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- Artifact ethics
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.5
- In their study of archaeological issues students will use ethical dilemmas to examine their own values and beliefs about archaeological site protection. They will also evaluate possible actions they might take regarding site and artifact protection.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance and Social Studies)
- An average autumn
- This lesson will be a review of skills for calculating mean, mode, median, and range of a set of numbers to be created by the students. It will result in a seasonal display for the classroom or school-wide bulletin board.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–6 Mathematics)
- By Scott Counce.
- Beginning lesson on coordinate grids: First quadrant
- Students will investigate the first quadrant of the Cartesian coordinate system. They will use online activities developed by Shodor.org to identify the coordinates of points, or plot specific points. Then students will progress to an activity where they direct a robot through a mine field laid out on the coordinate plane. Permission has been granted for the use of the materials as part of the workshop - "Interactivate Your Bored Math Students" by Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 and 5 Mathematics)
- By Bonnie Boaz.
- Benjamin Banneker
- In The Walking Classroom, page 10
- In this lesson for fifth grade language arts and science, students learn about famous inventor, scientist, astronomer, and writer, Benjamin Banneker.
- Format: lesson plan
- Black American leaders as responsible citizens: Their roles, their contributions, their diversity
- The focus of this lesson will be to help third grade students to clearly identify the need for having leaders arise from the citizenry of a given community. Students will review factual information to guide them in distinguishing the positive and negative qualities of leaders. Techniques will include guided reading of factual historical text during a Jigsaw, student note taking, student development of open-ended questions, and student engagement in a Socratic seminar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 and 5 Social Studies)
- By Debbie Rollins.
- Black cowboys
- In this lesson, students will use the Blacks in the West Mini Page to learn about black cowboys, read an excerpt from Nat Love’s biography, and create a comic about a black cowboy. This lesson teaches students about figures rarely shown in social studies texts and allows them to demonstrate their knowledge in a variety of ways.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Summer Pennell.
- Books we've read
- This lesson plan creates a classroom database collecting information on books that students have read over a period of time determined by the teacher and/or students. By sorting and filtering, students evaluate the data and can later create other products from their findings.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Computer/Technology Skills and Information Skills)
- By Mary Rizzo.
- Breathe in, breathe out
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.3
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will discuss lung capacity and brainstorm careers in which it's important to have a good lung capacity. Students will conduct an experiment to measure their lung capacity.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 and 7 English Language Arts and Science)
- By John Boyd.Adapted by Mitzi Talbert.
- Building a safe house
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.9
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will design and build a model of a hurricane-safe house.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 and 7 Science)
- By Emma Couch.Adapted by Mitzi Talbert.
- Building friendships
- The class will listen to the counselor/teacher read the book: "Enemy Pie" by Derek Munson and a discussion will follow. This lesson will be summarized by listening to the students share their friendship recipes created from the new ideas learned from "Enemy Pie." An example of "Friendship Pie" is attached.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- By Julia Efland.
- Building out
- In Design technology: Children's engineering, page 3.2
- Students will be using thin spaghetti noodles and tape to construct a cantilever that projects as far as possible out from a table without touching the floor.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Science)
- By Erin Denniston.
- Building the Blue Ridge Parkway
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 4.2
- In this lesson, students will learn about various ways in which the land was modified in order to build the Blue Ridge Parkway. They will analyze different types of resources for details and use those details to make generalizations about the work required to build the Blue Ridge Parkway.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Social Studies)
- By Melissa Harden.
- "Card" Specialty
- Students will make a greeting card for their pen pals or book buddies while studying specialization and division of labor in Social Studies.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Social Studies)
- By Pat Pennino.
- "Casey at the Bat" and narrative poems
- In The Walking Classroom, page 4
- In this lesson for fifth grade language arts, students listen to the narrative poem "Casey at the Bat" and learn how narrative poetry tells a story.
- Format: lesson plan
- Character education: Honesty
- This lesson will focus on two character education traits - honesty and friendship. During this lesson the students will conduct a character analysis and link prior knowledge to help understand the story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By LaTina Robinson.
- Chronology: The time of my life
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.6
- In their study of chronology the students will use personal timelines and an activity sheet to demonstrate the importance of intact information to achieve accuracy, and compare and contrast their timelines with the chronological information contained in a stratified archaeological site.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Civil rights wax museum project
- In this lesson plan, students will choose African Americans prominent in the Civil Rights Movement and research aspects of their lives. They will create timelines of their subjects' lives and a speech about their subjects, emphasizing why they are remembered today.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Sabrina Lewandowski.
- Civil War Tribune
- This lesson focuses on student creativity along with the writing process. Art is also incorporated in a unique way. Students will use their research skills to complete a creative writing project on the Civil War.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Aimee Adkins.
- Clarification writing: What could I add to the NC Zoo?
- Students will apply their knowledge of clarification writing and address "What Animal or Plant Would You Add to the NC Zoo." Students must research their plant or animal to determine if the zoo ecosystem could support the species. In addition, the student must provide reasons and explanations to support their choice. This is a follow-up activity to a unit of study on ecosystems/biomes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Connie Johnson.
- Classroom food web
- This lesson is to demonstrate which organisms feed on one another and how food webs are created.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- By Kurt Oswald.
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