolina Students will become familiar with the regions
and local features of North Carolina and be able to write directions for
others to find these features on a map. from LearnNC |
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NC:
Living Through Photos, Then and Now Students will examine historical
photographs of North Carolinians at work or in social settings. They will
develop and share skills of “reading” photographs. Then they
will use these skills to identify “historical clues” in a photo,
and draw their own version of the same person or people in North Carolina
today. |
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North
Carolina Travel Brochure The students will cooperatively design travel
brochures that describe major physical and cultural characteristics of the
regions in North Carolina. |
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Planning
a Road Trip This lesson covers "How to use maps and other geographic
representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report
information from a spatial perspective" It is in the National Geographic
Xpeditions database.
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Quilts
This lesson plan in designed to be one part of a fourth grade social studies
unit on the Appalachian Mountains. It is based on the mountain custom of
quilt making. This plan uses the book The Quiltmakers Gift by Jeff Brumbeau.
It also uses the book internet site and other related sites. Enrichments
of this lesson would be to display quilts, have a real quilt maker visit,
have the class create their own paper quilt, etc. |
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Researching
the NC Coastal Plain This lesson plan will provide students with a more
in-depth knowledge of the animals, industry, and land geography of the coastal
plain. Students will conduct research on the internet and in other resources
to find information on the vital parts of the coastal plain. The lesson
culminates with group presentations of their research and a Venn diagram
developed individually comparing the outer and inner parts of the coastal
plain. |
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Storytellers
in the Mountains of NC Students will study five famous North Carolina
storytellers: Jackie Torrence, Ray Hicks, Donald Davis, David Holt and Sheila
Kay Adams. They will research how their stories were collected and how they
developed their storytelling styles that distinguish them from other tellers.
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The
Road Taken This lesson will introduce and reinforce main transportation
routes for people and goods in North Carolina. Students will enhance map
skills including using cardinal and intermediate directions, using a mileage
chart, and planning transportation routes. Students will reinforce their
knowledge of resources found in North Carolina as well as name and identify
the three regions of North Carolina. |
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| Government & Civics |
Truth
or Care? Saving Shiloh The students will be able to explain the importance
of responsible citizenship and identify ways they can participate in civic
affairs after reading the novel Shiloh and completing research of their
own on animal abuse. from LearnNC |
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The
Home Court Advantage A kids window into the North Carolina court system.
Courts are a very important part of all citizens' lives. They help keep
much needed order in society, and court officials make decisions that affect
everyone. Kids are special people, and courts make decisions that affect
them, too. Just like adults, kids need to know how courts work and why they
exist. |
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County
Government in North Carolina Students will become familiar with aspects
of county government in North Carolina. from LearnNC |
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Governmental
Economics: Where Does the Money Come From? With very few exceptions,
the U.S. federal government does not have an "income" to spend
providing goods and services. The money used for federal spending programs
must be collected as federal taxes, or it must be borrowed. This lesson
provides information about the costs of government programs. This information
is necessary if you are to make responsible decisions in your role as citizen.
from EconEdlink Economic Minute |
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Free
Ride Free Ride helps students identify goods and services provided by
the government and evaluate the cost of government provided goods and services.
from EconEdlink Economics Minute |
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Collecting
Family Stories Students will interview relatives and compose a family
story on the computer. from LearnNC |
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Connecting
Folktales and Culture in NC and Beyond Students will explore connections
to North Carolina culture as they engage in reading and analyzing three
folktales of North Carolina Literary Festival author, William Hooks. from
Learn NC |
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The
Map That Keeps You Warm Students read Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt,
a story about a young slave who stitches a quilt with a map pattern that
guides her to freedom in the North. Students discuss the cultural significance
of the story and design their own quilt squares, incorporating the concepts
of geography and coded messages. from The Kennedy Center Arts Edge by
Marco Polo |
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Free
Ride Free Ride helps students identify goods and services provided by
the government and evaluate the cost of government provided goods and services.
from EconEdlink Economics Minute |
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Market
Surveys Students conduct a detailed report covering the steps necessary
to start a business. This includes: conducting a market survey; creating
a demand schedule and demand curve; creating a supply schedule and supply
curve; determining an equilibrium price and quantity; and calculating business
expenses to determine profitability. (This is designed for AG students.)
from LearnNC
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Mystery
Workers In this lesson students review the concepts of goods, services,
and producers using the Internet to locate examples of each in a teacher's
classroom. They learn about the three kinds of resources necessary to produce
goods and provide services locating examples from a picture tour of the
Crayola Factory. Through interviews they learn about the work of the people
in their families and draw conclusions from their findings. Finally, they
examine a picture of a farmer working in a field to identify examples of
natural, human, and capital resources. from EconEdlink Economic Minute
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NOT
Your Grandma's Lemonade Stand After a review of elementary economic
concepts, students will apply their understanding by playing an online computer
game, Lemonade Stand. This game has the students competing against themselves
and others to earn the biggest profit in 25 "days" time (approximately
15 minutes computer time). "Daily" economic advice helps students
find out where they fail in understanding the demand and supply sides of
economics. from EconEdlink Economic Minute |
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Old
Business, New Business In this lesson students are introduced to several
businesses from the past. They see that, while the names for these businesses
are different, many of the elements of that job are seen in occupations
today. The web site, "Business Cards..." explains that many of
our family names may have come the occupations of preceding generations.
