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Port Discover

Students will enjoy visiting this new hands-on science and health center which is geared to the pre-k to fifth grade curriculum.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Grocery store matter

The lesson stimulates students' thought processes and makes students aware of the things around them by teaching them about the three kinds of matter and their properties.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)

By Indiana Jennette.

Energy Xchange Renewable Energy Center

By tapping the methane gas generated by decomposing garbage in landfills, this company is able to convert the gas to a low cost, responsible source of energy.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Positively popcorn

This lesson should be used as a part of a unit on the three forms of matter. This is a fun activity on the process of how popcorn pops using gas as a form of matter.

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Science)

By Jennifer Burton.

Study your rocks and eat them too!

The instructor will use a liquid batter to cook pancakes to model the formation of igneous rocks.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)

By George Scherger.

Soil and erosion unit: Section 1

This two week unit will involve descriptive information on North Carolina soil types and how the presence of plants affects soil erosion. Upon completion of Section 1, you may continue to Section 2.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)

By Amy Robertson.

Float, sink, flink!

In this lesson, students will learn to make things flink, meaning they neither float to the top nor sink to the bottom of a fluid. They will discover that whether an object floats or sinks depends not only on the properties of the object itself, but also on the properties of the fluid (either gas or liquid) in which it is situated.

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)

By Erin Denniston.

Solar sizzlers

Group projects of building solar cookers or collectors provide arena for learning about energy sources and transformation. Gathering data for comparison and analysis exercises students' graphing skills and thinking.

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Information Skills and Mathematics)

By Larry Parker.

The growth of tourism: Warm Springs

In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.9

Advertisement for Warm Springs (now Hot Springs) in Madison County, North Carolina, from the late nineteenth century. Includes historical commentary about the region, tourism, and nineteenth-century medicine.

Format: pamphlet

Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

Estuaries in North Carolina: A primer

Estuaries are places near the coast where freshwater and saltwater mix. Influenced by ocean forces yet partly sheltered from them, estuaries have unique and fascinating ecologies. This article explains what estuaries are, their geology and role in the larger...

By Waverly Harrell and Jennifer Godwin-Wyer.

Resources on the web

Properties of air

The purpose of this lesson is to demonstrate that air takes up space, and puts pressure, or pushes, on everything around it (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere

Articles and information accompanied by realia-type images, a glossary, a timeline, and a teacher's guide that lead the student on a learning journey about the gases which fill most of space and are ruled by magnetic and electric forces rather than by gravity. (Learn more)

Format: website/activity

Provided by: Dr. David Stern

Soil & global warming

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about how dirt might help fight the global warming problem. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 6 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

A matter of state

The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand that particle movement changes as a substance changes from one phase to another phase. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Putting the ice in hockey

In this Science NetLinks lesson, students will explore a website to learn that what happens at the surface of ice to give it its slippery nature can be explained by molecular motion. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Chemistry PowerPoint Lessons, Handouts, Labs, and Worksheets

Provides lessons, labs, assignments, worksheets, handouts, and other assignments for chemistry classes. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Jeremy Schneider

Melting and Freezing

Students explore what happens to the amount of different substances as they change from a solid to a liquid or a liquid to solid: water, chocolate, and margarine. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science

NCDC Climate Monitoring

"NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather data. NCDC produces numerous climate publications and responds to data requests from all over the world. NCDC operates the World Data Center for Meteorology which is co-located at NCDC in Asheville, North... (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: National Climatic Data Center and NOAA