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Snap! Crackle! Box!

The student will create a new cereal and design an original box as their final for Art 1. This is a cumulative assignment incorporating the skills and techniques studied and developed throughout the course of the year.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education and English Language Development)

By Joan Lansford and Peggy Peck.

Nutrition and the media: Cereal box consumerism

This lesson will offer your students the opportunity to explore nutrition and how the media impacts our consumer decisions. Students will design a cereal box and read about how the use of color, slogans, and prizes impacts buyers. This lesson plan is easily adapted for exceptional children and can be expanded and/or adapted to suit your students' needs.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts, Healthful Living, and Mathematics)

By Gloria Simmons.

Modeling volume

This activity helps the students see how the volume of something includes the third dimension (width or depth) which is different from area. This activity also helps the students "prove" that the volume formula actually works. Students will already know that the volume of a rectangular prism is found by multiplying the object's length, width, and height. By using the blocks as models of volume, the students should come to realize that volume can be calculated simply by multiplying the area of the base by the height of the rectangular prism. Thus, they will come to realize that there is no need to try and fill the entire box with the tiny 1cm cubes, they can simply fill the bottom (to see how many cubes are there) and figure out how many rows there will be and multiply.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Mathematics)

By Erin Foerster.

Fruit Loops with fractions

This activity provides access to using visual and hands-on practice in solving problems with fractions. By using cereal, each individual student will be able to work individually and as a group in using different methods of working with fractions, and practice their skills in addition, multiplication, division and subtraction. A prior knowledge of the basic multiplication tables and common multiples will be very advantageous in working through this activity.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)

By Deanne Davis.

Graphing with food

Students will use a variety of foods to make graphs. Each food should be used for a separate lesson for a total of ten lessons.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

By Bunnie R. Brewer.

We read every day!

Students will, through observation outside of the classroom, gather and bring to class five items that exhibit different sources of information comprised of more complex vocabulary.

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and Information Skills)

Exploring the Food Guide Pyramid

Students will learn the 6 groups of the Food Guide Pyramid. Students will become familiar with how foods are categorized within the Pyramid. Students will also become familiar with serving sizes.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–12 )

By Elizabeth Carswell.

ABCs by the week

This is an ongoing series of lessons to teach the 26 letters of the alphabet through functional skills that can be used on a daily/weekly basis building on and transferring to other educational tasks. These lessons incorporate coloring, marking, painting, cutting, pasting, creating, listening and following directions.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)

By Karen Dawsey and Sherry Waters.

Bones and muscles

In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.4

In this lesson for grade seven, students draw bones inside an outline of a human body, and then conduct experiments exploring how muscles work.

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)

By John Boyd.Adapted by Mitzi Talbert.

Where do the Lumbee live?

In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 3.6

Introduction Knowing the location of a community, city, state or nation is important. More important, however, is understanding of the personality of the location. Robeson County, home of the Lumbee Tribe, is more than a North Carolina county that...

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

By Gazelia Carter.

Modify a seed

This activity is set up so that students will try to modify their model seed, so that it conforms to an assigned seed dispersal strategy.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)

By Bert Wartski.

Grocery store matter

The lesson stimulates students' thought processes and makes students aware of the things around them by teaching them about the three kinds of matter and their properties.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)

By Indiana Jennette.

Surface area of rectangular prisms

In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.5

In this lesson for grade seven, students calculate the surface area of flattened cardboard boxes and discuss how the concept of surface area is important in various careers.

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)

By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.

Partners in measurement

Students will apply their knowledge and demonstrate their ability to use standard and non-standard customary units in a cooperative measurement activity.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)

By Vanessa Thomas.

Nutritional value unit integrated with Microsoft Works

This unit is an example of how to integrate technology into the curriculum to alleviate teaching it in isolation. Students will use Microsoft Works to compare and analyze nutritional values from nonperishable food items.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Computer/Technology Skills and Mathematics)

By Gretchen Parrish.

Make your own cereal bowl

In this lesson for kindergarten, students will learn that the art of creating functional pieces of pottery in North America first began over 4000 years ago in North Carolina. Students will learn where clay comes from and will create their own pottery pieces.

Format: lesson plan (grade K Visual Arts Education)

By Eileen Palamountain.

Camp Earth bound: Problem solving and finding for fun

Students will work together in small groups of four to six students to solve the following word problems. Their solutions will require them to practice interview techniques and create a database and/or spreadsheet of their results. This information will be the basis of the answers to the following eight word problems. Skills such as area, cost, calorie count, ratio, percentage and scale, as well as persuasive writing will be applied.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)

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Magnetic pick-ups

In this Science NetLinks lesson, students look at various objects, make predictions about whether they are magnetic, and then test their predictions. They gain an understanding that certain materials are attracted to magnets and some are not. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Don't Buy It

A media literacy website targeted at youths ages 9 to 11 that encourages evaluating media messages with critical thinking and incorporates a variety of activities, games, and quizzes designed to help kids become ascertaining consumers. (Learn more)

Format: website/activity

Provided by: PBS