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The Earth rotates through days: The students will be a part of a model showing how the Earth's rotation creates what we see as a sunrise and sunset every twenty-four hours.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Science); By Christine Shatto.

Economics: Market surveys: This lesson plan is for an accelerated, academically gifted 4th/5th grade combination class. The unit of study is economics (social studies). This lesson was designed as a supplemental lesson for a unit I taught called Mini-Society (supported by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership). I taught this unit for the first time this year after attending a workshop at Chapel Hill, NC. This lesson enhances the Mini-Society unit in which children create their own businesses.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics and Social Studies); By Denise Delp.

Effective basketball shooting: Students will learn and demonstrate effective free throw shooting skills: proper hand placement, balance, stance, and focusing eyesight on the target (basketball goal and rim).; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 Healthful Living); By Tim Anderson.

Embryology: Hatching baby chicks: This lesson integrates science, math, communication skills, arts, and social studies through hands-on activities. Students are directly involved in hatching baby chicks.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 and 4 Science); By Ann White.

Estimating rational numbers: Students round fractions and mixed numbers to their closest whole number by first changing the rational numbers into decimal numbers.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics); By Doreen Castelloe.

Everyday geometry: Hidden figures and polygons: A lesson plan for grade 5 math in which students use historical photographs and drafting plans to demonstrate their knowledge of mathematical figures and polygons.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics); By Sonna Jamerson.

Everyday, ordinary Olympics: Students will use a stopwatch to time themselves performing in various events, record data, and then compare and order decimals to determine bronze, silver and gold medal winners.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics); By Linda Hill-Wise.

Exciting narrative endings: This lesson emphasizes the importance of a strong ending for a narrative essay and teaches students specific items to include in their endings.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Ann Jolly.

Exploring monuments in North Carolina's capital: In this lesson, students will research a Raleigh monument and then locate and explore the monument on a field trip to Raleigh.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies); By Stephanie Dixon.

Exploring patterns you can feel and hear: The following lesson will enable students to develop tactile and auditory patterns. As students observe, analyze, and make predictions about patterns they will enhance their problem-solving and reasoning skills.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Mathematics); By Carlene M. White.

Exploring place value with M&Ms: This lesson will use M&Ms to explore place value. The students are given 8-10 M&Ms and assigned a value for each color from one to hundred thousand. The students will then write their number in standard, written and expanded form. The students will also identify the place and value of various digits.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics); By Amy Bullins.

Exploring probability: Through teacher guidance, students will experiment with objects to generate probable outcomes to consider probability.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 7 Mathematics); By John Cleveland.

Exploring the families of instruments: Students will learn about the families of instruments and conclude the lesson by constructing a model instrument from one of the families studied.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Music Education); By Leslie Cothern.

Faces tell feelings - Part 2 - Observations: Students will view a PowerPoint presentation of various portraits by different artists. They will observe facial expressions and the emotions they convey in these works of art.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education); By Jan Kimosh.

Faces tell feelings - Part 3 - Drawing facial expressions: Students will learn how to draw facial expressions and paint a portrait which portrays a particular expression or emotion.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education); By Jan Kimosh.

Faces tell feelings - Part 4 - Computer animation: In this lesson, students will create an animated face presented in a slide show using Kid Pix software.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education and Computer/Technology Skills); By Susan Wenzel Getter.

Faces tell feelings - Part 5 - Typefaces: Students will study various typefaces in terms of their line quality and shape. Then they will use various editing functions in a word processor to create a text document whose typefaces "show" a particular emotion.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education); By Susan Wenzel Getter and Jan Kimosh.

Faces tell feelings - Part 6 - Emotions collage: Students will create a collage using magazine photos and words printed in computer lab to express a particular emotion.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education); By Jan Kimosh.

Fact versus opinion: Maintaining self-esteem: Distinguishing between fact and opinion is important for students to understand. This lesson uses many interesting and concrete examples to help students tell the difference between the two.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance); By Scott Ertl.

Farmville's choice: In this lesson, students will learn about rural life in North Carolina at the turn of the century. Home demonstration and 4H clubs implemented many programs to help people learn better farming techniques, ways of preserving food, and taking care of the home. Several North Carolina leaders went to great lengths to ensure the success of these programs. In part of this activity, students help the town of Farmville dedicate a monument to one of those people.; Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

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