Category Archives: 2015

Understanding Ecosystems: Learning and Living in the Carolinas

February 2, 2016 – 2:07 pm

Kimberly Luter Terrell, Fifth Grade, Steele Creek Elementary School

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags and indigenous, aquatic, community, consumers, continental shelf, deciduous forest, decomposers, ecosystems, estuary, fertile, grasslands, interconnected, lakes, Middle School, oceans, photosynthesis, ponds, population, producers, rainforest, salinity, salt marsh, shoreline, species, terrestrial, Writing | Permalink | Comments Off

2015 Vol 6: Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences

Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences: The Components of Earth as a System: How Energy Flows Through an Ecosystem!

February 2, 2016 – 2:01 pm

Julie Ruziska-Tiddy, Science, Carmel Middle School

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags Consumer, Earth as a System, Ecosystem, Energy Flow, Energy Pyramid, Metamorphosis, Middle School, Predator, Prey, Producer, Science, Trophic Level | Permalink | Comments Off

2015 Vol 6: Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences

Active Learning and Student Data Collection in the Middle School Classroom

February 2, 2016 – 1:53 pm

Jennifer Thompson, Science, James Martin Middle School

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags active learning, cooperative learning groups, Kinesthetic Learning, math integration, Middle School, Physics, speed | Permalink | Comments Off

2015 Vol 6: Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences

The Origin of Life

February 2, 2016 – 1:47 pm

Julie McConnell, Biology, William Amos High School

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf )

Tags Biochemistry, Data Analysis, evolution, History, origin of life, Science | Permalink | Comments Off

2015 Vol 6: Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences

Teaching Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills in a Global Environment

February 2, 2016 – 1:41 pm

Debra Blake Semmler, Physics, East Mecklenburg High School

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags critical thinking, High School, Photoelectric Effect, Physics, problem solving, Science, Simple Pendulum, STEM education | Permalink | Comments Off

2015 Vol 6: Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences

Weather Data: A 5th Grade Unit Study of Using Data to Predict Weather Events

February 2, 2016 – 1:34 pm

Chrystal Cavanagh, Science, Morehead STEM Academy

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags climate, data, Elementary School, Science, weather, weather data, weather graphing, weather prediction | Permalink | Comments Off

2015 Vol 5: Peace Education: Psychological Factors that Endorse War

Visual Persuasion and the Use of Propaganda

February 2, 2016 – 1:25 pm

Deborah Watson, Visual Art, Hopewell High School

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags Digital Art, High School, History, Media Arts, Peace, Photoshop, Propaganda, Propaganda Posters, War | Permalink | Comments Off

2015 Vol 5: Peace Education: Psychological Factors that Endorse War

Architects of Peace: Pathways and Unintended Pauses in the Landscape of Our Common Home

February 2, 2016 – 1:18 pm

Gloria J. Brinkman, Visual Art, North Mecklenburg High School

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags Architecture, Art, Citizenship, critical thinking, environment, global sustainability, High School, homeland, metaphor, Peace, peacebuilding, Values, War | Permalink | Comments Off

Teaching Tolerance and Social Justice by Examining the Ideological Implications of World War II and the Holocaust

February 2, 2016 – 1:12 pm

Heather Almaraz, Fifth Grade, Lebanon Road Elementary School

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags and Fairness, Elementary School, Holocaust, Peace, Propaganda, Reading, social justice, Tolerance, World War II | Permalink | Comments Off

2015 Vol 5: Peace Education: Psychological Factors that Endorse War

The Changing of the Everyday Hero

February 1, 2016 – 4:27 pm

Jennifer Marie Ladanyi, Language Arts, Bailey Middle School

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, code of ethics for heroes, comic strip, drawing, flipped classroom, Forged by Fire, Hero, Instagram activity, Middle School, Reading, reading strategies, signpost, TP-CASTT, WebQuest, write around the room, Writing | Permalink | Comments Off

2015 Vol 5: Peace Education: Psychological Factors that Endorse War

North Carolina: A Brief History and Economy

February 1, 2016 – 4:21 pm

Melanie Greely, Grades 4-6, Chantilly Montessori

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags economy, Elementary School, History, integrated, Language, Middle School, Montessori, North Carolina, Peace, Reading | Permalink | Comments Off

Social Conformity versus Free Thinking

February 1, 2016 – 4:14 pm

Michael Richards, Social Studies, Bailey Middle School

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags fear, group identity, hatred, Hitler, Middle School, Nazis, Novel study, Reading, Social Studies, The Wave | Permalink | Comments Off

2015 Vol 5: Peace Education: Psychological Factors that Endorse War

What it means to be an Ender: A Study in the Duality of War

February 1, 2016 – 4:07 pm

Megan C. Shellenberger, William Amos Hough High School

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags Child Soldiers, Duality, Ender’s Game, English, High School, Manipulation, morality, peace education, Perception, Psychology, Reading, Reading Apprenticeship, War | Permalink | Comments Off

2015 Vol 5: Peace Education: Psychological Factors that Endorse War

Perception vs. Reality: Dispelling the Belief of President Theodore Roosevelt as a War Hawk

February 1, 2016 – 3:55 pm

Roshan R. Varghese, History, Butler High School

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags American History II, conservation & the National Park System, High School, History, Imperialism, Russo-Japanese War, Theodore Roosevelt & the “bully pulpit”, world history | Permalink | Comments Off

2015 Vol 5: Peace Education: Psychological Factors that Endorse War

The Breadwinner and the struggle for Social Justice

February 1, 2016 – 3:47 pm

Sarah Anne Korenyik, Language Arts, Northwest School of Arts

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags 6th Grade English Language Arts, Afghanistan, Deborah Ellis, Language Arts, Literature, Middle School, peace education, Reading, The Breadwinner | Permalink | Comments Off

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Category Archives: 2015

Understanding Ecosystems: Learning and Living in the Carolinas

Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences: The Components of Earth as a System: How Energy Flows Through an Ecosystem!

Active Learning and Student Data Collection in the Middle School Classroom

The Origin of Life

Teaching Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills in a Global Environment

Weather Data: A 5th Grade Unit Study of Using Data to Predict Weather Events

Visual Persuasion and the Use of Propaganda

Architects of Peace: Pathways and Unintended Pauses in the Landscape of Our Common Home

The Changing of the Everyday Hero

North Carolina: A Brief History and Economy

What it means to be an Ender: A Study in the Duality of War

Perception vs. Reality: Dispelling the Belief of President Theodore Roosevelt as a War Hawk

The Breadwinner and the struggle for Social Justice

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