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Circa 1900 railroad map of western North Carolina
Circa 1900 railroad map of western North Carolina
This circa 1900 railroad map of western North Carolina shows counties and topography as well as railroad lines. The lines are color coded, but the labels are somewhat difficult to read. Orange lines are Southern lines. Blue lines are Central Carolina lines....
Format: image/map
Painted cylindrical sculptures
Students will experiment painting a variety of lines as directed in addition to inventing their own on 12" x 18" paper. Students will also glue pre-cut paper strips onto their sculptures experimenting with a variety of paper sculpture techniques such as bending, folding and curling.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
By Rose Szabo.
Walk the line
This lesson demonstrates the effects of changing the slope and y-intercept on the graph and equation of a line.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Mathematics)
By Carol Huss.
Name that tune!
This is a student/parent assignment. The students will perform selected lines from their band method books, and their parents (or responsible adults) will listen and try to name the tune.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Music Education)
By Mary Beth Smith.
Electricity
Electricity
Electricity moves through these lines and power poles across the area of Urfa, Turkey. There are dozens and dozens of the lines and distributors. They look like a jungle gym of poles and cords and wires just waiting to be played on. There is a road in the...
Format: image/photograph
Men trying to repair electrical lines in Varanasi, India
Men trying to repair electrical lines in Varanasi, India
Two men try to repair electrical lines in Varanasi, India. One is on a tall bamboo ladder, and the other is investigating the lines above him, perched in the frame that holds up the wires. The wires must have been there a long time, as there is a messy, intricate...
Format: image/photograph
Noodles away
This lesson will assist students to see angle relationships and the relationship of parallel lines and transversals. This exercise is good for visual and tactile learners since it is of a concrete nature. Students of all academic levels can enjoy this.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)
By Melda Bullock.
Fun with angles
This lesson plan will help the students visualize the different angles (corresponding, alternate interior, and same-side interior) when coplanar lines are cut by a transversal.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
By Scott Black.
Oedipus the King reader's theatre
Students will rewrite the Greek tragedy in a modern context in order to review and analyze the plot. This assignment is designed as a final project in a Greek Theatre unit. It is expected that the literature has already been read and analyzed as a class. I have found that this project is an innovative way to review for a unit test on the play and Greek Theatre.
Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
Positively poetry: Part 6
Students will be learning about and writing limericks. Since limericks follow a strict rhyming pattern and word count, the students will work in partners to create their own limericks.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
By Maribeth Warren, Pam Purifoy, and Tracy Dagenhart.
Two men climb high pole to work on electric lines
Two men climb high pole to work on electric lines
Two utilities workers climb a high wooden pole to work on electric power lines. The working men's profiles are silhouetted on a blue sky with coconut tree tops visible along the horizon below them. For the tall funeral tower trasnporting the Brahman's corpse...
Format: image/photograph
Women working
In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 21
The bright green rice plants in the field are still young and unripe. Note, again, the power lines running in the background.
By Lorraine Aragon.
Predicting the future with best-fit lines
In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.1
In this lesson plan, students use scatter plots and best-fit lines to make predictions based on data. Students also discuss how scatter plots and best-fit lines are useful in certain careers.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
Composition of Pilot Mountain
In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 6
When viewed up close, the pinnacle of Pilot Mountain is seen to be made of almost horizontal layers of rock. This rock is quartzite, and the horizontal lines between the layers are bedding planes that mark the tops of the individual quartzite beds....
By Dirk Frankenberg.
High and low bears
This is a lesson that introduces and reinforces the music concept of pitch.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Music Education)
By Penny Adams-Manolas.
Fort 47 BC
Fort 47 BC
The main subject of this photo is a large mountain that has several damaged brick structures on its top. Now there are power lines on the top of that mountain. Below the mountain there is a parking lot and a couple of buildings, as well as more power lines...
Format: image/photograph
What key am I in anyway?
Students will acquire the steps necessary to determine the names of major key signatures.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Music Education)
By David Jordan.
Car mania: The legacy of the Industrial Revolution
In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.8
In this lesson, students participate in an assembly-line activity and gain an understanding of the role of the assembly line in the Industrial Revolution.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
By Shea Calloway and Julie McCann.
Step right up!
The students will learn to name an ordered pair for a point and plot positions named by an ordered pair on a large grid located on the classroom floor.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
By Shelley Dodson.
Tabletop grids
Students will play a review game in small groups using large grids to develop skill in locating and naming points on grid maps.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
By Monica Delanoy.