In this lesson, students use a guided reading to look at a report on the status of education in North Carolina in 1869, and discuss the reasons given then for why the Governor and Legislature should support educating North Carolina's children. They are provided an opportunity to compare and contrast the 1869 document against their own ideas about the civic duty to attend school through age sixteen, and its relative value to the state and the country.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of 24-hour clocks.

This is an ongoing series of lessons to teach the 26 letters of the alphabet through functional skills that can be used on a daily/weekly basis building on and transferring to other educational task. These lessons incorporate coloring, marking, painting, cutting, pasting, creating, listening and following directions.

This lesson uses a familiar fairy tale to teach writing. It is designed to emphasize using varied sentence patterns in writing.

This lesson will demonstrate why blood transfusions are possible between certain types of blood. ABO blood types will be reviewed and students will determine which blood types are the universal donor and recipient. This lesson was adapted from blood types lesson, Discovery Science Center, 2500 N Main St Santa Ana, CA 92705. This lesson results from a collaboration between the Alabama State Department of Education and ASTA

The students will use ACC basketball statistics to practice the process of converting fractions to decimals then to percents and will learn how to create and edit a spreadsheet. They will then use this spreadsheet to analyze their data. This unit is done during the basketball season which takes approximately 15 weeks from the middle of November to the middle of March. Teachers must have Clarisworks to open the sample spreadsheet in the lesson, but may recreate it in another spreadsheet program.

This lesson plan teaches students to elaborate on an event in a narrative by expanding their sentences into action chains. The result is a more detailed picture of an event in a narrative.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about multi-step addition of weights with compound units (metric units) - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about adding compound units in years and months.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of weight-based english-unit word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting integer and fraction sums into decimals.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fifth graders an overview of measuring capacity (metric units).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of measuring capacity (metric units).

This video and accompanying interactive assessment practice was designed to teach overview of addition sums to first graders.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders an overview of addition (sums to 100).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about solving multi-step weight problems with subtraction (metric units) - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about using a scale and multi-step calculations to find weight in grams i.

The lesson will introduce the concept of a matrix. The matrix is labeled by its rows and columns. This lesson will teach the concept of adding, subtracting, scalar multiplication, and multiplication of matrices. This lesson will be a prerequisite for solving systems of equations with matrices. This lesson results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fifth graders an overview of addition and subtraction in kilograms and grams.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of weight in metric units.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about two-step subtraction of weights (english units) - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fifth graders an overview of addition and subtraction of weights (metric units).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of addition and subtraction of time.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of decimal addition.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about subtracting decimals - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about lengths of specific segments (metric units).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about adding and subtracting mixed numbers - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about adding and subtracting money with pictures in columns.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about adding and subtracting money using words.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about adding and subtracting money using words.

This is a video overview of addition word problems (to sums of 100) for first graders.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders an overview of mixed operations.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders an overview of mixed operations (numbers to 1,000).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about mixed operations: addition and subtraction i - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about adding or subtracting lengths in one step (english units).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about adding or subtracting lengths in one step.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about adding and subtracting (numbers up to 20) - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about adding of compound units of length (english units).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about adding and subtracting fractions - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators.