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- Habitat photo album
- Students will use digital cameras and explore the outdoors searching ecosystems for opportunities to take pictures of different habitats and the components that go into them.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Science)
- By Colleen Buchauer and Lesley Brooks.
- North Carolina Aquariums
- Visit one of the three North Carolina Aquariums and learn about the "diverse natural and cultural resources associated with North Carolina's ocean, estuaries, rivers, streams, and other aquatic environments."
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Saving the environment through picture books
- This lesson looks at environmental issues and man's relationship to the environment over time using main ideas and supporting details. The content comes from two picture books: Brother Eagle, Sister Sky and A River Ran Wild.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Libba Sager.
- Weathering the water cycle: Precipitation
- Students will learn that precipitation is one of the three stages of the water cycle and how it relates to the other stages.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 and 5 Science)
- By Cathie Hill, Jackie Parker, and Karen Neilson.
- Tracking animals
- Large groups of children are likely to scare off mammals, but they can learn to identify tracks to learn more about the animals that left them.
- By Linda Dow.
- The zoo is coming, the zoo is coming
- The zoo is coming is a lesson that will give students an opportunity to write a letter to a fictional governor about the pros and cons of having a zoo come to their town.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Science)
- By steven sather.
- We all live downstream
- This lesson uses the North American Streamside exhibit of the North Carolina Zoological Park as an inquiry-based starting point for a stream ecology study.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- By Eddie Hamblin.
- Bird watching made elementary
- Observing and identifying birds can be a gateway to a variety of learning experiences. This primer will get you started birding.
- By Linda Dow.
- Animal research: A multimedia approach
- Students will be working with a partner to research a favorite animal. They will be required to use a wide variety of resources which include multimedia software packages, the Internet, and various books. The students will be looking up general information about their animal, such as its habitat, place on the food chain, size, etc. Ultimately the students will be responsible for presenting the information they have gathered in some form of multimedia presentation. This activity is primarily student-oriented rather than teacher-oriented in that the students will be selecting what animals they want to research and what materials they want to use in creating their report. The teacher will give some basic requirements and guidelines to ensure that students are on task.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Information Skills and Science)
- By Amy Edwards.
- Accessing the American Memory collection: Multimedia formats and offline-use tips
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 4
- The American Memory collection contains a wide variety of formats including motion pictures, sound recordings, sheet music, maps, and photos. First, learn how to find them, then explore options for use in your classroom.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Project Groundhog
- The students will determine the groundhog prediction of either six more weeks of winter or an early spring and see if the prediction was accurate by recording daily weather data for six weeks. Over that six week period the students will be comparing their weekly data with schools around the USA and Canada using the Project Groundhog website.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics and Science)
- By Jane Diamond.
- The case of the disappearing pitcher plants
- This lesson addresses the cause and effect relationship between human interaction and a North Carolina endangered plant species. A role-playing scenario allows students to view the situation from a variety of positions and to collectively arrive at a solution to the problem.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Science)
- By Eddie Hamblin.
- Formation of a stream valley
- This is a class of 12 Learning Disabled students taking Earth Science. It is a sophomore class. There are two attention deficit students. They all are good readers but have trouble with comprehension of science vocabulary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Mark Clinkscales and Carrie Palmer.
- Water cycle word study
- Students will look at the written similarities in the words used to describe the water cycle (ex., evaporation, transpiration, precipitation, accumulation, condensation), focusing on suffixes and prefixes as a way to gain understanding of those terms. Students will group words by meaning and label a blank water cycle chart based on the categories for the groupings they create. This lesson is designed in conjunction with “More than just a rainy day—the water cycle.”
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science)
- By Kelly This and Leigh Thrower.
- Operation beach teach
- This lesson is the introduction to an integrated marine science unit which culminates in an early fall trip to Hammocks Beach State Park. (See attachment: Pre-Activity). The unit is designed to hook students into science and provide joyful learning experiences across the curriculum.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Melissa Tukey.
- Ecuador: A study of population
- In this lesson, students will create population pyramid graphs and analyze photographs to investigate population in Ecuador. Students will draw on this analysis to make predictions about how population issues will affect Ecuador's future. The lesson plan is designed to be adapted to the study of various countries.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Eric Eaton.
- Artful boomerangs
- Students will review three different types of boomerang shapes, use stencils to draw and cut out these, shapes and use various art materials and mediums to design their surfaces.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Visual Arts Education)
- By Susan Wittig.
- What do you see? (post-visit)
- In this lesson, students will use observations and reflections made while visiting the Ackland Art Museum to draw conclusions about interpreting artwork (and other works/events), make quality scientific observations, and see how these concepts are related. Students will be reproducing artwork they viewed at the museum, sharing their personal interpretations of various works, and analyzing how the presentation of information (in any situation) can influence our interpretations of a work or event. This lesson is the final lesson in the series of lessons, "What Do YOU See?", which uses the Ackland Art Museum as a resource.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By Reagan West.
- Consider the source
- Information is everywhere — especially in the presence of the Internet. It's hard enough for adults to make sure that information is valid, but it's even harder for students to make that judgement. Here are some suggestions for helping students learn to recognize bad information when they see it.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Women's history
- LEARN NC has selected several resources from our collections to help your students learn about women's history. Find lesson plans, websites, and articles to help your students learn about the achievements and experiences of women.
- Format: bibliography/help
