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- Calculating slope of a ramp
- In On track learning: Safety through technology and design, page 9
- In this lesson, students build a ramp and calculate its slope at different heights. They will also test cars to see how the height of the ramp affects speed.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–10 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Roxanne Moses.
- Car tests
- In On track learning: Safety through technology and design, page 11
- In this culminating lesson, student will test their car designs for safety and either speed or distance. They will evaluate their success at working as a team and consider what changes they'd make if they did the project all over again.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–10 Science)
- By Roxanne Moses.
- Career research and acrostic poetry
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.6
- In this lesson for grade 6, each student will research a chosen career and will use the information to create an acrostic poem.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Holly Grout, Deborah Smith, and Natalie Summers.Adapted by Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Career research and writing
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 1.2
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will learn about a career that interests them and then share what they learned in peer groups. Students will then write a letter to the Better Business Bureau stating why they should be given an internship in their chosen career.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Michelle Kimel.Adapted by Kenyatta Bennett, Anissia Jenkins, and Sonya Rexrode.
- Career vocabulary
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 1.1
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will become familiar with vocabulary related to careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Anissia Jenkins.Adapted by Kenyatta Bennett and Sonya Rexrode.
- Careers in real estate and customer service: Working with central tendency
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.8
- In this lesson plan, students compare the mean and median salaries of two different careers and answer questions analyzing the data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics)
- By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.
- The Carolina colony: Comparing three perspectives
- In this lesson, students compare three different primary sources written by early colonists and consider the reasons the colonists had for moving to Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The case of the disappearing pitcher plants
- This lesson addresses the cause and effect relationship between human interaction and a North Carolina endangered plant species. A role-playing scenario allows students to view the situation from a variety of positions and to collectively arrive at a solution to the problem.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Science)
- By Eddie Hamblin.
- A case study of "A Civil Action"
- In Bringing current science into the classroom, page 3
- This is a short, culminating activity that can be used to assess your students' understanding of the steps needed to determine if a water source is contaminated and how it got that way, and to suggest possible methods of cleanup or remediation. Students review a portion of the film “A Civil Action” and identify the problem and the people involved. Students then take the role of environmental scientist and apply their knowledge of water and hazardous waste contamination to create a plan to help lawyer, Jan Schlichtmann, try the case.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science)
- By Michele Kloda and Dana Haine.
- Cause and effect in the workplace
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.10
- This lesson for grade 6 will help students understand cause and effect and how these concepts apply to the workplace.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Cell theory and plant respiration
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 5.4
- In this lesson, students conduct an experiment using plants to gain an understanding on the effects of sunlight on cell processes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 and 8 Science)
- By Tammy Johnson and Martha Tedrow.
- Cells
- In Critical thinking in science, page 7
- This lesson introduces students to organelles, cells, and characteristics of the kingdoms. Students will begin their investigation at the organelle level and work up to the kingdom level. Students will use the observations and information they gather to make conclusions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–9 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Daniell DiFrancesca.
- Change in a democratic society (Lesson 1 of 3)
- This lesson will demonstrate how art can imitate society. Students will learn about democracy in America through an examination of and a Paideia seminar on "The Sword of Damocles," an oil painting by British painter Richard Westall. This lesson should be used after a study of colonial times in America and through the American Revolution.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Sharyn West.
- Change over time
- In Critical thinking in science, page 6
- Students will use satellite images, population data, and local city data to study human impact on the environment.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Daniell DiFrancesca.
- Changes in a democratic society (Lesson 2 of 3)
- This lesson is the post-seminar activity to follow Changes in a Democratic Society, Lesson 1. Students will participate in tiered assignments reflecting on the Westall painting, "The Sword of Damocles," and the prior day's Paideia seminar on that painting.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Sharyn West.
- Changes in a democratic society (Lesson 3 of 3)
- This lesson is a follow-up to Changes in a Democratic Society, Lessons 1 and 2. Students will reflect upon and respond to a sculpture by Auguste Rodin, "Monument for the Defense of Paris." Permission has been granted by Ackland Art Museum to use the following sculptures: "Monument for the Defense of Paris" (Auguste Rodin) and "Wisdom Supporting Liberty" (Aime-Jules Dalou).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Karen Wagoner.
- Changing communities: Past vs. future
- In this lesson, students will learn about the geographical, political, and technological issues that have influenced change in mountain communities using oral histories by Madison County residents. They will learn about the history of road building in the North Carolina mountains and the relatively recent decision to connect two halves of interstate highway in Madison County. They will compare and contrast the negative and positive changes that road construction has brought to the region, and listen to oral histories of locals who have experienced both good and bad effects.
- Format: lesson plan
- Cherokee lore and traditions
- In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 3.3
- Length 9 Weeks Class Length: 45 minutes - Meets daily Learning outcomes Promotes life-long learning: appreciation of different cultures. Provides hands-on activities: making masks. Integrates with EOG testing: reading....
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Patricia Lancaster.
- Cherokee relocation
- Students will use primary sources to investigate the boundaries of the Cherokee lands set for North Carolina after the Revolutionary War.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 Social Studies)
- By Donna Hernandez.
- Children at work: Exposing child labor in the cotton mills of the Carolinas
- In this lesson, students will learn about the use of child labor in the cotton mills of the Carolinas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They will learn what life was like for a child worker and then write an investigative news report exposing the practice of child labor in the mills, using quotations from oral histories with former child mill workers and photographs of child laborers taken by social reform photographer Lewis Hine.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
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