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Simple interest: In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.6; In this lesson for grade seven, students learn how to calculate simple interest, and research careers in which people need to understand simple interest.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics); By Tammie J. Dawkins-Smith and Cynthia Russell.Adapted by Sharon Abell, Peggy Dickey, and Barbara Turner.

There's more out there than just Democrats and Republicans!: Students will use the internet to research minority political parties and interest groups. Students will create a PowerPoint presentation (or other type of presentation), write a paper, and create a commercial advertisement for their group using a propaganda technique.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies); By Abby Stotsenberg.

Careers in science: In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.1; In this lesson for grade seven, students will sort careers into three groups -- mechanical physics, health sciences, and weather. Students will match careers with their descriptions.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science); By John Boyd.Adapted by Mitzi Talbert.

Taxes: Students earn classroom dollars, set up a bank book, pay fines, figure interest and pay taxes.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics); By Cecelia Zimerle.

Finding lesson plans on the LEARN NC website: This document explains how to find lesson plans by browsing the collection, by goal & objective of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study, and by searching.; Format: article/help

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.

Imaginative writing: This plan addresses emerging writing skills by engaging the student's interest in creating original drawings.This plan is for Special Needs students, non-readers with limited writing skills, and reluctant learners.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); By Ann Franklin.

The struggles of a tenant farmer: In North Carolina in the New South, page 1.6; Copy of a mortgage and accounts of a tenant farmer in late nineteenth-century North Carolina, showing his struggles in paying off his debts. Includes historical background and activity questions.; Format: activity

Tracing the Titanic tragedy: Students will learn about the Titanic disaster as a historical event by reading informative articles and books and by use of the Internet. They will then produce a database of passengers with information about them and use the database to analyze the information.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies); By Elizabeth Harren.

The Iredell Museums: The Iredell Museum of Arts and Heritage: Visit the museum to explore exhibits with scientific and historic interest.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Navigating the Subway: Indicateur des métros: Traveling in a foreign country often requires knowledge of how to use the subway to visit various points of interest in a particular city. The activity is in the form of a role-play in which one student serves as an employee at a government Tourist Office. The other plays the role of a tourist who wants to go to a particular location within the city. He must convey this information to the employee in the target language. The employee then inputs the information into the program and orally gives the directions to the tourist.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages); By Bobby Hobgood.

Reading newspapers: Factual reporting: This learner's guide introduces students to the use of historical newspapers as primary sources and provides key questions for reading them.; Format: article/learner's guide; By Kathryn Walbert.

Pocosin wetland: In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 13; Figure 12 shows an area where the longleaf pine forest meets, and grades into, a pocosin wetland. Pocosins are unusual wetlands because they are generally higher than their surroundings. Native Americans recognized this and called these communities “swamps...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Hear it, spell it, see it!: This is an activity to help children develop visual recognition of basic sight word vocabulary at the kindergarten level. The words covered are: I, am, can, like, it, and is. This is a simple, quick activity that adds a new dimension to sight word building with the help of the computer.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Vickie Hedrick.

Finding your audience: a primer: In Writing for the Web, page 3; Before you sit down to write something, ask yourself some questions about the people who will read it.; By David Walbert.

"Off To The Races" Familiarize Students With The Media Center: Students become familiar with the various sections of the media center and learn the value of teamwork through a kinesthetic scavenger-hunt approach.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Information Skills); By Robin Boltz.

Football math: Students will calculate team yardage in a football game using sign numbers.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7–12 Mathematics); By John Keith.

Tar Heels pitch in: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 2.7; "Tar Heel," evidence indicates, was a derogatory nickname applied to North Carolina soldiers by others in the Army of Northern Virginia. It was a natural, given that the boys from the piney woods oftentimes were harvesters of tar, pitch, and turpentine. It...; Format: article

That was then, this is now: Students will explore various career topics and study technological changes over last 30 years.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Guidance); By Cary Lane Cockrell.

Hanuman searches for Sita: In The Ramayana, page 3.5; Sequential images of Hanuman looking for Sita in the demon Ravana's palace are seen on a Ramayana mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. The two adjacent images illustrate how framed space is used to indicate time lapses in Thai temple mural paintings. Hanuman,...; By Lorraine Aragon.

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