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
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
Making Arrays
(View Complete Item Description)Students use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns. They write an equation to express the total as a sum of equal addends.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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 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
Space Place Live! with Donya Douglas
(View Complete Item Description)Cartoon characters from the NASA Space Place Web site, present their own 6-7 minute talk show live from the Space Place Clubhouse. The show presents space program scientists and engineers as role models for kids and encourages them to pursue their dreams. In each episode, the guest presents a short science or technology concept, and also talks about their job, their hobbies, and how they got interested in a career in science or engineering. In this episode, thermal engineer Donya Douglas of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center talks about her challenging job to design ways to keep the three tiny Space Technology 5 spacecraft at the right operating temperature in space, without adding much to their mass or need for electrical power.
Material Type: Lecture, Reading
Build Your Own Thermometer
(View Complete Item Description)Students build a thermometer and then compare its performance against a regular thermometer.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will use a weekly poem to explore meaning, sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts. After studying the poem, students are given a copy of the poem to illustrate and share their understanding. All of the poems explored are then compiled into a poetry portfolio for students to take home and share with their families. To further connect home to school, a family poetry project is suggested.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Remix
Webinar Two - Curriculum Review - Standards Alignment
(View Complete Item Description)This resource has all of the links associated with Webinar Two of the #GoOpenNC Curriculum Review Academy. You can watch the video recording, view the PowerPoint and participate in the discussion boards.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Remix
Webinar Three - Curriculum Review - Standards Alignment
(View Complete Item Description)This resource has all of the links associated with Webinar Three of the #GoOpenNC Curriculum Review Academy. You can watch the video recording, view the PowerPoint and participate in the discussion boards.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
