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- Antebellum North Carolina
- In this lesson students will examine pictures & documents relating to the Hayes Plantation (Edenton, NC). Students will also use various maps of North Carolina to help them analyze how James Cathcart Johnston (owner of Hayes Plantation) used, modified and adapted to the physical environment of Edenton.
Students will decipher original manuscripts from the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Campus and draw conclusions about antebellum society in North Carolina with regard to reform movements and the history and status of blacks.
From a list of volumes found in the Hayes Plantation Library exhibit at the North Carolina Collection Gallery, students will determine what catagories of books were most prevalent in the library and hypothesize as to why those types of books would be so important to an antebellum plantation owner.
Click Here to access Photographs & documents relating to this lesson plan. - Author: cissy o'neal
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
- Building a paper bridge: An introduction to problem solving
- This activity allows the student to explore problem solving strategies while working with a partner. This activity (building a paper bridge), requires students to question word definition and the application of those definitions. Through problem solving strategies, students discover the need for applying math skills.
- Author: Steve Walston
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
- Does it float? Exploring density
- Density is a property of matter that requires abstract understanding from your students. This lesson plan is a hands-on lab for exploring the concepts of mass, volume, density, and their relationship. This lab achieves several 8th grade science objectives and incorporates mathematical objectives as well. The lab can easily be used as an introductory lab for the year, thus covering not only the content objectives, but also procedures for completing labs throughout the course of the year.
- Author: Trish Loudermilt
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
- An "Eggs"traordinary Sculpture
- This lesson uses a sculpture located at the North Carolina Zoological Park as the springboard for an inquiry involving eggs and egg-layers. Several measurements and calculations are incorporated. A visit to the NC Zoological Park is preferred.
- Author: Eddie Hamblin
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
- Experimental archaeology: Making cordage
- Students will make cordage and use an activity sheet to experience a technique and skill that ancient Native Americans in North Carolina needed for everyday life. They will also compute the amount of time and materials that might have been required to make cordage and construct a scientific inquiry to study the contents of an archaeological site.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
- Fire In Pythagorville: Problem-Centered Lessons
- Students will work on problem-centered lessons which use the application of the Pythagorean theorem to put out a fire in the fictional town of Pythagorville.
- Author: Kelly Crisp
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
- 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.
- Author: Paula Hightower
- Format: lesson plan (grades 6–8)
- Language families
- Students will identify and locate the three language families of contact period North Carolina and calculate the physical area covered by each language family.
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4, 8)
- Measuring pots
- Students will use an activity sheet or modern pottery rim sherds to compute circumference from a section of a circle and construct analogies based on their own experience about possible functions of ancient or historic ceramics.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
- Problem Centered Lesson on the Pythagorean Theorem
- This lesson is designed to help students give meaning to solving problems using the Pythagorean Theorem in a useful and meaningful situation.
- Author: Brent Bustle
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
- We all live downstream
- This lesson uses the North American Streamside exhibit of the North Carolina Zoological Park as an inquiry-based starting point for a stream ecology study.
- Author: Eddie Hamblin
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
- Zoo integrated unit
- The unit uses the North Carolina Zoological Park as a teaching tool rather than as a nice place to visit. It can be used by a single teacher or multiple teachers of different subjects, and it is aimed at 7th and 8th graders.
- Author: Craig Smith
- Format: lesson plan (grades 6–8)
- Constant dimensions
- In this Illuminations lesson, students measure the length and width of a rectangle using both standard and non-standard units of measure. In addition to providing measurement practice, this lesson allows students to discover that the ratio of length to width of a rectangle is constant.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 6–8)
- Discovering the area formula for triangles
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students learn the area formula for a triangle. Students find the areas of rectangles and squares and compare them to the areas of triangles derived from the original shape.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 6–8)
- Do you measure up?
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students learn the basics of the metric system. They identify which unit is used to measure specific objects and make conversions.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
- Finding our top speed
- This Illuminations lesson sets the stage for a discussion of travel in the solar system. By considering a real-world, hands-on activity, students develop their understanding of time and distance.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
- Finding satisfactory solutions
- Students apply creative solutions to problem solving in the context of a story problem.
- Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Format: lesson plan (grades 6–8)
- In your shadow
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students extend their knowledge of proportions to solving problems dealing with similarity by measuring the heights and shadows of familiar objects and using indirect measurement to find the heights of much larger items.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 7–8)
- Off the scale
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students use real-world examples to solve problems involving scale as they examine maps of their home states and calculate distances between cities.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 6–8)
- Square circles
- This Illuminations lesson allows students to use a variety of units when measuring the side length and perimeter of squares, as well as the diameter and circumference of circles.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 6–8)