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- Landscape architects: Working with indirect measurement
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.5
- In this lesson plan, students use indirect measurement to discover the height of the school's flagpole. Students learn about careers in landscape architecture.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Mathematics)
- By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.
- Phi: The divine proportion
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.5
- The "divine ratio" is valued by designers, artists, and architects because of its interesting and and unique properties. In this lesson for grade six, students learn about this ratio and use it to create a work of art.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Scale drawings
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.7
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will use maps to measure the distances between cities in North Carolina. Students will write equations using the maps' scales to calculate the actual distances in miles.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- 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.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Craig Smith.
