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- Barrier islands
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.8
- This lesson is part of chapter one of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students examine the difference between simple overwash barrier islands and complex barrier islands. They also learn more about the island-building process and the effect this process can have on daily life on barrier islands.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- Building a stratovolcano
- Students will review the three types of volcanoes. Students will construct a stratovolcano and determine the composition of each type of volcano. Students will research examples of stratovolcanoes using internet resources.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 and 8–12 Science)
- By Jessica Bohn.
- 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.
- The coastal dilemma
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.15
- This lesson is part of chapter one of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks. Students look at examples of shoreline erosion. They reflect on the impact this erosion can have on human life on the Outer Banks.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- Development and flooding: Is there a connection?
- In this lesson, students will take their knowledge about the hydrosphere and apply it to the issue of population growth and development. In particular, students will learn how increasing development in eastern North Carolina may have worsened the effects of flooding from Hurricane Floyd due to lack of soil and tree absorption of run-off. Students will create their own development plans for North Carolina in small groups, explaining how their plan will benefit North Carolina’s water resources and environment.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- Erosion in the Outer Banks
- In North Carolina maps, page 3.2
- In this lesson, students gain an understanding of the different perspectives on erosion in the Outer Banks over the past century by implementing research and map comparisons between Google Earth and early 20th century Coastal Maps.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Jennifer Job.
- Estuarine shorelines behind complex barrier islands
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.14
- This lesson is part of chapter one of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students examine the different types of shorelines on the soundside of complex barrier islands. They look at how ocean-side processes affect the soundside of complex barrier islands.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- Estuarine shorelines behind simple overwash barrier islands
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.13
- This lesson is part of chapter one in the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students take another look at simple overwash and complex barrier islands. They examine more closely how overwash and inlet processes are crucial to the long-term maintenance of barrier islands and how these processes can affect human life.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- Evaluating woody biomass options for North Carolina's electricity future
- In this high-school lesson, students learn about the pros and cons of co-firing woody biomass fuels with coal to produce electricity.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Dana Haine.
- Formation of a stream valley
- This is a class of 12 Learning Disabled students taking Earth Science. It is a sophomore class. There are two attention deficit students. They all are good readers but have trouble with comprehension of science vocabulary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Mark Clinkscales and Carrie Palmer.
- Fueling the future: Evaluating the sustainability of biofuels
- In recent years, there has been a surge in the interest of the manufacturing of biofuels as a replacement for fossil fuels in automobiles. This lesson plan for grades 9-12 requires students to consider the impact and sustainability of using biofuels on the economy, the environment, and society.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Dana Haine.
- Generating electricity: Evaluating the sustainability of today's and tomorrow's energy sources
- Students will learn about the energy sources used by their local utility provider to generate electricity and will work in small groups to evaluate the sustainability of either a renewable or non-renewable energy source used to generate electricity.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 )
- By Dana Haine.
- History of astronomy scavenger hunt
- A unit on astronomy inevitably and rightfully begins with a look at the history of astronomy. This activity provides students with an opportunity to learn the basic facts of the history of astronomy by using the internet.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Mark Clinkscales and Carrie Palmer.
- 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.
- Inquiry-based exploration of human impacts on stream ecosystems: The Mud Creek case study
- This unit plan for high school earth and environmental science explores the impact of human activity on the health of streams in urban and non-urban settings. Students mimic current scientific research by measuring physical, chemical, and biological indicators of stream health.
- Format: (multiple pages)
- 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.
- Making a cross-island topographic profile
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 2.3
- This lesson is part of chapter two of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students learn how to create a cross-island topographic profile using the provided data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- Making a topographic profile of your school yard
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 2.4
- This lesson is part of chapter two of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students gather data about the change in elevation of an area on the school grounds. Then they create a topographic map using these data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- North Carolina Coastal Plain province
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.7
- This lesson is part of chapter one of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students compare and contrast the Northern Coastal province and the Southern Coastal province.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- Ocean beaches
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.12
- This lesson is part of chapter one of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students learn about various materials found on the beaches of North Carolina's Outer Banks. They read about the processes that bring these materials to the beaches.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
