This is the About the Cluster document written by the NC2ML group who created the instructional frameworks. This is a great resource to read while starting to plan for Kindergarten Cluster 4.
This resource is from the North Carolina Collaborative for Mathematics Learning (NC2ML). It may not be remixed.This research brief outlines the Launch, Explore, Discuss lesson structure and the benefits to using this framework. Many of the Tools4NCTeachers lessons follow this structure.
This outline provides additional information about the history of business in North Carolina. Settled as a maritime and agricultural colony, North Carolina developed its businesses slowly in the colonial period. Agriculture would be the dominant business throughout the 18th and 19th Century. As transportation problems were eased, industry slowly began growing.
Coming from the office of the NC Secretary of State, this website provides "Official Explanation of Amendments" to the most recent NC Constitution of 1971.
This interactive map allows you to find legislators in the NC House, the NC Senate, and the US House is determined by district. Each resident of the state has one representative in each of those legislative bodies, determined by the district in which their residence falls.
This teacher's packet is designed to provide Middle and High School Teachers ideas and tools to explore the history of Victor Green's travel guide for Black travelers during the Jim Crow era in North Carolina. It provides lessons and activities to take a closer look at this time period in our state's history and learn about the NC businesses featured in Victor Green's books.
A group of resource links for studying Native Americans of North Carolina.
This is a simplified chart of the steps an idea must go through before it becomes law in North Carolina. Of course, the actual progress of a bill through the General Assembly is much more complicated than what is indicated here, and it is important to keep in mind that at any point along this route a bill can "die" and never become law.
This teacher-created ReadWriteThink timeline covers the history of transportation in NC from 1750-1903.
NCpedia is an online encyclopedia that covers a broad spectrum of topics and resources about North Carolina, including: historical time periods, subjects, and events; biographies; geography and environment; business and economy; historical places and monuments; natural resources and natural heritage; and many others. NCpedia also includes thousands of images. NCpedia's articles are all written by trusted contributors that include professional and independent historians, librarians and archivists, museum professionals and many subject specialists.
This lesson highlights injustices committed against Native Americans by exploring issues of broken treaties and federal recognition.
This document provides ideas for instructional steps and activities based on data. This supports MTSS, RTI, and differentiated instruction.
This resource porvides ideas and resources for next steps and instructional moves related to data. This can support differentiaton, MTSS, and RTI.
Timelines about the history of North Carolina
From the well-known state symbols to ones you may have never heard of, this page has them all, including when they were recognized by the NC Legislature.
This Educator Notebook provides information on Women’s History in North Carolina for teachers to use as a resource, either as stand-alone units, or integrated into standard curriculum. Included is research from museum curators and educators, and articles published in the Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine which are written for students in grades 4-12. Lesson plans and suggested activities complement many of the topics. Adaptable to multiple ages, they meet curriculum goals set forth by the NC Department of Public Instruction and connect to classes in national and world history, geography, economics, and the arts, and can be part of any unit of social studies. This resource's link takes you to a very short form that gives you free downloadable access to the complete PDF book.
This site contains paragraphs written in Latin on current events. There are also links to podcast which allow the listener to hear the news read in Latin.
AASL has just released their OER Toolkit to help support the AASL Standards. They used the personas from the AASL Standards book. There are tie-ins with the shared foundations and the domains.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of conversion among units of measure for capacity (english units).
This document contains a suggested pacing guide for NC Math 4. It includes important considerations and formative assessments/ tasks for each unit.