Category Archives: Curriculum Units

2015 Vol 7: Africa: Moving Beyond Popular Culture

Fresh off the Boat: Helping Immigrants and Non-Immigrants Unpack the Stereotypes that Affect their School Experience in America

Justine Busto, ESL, East Mecklenburg High School

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2015 Vol 7: Africa: Moving Beyond Popular Culture

Accuracy in Africa: The Causes of the Sierra Leone Civil War as a Lens for Stereotypes of African Conflicts

Ian Joyce, Social Studies, Eastway Middle School

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2015 Vol 7: Africa: Moving Beyond Popular Culture

Understanding Food Choices in Africa

Darrmetacia Winston, Family Consumer Science, Olympic High School

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2015 Vol 6: Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences

Coral Bleaching, Why Should I Worry?

Sandra Spraggins, Technology, Irwin Academic Center

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2015 Vol 6: Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences

Human Population Growth and Human Impact

Rochelle E. Gray, Biology, Mallard Creek High School

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2015 Vol 6: Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences

Let’s go measure in Valencia

Rosa W. Bockian, Third Grade, Collinswood Elementary School

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2015 Vol 6: Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences

Understanding Ecosystems: Learning and Living in the Carolinas

Kimberly Luter Terrell, Fifth Grade, Steele Creek Elementary School

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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!

Julie Ruziska-Tiddy, Science, Carmel Middle School

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2015 Vol 6: Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences

Active Learning and Student Data Collection in the Middle School Classroom

Jennifer Thompson, Science, James Martin Middle School

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2015 Vol 6: Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences

The Origin of Life

Julie McConnell, Biology, William Amos High School

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2015 Vol 6: Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences

Teaching Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills in a Global Environment

Debra Blake Semmler, Physics, East Mecklenburg High School

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2015 Vol 6: Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences

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

Chrystal Cavanagh, Science, Morehead STEM Academy

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

Visual Persuasion and the Use of Propaganda

Deborah Watson, Visual Art, Hopewell High School

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

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

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

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

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

Heather Almaraz, Fifth Grade, Lebanon Road Elementary School

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