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- Temperature graphs
- In the following lesson students will locate and record daily high temperatures for several major cities. This data will then be displayed on line graphs. Students will choose one city, and based on its high temperatures, write a paragraph describing appropriate clothing and activities for that location. They will draw a picture of themselves dressed in the clothing and participating in an activity they described.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Kaye Clark.
- A monument to war crimes
- In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 14
- When post-war relations between Vietnam and the U.S. improved following former Secretary of State Robert McNamara's public annoncement that U.S. participation in the war was a mistake, this stone monument was moved to a less conspicuous location and the nearby...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Map skills and transportation careers
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.1
- In this lesson for grade six, students will create maps to assist their understanding of relative and exact location and will conduct research on transportation careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Mandy Matlock.
- Greece: Part 1
- This lesson is one of three created as an interdisciplinary unit on the connection between the art and artifacts of a culture and the values and beliefs of the members of that culture. This unit begins with a class-wide investigation of Ancient Greece and concludes with a visit to the Ackland Art Museum. During the visit, students will have the opportunity to assess their predictions about the Ancient Greeks. In addition, students will look at works of art from other cultures and compare and contrast the visual information provided about those cultures with visual information provided about Greek culture.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies)
- By Winn Wheeler.
- Prepositional phrases showing location
- Students will learn the Spanish words for several prepositional phrases that show location. This lesson also reviews previous vocabulary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Second Languages)
- By Stephanie Watson.
- Moving the lighthouse
- In Natural and human impacts on the northern Outer Banks, page 21
- After the construction of the groins, the National Park Service continued to protect the lighthouse beach with extensive sandbagging efforts, but an October storm in 1970 wiped out the sandbags. Replenishment projects followed in 1971 and 1973 on the north...
- By Blair Tormey and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Letters home
- Students will write letters home, taking on the role of one of the sons of the "Gold Star Mothers" from Union County, NC.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)
- By Meg Millard and Pamela Webb.
- Finding your way in North Carolina
- Students will become familiar with the regions and local features of North Carolina and be able to write directions for others to find these features on a map.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Sadie Allran Broome.
- Marshes of Masonboro
- In Small sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 8
- Figure 6 shows that most of the marshes on the landward side of Masonboro are doing quite well. They are lush and healthy and extend more than a mile landward of the berm. Note that in this location there are a few patches of maritime shrub plants. These suggest...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Beachfront erosion
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 17
- Figure 16 shows another example of beachfront erosion. This house has fallen victim to a repositioning of Bogue Inlet as a result of Hurricanes Bonnie and Fran in 1996. The inlet between Bear Island and Bogue Bank had once been located here, but during a 20-year...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- The Bermuda High and tropical storms
- The Bermuda High pressure system sits over the Atlantic during summer. Acting as a block that hurricanes cannot penetrate, the size and location of this system can determine where hurricanes go. A normal Bermuda High often leads to hurricanes moving up the...
- Format: video
- Beach and berm
- In Small sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 4
- Figure 2 shows another view of the same rather dull topography of beach and berm. A little life can be seen in the middle background where pioneering sand dune plants have established a precarious roothold. In the left background you can see where sand has...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Gridding a site
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.2
- In their study of how to grid a site, students will use a map and the Cartesian coordinate system to establish a grid system over an archaeological site, labeling each grid unit; determine the location of artifacts within each grid unit; and construct a scientific inquiry concerning the location of artifacts on the site.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics and Social Studies)
- The five themes of me
- Students will demonstrate their understanding of the five themes of geography through literature-based integrated activities to spotlight how they are represented in each. They will also work on language/writing skills and computer competencies while enjoying a little art along the way!
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Catherine Hazelton.
- 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.
- Buxton overwash
- In Natural and human impacts on the northern Outer Banks, page 18
- The Buxton overwash zone is located where the orientation of the island bends to form Cape Hatteras. The Buxton overwash zone has been the site of rapid shoreline retreat, frequent overwash, and the formation of inlets such as the Cape Inlet, Chacandepeco...
- By Blair Tormey and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Mouth of the White Oak River
- In A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect, page 3
- Figure 1 shows the mouth of the White Oak from Bear Island in Hammocks Beach State Park. The island on the far side of the inlet is Bogue Banks, and the buildings on the horizon at in the town of Emerald Isle. (These two islands are visited in the Large Sand...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Media submission guidelines
- In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 2.1
- LEARN NC welcomes submissions of images, audio, and video of educational value for our Multimedia Library, and we encourage authors of lesson plans, best practices, and learning materials to include media where appropriate. Photographs We welcome...
- Format: policy/help
- Human coordinate graph
- Students will actively learn how to plot ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. They will also learn how to connect ordered pairs to graph a picture.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Mathematics)
- By Cheryl Sexton.
- Overwash at Coquina Beach
- In Natural and human impacts on the northern Outer Banks, page 14
- During the Halloween Storm of 1991, the primary palisade dune at Coquina Beach was breached, causing extensive damage to the Park Service facilities. This overwash event filled the earlier bathhouse with sand and ripped up entire sections of what was once...
- By Blair Tormey and Dirk Frankenberg.
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