Argument Essay Speed Dating
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students use peer evaluations as a means to strengthen an argumentative essay. Students will revise the essay and prepare a final submission.
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An Educator's Guide to John Green
(View Complete Item Description)A common core teacher's guide for four of John Green's novels including "The Fault With Our Stars". Includes guided discussion questions, essay prompts, lesson plans and activties.
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Organelles
(View Complete Item Description)Students will explore the structures and functions of cell organelles and identify key parts and functions that make cells the basic building blocks of all living things. Students will also identify differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
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Adaptation and Evolution
(View Complete Item Description)Students will investigate comparative anatomy of organisms - visually, verbally, and kinesthetically - and how these organisms have changed through adaptation and evolution. To meet this objective, each group of students will perform seven independent activities at seven separate stations.
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ATP The Fuel of Life
(View Complete Item Description)The goal of this lesson is to introduce students who are interested in human biology and biochemistry to the subtleties of energy metabolism (typically not presented in standard biology and biochemistry textbooks) through the lens of ATP as the primary energy currency of the cell. Avoiding the details of the major pathways of energy production (such as glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation), this lesson is focused exclusively on ATP, which is truly the fuel of life.
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Adaptation
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students explain genetic variation and natural selection and describe how an organism with traits better suited for their environment is more likely to survive.
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ABC Community Walk
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity students identify the different relationships that can be found in a community and create a class Community ABC Book.
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Fractured Fairy Tales Lesson Plan
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students gain a deeper understanding of the fairy tale genre by reading fractured versions of familiar tales. Students will compare and contrast the fractured tales to the originals.
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Enchanting Readers with Revisionist Fairy Tales
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson leads students through an exploration of age-appropriate texts of various formats that are in their own ways revisionist fairy tales. After reading the stories Ella Enchanted and The Courageous Princess, students write journal entries on which of the two stories' heroines they’d most like to be. Next they read the poem "Grethel" and then compare and contrast all three female leads. Then students choose one of the texts and write their own revisions by turning the poem or book into another form. Finally, students share their work and assess their own writing using a class-created rubric.
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Group Story Project
(View Complete Item Description)This project guides students in creating their own fairy-tale or story as a group. The lesson includes discussions on what makes a good story, character development, improv situations, and script writing.
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Alphabet Organizer
(View Complete Item Description)The Alphabet Organizer lets children create a calendar-style ABC chart or letter pages for an alphabet book.
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Acquiring New Vocabulary Through Book Discussion Groups
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students read Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco to identify words that are unfamiliar to them. Working collaboratively in small groups, they discuss the meaning of these new words, using context clues from the text, prior knowledge, and both print and online resources. Students then apply their knowledge of the new vocabulary to further their understanding of the text.
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Adaptations: Fit for Survival
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson outlines teacher-led discussion on the topic of migration as an adaptive behavior in response to changes in the animal's environment. Journaling questions are also provided to help build each student's individual understanding.
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10 Ideas for Teaching Black History Month
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson, from the Anti-Defamation League, offers ten ideas for teaching Black History Month.
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#GoOpenNC Community Building Next Steps
(View Complete Item Description)Districts and schools will use this template to plan their next steps for engaging with #GoOpenNC
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Complex Numbers and Transformations
(View Complete Item Description)Students will understand transformations by first exploring the notion of linearity in an algebraic context. This quickly leads to a return to the study of complex numbers and a study of linear transformations in the complex plane.
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Heritage Calendar-Dr. Zoe Locklear Lesson Plan-English as a Second Language Grade 4
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will understand the importance of the Native American Cultural Heritage through the lenses of their own home country indigenous cultural heritage.
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Remix
Remix CHCCS #GoOpenNC Community Building Next Steps
(View Complete Item Description)Districts and schools will use this template to plan their next steps for engaging with #GoOpenNC
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Ozobots for Motion K.P.1.2
(View Complete Item Description)These slides are used to introduce Ozobot to Kindergarten to use science motion vocabulary and explore robotics in the real world. Students explore how Ozobots use light and color sensors to "read" the information in order to move. This is a launching point for further lessons on how to color "code" the types of movement. Lessons are available at https://portal.ozobot.com/lessons
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Foundations of Our Government
(View Complete Item Description)Students learn about the Declaration of Independence and about the term “consent of the governed” as well a its relationship to the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Students also learn about several Founding Fathers, including Benjamin Franklin, and their contributions to communities that have influenced history.
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