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- Minerals and math
- Students will develop ways to create self-devised rules for classifying minerals and relate this information to scientific ways of classifying minerals according to their characteristics. They will then compile this information into a chart and convert parts of the chart into a line or bar graph.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics and Science)
- By Courtney Richards.
- Rocks really rock! A lesson on the classification of rocks
- This lesson will help students classify various rocks according to specified criteria. It will also help students classify a given rock using selected mineral identification tests. Students will use a graphic organizer to display their findings.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science)
- By Grace Smith.
- Experience North Carolina's state parks with EELEs
- An EELE is an Environmental Education Learning Experience -- a site-specific program offered by the North Carolina state parks system. EELEs include pre-visit activities, on-site activities and post-visit activities, but they do not necessarily have to be used in conjunction with a group visit. Educators can attend EELE workshops to gain rich educational experiences that provide knowledge, insight, and immediate practical materials for use in the classroom.
- Format: article
- By Linda Dow.
- "We have unexpectedly become civilized"
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.4
- Letter from citizens of Turkey Town in the Cherokee Phoenix and Indians' Advocate, 1829, opposing relocation. The authors pointed out the irony that even after becoming "civilized" as white people had claimed to want, they were nevertheless being pushed off their land. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- Rip Van Winkle
- The classic short story by Washington Irving, in which the title character walks into the Catskill Mountains, drinks a magic draught, and falls asleep for twenty years, missing the American Revolution and the changes it wrought.
- Format: story
Resources on the web
- Mineralogy 4 Kids
- Learn about mineral groups, the rock cycle, or Ask-a-Mineralogist your "rocky" question on the Mineralogical Society of America's site for kids. (Learn more)
- Format: website/activity
- Provided by: Mineralogical Society of America
