100 Ways to Use Digital Cameras
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson plan provides 100 ways to use digital cameras in the classroom.
Material Type: Reading
All resources in #GoOpenNC Explorers
All that Glitters is Not Gold
(View Complete Item Description)Students learn how to authenticate online information by comparing "facts" from the website entitled "All About Explorers" with more authoritative sources. (This four-lesson unit on search skills and critical thinking teachers students how to target and specify their online searches to avoid unwanted results, how to judge whether a link, search result or website is legitimate or phony, and how to find legitimate sources online for media works such as music videos and movies.)
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Integrating Literature and Social Studies with Fever 1793
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students are drawn into post-Revolutionary Philadelphia during the midst of the infamous yellow fever epidemic of 1793 by reading Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Fever 1793. Use this novel as supplemental reading to assist students in developing their understanding of and interest in colonial times, while heightening their reading skills and ability for higher order thinking.
Material Type: Lesson Plan