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- Comparing The Jungle with Fast Food Nation
- In this lesson plan, students read an excerpt from Upton Sinclair's 1906 The Jungle and an excerpt from Eric Schlosser's 2002 Fast Food Nation. Students write an essay comparing the intentions, content, and effects of these two publications.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 English Language Arts)
- By Jamie Lathan.
- Comparing creation stories
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.5
- In this activity, students compare creation stories from three peoples -- Cherokee, European, and West African -- that met in colonial North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Comparing DNA
- In Restoring the American chestnut, page 8
- This lesson is designed to simulate a gel electrophoresis and generate a DNA fingerprint. Students will learn that often more than one restriction enzyme is required to achieve a correct analysis of the DNA data. The DNA samples provided are meant to show the gene for chestnut blight resistance in both Chinese chestnut trees and American-Chinese hybrids as a means for locating a possible nucleotide sequence to map in order to create transgenic trees in the future.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Shelley Casey.
- A comparison of the plant ecology of two fields
- Students will apply random sampling techniques to do a plant population/community/ecosystem study to model how these things are interrelated.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science)
- By Linda Sutton.
- Composing a Letter of Application
- Students will learn the importance of letters of application, what letters of application should contain, and how to format the letters. They will also enhance their composition skills, language skills, and proofreading skills.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Joyce Shepard.
- Concept chairs: A format for classroom discussion
- This is a culminating activity that provides a format so that all participants are drawn into a discussion.
The discussion for the "Concept Chairs" will be based on a unit of study that assesses the effectiveness of the Judicial System while examining various types of justice within society (social, personal and constitutional). Primary texts, fictional literature and non-print sources will provide the basis for this discussion. - Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Marion O'Quinn.
- Confirming and visualizing Lewis dot structures
- With this activity, students can calculate and visualize the atomic and molecular structures of bonds and lone pairs in the molecule methanol (methyl alcohol, CH3OH).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Bob Gotwals.
- Cooperation, trust, and interdependence
- This activity involves two group initiatives designed to give students the opportunity to experience what it is like to depend on others for their safety. These initiatives will be used to explore trust, cooperation and interdependence while using problem-solving skills and effective communication.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Guidance)
- By Laura Janson.
- Coping with death and dying
- In this high school lesson plan, students respond to musical recordings and literary quotations to explore feelings about death and dying.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living and Music Education)
- By John Janowiak and Margaret Gregor.
- Cotton mills from differing perspectives: Critically analyzing primary documents
- In this lesson, students will read two primary source documents: a 1909 pamphlet exposing the use of child labor in the cotton mills of North Carolina, and a weekly newsletter published by the mill companies. Students will also listen to oral history excerpts from mill workers to gain a third perspective. In a critical analysis, students will identify the audiences for both documents, speculate on the motivations of their authors, and examine the historical importance of each document.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- The Craft Revival and economic change
- In this lesson plan, originally published on the Craft Revival website, students will interpret photographs and artifacts as representations of western North Carolina’s economy at the turn of the century. They will also analyze historical census data and produce a visual web that will represent the changing nature of the economy of western North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Patrick Velde.
- Creating museum exhibits to understand slavery
- In this lesson students will analyze primary source documents from the Built Heritage collection at the North Carolina State University. They will use their textbooks, knowledge of history, observation skills, and inference to draw conclusions about slavery in North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 Social Studies)
- By Loretta Wilson.
- Cultural Symbolism and Themes of The Old Man and the Sea
- Students will be able to recognize themes and cultural symbols in the novel. The novel's setting and Spanish cultural aspect will appeal to a large number of Hispanic background students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Development)
- By Sandra Hurd and Wilma Gale.
- Data gathering - Linear regressions
- In groups of three, students gather data by experiment or observation in one of nine activities. Each group models the data they gathered, creates a display, and presents results to the class using an overhead projector.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Mathematics)
- By Judy Pickering.
- De facto vs. de jure segregation
- This lesson will help students understand the difference between de facto and de jure segregation. Students will listen to three oral history excerpts and discuss the experiences of segregation described in each. As a follow-up activity, students will brainstorm solutions to both de facto and de jure segregation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10–12 Social Studies)
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- The Declaration of Independence
- In Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide, page 5
- In this interdisciplinary lesson, students will examine the role of the Declaration of Independence in the development of the American Revolution and as part of the American identity. They will also analyze the argumentative structure and write their own declaration.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., NBCT.
- Defining tyranny
- Students will focus on gathering support for and elaborating on ideas for an essay of definition on tyranny. Students will use examples from history and from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Bethany Hill.
- Density
- In Integrating Chemistry and Algebra II, page 3
- Students will determine the density of two unknown liquids by collecting mass and volume data. Each group of students will be given a different volume of the liquids to measure, they will combine their data to create a graph. Using the graph students will determine the density of the two liquids by calculating the slope of the two lines. Students will also use a graphing calculator to determine the slope of the two lines.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Jennifer Elmo.
- "Der Handschuh" by Friedrich Schiller
- Students will have the opportunity to explore the poem, “Der Handschuh,” through shared reading, shared writing, and phonemic strategies that lead to fluency and comprehension.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Thomas Skinner.
- Describing Japanese screens and scrolls through images
- The second part of a larger unit on talking and writing about, as well as creating, Japanese screen and scroll paintings. The purpose of this unit plan is to introduce descriptive aspects of art criticism, while teaching the art and culture of Japan. Students create illustrations of classmates' descriptions of Japanese screens or scrolls.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education)
- By Michelle Harrell.
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