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- 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.
- Making change to $1.00.
- In this lesson students will work in small groups making change to $1.00 using coins and pictures of items priced from Sunday fliers. In advance the teacher will cut out pictures of items costing less than $1.00.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
- By Julie Hohns.
- "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.
- 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.
- A very short history of the English language
- Students apply their knowledge of world history to research the major influences on the language that has become the English we speak today. Students then develop a timeline of events in Britain and explain the contributions of the various invading groups to the English language.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Carla Shinn.
- Analyzing children's letters to Mrs. Roosevelt
- Students will analyze letters that children wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt during the Great Depression.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Angie Panel Holthausen.
- Animal report
- After studying the various animal groups, students write a report about an animal of their choosing using well-formed paragraphs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Science)
- By Kay Sims.
- Introducing simple machines: A machine walk
- This is an integrated lesson exploring simple machines. The poetry response part of this lesson serves to spark the students' interest as well as allow the teacher to identify students' prior knowledge of machine concepts and vocabulary. The machine walk gives a baseline assessment of students' understanding. The majority of students originally focus on complex machines; this will be evident by the types of machines they identify on their list.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Terri Fannin.
- Caucusing in the middle school classroom
- In Arts of persuasion, page 1
- Caucusing enables students to practice the elements of responsible citizenship, including persuasive writing and speaking.
- By Pamela Myrick and Sharon Pearson.
- Hyper-solving quadratic equations
- This plan uses student created HyperStudio Programs to present, review, and summarize various methods of solving quadratic equations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By Charlotte Lewis.
- Posing a scenario and "looping" to provide focus in a cause/effect essay
- Most of us are familiar with the idea that in narratives a writer chooses a “hot spot” or critical incident to serve as the focus of the work. Teachers of expository writing also must assist students in finding the “hot spot” or focus of their essays. Use this exercise to help student focus on one aspect of the essay.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Margaret Ryan.
- Details and sequencing
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.7
- This lesson for grade six will introduce students to careers in environmental protection as it teaches them to identify details and sequence in a non-fiction reading passage.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Send me to Congress
- Students learn about the qualifications for and job description of members of the U.S.Senate or the U.S.House of Representatives by designing and creating a campaign brochure. Students apply their knowledge of these requirements by "selling" their candidate to the general public.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies)
- By Tim Raines.
- East Carolina Village of Yesteryear
- The museum displays depict one hundred years of North Carolina history. With nineteen buildings, and over two thousand artifacts, the village promotes NC life from 1840 to 1940.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Helping students understand text structures: Informational problem/solution
- This exercise teaches students to understand the organizational structure of problem/solution essays by having them write "what it says" and "what it does" statements about a text. Asking students to write these statements about a text will enable students to read the text closely and will ensure that they understand the structure of a problem/solution text.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Margaret Ryan.
- Introduction to spreadsheets
- In this two-week unit the students will use a teacher made spreadsheet to learn how calculations work. Then student teams will work together to create their own "store" order form on a spreadsheet. The final part of the lesson is a simulated game show where students "shop" at each others stores, trying to spend an exact amount of money without going over, getting closer to their required amount than any other team.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By Christine Weaver.
- War is...
- Upon consideration of the perspectives on war from their classmates, the poet Stephen Crane in "War is Kind," and various characters from All Quiet on the Western Front, students will write an editorial for the school newspaper in which they share opinions about war.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Rhonda Dillingham.
- Blue Ridge Parkway Travelogue
- Students plan and develop a week-long trip along the Blue Ridge Parkway, from beginning to end. The virtual tour culminates in the creation of a travelogue that will outline the trip.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Rachel Elliott.
- Earthquakes: Causes and effects
- This is a lesson plan designed to stimulate student interest in the forces of nature. The lessons culminate in a hands-on learning experience about earthquakes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By Tom Weakland.
