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- Let's be firefighters!!!
- In this lesson, we will look at firefighters and the role they play in our community. This lesson will familiarize the students with the types of equipment used by firefighters, the special clothing worn by firefighters, and the responsibilities each of them have in our community.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Social Studies)
- By Lavonne Holland.
- Free falling: Working with radicals
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.4
- In this lesson, students solve problems involving radicals and discuss the importance of radicals in various careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Maltese cross
- The Maltese cross is a cross with four arms of equal length that expand outward and end in a "V" shape. The cross was originally the symbol of a group of 11th century knights, known as the Order of Knights Hospitaller (later the Knights of St. John), who cared...
- Format: image/illustration
- Catawba Firefighter's Museum
- This museum has exhibits showing the history of firefighting in Catawba County with examples of firefighting equipment from earlier times.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The Firemen's Museum
- This museum documents the rich history of firefighting in New Bern, NC, starting in 1845.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Utility workers: Working with the Pythagorean theorem
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.7
- In this lesson plan, students use the Pythagorean theorem to solve a problem relevant to the careers of utility workers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Working with parabolas
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.3
- In this lesson, students graph a quadratic equation to find a solution to a hypothetical scenario involving event planners.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Breathe in, breathe out
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.3
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will discuss lung capacity and brainstorm careers in which it's important to have a good lung capacity. Students will conduct an experiment to measure their lung capacity.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- By John Boyd.Adapted by Mitzi Talbert.
- Learning about the earth through remote sensing
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 5.6
- In this lesson, students will learn about remote sensing and satellite images, and will gain an understanding of how various professions use information gathered via these methods.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- By Tammy Johnson and Martha Tedrow.
- Get your character education act together!
- Elements of an effective character education program and lots of ideas for implementation—all across the curriculum.
- By Frances B. Lewis.
Resources on the web
- Why the Towers Fell
- The companion website to the PBS program,"Why the Towers Fell" which was originally broadcast on Tuesday, April 30, 2002. The website offers an in-depth investigation of the precise causes of the Twin Towers' collapse with an interview of one of the four survivors... (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: PBS and WGBH
