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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.

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.

Introduction to Venn diagrams: Students will learn how to use a Venn diagram to categorize data. This activity is done as an introduction to Venn diagrams.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics); By Melissa Bancroft.

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.

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.

Keith Haring and Radiating Figures: Students will examine the work of Keith Haring and then look at how simple figures and patterns create movement in an artwork.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education); By Marion McClure.

Learn new words using context: With guided practice students will use context clues to determine meaning of unfamiliar words in short passages. When students have completed the practice activities, they will read a newspaper or magazine article, picking out unfamiliar words and using context clues to decide what the word means. As a group activity they will share the article, the words, and their meanings with the class.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–8 English Language Arts); By Betty DeLuca.

Letters home: Students will write letters home, taking on the role of one of the sons of the "Gold Star Mothers" from Union County, NC.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 and 7–8 Social Studies); By Meg Millard and Pamela Webb.

A living timeline of civil rights: This fifth grade lesson plan is one piece of a civil rights unit. This particular lesson is an opportunity for students to demonstrate knowledge of a specific person or event that occurred during the civil rights movement. The students will share their research with others as they take on the role of a museum artifact.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies); By Laurie Lietz.

Looking at an object: In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.10; Students will analyze unfamiliar objects in order to observe the attributes of an object, infer the uses of objects; and discover how archaeologists use objects to learn about the past.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

M&M madness: Students will explore fractions, decimals, percents, and circle graphs with M&M's.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Mathematics); By Donna Reble.

Making change: Students will use plastic coins and paper bills to practice making change with a partner.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 and 4–5 Mathematics); By Carol Livingston.

Marshmallow catapults: In Design technology: Children's engineering, page 1.4; Students will work in design teams competing for a contract to produce a marshmallow catapult for Target. Catapults will be assessed based on cost, performance, and appearance.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics and Science); By Erin Denniston.

Meanwhile...: Transition words that connect ideas: Students will identify transition words in picturebooks that they can use in their own writing. Transition words are the glue that holds sentences and paragraphs together. They signal that this is a new part of the story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Measuring the waters: This lesson plan uses an excerpt from an oral history about measuring flood waters during Hurricane Floyd to teach students about the many ways measurements can be taken. Students are given an opportunity to practice measuring with a variety of tools and evaluate their effectiveness.; Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

Mending pottery: In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.9; Students will mend broken pottery to learn what archaeologists learn by mending pottery.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

Meteorology: In The Walking Classroom, page 6; In this lesson plan for fifth grade language arts and science, students learn about meteorology and the forces that create weather patterns.; Format: lesson plan

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