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- Balancing equations using matrices
- In Integrating Chemistry and Algebra II, page 2
- This lesson is designed to show students a practical application for matrices within the context of chemistry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics and Science)
- By Jennifer Elmo.
- Bananas: A modern example of fungus destruction
- In Restoring the American chestnut, page 2
- Students will read an article about bananas and Panama disease. They will compare this disease with the blight that affects the American chestnut tree.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Shelley Casey.
- Barrier islands
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.8
- This lesson is part of chapter one of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students examine the difference between simple overwash barrier islands and complex barrier islands. They also learn more about the island-building process and the effect this process can have on daily life on barrier islands.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- Basketball: How to shoot
- This lesson will give students the ability to succeed at one of the most important skills of basketball. This will be interesting, easy, and fun to learn.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living)
- Beyond the headlines: Kyrgyzstan
- In this lesson, students research the recent history of the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and explore its strategic significance for world powers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies)
- By Jacqueline Olich.
- Biome basics
- This project involves the creation of a simple, yet effective display of the different biomes found on earth.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 and 8–12 Science)
- By B. Carl Rush.
- Black cowboys during Reconstruction
- In this lesson, students will learn about African-American cowboys in the American West during Reconstruction. Students will use the Blacks in the West Mini Page and other online sources to learn about the topic and then demonstrate their knowledge by writing their own fictional narrative. Social Studies and Language Arts teachers may wish to work together for this lesson. This can be used to introduce research skills, to round out lessons on the American West in both Social Studies and ELA and to reinforce short story writing skills.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Summer Pennell.
- Bouncing ball experiment
- In this experiment students should be in groups of 3. Students will drop a ball from different heights and measure the corresponding bounce. Since each group will use a different ball, they will generate different sets of data. They will be asked to discuss and compare their linear function with that of their classmates. They should practice measuring the ball bounce before they begin to collect data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Mathematics)
- By alicia jones.
- Brown versus Board of Education: Rhetoric and realities
- In this lesson, students will listen to three oral histories that shed light on political and personal reactions toward the 1954 Supreme Court ruling Brown versus Board of Education. Includes a teacher's guide as well as the oral history audio excerpts and transcripts.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Buffalo Soldiers
- In this lesson, students will learn about Buffalo Soldiers using the Blacks in the West Mini Page. Students will compare what they learn from the Mini Page with Bob Marley’s song "Buffalo Soldiers." Then students will choose another group of people or a social movement to compare the Buffalo Soldiers to, similar to the way Marley compared them to Rastafarians, and they will write their own song lyrics to demonstrate the connection. This lesson allows students to make connections between different groups across history.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Summer Pennell.
- Building a stratovolcano
- Students will review the three types of volcanoes. Students will construct a stratovolcano and determine the composition of each type of volcano. Students will research examples of stratovolcanoes using internet resources.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 and 8–12 Science)
- By Jessica Bohn.
- Canning for country and community
- In this lesson plan, students will use primary source documents to evaluate the technological challenges of food preservation in the 30s and 40s, compare food preservation in the first half of the twentieth century with today, and consider the political role of food in the community.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Melissa Thibault.
- A case study of "A Civil Action"
- In Bringing current science into the classroom, page 3
- This is a short, culminating activity that can be used to assess your students' understanding of the steps needed to determine if a water source is contaminated and how it got that way, and to suggest possible methods of cleanup or remediation. Students review a portion of the film “A Civil Action” and identify the problem and the people involved. Students then take the role of environmental scientist and apply their knowledge of water and hazardous waste contamination to create a plan to help lawyer, Jan Schlichtmann, try the case.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science)
- By Michele Kloda and Dana Haine.
- Change in a democratic society (Lesson 1 of 3)
- This lesson will demonstrate how art can imitate society. Students will learn about democracy in America through an examination of and a Paideia seminar on "The Sword of Damocles," an oil painting by British painter Richard Westall. This lesson should be used after a study of colonial times in America and through the American Revolution.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Sharyn West.
- Changes in a democratic society (Lesson 2 of 3)
- This lesson is the post-seminar activity to follow Changes in a Democratic Society, Lesson 1. Students will participate in tiered assignments reflecting on the Westall painting, "The Sword of Damocles," and the prior day's Paideia seminar on that painting.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Sharyn West.
- Changes in a democratic society (Lesson 3 of 3)
- This lesson is a follow-up to Changes in a Democratic Society, Lessons 1 and 2. Students will reflect upon and respond to a sculpture by Auguste Rodin, "Monument for the Defense of Paris." Permission has been granted by Ackland Art Museum to use the following sculptures: "Monument for the Defense of Paris" (Auguste Rodin) and "Wisdom Supporting Liberty" (Aime-Jules Dalou).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Karen Wagoner.
- Chem-speak (introduction to chemical equations)
- Students will understand what constitutes a chemical reaction and how chemical equations represent chemical reactions by means of discussion and demonstrations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Brenda Rock.
- Chestnut blight
- In Restoring the American chestnut, page 3
- In this lesson, students learn about fungi and Cryphonectria parasitica, the fungus that infects the American chestnut tree. Students will grow common fungi found from spores in the air and show how fungus can affect the function of a tree.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Shelley Casey.
- Children at work: Exposing child labor in the cotton mills of the Carolinas
- In this lesson, students will learn about the use of child labor in the cotton mills of the Carolinas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They will learn what life was like for a child worker and then write an investigative news report exposing the practice of child labor in the mills, using quotations from oral histories with former child mill workers and photographs of child laborers taken by social reform photographer Lewis Hine.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- Chutes and ladders - Quadratic equations review
- This lesson is designed as a review lesson for solving quadratic equations. Students will play the game "Chutes and Ladders," modified for quadratic equations, as they review for the test.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By michelle longest.
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