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- Learning to use R statistical software for data mining — An extension of linear regression to multiple variables
- In Understanding data mining: Extracting, organizing, and analyzing large sets of data, page 3
- In this lesson, students will use the free R statistical software to navigate through the basics of data mining, a process in which the effects of individual variables can be determined. Students will utilize multiple methods of variable selection — forward selection, backward selection, and stepwise selection — in an attempt to determine which variables are most influential in a given situation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By Dail Midgette.
- Learning to use R statistical software for data mining — Putting it all together
- In Understanding data mining: Extracting, organizing, and analyzing large sets of data, page 4
- Students will mine data to identify the variables that most significantly impact the...
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By Dail Midgette.
- Learning to use R statistical software for linear regression — An alternative to the graphing calculator
- In Understanding data mining: Extracting, organizing, and analyzing large sets of data, page 2
- Students often learn how to do linear regression activities using a graphing calculator. This lesson provides an opportunity to complete these same types of assignments using R statistical software. Students will use this free software to create scatter plots and to develop linear regression models that can be used to make predictions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By Dail Midgette.
- Letters back home: A soldier's perspective on World War I
- World War I traumatized many of the soldiers that participated in the war. It had a lasting effect on the political, economic, social, and cultural lives of Americans during the 1920's. By reading letters that one soldier wrote to his family back home. Students can gain insight into the reasons why the “Great War” had such a profound impact on the United States in years following the war.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By George Gray Jr..
- Levers and mechanical advantage
- In Work, power, and machines, page 1
- This lesson is part of the unit "Work, power, and machines." In this lesson, students will be introduced to the basic principles of all machines and review the six simple machines. They will use a first class lever to explore the relationship between fulcrum position and effort force required to operate the lever.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Tara Blalock.
- Liberation and deliberation: The North Carolina ratification debates of 1788
- This lesson focuses on the deliberations over ratification of the US Constitution by the North Carolina legislators. In particular it traces the arguments of the Federalists and Anti-federalists found in the primary sources digitized in the Documenting the American South collection.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Mark Laskowski.
- Literature-based newspaper: Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Students will create an Eatonville newspaper depicting the characters and events in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Swartz.
- Looking back - An Art/English interdisciplinary unit
- This is an interdisciplinary unit that incorporates research of historical events of the past century. Students learn to understand the relationship among society, art, and literature, and then draw on that knowledge when they interview an individual to develop a biographical narrative, a collage, and an oral presentation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By Julie Osmon.
- Looking closely at a tree: Introduction to phenotype
- In this lesson, students will sharpen their observation skills by looking closely at the parts of a slender tree branch. After learning the terms phenotype and genotype in a presentation and class discussion, they will examine the cambium layer and an apical bud from their branches under a microscope.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Harold Mackin.
- Low-tech PCR
- In Restoring the American chestnut, page 7
- This simulation and manual PCR demonstration is designed for classrooms without a thermocycler and those that do not have enough time to do a full manual PCR. It is designed to give students the concepts and vocabulary as well as give them a visual representation of the process.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Shelley Casey.
- Lunsford Lane: A slave in North Carolina who buys his freedom
- In this lesson plan, students read a primary source document to learn about the life of Lunsford Lane, a slave who worked in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina. Students answer questions about Lane based on his memoir to help them understand the details of his life.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By John Schaefer and Victoria Schaefer.
- Making a cross-island topographic profile
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 2.3
- This lesson is part of chapter two of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students learn how to create a cross-island topographic profile using the provided data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- Making a topographic profile of your school yard
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 2.4
- This lesson is part of chapter two of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students gather data about the change in elevation of an area on the school grounds. Then they create a topographic map using these data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- Making a video critique of an information source
- After finishing their social issues research paper for their English class (or any other type of research paper), students will write and present orally a critique of one information source used in their research papers. Students will work in pairs to videotape each other, and they must also design appropriate backdrops for their oral presentations. Students will watch and evaluate all critiques.
This interdisciplinary assignment combines information skills and language arts skills, and requires collaboration between the media specialist and the English teacher. - Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Bonnie Snyder.
- Making inferences about the 2000 presidential election
- In this lesson, students will use a Mini Page about the 2000 presidential election to make inferences. This will require students to think about how past events influence political policies and laws. They will use these inferences to conduct research and write an essay.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Summer Pennell.
- Mapping HIV infection in Africa
- Using statistical information and maps, students will note the correlation between socio-economic factors and the impact of HIV/AIDS in the countries of Africa.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies)
- By Greg Mitchell.
- Marker-assisted selection
- In this lesson students will learn about marker-assisted selection in trees. Marker-assisted selection is an indirect selection process where a trait of interest is selected based on a marker linked to a trait of interest. Students will conduct two labs. In one, they will extract DNA from a peach and in the other, they will use gel electrophoresis to test tree DNA for frost resistance.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Harold Mackin.
- Masks in Burkina Faso and Cherokee clans
- Focuses on the seven masks of the Cherokee clans and the masks in Burkina Faso (Africa). Students explore different masks through individual and group projects demonstrating their understanding of the roles masks play in the Cherokee culture and the African culture in Burkina Faso.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Second Languages)
- By Maguy Techer-Yancey.
- Mathematical translations
- This lesson develops knowledge of algebraic expressions and their verbal equivalents. Students will establish a foundation for future Algebra I tasks by identifying mathematical symbols and expressions through group work and individual tasks. This lesson contains modifications for the novice high English Language Learner (ELL).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–12 English Language Development and Mathematics)
- By Seth Beale and Wendy Sumner.
- Mid-1800s reform era group presentations
- Students will work in groups to present information on the reforms of the mid 1800's. Topics could include the Unitarians, abolition, women's rights, growth in education, treatment of the mentally ill, temperance, and utopian communities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies)
- By Angie Panel Holthausen.
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