How Full Is Your Bucket
(View Complete Item Description)Students brainstorm a list of bucket fillers together to inspire acts of kindness locally and globally
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Interactive, Module
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Creative Writing Collaboration
(View Complete Item Description)Creating a story is not an easy task. What should I write about? Who will the characters be in my story? What will happen? These are all questions that every author needs to answer before their story can take shape. Storybird is an online community that provides original artwork to inspire students. The artwork sparks their imagination and supports story creation. Collaboration can take place when students invite others to work on their story with them.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Interactive, Module
Kid Publishers
(View Complete Item Description)Students will use ABCYA Storymaker to create a published writing piece along with a digital artifact that demonstrates learning of a concept.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Interactive, Module
Reading Informational Texts Using the 3-2-1 Strategy
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students learn to use the 3-2-1 strategy, which involves writing about three things they discovered, two things they found interesting, and one question they still have. After teacher modeling, students read a magazine article, independentl, and use the 3-2-1 strategy to comprehend what they read.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Create Your Story
(View Complete Item Description)MyStoryBook is a user-friendly website that allows students to create their own stories. Tools are provided to help design and create stories. Once completed they can be saved.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Interactive, Module
Word Wizards
(View Complete Item Description)An interactive activity that supports critical thinking and problem solving while also building students' comprehension and spelling skills. Students will complete puzzles based on popular children's books.
Material Type: Interactive
Resources and Links for Content Focus Group Webinar One
(View Complete Item Description)This is a resource list for the Content Focus Group Webinar One.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Sort It Out
(View Complete Item Description)In this project, students will use knowledge of electricity and electromagnetism to collaboratively design and test a model of a magnetic recycling sorter. They will evaluate the performance of their models and propose further modifications based on the output of their magnetic device measured in mT using a Vernier probe. They will also physically test their magnets on a model of a conveyor belt containing recyclable items. Students will track their data from both tests, with the ultimate goal of creating the strongest and most effective magnet with given materials. Finally, students will present their findings and proposed final design to peers and community partners involved in the recycling industry. The entire process takes about 6 weeks. The unit is a great fit for standards within energy and engineering & design.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan, Reading, Simulation, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy
I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends (Max's Sleigh Build) by Matt Wolf
(View Complete Item Description)Design and build a sleigh using a WeDo kit that will pull a specific measured weight.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Circuit Building with Makey Makey
(View Complete Item Description)Using Makey Makey to build a circuit and learning about electricity as a form of energy to cause change.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
100 Number Chart
(View Complete Item Description)For this interactive, students place numbers on the correct spot of the 100 chart. There are two levels of difficulty. Beginner-students are given one line of the 100 chart with two missing numbers at a time & advanced-students are shown the entire 100 chart with twenty missing numbers. Students receive a funny surprise at the end of the activity.
Material Type: Interactive
2.NBT Looking at Numbers Every Which Way
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: 127 is a number. Write it as a sum of 100's, 10's, and 1's. Write its name in words. Draw a picture to represent the number. Locate it on the number li...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
T4T Strategies for Adding & Subtracting 3-Digit Numbers
(View Complete Item Description)This resoruce is from Tools4NCTeachers.Second graders use a variety of strategies based on place value and number relationships to add and subtract multi-digit numbers. The first attachment in this resource outlines strategies for adding 3-digit numbers, and the second attachment outlines strategies for subtracting 3-digit numbers.Second graders are not taught the standard algorithm.
Material Type: Reference Material, Teaching/Learning Strategy
T4T Gr 5 C6 Task- Who Ran Farther?
(View Complete Item Description)This task is from Tools for NC Teachers. Students convert length measurements between units and then answer questions about the values of those measurements. This is remixable.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment
T4T Gr 5 C6 Task- Long Jumps
(View Complete Item Description)This task is from Tools 4 NC Teachers. Students will explore a task where data is presented data of length measurements in a table and they must convert the distances. This task includes multi-step problems and go beyond the Standard. This is remixable.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment
How Tall Are We?
(View Complete Item Description)Kindergartners measure each other's height using large building blocks, then visit a 2nd and a 4th grade class to measure those students. They can also measure adults in the school community. Results are displayed in age-appropriate bar graphs (paper cut-outs of miniature building blocks glued on paper to form a bar graph) comparing the different age groups. The activities that comprise this lesson help students develop the concepts and vocabulary to describe, in a non-ambiguous way, how height changes as children get older. The introduction to graphing provides an important foundation for both creating and interpreting graphs in future years.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Life Cycle Comparisons
(View Complete Item Description)Compares life cycles of several species
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson
Schoolyard Field Trip: Frog Tales
(View Complete Item Description)In this virtual resource, students will explore a frog's unique life cycle and listen to sounds of several frogs that are native to NC. They will investigate and evaluate their schoolyard for frog habitat through mapping. The wakelet site features videos demonstrating hands-on activities for students to complete at school in small, socially-distanced settings. Activities may also be adapted for at-home learning. Some activities incorporate an outdoor component, acknowledging the need to balance screen time with green time to support mental health. Tips for taking your students outside can be found here: https://education.eol.org/cnc_materials/TipsForTeachingOutside.pdf
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson Plan
Active Participation: Ensuring Student Engagement
(View Complete Item Description)This article describes covert and overt active engagement strategies for use with elementary students. Find the Question templates are included for use with informational text.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections
(View Complete Item Description)The concepts that underlie the fourth essential principle of climate literacy ("Climate varies over space and time through both natural and man-made processes.") are too complex for students in early and upper-level elementary school, but the foundational knowledge can be taught within existing curriculums and standards. This foundational knowledge will lead to understanding in later years. The author shows the correlation to the national science education standards, identifies misconceptions among elementary school students, suggests formative assessment probes, and identifies lessons and activities to make curriculum connections. The free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle is based on the seven essential principles of the climate sciences.
Material Type: Assessment, Teaching/Learning Strategy