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LEARN NC gives you what you need for K–12 teaching and learning, when and where you need it. Here’s how to get started.
Classroom
Lesson plans? Sure, we've got 'em — but also learning materials from slideshows to digital textbooks, all correlated to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
Professional
Learn on your own from articles and multimedia best practices, or take an instructor-led CEU course — all correlated to the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards.
Projects and special collections
- North Carolina History
A “digital textbook” of primary sources, background readings, and multimedia.- World Cultures
Photographs and audio with historical and cultural context and related lesson plans.- Critical Languages
Digital textbooks for Mandarin Chinese and Arabic.- Environmental Science
Virtual field trips, lesson plans, and classroom content for a variety of grade levels.- Field Trips
Find educational opportunities in your county or region.
- New Teacher Support
Resources and guides to LEARN NC for beginning teachers and their mentors.- COLT: Carolina On-Line Teacher
A certification program for online instructors.- Differentiated Instruction
Teaching all students in the 21st-century classroom.- Technology Integration
Best practices for making innovative and meaningful use of classroom technology.- Education Reference
Background articles and research summaries on key topics in education, from A to Z.
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- Getting the most from your search
- Tips for searching LEARN NC’s new website, and how to use our advanced search form.
- Flyers, brochures, and workshop tools
- Whether you’re adding to your own toolbox or arranging staff development, these tools will get you started.
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- What you’ll need to teach one of LEARN NC’s online professional development courses.
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Here’s what’s new.
Thanks to those of you who joined us for our Interactive Fall Conference on October 14! Archived sessions are now available.
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- “Turkey at the Crossroads” seminar
- The UNC-Chapel Hill's Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations is offering a one-day seminar on Turkey, its past, present, and future.
- News from the Civic Education Consortium
- The April CEC newsletter includes lesson plans about the American Civil War for middle and high school students, as well as professional development opportunities for educators.
- Update from our director
- The latest news from LEARN NC. We're working hard to serve you!
- Positions open at LEARN NC!
- LEARN NC is looking for outstanding individuals to work with our creative team!
- UNC Science Expo this weekend!
- Come on out to UNC-Chapel Hill on Saturday, April 14 and take part in the events of this year’s Science Expo. It's free of charge and there are events for all ages.
Instructify
- Instructifeature — Citizen science: Real-world applications for science students
- Citizen science projects enlist everyday citizens to collect or analyze data for real-world research studies. This article suggests that bringing citizen science projects into the classroom can help students understand the relevance of curriculum objectives. Several projects are suggested, for elementary, middle, and high school.
- Instructify is signing off
- After three and a half years, Instructify is closing up shop.
- Get your words on the dance floor with Font de Music
- Sometimes, the tools we stumble upon are just a way to add a little fun into the classroom. Font de Music takes a short sentence and adds a musical backing track, then makes the letters do a little dance to the music. It’s a simple, fun site with some possibilities for examining how multimedia and text influences our thinking around design choices.
- Challenge a computer to a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors
- You and your students may have heard all about the IBM computer, Watson, playing as a contestant on Jeopardy. You too can match wits with a computerized opponent in a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors. It’s not quite the same as Jeopardy, but this game from the New York Times pits humans against an artificial intelligence that learns from the style of play of its competitor (that would be you.)
- Untangle those Confusing Words
- The aptly named Confusing Words is a website that contains more than 3,000 words that people tend to have trouble with, and it accepts suggestions for more.
