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- In it Goes, Out it Comes
- Students will work with input and output using numbers and letters.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
- By Angeli Jarman.
- Incredible insect mouths
- This lesson shows children that insects have different kinds of mouths. It also notes the kinds of foods that different insects eat. It is a hands-on experiment type of lesson in which the children act as insects and use different tools for their “mouths.”
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science)
- By Kelly Stewart.
- Inside and outside: Paradox of the box
- This lesson serves to introduce students to symbolism (the box), to the literary element paradox, and to the abstract notion of ambiguity (freedom vs. confinement). It is designed for 2nd and 3rd graders, but may be adapted for use with upper elementary or early middle school grades.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–6 English Language Arts)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Inside, outside, and all around
- Students will distinguish between perimeter, area, and volume. They will use tangrams and graph paper to create two-dimensional figures that will be measured for area and perimeter. By creating layers of centimeter cubes, the students will explore the concept of volume.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–6 Mathematics)
- By Angeli Jarman.
- Integrating character education: A lesson on responsibility
- Activity on the character trait of responsibility.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- By Cheryl Stafford.
- Interstate highways from the ground up
- This lesson gives students a first-hand opportunity to hear about the planning and effort it takes to build a highway by through an oral history of a North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) resident engineer.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Introducing simple machines: A machine walk
- This is an integrated lesson exploring simple machines. The poetry response part of this lesson serves to spark the students' interest as well as allow the teacher to identify students' prior knowledge of machine concepts and vocabulary. The machine walk gives a baseline assessment of students' understanding. The majority of students originally focus on complex machines; this will be evident by the types of machines they identify on their list.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Terri Fannin.
- Introducing the Blue Ridge Parkway
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 4.1
- In this lesson, students will be introduced to the Blue Ridge Parkway. They will work in groups to analyze historical photographs of the Parkway in order to determine what purpose it serves and why it is such a unique landmark.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Social Studies)
- By Melissa Harden.
- The introduction of the car to North Carolina
- In North Carolina maps, page 1.4
- In this lesson, students look at the impact the introduction of the automobile had on North Carolina travel and city growth.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Jennifer Job.
- Introduction to colonial times
- In Colonial and state records of North Carolina, page 1
- In this lesson, students are introduced to different types of sources while also learning about the colonial time period.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Lara Willox.
- Island basketball
- In this activity, the class will be divided into two teams: the "Sharks," who play defense and the "Swimmers," who play offense. The "Swimmers" attempt to cross the ocean and avoid the "Sharks."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Healthful Living)
- By Resa Holt.
- It's in the garbage
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.9
- In studying archaeological concepts, students will analyze garbage from different places demonstrate competence in applying the concepts of culture, context, classification, observation and inference, chronology and scientific inquiry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Jackie Robinson taught us more than baseball
- After determining student knowledge about Jackie Robinson, the teacher/counselor reads "Teammates" by Peter Golenbock to fifth graders. The teacher/counselor then divides students into four groups to work cooperatively on questions. Groups select leaders and recorders and each group leader presents answers to the whole class. The teacher/counselor ends the activity with a question that individual students will respond to in writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 English Language Arts, Guidance, and Social Studies)
- By Jan Huggins.
- Jazzy sentences
- This is an interesting activity to help students jazz up or make their sentences more interesting by adding adjectives, adverbs, more vibrant verbs, and descriptive nouns.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Helen Potts.
- Jeopardy-style Media Vocabulary Game
- This game will help students learn and review a variety of media terms in a non-threatening and fun way.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Information Skills)
- By Myrna Price.
- Keeping food safe to eat
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 5.2
- This fourth-grade lesson plan, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, teaches students about the germs that can be found in foods and the ways to prevent food-borne illnesses by washing our hands, using safe food handling procedures, and keeping foods refrigerated.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Healthful Living)
- The land of milk and honey: Propaganda and the colonies
- In Colonial and state records of North Carolina, page 3
- In this lesson, students use primary sources to examine the use of propaganda and how it influenced people's decisions to immigrate to the colonies.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Lara Willox.
- The land of milk and honey: Reasons for migration
- In Colonial and state records of North Carolina, page 2
- In this lesson, students brainstorm reasons people leave their homes and move somewhere else. After discussing modern day reasons for migration, students will explore the motives of early settlers to immigrate to colonial North Carolina. Motives will be explored using a primary source, specifically letters from potential settlers asking for permission to come to the "land of milk and honey."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Lara Willox.
- The land of milk and honey: Relocated or not
- In Colonial and state records of North Carolina, page 4
- In this lesson, students read primary sources to learn about the establishment of the city of New Bern, North Carolina. The students will also use maps to draw conclusions about what was read.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Lara Willox.
- Language families
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.7
- Students will identify and locate the three language families of contact period North Carolina and calculate the physical area covered by each language family.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 7–8 Mathematics and Social Studies)
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