This site provides a listing of United States presidents and timelines relevant to their era. A photograph of each president, stories, and a brief biography are also included.
This document provides some background information about place value.
SHARE THIS WITH CONTENT TEACHERS!!Help your newcomers become more independent in their content classes. These are only a few of the excellent Chromebook extensions you can add for free by browsing through Google Chrome's "Extension Library." This is especially useful for middle and high school newcomers who can navigate difficult content through these scaffolded extensions. Please add comments on other extensions you use!
The violin, a four-stringed instrument tuned at intervals of a fifth and played with a bow, has the capability to produce an amazing array of sounds that both express and evoke a wide range of human feelings and emotions. In this lesson students research the history of the violin, its manufacture, and the musicians who have mastered the art of creative expression through this instrument.
The website collects tutorials and exercises to teach HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, jQuery, Javascript, Python, C++, and more.
Water is life. We live in southern Appalachian Mountains, part of a temperate rainforest where over 50 inches of rain falls each year. This abundant precipitation creates a lush landscape on which our communities rely to support our population and economy. Students will explore this resource in depth from multiple perspectives. They will summarize the results of their studies with final products to include a written piece, an educational presentation/community outreach, a 3D product or art piece, and a multimedia component. Each of these products will allow students to demonstrate the mastery of both academic content and survival skills that they have achieved during the project. The final exhibition will be an Aquatic Adventure Academy where they will facilitate hands-on activities that teach local middle and elementary school students about water.
Found the article very interesting and was rather impressed with the keen interest young adults are taking in software development.
This page from the NC Department of Commerce makes a case for businesses to choose NC when starting up or expanding: North Carolina has always attracted a wide range of people with an even wider range of talents. In fact, our state is home to some of the best and brightest minds in the country—minds that are directly shaping the future by solving some of the world’s toughest problems. This highly educated group of individuals are known as North Carolinians. And we’re more than ready to figure out innovative solutions to address your business’s greatest challenges.
This interactive timeline highlights the stories of the women of Vance Birthplace in the mountains of North Carolina. From prehistory to the twentieth century, students can explore each woman's experience of life in the Reems Creek Valley through videos, primary and secondary sources, and graphics.
Food is universal--we all eat! Few things are so common and yet so different between individuals, families, cultures, or geographies. Our preferences and styles define and separate us but exploring those differences can also bring us together. Learning about what people eat means that we learn about their everyday lives. Learning about food can help us to learn about science, math, history and culture.
This encyclopedia entry is for the term "autotroph." An autotroph is an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals. Because autotrophs produce their own food, they are sometimes called producers. Text for this entry is appropriate for the middle and high school grade levels.
This is an encyclopedia entry for "biosphere." The biosphere is made up of the parts of Earth where life exists. The biosphere extends from the deepest root systems of trees, to the dark environment of ocean trenches, to lush rain forests and high mountaintops. Text for this entry is appropriate for the middle and high school grade levels.
This is an encyclopedia entry for the term "carnivore." A carnivore is an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals. Sometimes carnivores are called predators. Text for this entry is appropriate for upper elementary, middle, and high school grade levels.
This is a blog post by Geoff Krall, who is a math instructional coach for the New Tech Network and writes a blog called Emergent Math. In it, using math as the context, Geoff distinguishes between Project Based Learning (PBL) and Problem Based Learning (PrBL).
This resource focusing on the rhetorical situation of the "March on Washington" is based on a template that teachers can use to create Inquiry Based Research Lessons and Units. It is a hyperdoc template that is based on the eWISE Research Model. It is broken into the 4 stages of the research model (Wonder, Investigate, Synthesize and Express).
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This resource is a template that teachers can use to create Inquiry Based Research Lessons and Units. It is a hyperdoc template that is based on the eWISE Research Model. It is broken into the 4 stages of the research model (Wonder, Investigate, Synthesize and Express). There are suggestions and details in each stage to help you plan your research unit.
Feel free to copy the google doc and create your own research project.
This encyclopedia entry is for the term "eclipse." Text for this entry is appropriate for the middle and high school grade levels.
This is an encyclopedia entry for the term "ecosystem." An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Text for this entry is appropriate for the middle and high school grade levels.
This encyclopedia entry is for the term "food chain." A food chain describes who eats whom in the wild. Text for this entry is appropriate for the upper elementary, middle and high school grade levels.
This encyclopedia entry is for the term "Fossils." Fossils are the preserved remains, or traces of remains, of ancient animals and plants. Text for this entry is appropriate for the middle and high school grade levels.