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Governor Charles Aycock: A virtual exhibit: In this activity, students learn about North Carolina governor Charles Aycock by reading historical commentary and a transcript of Aycock's inaugural speech. Students create museum exhibits about Governor Aycock using PowerPoint software.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Jamie Lathan.

Grammar Scramblers, spreadsheets, and parts of speech: Students use and create Grammar Scramblers with a spreadsheet in order to practice identifying and using parts of speech in a fun way.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–9 English Language Arts); By Tom Munk.

Graphic designers: Working with scale: In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.3; In this lesson, students will create a design on centimeter graph paper and enlarge it by creating a grid on a piece of poster board. Students will learn discuss the use of scale factor in the careers of graphic artists.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7–9 Mathematics); By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.

Graphic organizer: Marriage in colonial North Carolina: This graphic organizer will aid students' comprehension as they read an article about marriage in colonial North Carolina.; Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Graphic organizer: Nathan Cole and the First Great Awakening: This graphic organizer will aid students' comprehension as they read a diary excerpt that describes a revival in the 1760s.; Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Graphic organizer: From Caledonia to Carolina: Graphic organizer designed to aid students' comprehension as they read an article about the immigration of Highland Scots to North Carolina in the colonial era.; Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Graphic organizer: Janet Schaw on American agriculture: This graphic organizer will aid students' comprehension as they read a diary excerpt about agricultural practices in the Carolinas on the eve of the American Revolution.; Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Graphic organizer: John Lawson's assessment of the Tuscarora: This graphic organizer will aid students' comprehension as they read a primary source account detailing an English traveler's encounters with the Tuscarora Indians in 1700-1701.; Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Graphic organizer: The well-ordered family: This activity provides a way for students to further their comprehension as they read an excerpt from a book by an eighteenth-century Puritan minister about children's duties toward their parents. Students will complete a graphic organizer and answer questions about the reading passage.; Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Graphic organizer: Who owns the land?: This graphic organizer will aid students' comprehension as they read an article about conflicting ideas of land ownership between European settlers in America and American Indians.; Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

The Great Depression: Impact over time: In this lesson students listen to oral history excerpts from Stan Hyatt from Madison County and evaluate how the Great Depression affected one North Carolina family over time.; Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

Guidance counselors: Working with scatter plots: In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.10; In this lesson plan, students read about the life earnings of people with a variety of educational backgrounds and visualize the information using a scatter plot and line of best fit.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Guidance and Mathematics); By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.

Home is where the hearth is: Using photographs to discuss traditional family roles: In this lesson students will examine pictures of hearths (fireplaces), which used to be the cornerstone of the home and family life. These images, from the Built Heritage Collection at North Carolina State University, will help students use observation skills and inference to draw conclusions about the culture of family life at various points throughout the history of North Carolina and the United States.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Loretta Wilson.

Homerun hoopla: This lesson is designed for students to gather and analyze data about baseball figures. The student will use the Internet or other resources to collect statistical data on the top five home run hitters for the current season as well as their career home run totals. The students will graph the data and determine if it is linear or non-linear.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Mathematics); By Anne Walters.

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 ironic!: This lesson will introduce students to the concept of irony. Verbal, situational, and dramatic irony will be defined, but the focus of the lesson is situational irony. This lesson can be used prior to teaching longer, more complex short stories that contain situational irony. This lesson is modified for an English Language Learner (ELL) who reads at the Intermediate Low (IL) level.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Ann Gerber and Tericia Summers.

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.

A hula hoop is like a racetrack: Calculating the circumference, radius, and area of a circle: In On track learning: Safety through technology and design, page 10; In this lesson, students will use hoops of different sizes to explore geometry concepts such as circumference, area, and radius. They will also use indirect measurement and calculate percent of error.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7–10 Mathematics); By Roxanne Moses.

The human atom: Students will act out the role of atoms by dressing up as the atoms of designated elements. They will wear costumes with balloons representing valence electrons. The “atoms” will gain or lose valence electrons in order to achieve chemical stability. The students must then identify the charges of the ions formed.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 English Language Development and Science); By Kamie Wine.

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.

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