Bean Bag Scramble
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity students will practice basic locomotor skills and coordination.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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Bowler Ball
(View Complete Item Description)Students work in groups to roll a boll and knock over the other team's pins to score points.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Arctic and Antarctic Birds - Issue 11, February 2009
(View Complete Item Description)This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, explores the amazing birds that live in or migrate to the polar regions. The issue was co-produced with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. In addition to content knowledge articles and lesson plans, the issue includes information about bird-themed citizen science programs from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
1st Grade - Act. 08: Then and Now
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students use a teacher created tub, charts, and cards to understand the concept of "Then and Now."
Material Type: Lesson Plan
North Carolina Counties
(View Complete Item Description)This site provides a map outlining all 100 counties in North Carolina. Clicking on a county provides an explanation concerning how people, events, and developments brought changes or recognition to that area. The history of the county is provided as well as manufacturing information, population demographics, and agricultural products specific to that area. Information concerning the roles that North Carolina communities have played on a state and national level is provided (ie. High Point being the "furniture capital of the world" and New Bern being the birth place of Pepsi-Cola). Entrepreneurship endeavors that have influenced the economy are provided for select counties such as
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson, Presentation
African American Voting Rights and the North Carolina Constitution
(View Complete Item Description)Students will examine changes in African American voting rights throughout North Carolina's history. This lesson begins by reviewing key vocabulary. Students then independently research the history of African American voting rights in North Carolina using a primary source web quest or jigsaw activity.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
0-20 Counting
(View Complete Item Description)Students demonstrate one-to-one correspondence, cardinality, understanding of "one more", and writes numbers.
Material Type: Assessment
100 Hunt: Target Number + 10
(View Complete Item Description)In this game, players are given a target number and a hundreds chart. When they click on the number ten more than the target number, their time to find the number is reported. A new target number is provided by clicking the ?next? button.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Interactive
1.OA.6: Assessment Task 17
(View Complete Item Description)In this assessment task, students play a memory game and subtract within 20.
Material Type: Formative Assessment
Compare Sums and Differences of Numbers to 100 with Multiple Steps
(View Complete Item Description)This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about comparing with two-step addition and subtraction.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture
2.MD Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday
(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: Materials * Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst * Plastic coins * Labels for items Alexander spent his money on (attached) * Pa...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
2.NBT Number Line Comparisons
(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: Plot the following numbers on the number line. 456 \ \ 983\ \ 938 \ \ 425 \ \ 220 \ \ 202\ \ 799 Choose eight pairs of numbers from those you plotted o...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Probability Examples
(View Complete Item Description)This video includes four worked out examples dealing with probability. The video includes Addition Rule of Probability, Multiplication Rule and Conditional Probabilities.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Teaching/Learning Strategy
All in a Day's Work: Developing Soft Skills for Job Success
(View Complete Item Description)Students distinguish between "hard" and "soft" skills that are needed in the workplace and engage in activities that help them practice those skills. They then create a handbook of rules for the workplace for peers.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Activity 5: Solar System - Solar System Size-Up
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students will see the relative sizes of the planets and how far apart they really are. This activity will especially emphasize how large and empty of a place our solar system really is.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Activity 6: Clouds and Precipitation - Cloud Formation and Precipitation
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students explore cloud formation and precipitation by observing and recording weather data, as well as setting up a "cloud chamber" to observe evaporated water vapor as it condenses and precipitates.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Activity 5A: Anatomy of the Human Ear
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students identify and label the parts of the ear on a diagram, then determine the function of each part of the ear. For each function, ask the students what hearing problems might occur if there was a defect in each individual anatomic area.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
3-D Cells
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will create a three dimensional model of a cell and then cut it in two to make a two dimensional view.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Photosynthesis Lab
(View Complete Item Description)Students will conduct multiple experiments to test ideas about photosynthesis, including investigating plant cells under a microscope and testing photosynthesis on leaf disks in a syringe.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Who Killed Ms Elle E Mint(Empirical and Molecular Formulas)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will calculate Empirical and Molecular Formulas while trying to solve a murder mystery
Material Type: Activity/Lab