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- Human responses to eroding shorelines
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.16
- This lesson is part of chapter one of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students look at efforts that are taken to prevent shoreline erosion. These include building hardened structures along shorelines. Students examine the effects these efforts have on barrier islands.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- "I Declare, I believe this document May Flower!"
- The learner will apply ideas of self-government as expressed in America's founding documents. To be used with/for SLD and other exceptional students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 English Language Arts)
- By Gary Peterson.
- Image Analysis of the Bijou Theatre in the early 1900s
- In this lesson, students will use postcards and photographs from the Going to the Show digital collection that highlight the moviegoing experience in the early 1900s to expand their critical thinking and visual literacy skills, gain experience analyzing comparable visual images of the same subject, and consider motivations for different visual image constructs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Lisa Speaker.
- Immigrants' experiences in colonial North Carolina
- In this lesson plan, students read two primary-source documents describing the experiences of new arrivals to North Carolina during the colonial period: One is a summary of a report written by a young Moravian settler from Pennsylvania; the other is a letter from a German immigrant. Students compare and contrast the journeys and settlement of the two groups.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Impressed with embargo
- Students will learn about the causes of the War of 1812 and make connections to current world events.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Andrea McGuire.
- Industrialization and Progressive Reform in the Craft Revival
- In this lesson plan, originally published on the Craft Revival website, students will analyze the process of making a hobby into a job. They will explore Craft Revival work environments, representations of industrial work environments, and data regarding Craft Revival work. To close the activity, students write a journal entry comparing Craft Revival and industrial work experiences.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 Social Studies)
- By Patrick Velde.
- Inference by analogy
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.12
- Students will use historical sources and an archaeological site map to infer the use or meaning of items recovered from a North Carolina Native American site based on 17th-century European settlers' accounts and illustrations. They will also describe prehistoric lifeways based on archaeological and ethnohistoric information and explain why archaeologists use ethnohistoric analogy.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- Interdisciplinary integrated unit on DNA and genetics Part A: Science
- The first part of an interdisciplinary week-long unit on DNA and genetics, focusing on science. Parts B and C of the unit focus on math and language arts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–9 Information Skills and Science)
- By Jane Lentz, Jimmy White, Tori Goldrick, and Marlene Smith.
- Interior Design Project
- Within this lesson, students will role play the job of an interior designer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–12 )
- By Shannon Braxton.
- Interior design: Designing my dream room
- Students will study interior design as a profession. They will integrate their study with math, writing, vocational education, and computer skills by designing their own dream bedroom.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
- By Paula Hightower.
- Interior designers: Working with right triangles
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.2
- In this lesson, students will use their knowledge of right triangles to create a design for an abstract work of art.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Mathematics)
- By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.
- Interpreting a short story
- Students will study the literary genre of the short story and examine how, through writing, an author can comment directly/indirectly on our society as a whole. Hopefully, the students will develop an awareness of the problems/concerns facing our society and an appreciation of how a skilled writer can mirror society's ills and sometimes offer solutions for the problems that plague us.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Regina Johnson.
- Interpreting lives through tombstone analysis
- In this lesson students will take on the role of archaeologists by examining pictures of gravestones from the Built Heritage collection at North Carolina State University. They will use their knowledge of history, observation skills, and inference to draw conclusions about the lives and deaths of past North Carolina residents.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Loretta Wilson.
- Introducing students to environmental justice: A North Carolina case study
- This lesson plan for science and social studies uses the 5E model to have students consider an environmental justice case study.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Dana Haine.
- Introduction to experimental design
- In Critical thinking in science, page 2
- Students will take the Pepsi-Coke Challenge and, at the same time, learn about the scientific method. While practicing their critical-thinking skills in an inquiry-based experiment, students will define and apply experimental design vocabulary . This lesson is written using the 5E learning model.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Daniell DiFrancesca.
- An introduction to slave narratives: Harriet Jacobs' Life of a Slave Girl
- In this lesson, students will learn about the life experiences of slaves in the United States during the 1800s by reading the story of a North Carolina slave woman who eventually escaped.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Joe Hooten.
- Investigating linear equations
- Using a graphic calculator to compare the slope and y-intercept of lines to understand the slope-intercept form (y = mx+b) and what effect each has on a line.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Mathematics)
- By Misty Jarman.
- Irrational numbers: Application to natural frequency and resonance
- In A mathematical model to describe fluid behavior, page 1
- After a discussion about the effects of natural phenomena on an object’s natural frequency, students will conduct an experiment to model resonance in plant stems and measure the natural frequency of pine trees. Through these activities, the students will gain an understanding of frequency, natural frequency, resonance, oscillations and square roots.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics)
- By Jenny Rucker.
- Is Mr. Wolf really a bad guy?
- This lesson is intended to show children the importance of evaluating information as they read. The author's point of view is limited in that it only truly shows one side of the story. There is always another perspective. How the author views a subject colors everything that he or she writes about.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- It's a zoo out there!
- In Proto-ZOO-ology: A problem-based protist inquiry unit, page 3
- This lesson is part of the unit "Proto-ZOO-ology: A problem-based protist inquiry unit." In this lesson, students learn about the diversity of protists.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Science)
- By Cate Colangelo.
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