This is a beginning of the year activity that builds community in the classroom and gives you an early sample of student writing.

On-line interactive, video, and practice activities and accompanying hands-on collaborative activity are designed to teach fourth graders an overview of simple figure patterns.  

For this activity, 4th and 5th grade AIG learners will read a book of choice featuring characters who are gifted in some way. Students will then use the bibliotheraphy questions to create a presentation showing how they identify and do not identify with the characters and events of the book.

While the resource is targeted to upper elementary school students, it could be modified to use with middle school students.

Gifted students answer bibliotherapy questions, use a note-catcher and complete a project based on their answers.

In this video, NC Virtual educator, Brandi Thurmond, discusses Dichotomous Keys with the aid of a light board.

In this video, NC Virtual educator, Brandi Thurmond, discusses Dichotomous Keys with the aid of a light board.

In this video, NC Virtual educator, Brandi Thurmond, discusses Air Pollution with the aid of a light board.

In this video, NC Virtual educator, Brandi Thurmond, discusses Air Pollution with the aid of a light board.

In this series of videos, NC Virtual educator, Brandi, presents on a series of Biology topics with the aid of a light board to present key concepts to students.Standards alignment for each video is included in each video title.Standards and topics include: Bio 2.1 (Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification)Bio 2.2.1 (Air Pollution)Bio 3.1.2 (Transcription and Translation)Bio 3.3 (Characteristics of Living Things)Bio 3.4.2 (Natural Selection)Bio 3.4.3 (Antibiotic/Pesticide Resistance)Bio 3.5.1 (Dichotomous Keys)

In this video, NC Virtual educator, Brandi, presents on transcription with the aid of a light board to present key concepts to students.

In this lesson, students will listen to examples of love songs from several musical styles and historical moments. The activities are designed to explore how music and lyrics work together to express different sentiments toward love and relationships.

This lesson is remixed with at student view that can be used virtually/distance learning. In this lesson, students will listen to examples of love songs from several musical styles and historical moments. The activities are designed to explore how music and lyrics work together to express different sentiments toward love and relationships.

Overview:This lesson remix contains a virtual/distance learning student view.This lesson focuses on the music through which those hardships were expressed and on the daily lives of southern blacks in the sharecropping era. It is structured around an imagined road trip through Mississippi. Students will "stop" in two places: Yazoo City, where they will learn about the sorts of natural disasters that periodically devastated already-struggling poor southerners, and Hillhouse, where they will learn about the institution of sharecropping. They will study a particular Country Blues song at each "stop" and examine it as a window onto the socioeconomic conditions of the people who created it. Students will create a scrapbook of their journey, in which they will record and analyze what they have learned about the difficulty of eking out a living in the age of sharecropping

This lesson focuses on the music through which those hardships were expressed and on the daily lives of southern blacks in the sharecropping era. It is structured around an imagined road trip through Mississippi. Students will "stop" in two places: Yazoo City, where they will learn about the sorts of natural disasters that periodically devastated already-struggling poor southerners, and Hillhouse, where they will learn about the institution of sharecropping. They will study a particular Country Blues song at each "stop" and examine it as a window onto the socioeconomic conditions of the people who created it. Students will create a scrapbook of their journey, in which they will record and analyze what they have learned about the difficulty of eking out a living in the age of sharecropping.

This remix includes a student view that can be used virtually/distance learning. The repercussions of the Great Migration are far-reaching. Today, much of the restlessness and struggle that the Blues helped to articulate in the Migration era remains central in other forms of American music, including Hip Hop. In this lesson, students look to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf as case studies that illustrate why African Americans left the South in record numbers and how communities came together in new urban environments, often around the sound of the Blues.

The repercussions of the Great Migration are far-reaching. Today, much of the restlessness and struggle that the Blues helped to articulate in the Migration era remains central in other forms of American music, including Hip Hop. In this lesson, students look to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf as case studies that illustrate why African Americans left the South in record numbers and how communities came together in new urban environments, often around the sound of the Blues.

This remix includes a student view that can be used in virtually/distance learning situations. In this lesson, students will investigate how Elvis' first single offers a window onto the complex race relations of 1954, and how it fits into the broader narrative of Brown v. Board of Education and the early stirrings of the Civil Rights movement.

Doo Wop's musical and social roots point to a long history of vocal harmony in American culture, particularly in African-American communities. Social singing provided entertainment in barbershops, bars, schools, churches, theaters, and other communal spaces. Some of the musical precedents students will consider in this lesson include the barbershop quartets that flourished from the 1890s through World War I; the Pop vocal groups such as the Mills Brothers that topped the charts in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s; and the Gospel singers who made harmonizing a spiritual practice throughout the early twentieth century.