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- All about trash
- Students will discover which kinds of trash break down naturally and which do not when they make their own landfills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Science)
- By Dawn Gilbert.
- Decomposition
- Students will observe decomposition in a pile of grass clippings and in a compost heap over time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- By Monica Dubbs.
- The effects of acid rain on the environment
- This is an experiment in which groups of students are given healthy plants to water with different solutions of an acid rain mixture made in class. Students will document and present their findings. This lesson plan has modifications for an Intermediate Low English Language Learner (ESL student).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 English Language Development and Science)
- By Helen Beall and Heather Hughes-Buchanan.
- Getting an angle on light
- Students will discover that the angle of the sun can mark time and is responsible for the color we see in the sky. Students will also understand that light can be reflected and refracted.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics and Science)
- By Janet Jones.
- Getting down & dirty with soils
- In this lesson, we will explore different kinds of soil (humus, sand, clay). The students will plant seeds in the different soils as part of further exploration.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Amy Rhyne, Paulette Keys, and Sarah Carson.
- Minerals and math
- Students will develop ways to create self-devised rules for classifying minerals and relate this information to scientific ways of classifying minerals according to their characteristics. They will then compile this information into a chart and convert parts of the chart into a line or bar graph.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics and Science)
- By Courtney Richards.
- Nephelococcygia - Cloud watching
- As part of the 2nd grade science objectives dealing with weather, students will learn the various types of clouds as well as the term and the act of nephelococcygia -- cloud watching.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills and Science)
- By Kelley James.
- Project Groundhog
- The students will determine the groundhog prediction of either six more weeks of winter or an early spring and see if the prediction was accurate by recording daily weather data for six weeks. Over that six week period the students will be comparing their weekly data with schools around the USA and Canada using the Project Groundhog website.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics and Science)
- By Jane Diamond.
- Trees of North Carolina
- Students complete activities including tree and leaf identification, species comparison, online research, measurement, and creative writing in conjunction with monthly visits to the "Iredell County Outdoor Education Site"
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Amy Luna and Kathy Beck.
- Weathering the water cycle: Condensation
- This lesson introduces students to condensation as one phase of the water cycle. Through the use of the four lessons in this series students will learn that the water cycle is a continuous cycle. The other lessons in this series include lessons on evaporation and precipitation as well as a conclusion.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)
- By Cathie Hill, Jackie Parker, and Karen Neilson.