The activity at the end of this lesson allows children to create a paper
object to symbolize the name of the job described. Ultimately, students
may wish to investigate the origins of their own surnames and family businesses
from long ago. from EconEdlink Economic Minute |
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Little
Red Hen The Little Red Hen is a classic story for nearly all adults,
and many children. Here it is retold and enhanced in order to provide a
framework for illustrating and reviewing the concepts of productive resources
and incentives. After reading the story, students will categorize resources
into land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship and be able to identify what
future incentives the dog, the cat and the mouse will have to help the little
hen in her work. Students will have the opportunity to explore bread making.
from EconEdlink Economic Minute |
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The
Opportunity of a Lifetime All economic questions and problems arise
from scarcity. Economics assumes people do not have the resources do satisfy
all of their wants. Therefore, we must make choices about how to allocate
those resources. We make decisions about how to spend our money and use
our time. This EconomicsMinute will focus on the central idea of economics-
every choice involves a cost. from EconEdlink Economic Minute
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NC
Dept of Agriculture & Consumer Services The teacher section of AG's
COOL has lots of commodity information, teacher tips and supplemental activity
materials all with links to appropriate pages to help give you the most
accurate, up-to-date information. The student's side of AG's COOL is designed
for easier commodity reading and is jam-packed with interactive games to
make learning about North Carolina agriculture educational and fun!
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Global
Breakfast In this interdisciplinary lesson, students explore the concept
of global interdependence by investigating the origins of the foods they
eat. Students will recognize the fact that many of the foods they eat, and
the ingredients that go into making them, are produced in other countries.
They will speculate about why certain foods are produced in different regions
of the world, and what might happen if the production and/or distribution
of these goods was to stop. from Science NetLinks |
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Carol
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| Utilizing
Technology in the Classroom |
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Intel
Innovation in Education Unit & Project Plans Collection |
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Intel:
An Innovation Odyssey more than 350 ideas to borrow or adapt for your
own classroom, complete with photos and project descriptions--Click on find
ideas then specify what you want by checking in the boxes and click Find.
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Enhancing
Education Through Technology lesson ideas that focus on project-based
learning and us Essential Questions |
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Re-Learning
by Design Task & Unit Design Samples and Resources lesson ideas
that focus on higher-order thinking skills |
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Are
the Best Curricular Designs "Backward?" information on creating
unit plans that focus on curricular objectives |
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Teach-nology
Lesson Plans listed by subject, but not by grade level--can be time
consuming |
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Education
World: Technology Integration |
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Electronic
Workshop Lessons lessons created by teachers during an electronic workshop-only
a few lessons-listed by grade level |
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Kaleidoscope
Tecknow Park: Lessons for teaching technology skills within the framework
of NC curriculum |
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Microsoft
in Education tutorials, lesson plans, and how-to articles--great lesson
plan resource |
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Teaching
with PowerPoint includes PowerPoint tutorials as well as lesson plans
and project ideas |
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Teach to the Future: Creating Essential Questions |
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Essential
Questions: Helping Readers Focus |
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Using
the Internet to Promote Inquiry-Based Learning |
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Summer
Technology Institute: Essential Questions |
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Creating
Essential Questions |
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Developing
Essential Questions |
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Essential
Questions |
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Ask
Me a Question: How Teachers Use Inquiry in the Classroom |
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Research
Papers: Asking Essential Questions and Good Suppoorting Questions Makes
the Effort More than a Game of Trivial Pursuit |
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The
Questions is the Answer: Creating Research Programs for an Age of Information |
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Francis
W. Parker Charter Essential School: Curriculum Assessment School-Wide Essential
Questions |
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Coalition
of Essential Schools Northwest "Planning Backwards from an Essential
Question" |
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Online
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| Podcasting |
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WillowWeb |
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Who's Using Podcasting in Education and How? |
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KinderPod Ideas for podcasting with Kindergartners |
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Education Podcast Network |
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KinderPlayers Ideas for podcasting with Kindergartners |
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Science Podcast |
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