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Story map: The gingerbread manhunt: The purpose of this lesson is to present a fun, memorable way for children to learn where the secretary, principal, nurse, janitor, cafeteria, playground, and other grade levels are located while matching a face and job with each of these locations and its importance to the functioning of the school.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Social Studies); By Tina Baker.

North Carolina's rain forest: In Jocassee Gorges: Temperate rain forests of the Blue Ridge, page 1; The Blue Ridge escarpment is the steep slope that separates North Carolina's mountains from its Piedmont plateau. The escarpment trends north and east across the state from South Carolina to Virginia. In many places it is steep enough to rise over 1,500 feet...; By Dirk Frankenberg and Stephanie Walters.

Sorting with Old Mother Hubbard: In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 6; In this kindergarten lesson plan, students use the nursery rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard" to practice sorting objects according to their properties, and practice reading by reciting a familiar nursery rhyme while following the text.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics); By Lisa Wright.

Stem and leaf hop: The students will measure and record the length of their jumps. The lengths will be used to create a class stem and leaf plot.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics); By Kathy Sellers.

Traveling through Africa: Students will plan a one-week, three country trip through Africa and create a travelogue of places they will visit. The students will create an electronic scrapbook of highlights of the trip (including cultural highlights, historical points of interest, geographic features, etc.); Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies); By Ren Bryan.

Ongoing assessment strategies for writing: Making final assessment easier by helping students improve the quality of their writing along the way.; By Sherri Phillips Merrit.

Finding your way in North Carolina: Students will become familiar with the regions and local features of North Carolina and be able to write directions for others to find these features on a map.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies); By Sadie Allran Broome.

History of astronomy scavenger hunt: A unit on astronomy inevitably and rightfully begins with a look at the history of astronomy. This activity provides students with an opportunity to learn the basic facts of the history of astronomy by using the internet.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By Mark Clinkscales and Carrie Palmer.

Laws and government: Hammurabi's Code: In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 4.2; In this lesson plan for grade seven, students analyze the Code of Hammurabi and make inferences about Babylonian society based on the code. The lesson plan concludes with a discussion of contemporary careers that involve knowledge of laws.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies); By Mary B. Taylor.

Fishing For vowels: This is an excellent hands-on activity in which the students actively participate in imagining a fishing trip. This lesson is designed to help students learn to recognize grade appropriate sight words. Students are expected to listen to a word and identify the short vowel sound heard.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Shannon Bradley.

Rest in peace, dead words!: “Dead words,” by my definition, are words students “use to death” in their writing samples. As Language Arts teachers, we can generate a list of such words a mile long. Examples would include: pretty, nice, bad, a lot, and good. This cooperative learning activity is designed to eliminate those repetitious words by providing students with a word bank/wall they can refer to when given a writing assignment.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts); By Cynthia Cook.

Summer safety!: The children will learn to identify unsafe situations and name hazardous activities they may encounter or see during the warm months between May and September.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living)

Field trips in context: Opportunities abound in North Carolina for hands-on interdisciplinary learning experiences.; Format: article; By Lesley Richardson.

Back to the future!: In this lesson plan, students research the history of an important invention and present what they've learned through an annotated timeline, historical fiction journal accounts, and VoiceThread technology.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Information Skills); By Diane Ruby.

Using percent of change to measure NC growth: Students will work in small groups to use the internet to gather data on the population growth for each of the 100 counties in NC from 1992 to 1995. From this data students will find the percent of increase/decrease for the counties they have been assigned. As a follow-up, the students will enter their data into a computer spreadsheet and from that spreadsheet, produce graphs of the information.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Computer/Technology Skills, Mathematics, and Social Studies); By Wanda Washburn.

Discovering how to take care of our natural resources: This lesson focuses on our natural resources and the effects our actions have on them. Students explore this concept through discussion, matching, literature, and writing.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Social Studies); By Jennifer Hicks and Alison Short.

Creating found poetry from picture books: Students select and read a picture book and afterwards create “found poetry” based on the picture book.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts); By Barbara Groome and Jo Peterson Gibbs.

Outer Banks English: In this lesson plan, students view a video about the dialect of North Carolina's Outer Banks and develop an understanding of linguistic patterns.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Hannah Askin.

Southern women and the bicycle: In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.3; Editorial from the Charlotte Observer, 1895, on whether women in North Carolina were "ready" for bicycles. Includes historical commentary.; Format: newspaper; Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

Writing a ghost story/mystery: Building upon the students' knowledge base of Blackbeard the Pirate, the numerous shipwrecks off of the N.C. coast, myths, and legends of the Carolinas, and/or The Lost Colony, students will write a ghost story or mystery narrative of their own.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By laura ritchie.

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