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Meter madness: The students will identify 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time signatures. They will also identify the down-beat and begin to understand conducting patterns.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Music Education); By Alice Barlowe.

g: A pendulum: Students will time the periods of pendulums to determine if length or mass affects them. Students can then use a pendulum to calculate the acceleration of gravity.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By Bill Sowell.

Listen to a poem: Use the poems "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Sea Fever" to teach the poetic devices of rhythm, meter and scansion.; Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)

Stem and leaf hop: The students will measure and record the length of their jumps. The lengths will be used to create a class stem and leaf plot.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics); By Kathy Sellers.

Decomposition: Students will observe decomposition in a pile of grass clippings and in a compost heap over time.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science); By Monica Dubbs.

The Greedy Triangle: Students review geometric terms by making predictions about what the Greedy Triangle will become as the teacher reads the book, The Greedy Triangle. Students will create geometric creatures after the review.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Renee Allen.

Flying saucers: Circles: Students will apply what they have learned about circles and finding averages with this lesson. This lesson should be broken up into 3 class periods of an hour for each class.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics); By Amy Romagnuolo.

Wheelin' fun: In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.6; In this lesson for grade seven, students participate in a car-racing lab, and make observations about how design affects speed. Students discuss how the lab applies to careers in motor sports.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science); By Emma Couch.Adapted by Michelle Arias.

Valentine heart game: Students will respond to music through singing, moving, playing instruments, and improvisation while integrating first grade math curriculum and Valentine's Day.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Music Education)

Trees of North Carolina: Students complete activities including tree and leaf identification, species comparison, online research, measurement, and creative writing in conjunction with monthly visits to the "Iredell County Outdoor Education Site"; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Science); By Amy Luna and Kathy Beck.

A walk through the solar system: A practice in scientific notation, measurement, and scale distances, this lesson plan integrates mathematics into the science curriculum.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics and Science); By RhondaS Dausman.

See how they run!: The 100 meter dash: Middle level students will collect times as they run the 100 meter dash. These times will be depicted through various graphic representations (bar, circle, histogram). Times will be compared to current world records for the 100 meters. Students will decide which Math class ran fastest and support that choice in short essay form. They will also try to determine the faster gender based on the data collected.

This lesson plan is a unit filled with related lesson plans. One or two parts of this project could be completed as a stand-alone lesson, or the entire set of activities and extensions could be completed for an involved, integrated unit.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics); By Holly Smith.

Modify a seed: This activity is set up so that students will try to modify their model seed, so that it conforms to an assigned seed dispersal strategy.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By Bert Wartski.

Little and big houses: Using the book Little House on the Prairie and international keypals, students will learn about similarities and differences among children at different times and in different places.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies); By Karen Ester.

Interior designers: Working with area: In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.4; In this lesson for grade seven, students will act as interior designers, and will measure the walls of the classroom to determine the area of each wall.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics); By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.

A comparison of the plant ecology of two fields: Students will apply random sampling techniques to do a plant population/community/ecosystem study to model how these things are interrelated.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By Linda Sutton.

Taking a stride in graphing: "Taking it in Stride" provides hands-on activities for students to use real-life experiences and apply them to graphing.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics); By Sandy Brooks.

Utility workers: Working with the Pythagorean theorem: In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.7; In this lesson plan, students use the Pythagorean theorem to solve a problem relevant to the careers of utility workers.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics); By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.

Experimental archaeology: Making cordage: In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.8; Students will make cordage and use an activity sheet to experience a technique and skill that ancient Native Americans in North Carolina needed for everyday life. They will also compute the amount of time and materials that might have been required to make cordage and construct a scientific inquiry to study the contents of an archaeological site.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

Breathe in, breathe out: In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.3; In this lesson for grade seven, students will discuss lung capacity and brainstorm careers in which it's important to have a good lung capacity. Students will conduct an experiment to measure their lung capacity.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science); By John Boyd.Adapted by Mitzi Talbert.

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