Category Archives: 2017

Look at the World; Speak for the Trees

February 1, 2018 – 11:59 am

Jessica Young, Second Grade, Davidson ES

Tags advertising, blended learning, digital literacy, Elementary School, environmentalism, Paideia, project based learning, Social Studies, socratic seminar, the Lorax, visual literacy | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Bringing Visual Literacy to Writing

February 1, 2018 – 11:57 am

Erin Murray, TD/Catalyst Hornets Nest & Statesville RD ES

Curriculum Units (pdf)

Tags descriptive writing, Elementary School, inference, Visual Thinking Skills | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Memorials, Memories, and American Identity

You Must Remember This: Monumental Biographical Studies and Crafting Multimodal Autobiographies

January 31, 2018 – 6:01 pm

Lecia Shockley, Third Grade, Selwyn ES

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags academic conversation, Autobiography, Biography, collage, Courage, disability, Elementary School, evaluative practice, memorials, monuments, remembrance, Research, southern recollections, stories, Writing | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

The Grass Is Not Always Greener

January 31, 2018 – 5:57 pm

Emily Woods, Fourth Grade, Barringer Academic Center

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags 21st Century Skills, Compare, Contrast, Film, literacy, Media, Storyboard, visual literacy | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

A Day at the Valley

January 31, 2018 – 5:54 pm

Emily Steib, Second Grade, Hidden Valley ES

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Africa, Asia, cameras, country, day in the life, Elementary School, Europe, India, Mexico, personal narratives, photograph, Photography, picture, rubric, school, Spain, United States of America, Writing | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

Finding the Human Story within an Image

January 31, 2018 – 5:51 pm

Deena Aglialoro, Language Arts, South Mecklenburg HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags antisemitism, Bear Witness, bystander, close reading, CommonLit, concentration camps, Courage, Elie Wiesel, extermination camps, fear, fiction, genocide, Germany, ghettos, good and evil, hate, High School, Hitler, Holocaust, human behavior, identity, Night, Poetry, Political Cartoons, Propaganda, pyramid of hate, research paper, Rwanda, swastika, testimonials, visual literacy, written conversation, Yad Vashem | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Cultivating Visual Literacy

See It With Words: Critical Analysis Using Visual Literacy

January 31, 2018 – 5:49 pm

Amanda Soesbee, English, North Mecklenburg HS

Curriculum Units (pdf)

Tags critical analysis, High School, images, literacy, literary analysis, reading comprehension, visual literacy | Permalink | Comments Off

Practical and Hands-on Behavioral Psychology in the Self-Contained Classroom

January 31, 2018 – 5:43 pm

Zachary Sanford, Science, W.A. Hough HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Applied Behavioral Analysis, behavior, Behavioral Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Conditioned Response, Conditioned Stimulus, Differential Reinforcement, Extinction, Informed Consent, Negative Punishment, Negative Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning, Positive Punishment, Positive Reinforcement, Psychology, Response, scientific method, Social Learning, Social Learning Theory, Social Psychology, Stimulus, Unconditioned Response, Unconditioned Stimulus | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Doing Science: Hands-On Learning in the Laboratory

Pop Culture and Chemical Reactions

January 31, 2018 – 5:41 pm

Victoria Woods, Science, Independence HS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags balanced equation, binary compound, chemical equation, chemical reaction, coefficient, combustion, conservation of mass, conservation of matter, decomposition, double replacement, High School, hydrocarbon, mass, neutralization, product, reactant, single replacement, subscript, synthesis | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Doing Science: Hands-On Learning in the Laboratory

Weather/OR Not…Learning is Fun!

January 31, 2018 – 5:38 pm

Tracie Cooper, Science, Hidden Valley ES

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Elementary School, fifth grade, lesson plans, Science, Water Cycle, weather | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Doing Science: Hands-On Learning in the Laboratory

Getting To The Core, Newton’s Third Law: Getting Past The Lyrical Recitation Of The Law, Getting Into The Force Of The Actions And Reactions

January 31, 2018 – 5:37 pm

Scott Balay, Science, E.E. Waddell Language Academy

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags collision, Force, middle school project, Motion, newton's laws, Physics, reactive force | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Doing Science: Hands-On Learning in the Laboratory

Effect of Improper Garbage Disposal on the Earth

January 31, 2018 – 5:35 pm

Namrata Gupta, Science, Nations Ford ES

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Biodegradable, Compost., Disposal, Garbage, non-biodegradable, pollution, Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Waste | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Doing Science: Hands-On Learning in the Laboratory

Exploring the Law of Conservation of Mass through Open Inquiry Experimentation

January 31, 2018 – 5:33 pm

Michelle Faggert, Science, Martin Luther King, Jr. MS

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags chemical reactions, guided inquiry, hands-on science, law of conservation of mass, Middle School, open inquiry, scientific method | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Doing Science: Hands-On Learning in the Laboratory

Avoiding Cookie Cutter Science with Gifted Children by Moving Students through the Inquiry Process

January 31, 2018 – 5:31 pm

Meg Shuman, Fourth Grade, Barringer Academic Center

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Elementary School, force and motion, friction, graphing, infographics, inquiry, Laboratory, Newton’s Laws of Motion, Physics, Science, Science Fair | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Doing Science: Hands-On Learning in the Laboratory

The Sounds of Science

January 31, 2018 – 5:29 pm

Katrina Gordon, Second Grade, Selwyn ES

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags Elementary School, musical instrument, observations, pitch, sound, vibrations | Permalink | Comments Off

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