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"Civil Disobedience" excerpt seminar
This lesson plan is to be used for a seminar on an excerpt of Henry David Thoreau's work, "Civil Disobedience." The plan will follow the Paideia concept to discuss the great ideas of the text. The plan will provide a pre-guide activity, coaching activity, inner circle seminar questions, outer circle questions and a post writing assignment.
Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
By Francis Bryant.
Civil rights protests and dilemmas
In this lesson students explore well-known civil rights protests then listen to two oral histories of individuals who protested in their own way to promote equality for African Americans. Students specifically will consider personal risks involved in protest.
Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
Classification of matter
Students are introduced to the concept of different kinds of matter. Students create models of different substances to learn to identify the differences between elements, compounds, and mixtures. This lesson is developed so that teachers can use it with English as a Second Language students.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Development and Science)
By Anya Childs and Rhonda Garrett.
Classification with pictures
Students learn taxonomy through presenting a project to the class.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
By Lemuel Lamb.
The coastal dilemma
In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.15
This lesson is part of chapter one of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks. Students look at examples of shoreline erosion. They reflect on the impact this erosion can have on human life on the Outer Banks.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
College academics
This lesson plan teaches students what they should expect academically when they go to college and how it differs from high school academics.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Guidance)
College admissions
This lesson plan teaches students about the college admissions process and the concept of minimum requirements for university admissions.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Guidance)
College progress check
This lesson plan for tenth- and eleventh-grade students teaches them the importance of setting graduation goals, tracking the achievement of those goals, and provides strategies for finding a college that meets their needs. Activities differ for each grade level.
Format: lesson plan (grade 10–12 Guidance)
Comparative anatomy: A continuum
In groups, students will design a presentation that will trace the development of an organ system through the major phyla of the animal kingdom looking for the relationships between structure and function by documenting adaptations.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Development, Information Skills, and Science)
By Joan Warner and Melissa Thibault.
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.
A comprehensive study of North Carolina Indian tribes
Students will apply their research skills of gathering and validating information to study the eight state-recognized American Indian tribes of North Carolina in order to create an Honors U.S. History Project. Students then will create a comprehensive study of those tribes to be compiled into a notebook to be copied and shared with the eighth grade teachers of North Carolina History in our county.
Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
By Wanda Taylor.
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.