Juan Tamad is a lazy character from Filipino Folk tale. Tikling Birds in the rice fields are one of the inspirations of the Filipino Folk Dance, the Tinikling. This animated short explores the possibility that Juan Tamad and his lazy encounter with the Tikling Birds witnessed the origin of the Tinikling Folk dance!
Material Type: Lesson
This writing resource guides students through the process of the "Big 6"--Task Definition, Information Seeking Strategies, Location and Access, Use of Information, Synthesis, and Evaluation.
Material Type: Student Guide
This lesson provides opportunities for students to solve multi-step problems and explain their problem solving strategies. This is remixable to provide additional supports for various learners.
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This resource supports educators and organizations in submitting their resources to the #GoOpenNC platform.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
In this assessment task, students demonstrate one-to-one correspondence, cardinality, understanding of "˜one more', and writes numbers.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Students read a passage from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and rewrite the passage changing it from first person to third person narration.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
We invite you to remix this planning template to brainstorm the why, what, who, when & how of GoOpenNC, and determine what next step(s) you plan to take.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
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: Historians estimate that there were about 7 million people on the earth in 4,000 BCE. Now there are about 7 billion! We write 7 million as 7,000,000. W...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This is a chart used to document student behavior to determine when the behavior is likely to occur, what might be a trigger, and which method of response works best.
Material Type: Assessment
In this lesson, students work to find a general and specific topic about which to write a research paper. The lesson guides them through the process of narrowing their focus to a more specific topic that can be more easily researched.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Studying the influence of mass media on our lives allows students to view advertising in a new light. This lesson provides students with the opportunity to look at mass media in a critical way. Students become aware of the tremendous amount of advertising that they are exposed to on a daily basis. By looking at advertising critically, students begin to understand how the media oppresses certain groups, convinces people to purchase certain products, and influences culture.
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This resources is a menu of literacy interventions for students who struggle with early literacy skills.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
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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Practice with systems of linear equations.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about representing numbers in expanded form i.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture
In this lesson, students will explore ways an author's use of text structures convey meaning and the purpose of the text. .
Material Type: Lesson Plan
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: Materials A large set of dominoes to affix to a whiteboard or place in a pocket chart, or a regular set to use on a document projector. One set of domi...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
With this resource, students will discuss and create changes in matter.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this lesson, students will draft a comic book script based on a general prompt (e.g., A super hero saves the day!) and explore basic information about comics and comic book writing. Then, based on the detail and description in the script, students will create the page layout and images of a peer's comic book script. Next, students edit the first drafts of their scripts upon seeing how well the artists were able to match their visuals with the visions the writers had in their head as they initially composed the script. Last, students will share their revised scripts with classmates and discuss how the drafts differed.
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In this lesson, students use source cards to create a works cited list for a report.
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