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- Heat racers
- In Design technology: Children's engineering, page 2.5
- In this lesson, students will learn about insulators and conductors by creating sleeves for thermometers that will either raise the thermometer's temperature or keep it the same on a sunny day.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By Erin Denniston.
- The highways or the byways: Mapping routes in North Carolina
- In North Carolina maps, page 2.1
- In this lesson, students use mathematical skills to choose the best routes for traveling around the state. Students will also use various internet resources for determining and plotting distance and ratio of miles per hour to time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
- Holiday shopper
- This activity uses a prepared spreadsheet and the grocery sales paper from the newspaper to figure the cost of a holiday meal for a certain number of people.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Computer/Technology Skills and Information Skills)
- By Stephanie Hurley.
- Home renovation: Working with area
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.9
- In this lesson for grade six, students will work together in cooperative groups using the internet to calculate the cost of finishing a basement.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- How are we changing North Carolina?
- In North Carolina maps, page 2.2
- In this lesson, students look at soil survey maps to draw conclusions about the impact North Carolinians have had on the land. This lesson is meant to accompany instruction on soil type, use, and erosion
- Format: lesson plan
- How do animals create sound to communicate?
- In BioMusic, page 2.3
- In this interdisciplinary lesson, students will experiment with a variety of objects and musical instruments to show how sound is caused by vibrations. They will learn how humans and birds create sound using the larynx and the syrinx, and identify two animals that use objects in their environments to create specific sounds.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How do I look to you?
- In this lesson, students will evaluate public service posters and a grooming pamphlet to determine if and how propaganda was used to improve the health of children, and define acceptable appearances for young women in the 1930s.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Loretta Wilson.
- How does an animal's environment affect the frequency of its sound?
- In BioMusic, page 2.6
- In this lesson, students will explore the relationship between frequency and pitch. In addition to conducting a simple experiment, they will also examine bat and elephant sound spectrograms. Students will learn how both animals and humans use their environments to create sound for communication.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How does sound travel in different environments?
- In BioMusic, page 2.7
- In this lesson, students will identify mediums that sounds can travel through and use experiments to discover how each medium affects sound. By listening to recordings and viewing sound spectrograms, they will learn about whale song and how these animals transmit sound through water (liquid).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How sound is like a wave: Investigating animal echolocation
- In BioMusic, page 2.5
- In this lesson, students will use two models to demonstrate how sound waves occur. They will infer how sound waves travel from a source and weaken as they spread. By demonstrating how sound echoes off objects, students will learn about animal echolocation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How to identify search terms in an index
- Students will learn to use the index to determine if the source has information about a topic and, if so, how to find the information.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Information Skills)
- By April Wells, Christina Klonne, Jennifer Tuttle, and and Julie Bingham.
- Human box and whisker plot
- Students will learn how to construct box and whisker plots as they actively participate in being a part of one based upon their heights. As an extension of the lesson, students will learn how to interpret a graph of this type.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics)
- By Nikki Honeycutt.
- I, the basket: Writing a first-person story as an inanimate object
- In this interdisciplinary lesson for grade seven, students explore the first-person point of view through children's literature and images of Nepal. Students exhibit their understanding of first-person narrative by writing a children's story from the perspective of an inanimate object.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- I’m tired. Can’t we just stay here?
- This lesson explores reasons that may have led to the domestication of plants and animals. A timeline of domestication is presented and students will create plant domestication “baseball cards.”
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Harold Mackin.
- Ice cream containers
- In Design technology: Children's engineering, page 2.6
- Students will use their knowledge to design and build melt-proof containers for ice cream. They will track the temperature changes in the container over a four-hour period to simulate the ice cream in transit from manufacturer to store. Students will draw a diagram that shows how and why the container works.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By Erin Denniston.
- In the spirit of... (museum post-visit)
- This is an integrated unit that focuses on masks in cultures as reflections of individual spirits. In the post-visit lesson, students will create plaster masks and write a brief description.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Visual Arts Education)
- By Tamela Davis.
- In the spirit of... (museum pre-visit)
- This is an integrated unit that focuses on masks in cultures as reflections of individual spirits. In this pre-visit lesson, students will explore the cultures of the Western Hemisphere.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- By Shannon Kelly.
- In the spirit of... (museum visit)
- This is an integrated unit that focuses on masks in cultures as reflections of individual spirits. This lesson focuses on students' observations of masks while visiting a museum.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- By Shannon Kelly.
- India: A filmmaking capital
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 4.5
- In this lesson for grade seven, students take on the role of film production crew members, planning the production of a trailer for a film about the life of Mahatma Gandhi.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Social Studies)
- By Meredith Ebert.Adapted by Kenyatta Bennett and Sonya Rexrode.
- Inquiry: You are an earthworm
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 3.5
- This lesson for grade 6 will help students understand the cycling of matter. Students assume they are earthworms and learn by asking questions about their life processes. The lesson also introduces career possibilities in the soil science field.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By April Galloway and Christine Scott.
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