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- Constructing a food web
- Students will construct food chains and food webs in order to recognize the relationships between organisms.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Lynn Pearson.
- Classroom food web
- This lesson is to demonstrate which organisms feed on one another and how food webs are created.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By Kurt Oswald.
- Raisins, Raisins, Raisins
- This lesson involves students in collecting data,organizing data into a line plot, discussing statistics, calculating mean, medain and mode and consumer awareness.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)
- By Melanie Simmons.
- Media Literacy
- How do you know if something is true? How can you figure out if someone is trying to influence or sell to you? Put yourself in their shoes and consider the source! Check out this selection of websites from our Best of the Web.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Uncovering assumptions through critical writing
- Students will learn to identify assumptions and propaganda techniques in advertisements. They will then use these techniques to create their own advertisement for a product and write a business letter persuading a company to produce their product.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 English Language Arts)
- By Rennie Lee.
- Working with matrices
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.8
- In this lesson, students use matrices to organize sets of data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Dear Tootsie Roll company
- The students will measure the surface area and wrapper area of five pieces of candy. Using appropriate formulas and measuring techniques, they will complete information needed for a spreadsheet and database. Students wrap up the lesson by writing a letter to the company with the most wasted paper to explain how the waste affects them as consumers and a suggestion for correcting the problem.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Tonya Thompson.
- Industrialization in North Carolina
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.3
- Industrialization needed five things -- capital, labor, raw materials, markets, and transportation -- and in the 1870s, North Carolina had all of them. This article explains the process of industrialization in North Carolina, with maps of factory and railroad growth.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Advertising new products
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.6
- Advertisements from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries show new technologies, new tastes, and new ways of marketing goods to consumers.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- To market we will go
- In a market simulation, students will experience the roles of producers and consumers. The crafts in this market may be easily tied in with winter multicultural holidays (Christmas, Kwaanza, Hanukkah, Hmong New Year, Las Posadas, etc.) Students can purchase gifts for their family members at the market.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Ellen Douglas and Melissa Park.
- Ecosystem problem solving
- Students will apply their knowledge of ecosystems and the interdependence of plants and animals to creatively solve problems.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- By Kelley Turner.
- How much is that cupcake really worth?!
- Use this as an introductory lesson to supply & demand for Economic, Legal and Political Systems students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies)
- By Joy Walker.
- The Bonsack machine and labor unrest
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.7
- When the Duke tobacco company adopted the Bonsack machine for rolling cigarettes, workers who had rolled cigarettes by hand were thrown out of work, and their replacements made less money.
- Format: article
- It's an ad!
- How do marketers target kids — and how can we teach kids to know the difference between advertising and fact? These websites provide strategies to build critical thinking skills for media literate kids.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Personal trainers: Working with slope
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.2
- In this lesson, students make calculations based on slope and answer questions about slope (rate of change).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Sale! Sale! Sale!
- Consumer math often requires shoppers to analyze and compare the same products at different stores. In addition to price variations, retailers offer incentives or discounts. This lesson requires students to be informed consumers who calculate three purchasing options and conclude which is the best deal. The activity enables students to apply mathematics to a real-life situation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Leslie Hawes.
- Trick or truth: Recognizing the hottest trends in advertising
- Students will study commercials and advertising techniques, will work in groups to select different types of ads from magazines, and make a collage to illustrate one of the ten techniques advertisers use.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Kathy Idol.
- Predicting the future with best-fit lines
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.1
- In this lesson plan, students use scatter plots and best-fit lines to make predictions based on data. Students also discuss how scatter plots and best-fit lines are useful in certain careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Plants and animals: Introduction to the unknown
- This is an introductory lesson to assist students in understanding where their food comes from and what is available in this area. It is also a wonderful way to continue with inventive spelling.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science)
- By Sheila Moody.
- Five tips to improve students' information evaluation
- Teach your students how to separate the good online information from the bad with these five strategies.
- Format: article
- By Bill Ferris.
