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- Planets' relative gravity spreadsheet
- The students use online resources to find information about the eight planets in our solar system. Then, using the relative gravity of each planet, they will create a spreadsheet to calculate what the weight of an average man and woman (possibly their own weight or the weight of other objects) would be on each of the planets.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By Susan Blevins.
- g: A pendulum
- Students will time the periods of pendulums to determine if length or mass affects them. Students can then use a pendulum to calculate the acceleration of gravity.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Bill Sowell.
- Wilmington's Children's Museum
- Younger students will enjoy exploring the Wilmington's Children's Museum with its many hands-on exhibits.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Forces, Motion, and Simple Machines
- Investigate forces and motion in technological designs, including friction, forces, inertia, simple machines, and gravity.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Irrigating the fields
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 4
- Wet-rice farming requires that plants stand in water during early stages of their growth. The water then must be drained away before the rice fully ripens for harvesting. Bamboo wheels such as the one shown here aid this process of water management in places...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- 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.
- Balinese rice terraces, thatched roof, and red flowers
- A scenic landscape view shows panted Balinese rice terraces with a thatched roof and red flowers in the foreground. The terraces visible here are narrow and long, stepping gradually up the side of what was a natural hillside many centuries ago. Balinese wet-rice...
- Format: image/photograph
- Balinese man hoeing terraced wet-rice field
- In the center foreground of this lush scene, a Balinese man is hoeing a wet-rice field terrace level in preparation for its next round of planting. Some terraced fields at heights above and below the farmer are flooded with water, but the man is turning dark...
- Format: image/photograph
- Women in flight: Using music to study American women pioneers in flight
- As North Carolina's 97-98 Christa McAuliffe Teaching Fellow, I designed this plan to musically enhance the 5th grade social studies of American heroes, focusing on women pioneers in flight. It is intended to utilize singing and rhythmic activities to compare and contrast the lives of Amelia Earhart and Christa McAuliffe. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to successfully complete a solo trans-Atlantic flight and tragically disappeared while attempting to fly around the world in 1937. Christa McAuliffe was selected for NASA's Teacher-in-Space program and tragically died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster. I traditionally use this plan close to the January 28 anniversary of the shuttle disaster.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Music Education and Social Studies)
- By Robin Smathers.
- Bamboo water wheel irrigating rice fields at Mai Chau
- A bamboo water wheel is being used to irrigate rice fields at Mai Chau. The current of the stream turns the large wheel. Curved bamboo slats set at the circumference of the wheel lift water from the stream and, as the wheel turns, dump water into a bamboo...
- Format: image/photograph
- Rice field terraces showing water being released downhill
- This view of rice field terraces shows how water is shared among many Balinese farmers by being released downhill in successive stages. The wet-rice field looks like a green staircase down a mountainside, with small spouts of water falling from step to step....
- Format: image/photograph
- Water filter in Diego Riveira's house
- An old water filter sits in a corner on a wooden pedestal. The water filter operates through gravity. Water passes through a porous stone sieve into a container below. This filter is in the home of Diego Rivera, the famous Mexican artist. He, along with Frida...
- Format: image/photograph
- Wheelin' fun
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.6
- In this lesson for grade seven, students participate in a car-racing lab, and make observations about how design affects speed. Students discuss how the lab applies to careers in motor sports.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- By Emma Couch.Adapted by Michelle Arias.
- Verb tense time warps
- When students have inconsistent verb tense, they have a "time warp" in their stories. In this lesson, students learn that verbs tell not only what action takes place, but also when the action takes place. They will learn to identify past, present and future verb tenses and to check sentences and paragraphs for inconsistent verb tense.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Does it float? Exploring density
- Density is a property of matter that requires abstract understanding from your students. This lesson plan is a hands-on lab for exploring the concepts of mass, volume, density, and their relationship. This lab achieves several 8th grade science objectives and incorporates mathematical objectives as well. The lab can easily be used as an introductory lab for the year, thus covering not only the content objectives, but also procedures for completing labs throughout the course of the year.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- By Trish Loudermilt.
- The tabasco water heater and hot water in Biltmore House
- In A technological tour of the Biltmore Estate, page 7
- Introduction to the boiler room Although this room is called the Boiler Room, a number of interesting features relating to various technologies can be seen here, including the elevator controller and modern DC generator. The platform and wire cage...
- By Sue Clark McKendree.
- Chronology: The time of my life
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.6
- In their study of chronology the students will use personal timelines and an activity sheet to demonstrate the importance of intact information to achieve accuracy, and compare and contrast their timelines with the chronological information contained in a stratified archaeological site.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Confederate spy
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 5.5
- Letter from Rose O'Neal Greenhow to President Jefferson Davis about the preparations taken by Confederate generals to defend Charleston from a Union attack. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Rules for students and teachers
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 5.2
- Fictional description by Calvin Wiley (1819–1887) of the "Old Field School," a typical rural school of the late eighteenth century. The author lists rules that students were expected to obey, with punshments for disobedience. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- 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.
