The students will compare and contrast bears brought from home and share their ideas through a graph.
In this video segment from Nature, learn about cats and consider the possibility that the cat may become the number one choice of pet owners.
In this video segment from WILD TV, learn about wild parrots that breed and nest in Brooklyn.
Learn about the history of pigeons in this video segment from WILD TV.
Students are asked to compare and contrast the earth and the moon.
In this video segment from WILD TV, a scientist in the Florida Everglades talks about her research on the pig frog.
Explorer Tom Murphy braves a ground blizzard during a winter night in Yellowstone as seen in this video segment from Nature.
In this video from Curious George, young children identify animal tracks in the snow based on observations of how animals move and comparisons with footprint charts.
This lesson is one of three created as an interdisciplinary unit on the connection between the art and artifacts of a culture and the values and beliefs of the members of that culture. This unit begins with a class-wide investigation of Ancient Greece and concludes with a visit to the Ackland Art Museum. During the visit, students will have the opportunity to assess their predictions about the Ancient Greeks. In addition, students will look at works of art from other cultures and compare and contrast the visual information provided about those cultures with visual information provided about Greek culture.
This segment from The Jewish Americans shows how in the 19th century Jews and other groups were sometimes not welcomed when they immigrated to the United States.
In this lesson students will select and read stories from some of the North Carolina American Indian tribes. They will compare and contrast two stories of their choice and complete a Venn diagram. Students will use the information on the Venn diagram to write three paragraphs. After reading several American Indian tales or legends, students will then create their own legend using the narrative writing process.
The students will compare and contrast the physical characteristics of three soils: clay, humous, and sand. They will create double bubble maps and list poems about the soils.
