- China's ancient engineers
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 4.6
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will learn about some of the inventions of ancient China, and will discuss the kinds of engineering skills required to produce them.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies)
- By Meredith Ebert.Adapted by Kenyatta Bennett and Sonya Rexrode.
- Picture this!
- In this lesson, students will use their imagination and creativity to create an original, five-minute scene from a given picture.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Theater Arts Education)
- By Cindy Lohr.
- Goodbye, Bill Of Rights!
- Students will enact a scene demonstrating life without one of the first ten amendments. Students will be put into groups of three or four and assigned a specific amendment to research.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies)
- By Greg Simmons.
- Sell me on Dewey!
- Students create short, snappy, written commercials about the main categories in the Dewey Decimal System. Commercials are viewed by the class to reinforce Dewey, and help students locate books in the Library Media Center. Dewey Commercials can be used in Library Media Center Orientation for grades 3-5.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Information Skills)
- By Sonja Beckham.
- Soooooo tall!
- Students will build a figure out of Legos. There are two groups, and each group is competing with the other. Students build their tower of Legos as high as they can and then measure with a ruler or yard stick. The tower has to be free-standing so the children have to think of ways to keep the tower standing by itself.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Mathematics)
- By Beverly Rose.
- Temperature graphs
- In the following lesson students will locate and record daily high temperatures for several major cities. This data will then be displayed on line graphs. Students will choose one city, and based on its high temperatures, write a paragraph describing appropriate clothing and activities for that location. They will draw a picture of themselves dressed in the clothing and participating in an activity they described.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Kaye Clark.
- Studying simple machines with Rube Goldberg
- Using a copy of a Rube Goldberg cartoon, show how the famous cartoonist drew weird and wacky machines to complete a simple task. Students will develop their own Rube Goldberg-type cartoon, using five types of simple machines, to accomplish their selected feat.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- By Cynthia Corley.
- Introduction to polar coordinates
- The student will be introduced to the definition of polar coordinates, how to graph them, and how to compare them to rectangular coordinates.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By vicky burlington.
- The effects of the Great Depression in North Carolina
- This lesson is designed to give the students a better understanding of the personal effects of the Great Depression on the people of North Carolina. It also uses the student's creativity to help others understand these effects.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies and Theater Arts Education)
- By Yvonne Carroll.
- What element would you be?
- In Why does chemistry matter in my life?, page 3
- In this lesson plan, students write a one-page story relating their personalities to elements from the periodic table.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Lisa Hibler.
- Traveling through Africa
- Students will plan a one-week, three country trip through Africa and create a travelogue of places they will visit. The students will create an electronic scrapbook of highlights of the trip (including cultural highlights, historical points of interest, geographic features, etc.)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies)
- By Ren Bryan.
- The Little Yellow Chicken
- The students will be following an integrated unit on "Helping." They will use reading, math, social studies, science, technology, and other areas of study. Students will read, as a group, the book The Little Yellow Chicken by Joy Cowley. The students will be incorporating prediction, prior knowledge, comprehension skills, and language skills for the word family "-ook", the vowel sound "e", and the exclamation mark. The technology to be utilized by the students consists of use of the HyperStudio for math review, Math Software, Graph Club to create a graph of favorite party foods, Inspiration to guide and create graphic organizers for writing, and the Ultimate Writing Machine to create their own version of The Little Yellow Chicken. They will also incorporate color words to practice the Spanish Language.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By diane williams.
- Frosty friends
- Students will draw snowmen using various tools in the illustration component of their program. Our students use KidWorks2 by Davidson but others may be used instead. They will then write original stories to accompany their illustrations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Linda Baker.
- The drought causes conservation
- The students will use their knowledge of the importance of water to learn about the hydrosphere. The drought being experienced will be explored through graphs and a personal plan for water conservation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Linda Cummer.
- Slideshow review
- You can use this lesson plan with any subject or grade. I use it in my math class as a review before a test. I group the students in groups of three and each group creates a five question slide show which reviews the chapter or unit we have just completed in class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By Marcie Bivens.
- The five themes of geography
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.6
- In this lesson for grade six, students will explore different career paths based on the five themes of geography.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Shea Calloway.
- Resources of South America
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.9
- In this lesson for grade six, students will research the resources of a South American country and will create a map illustrating those resources.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Shea Calloway and Joann Via.
- Sea inventory
- In this lesson students will create a beach mural with sand, shells, and blue and white finger paints. They will count objects added to the mural as they go along.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
- By Dinah Jackson.
- Character education: Honesty
- This lesson will focus on two character education traits - honesty and friendship. During this lesson the students will conduct a character analysis and link prior knowledge to help understand the story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By LaTina Robinson.
- Opening an Hispanic restaurant
- This lesson focuses on vocabulary and currency associated with food, restaurants, and menus. Students conduct research to create an authentic menu with a companion recipe books. The lesson culminates in short presentations and food samples.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Susan Canipe.
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