See Objective 2, Standard 2 on this site After talking about rules and laws that people are expected to follow at home, at school and in the community give students the Rules and Laws Foldable (template provided). They will fold it in half the long way and then unfold the paper and cut along the dotted lines to the fold. They should now have a three flap book. Have students draw or write 3 rules or laws that they have to follow for each area (home, school, community). This assessment activity comes from the lesson plan Rules and Laws, but can also be used independent from that lesson plan.

We are obligated to provide enrichment opportunities and to appropriately challenge and engage these students. How do we find and monitor science enrichment activities for those students simultaneous to providing additional intervention and assistance to students who have yet to master the current concepts?

This chapter is all about history. In future grades students begin to learn about the history of our state, our country, and our world. In the early grades however, students learn about history through a much smaller lens. In first grade it’s about families.

This PBL Inquiry Project has students learn more about nutrition and how it affects their school performance.

This is a website to help your students with both depth as well as showing examples of Logarithms. It has a lot of examples of different types of problems with logarithms and goes into a fair bit of depth on each topic.

Kindergarten students are encouraged to gain an increased awareness of themselves and the world around them in our entry level text in the series.

This activity is a structured debate where students are given the sides they are to discuss to the topic of school starting times. One side is set up to give the opinion that they should start later, while the other says they should stay at the same times.

This a project to get students to build cases with their teams to determine if schools should start later.

Last year the Siuslaw 97J School District changed our food service operation from a national supplier (Chartwell’s) to in-house food service. Our Food Service Manager instituted an organic philosophy and wanted to source local produce. Utilizing our school garden program we now help supply fresh produce for our Siuslaw Elementary School cafeteria. Crop production is stronger in the 4/5 wing because of wind protection from the building. Florence experiences high winds and we are located close to the beach so we have constant sand blowing into our crops. The K-3 garden beds do not have the same protection as the 4/5 beds, and as a result have a lower yield. Our goal is to have students design and engineer wind barriers for these beds and then present the best solutions to our school board so that we can get funding to implement our ideas. This project can be used in any school with a garden by using preexisting barriers on a the school property. The unique environment of the school would dictate the lessons required to be adapted to fit the environmental needs of the community. If the school is lacking a garden, the students can focus on an at home garden project.

This document is my PBL project. I worked with two other individuals and we discussed whether or not schools should start later. Our driving question was "Should schools start later?" We placed students in two different groups for a debate on whether or not school should start later or not. There was two groups - pro and against.

This resource is part of Tools4NCTeachers.

This is lesson two in a series of six lessons focused around developing a mathematical community at the beginning of the school year. While this lesson addresses standard NC.1.NBT.7, its primary goal is for students to learn how to work with classmates on activities related to counting and number sense and engage in real-world math situations.

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.  This Family Math Night planning guide contains everything you'd need to have a fabulous second grade math night at your school.  It includes parent invitations, sign-in sheets, games, directions, and family evaluations. 

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.At the beginning of the school year, it is important to establish a positive community with both students and parents.  This professional development presentation gives tips for doing just that!  There are lots of suggestions for websites, read alouds, and at-home activities.

This article describes energy efficiency as it relates to home and school energy use and provides ways that children can help.

*This remix combines a primary source set on "American Indian Boarding Schools" from the DPLA with an open-source 9th grade literature unit plan on Identity and Culture from Match Fish Tank. In this remix, students are first engaged in inquiry-based examination of a set of primary sources before more closely examining the relationship between identity, society, and schooling in the literary texts links below.For this remix, I have combined two open educational resources to create a text set that enables students to explore the concepts of identity, assimilation, and acclimation in the context of schooling.