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- Designing for speed and distance
- In On track learning: Safety through technology and design, page 3
- In this lesson, students will learn about factors engineers must balance when designing a car. Students will find that not only must engineers consider the actual car design, but also road design and fuel limitations. Students will apply some of their new knowledge as they continue to work on their own car designs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 Science)
- By Roxanne Moses.
- Determining the author's purpose: Analyzing a recruitment video
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 1.10
- In this lesson plan, students analyze a video about ROTC to determine why the video was created.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Andrea Fedon, Gail Frank, and Cindy Neininger.
- Developing continuous air during articulation
- Combining long tones and burst-tonguing will assist many beginning instrument players to eliminate excessive breaths while articulating.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Music Education)
- By Lynn Dale.
- Dialect Awareness in Literature and Life
- Dovey Coe, a young adolescent novel by Frances O'Roark Dowell of Boone, North Carolina, takes place in the 1930s in the mountains of Western North Carolina. The use of mountain dialect continues to remind the reader of the importance of setting in this novel. The study of a selection from this novel will help students realize the impact of dialect in literature as well as their own speaking and writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Barbara Groome and Jo Peterson Gibbs.
- Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate soldier
- Students read the account of a private from Charlotte who served in the Civil War and grew tired of only hearing about the war from the perspectives of officers. After reading his experiences as a “man behind the gun” students will write their own point-of-view piece. They also have the opportunity to read other diary accounts from the war available through Documenting the American South.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- Differences across the curriculum: Part 1
- Part of a set of lessons offering an integrated approach to exploring diversity with eighth graders, this lesson serves as a pre-reading activity for the drama version of "The Diary of Anne Frank." Students will learn how diversity creates bias which leads to conflict, where students confront their bias and practice tolerance.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Lynn Carter.
- Differences across the curriculum: Part 2
- This set of lessons can be used with "Differences across the curriculum: Part 1" as an integrated approach to exploring diversity with eighth graders. The unit will revolve around the use of the drama version of "The Diary of Anne Frank." Students will learn how diversity creates bias, which leads to conflict, where students confront their bias and practice tolerance. These parts reflect the four core curricula in an interwoven approach to teaching students to confront their biases, learn tolerance, and infer the impact of these on today's society. This activity, Part 2, is meant to augment the pre-reading activities completed in Part 1 in a Social Studies class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Theater Arts Education)
- By Lynn Carter.
- Discovering elements online
- Students will work independently and in small groups to research assigned elements on the internet with sites given in advance. They will then contribute to a class database with their individual information. The database will then be made available for students to again work independently and in pairs to answer questions created from a class discussion to discover relationships about the elements.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Information Skills and Science)
- By Trish Loudermilt.
- Discovering North Carolina: A colonial map webquest
- In North Carolina maps, page 2.5
- In this lesson, students engage in a webquest in which they take on the role of a seventeenth-century explorer commissioned by the King of England to collect information about the area he intends to call North Carolina. Through this activity, students identify the geographic aspects that influenced exploration and settlement and connect narratives with geographic locations for topics including discovery, Native Americans, and politics.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Jennifer Job.
- Discovering perimeters
- By using string, students will discover a formula for finding the perimeter of a rectangle.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–12 Mathematics)
- By Jenny Crumpler.
- Discovering Pi
- This lesson introduces students to Pi through the discovery method of instruction. Students practice simple measuring skills to discover the relationship between the circumference and diameter of circular objects (Pi).They will be able to use this concept to find the circumference of any circle when the diameter is given.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 and 8 Mathematics)
- By Betty Shell.
- Discussion guide: Religion in early America
- In Educator's Guides: North Carolina Digital History, page 3.4
- This discussion guide will help students understand the larger context of religion in colonial America as they read about topics such as Quaker emigration and the Great Awakening.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Discussion questions: Expanding to the west
- This set of discussion questions was designed to help students understand an article about the settlement of the Piedmont region of North Carolina between 1730 and 1775.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Does it float? Exploring density
- Density is a property of matter that requires abstract understanding from your students. This lesson plan is a hands-on lab for exploring the concepts of mass, volume, density, and their relationship. This lab achieves several 8th grade science objectives and incorporates mathematical objectives as well. The lab can easily be used as an introductory lab for the year, thus covering not only the content objectives, but also procedures for completing labs throughout the course of the year.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Trish Loudermilt.
- Dynamic dialect: Horace Kephart and Our Southern Highlanders
- Students will read an excerpt from Horace Kephart's Our Southern Highlanders and explore how language and dialect have changed over the years.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 English Language Arts)
- By Billie Clemens.
- Edible geometry
- Students will use food to demonstrate their understanding of the sectors and arc lengths in a circle.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–12 Mathematics)
- By shari frederick.
- Educator's guide: Spain and America
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 3.1
- The article "Spain and America: From Reconquest to Conquest" introduces a lot of information and a number of issues that may be new to students. These suggestions will help you use the article in a way that best fits the needs of your class.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Educator's guide: The arrival of Swiss immigrants
- Teaching suggestions to help your students synthesize the information in the article "The Arrival of Swiss Immigrants."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Effective communication for successful careers
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 1.7
- In this lesson plan, students consider the elements of effective communication and write an informative or persuasive paper with a particular audience in mind.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Andrea Fedon, Gail Frank, and Cindy Neininger.
- The effects of acid rain on the environment
- This is an experiment in which groups of students are given healthy plants to water with different solutions of an acid rain mixture made in class. Students will document and present their findings. This lesson plan has modifications for an Intermediate Low English Language Learner (ESL student).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 English Language Development and Science)
- By Helen Beall and Heather Hughes-Buchanan.
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