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North Carolina regional travel brochure: The students will cooperatively design travel brochures that describe major physical and cultural characteristics of the regions in North Carolina.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Deborah Harrell.

Integrated unit on South America: This lesson includes information concerning database operations, word processing, desktop publishing, and spreadsheet formatting. Students will solve math problems.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Development, Mathematics, and Social Studies); By DPI Integration Strategies.

What is static charge?: This lab exercise uses ordinary household materials to explore static charge.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By Leigh Kiser.

Coastal weather issues: Planning for a hurricane: The unit is designed for seventh grade students who have been studying Earth and its atmosphere. In this sequence, students are faced with the realistic issue of personal and social decision-making when planning for hurricane strikes, which includes classification, tracking, and monitoring hurricanes, as well as planning for evacuations. The inquiry-based approach involves a WebQuest in which the learner will assume the role of an emergency management team member who must create a preparation plan for the community.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Computer/Technology Skills, Information Skills, and Science); By Karen Greene.

"We the People": Students will gain a better understanding of the U.S. Constitution by exploring the language of the Constitution.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Karen Creech, Terri Hodges, Megan Lawson, and Mary Ostwalt.

Teaching suggestions: The North Carolina Gazette and Poor Richard's Almanack: This list of teaching suggestions will support students' understanding of how information was disseminated during the colonial era, as they read an article about North Carolina's first newspaper and a series of colonial-era excerpts from Poor Richard's Almanack.; Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

When will I ever use this in real life?: In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 1.8; In this lesson for grade seven, students research careers and determine how people with these occupations use English, math, and science skills.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance); By Jen Presley.Adapted by Kenyatta Bennett and Sonya Rexrode.

Guest of honor: A presidential banquet: In Rethinking Reports, page 1.3; A research assignment in which students plan a banquet in honor of a president.; By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.

Reviving dead school computers, one operating system at a time: This article introduces the Linux operating system, explains the process of downloading and installing it, and describes the advantages of using Linux in schools.; Format: article/best practice; By Aaron Fowles.

Painting the alphabet: After working on numerous letter names and sounds, the children will use a paint program to draw a picture and write the word to name the picture. The pictures will be printed out to make a class book or alphabet page.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts); By Jackie White, Kathy Moore, Kelley Turner, and Mike Christopher.

Blast off the wet way: This lesson takes 6–10 days and includes math classes in which students will serve as observers and will calculate the height that the rocket reached and time elapsed. In the science class the students will design, build, launch, and do a detailed analysis of the acceleration, speed, and force produced by water-filled two-liter rockets.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science); By Jack Curtis.

Recipe for Success: Students will use an electronic card catalog to find books by subject using the call number. This lesson was used in collaboration with a third grade thanksgiving unit. As part of the unit students were to find a recipe to prepare and bring to class.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Information Skills); By Elizabeth Gibson and Melissa Withers.

Origami geometry: Students apply their knowledge of geometric terms to follow directions while folding an origami sculpture. Students then solve math problems which relate to the project with follow-up discussions about the project relating to geometric terms such as symmetry, faces, edges, square, triangle, plane, etc.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics); By Cherl Hollada, Libby Morrison, Michelle Kaczynski, and Susan Pope.

Alphabet animals: Students will use their knowledge of the alphabet and letter sounds to create an alphabet PowerPoint presentation. Each slide will contain a letter of the alphabet, a sentence and the sound that corresponds to that letter.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Arts, and Information Skills); By Emily Leonard.

Post-EOG activities: Student products: In this project, students will become entrepreneurs. They will have a business that makes items with 3-dimensional shapes. They will receive various tasks that will require that they make decisions as any other business owner would have to do.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics); By Geneva Williams.

Discovering elements online: Students will work independently and in small groups to research assigned elements on the internet with sites given in advance. They will then contribute to a class database with their individual information. The database will then be made available for students to again work independently and in pairs to answer questions created from a class discussion to discover relationships about the elements.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Information Skills and Science); By Trish Loudermilt.

Super sportswriters' camp: Students will identify the parts of a newspaper sports article in order to plan and write their own sports article.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts); By Julie Bennett.

A population and a biome: This activity will introduce students to the use of laptop computers. Students will participate in a unit on ecosystems using the Microsoft programs Excel and PowerPoint.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Arts, and Science); By Ronald Cross.

Grandparent interview: Students will interview a grandparent and write a news article based upon their interview. They will also do research on historical events to develop questions to be asked during the interview.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts); By Jim Carson.

From documents to digitization: To design a research project using primary sources from the Web, you'll need to know what's out there and how to find it. This article explains what's available, why, and where.; Format: article; By David Walbert.

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