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Earth Day poems using KidPix
Students will learn about Earth Day and their responsibility to the earth by creating Earth Day poems using KidPix.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
By Michele Tipton.
Phases of the moon
Young children may have the idea that the moon actually changes shape. This lesson explains that this apparent change is a result of the moon's revolution around the earth.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Science)
By Jacquelyn Arthur.
Colburn Earth Science Museum
The best rock and mineral specimens from the Burnham Standish Colburn collection are housed in the Colburn Earth Science Museum. Students will enjoy the programs that are centered around this collection of fossils, gems, and North Carolina minerals.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
The Earth rotates through days
The students will be a part of a model showing how the Earth's rotation creates what we see as a sunrise and sunset every twenty-four hours.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Science)
By Christine Shatto.
Rough Earth Snake
Rough Earth Snake
Format: image/photograph
Smooth Earth Snake
Smooth Earth Snake
Format: image/photograph
How the world was made
In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 1.3
This Cherokee creation story, written down in the 1800s, describes how the earth was created from soft mud "when all was water."
By James Mooney.
The creation and fall of man, from Genesis
In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 1.4
The creation story from the biblical Book of Genesis describes how God created heaven and earth, plants, animals, and people; and later how the first people were cast out of the Garden of Eden as punishment for eating from the "tree of knowledge of good and evil."
The all-seeing eye
In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 19
Cao literally means high, while Dai means tower, palace, or abode. The combined verbal image is used to represent both a heavenly place and a Supreme Being envisioned as creating all religions and beings on the earth. The visual symbol...
By Lorraine Aragon.
An underground demon
In The Ramayana, page 4.14
This dark and fierce demon, whose top half is seen as if from above, has small tusks and curly hair. He is wearing a gold headdress and arm bands as he pushes the crust of the earth upward. The image is from a mural in the Emerald Buddha Temple.
By Lorraine Aragon.
Planets' relative gravity spreadsheet
The students use online resources to find information about the eight planets in our solar system. Then, using the relative gravity of each planet, they will create a spreadsheet to calculate what the weight of an average man and woman (possibly their own weight or the weight of other objects) would be on each of the planets.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
By Susan Blevins.
Transit of Venus
On June 8, 2004, a transit of Venus will occur, the first in 122 years. This article explains what a transit is, why it matters, and when and how you can safely view it.
Format: article
By David Walbert.
Science News
Science doesn't happen in textbooks! This selection of websites give you a look at what's going on in the world of science right now, and how it's changing our world.
Format: bibliography/help
Peace returns to the earth
In The Ramayana, page 7.15
Women pick fruit in a fertile garden, as painted on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Four women move contentedly around a lush landscape with colorful flowers and ripe fruit growing around boulders. A woman on the right reaches over a boulder to pick...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Vulcan Materials Company: Joseph Andres Gutierrez Geology - Earth Science Museum and Education Center
See the museum exhibits on rocks and minerals as well as a rock quarry with large category equipment and an overlook. The center also offers wildlife habitat preservation and environmental education at a number of its quarries across the state.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
KidSenses Children's InterACTIVE Museum
The interactive exhibits at this children’s museum spark the imagination and kids have fun as they play and learn.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Web of life
Students will apply their knowledge of the different categories of species that live on Earth. Students will then use a variety of thinking maps to display their information.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
By Danielle Pickard.
Greece: Part 1
This lesson is one of three created as an interdisciplinary unit on the connection between the art and artifacts of a culture and the values and beliefs of the members of that culture. This unit begins with a class-wide investigation of Ancient Greece and concludes with a visit to the Ackland Art Museum. During the visit, students will have the opportunity to assess their predictions about the Ancient Greeks. In addition, students will look at works of art from other cultures and compare and contrast the visual information provided about those cultures with visual information provided about Greek culture.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies)
By Winn Wheeler.
Arrows turn into serpents
In The Ramayana, page 5.8
A flying demon, visible in the upper left corner, shoots arrows that become serpents as they fall. The arrows become wavy as they rain down upon Rama's army. The demon moves actively in a cloud-filled sunset sky painted over a dramatic mountain and landscape...
By Lorraine Aragon.
The face of a king
In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 14
Four faces, looking toward the cardinal directions, are carved on the sides of fifty-four standing towers at Bayon Temple. The preservation of many of the towers, however, is poor so it is difficult to know exactly how all the towers were carved. Over 200...
By Lorraine Aragon.