In this lesson, students will illustrate the life cycle of a butterfly and compare the butterfly life cycle to that of a different insect or animal.

This article highlights hands-on or multimedia lesson plans about plant structures, growth and development, seed production, and dispersal. Science lessons are paired with suggested literacy lesson plans. All lessons are aligned to national standards.

Subject studies how and why machines work, how they are conceived, how they are developed (drawn), and how they are utilized. Students learn from the hands-on experiences of taking things apart mentally and physically, drawing (sketching, 3D CAD) what they envision and observe, taking occasional field trips, and completing an individual term project (concept, creation, and presentation). Emphasis on understanding the physics and history of machines.

Using word association and early maps of North Carolina, students will examine their preconceptions about the state and connect them to what they learn. This assignment acts as a diagnostic assessment. The benefit of using colonial maps rather than a current map of North Carolina is that students can make a connection between discovery and progression in the creation of the state that they know. This is intended to be used before any lesson about colonial times or discovery of America in general?the students can consider themselves ?explorers? along with the ones they learn about.

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 3.

This resource is from NC2ML.  It may not be remixed.This Standards Brief discusses strategies and representations second graders are taught for mult-digit addition and subtraction.  This is a great reading to share during a professional development with teachers or to hand out during family math nights.  

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 article assembles free resources from the Polar Plants issue of the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears cyberzine into a unit outline based on the 5E learning cycle framework. Outlines are provided for Grades K-2 and 3-5.

This Thinglink provides a series of brief videos addressing a) common areas of difficulty related to problem solving and b) an overview of additional and subtraction problem types.

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers."Launch, Explore, Discuss" is a research-based lesson framework where students grapple with a task and then come together to share strategies used.  The introduction of new strategies is delayed until after grappling.  This is the primary lesson framework for the Tools4Teachers lessons. This resource serves as a professional development tool, explaining the benefits of this lesson framework and outlining each component.