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- Using percent of change to measure NC growth
- Students will work in small groups to use the internet to gather data on the population growth for each of the 100 counties in NC from 1992 to 1995. From this data students will find the percent of increase/decrease for the counties they have been assigned. As a follow-up, the students will enter their data into a computer spreadsheet and from that spreadsheet, produce graphs of the information.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Computer/Technology Skills, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
- By Wanda Washburn.
- Percent of change: What's the deal?
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.5
- In this lesson, students calculate percent of change and discuss how percent of change is used in retail careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Trashketball review for ratios, fractions, decimals and percents.
- This lesson will help the students with changing from ratios to fractions, fractions to decimals, and decimals to percents.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By David Crumm.
- Check your answers
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 2.8
- To check your answers, view the marked miscue sheet. I color-coded my typescript to keep certain features distinct: the miscue markings are completed in green, the level of graphic similarity is completed in orange, and the miscue...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- What happens to plant cells in hypertonic and hypotonic solutions?
- Students will be using actual laboratory examples and classroom examples to understand the movement of molecules across the cell membrane. Looking at weight change in potato cells, color change in diffusion, and the shrinking of living tissue will allow the student to experience diffusion and osmosis.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Tricia Kershner.
- Weathering the water cycle: Evaporation
- Students will learn that evaporation is one of the three stages of the water cycle. The other three lessons in this series on condensation, precipitation, and the water cycle will allow the students to explore all stages.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)
- By Cathie Hill, Jackie Parker, and Karen Neilson.
- Determining the author's purpose: Analyzing a recruitment video
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 1.10
- In this lesson plan, students analyze a video about ROTC to determine why the video was created.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Andrea Fedon, Gail Frank, and Cindy Neininger.
- Shapes
- Students will use the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe computer software program to draw a circle, square, rectangle, and triangle. They will be instructed to make the shapes a certain color and size. Then they will print their work.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Di Small.
- Baseball fun: Percentages, decimals, and fractions
- Students will learn the concepts behind fractions, decimals, and percents by using sports statistics found on baseball cards.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Mathematics)
- By Adrian Bustle.
- CareerStart lessons: Grade eight
- This collection of lessons aligns the eighth grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.
- Format: (multiple pages)
- Saying "yes" instead of "no"
- Fair Use Guidelines make room for students and teachers to use copyrighted material in multimedia presentations.
- By Connie Bakker.
- How does decreasing salinity affect blackwater rivers?
- In A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect, page 2
- All rivers that reach the sea have ocean water at their seaward ends, and freshwater at their sources. A trip up a river takes you along a gradient of salt concentration from near 3.5 percent (the average salinity, or salt content, of seawater) to zero. There...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- The seven deadly sins of data analysis
- Commit one of the Seven Deadly Sins of Data Analysis and you run a significant risk of missing AYP under No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
- By Chris Hitch.
- Careers in banking: Working with exponential growth
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.9
- In this lesson, students use exponential growth to solve problems related to careers in banking.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Exploring probability : Part 1 of 2
- This lesson will introduce students to probability using resources of Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. Permission has been granted for the use of the materials as part of the workshop Interactivate Your Bored Math Students. Students will discover the rule for calculating simple probability as well as explore the ideas of experimental and theoretical probability.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Wendy Korbusieski.
- Dear Tootsie Roll company
- The students will measure the surface area and wrapper area of five pieces of candy. Using appropriate formulas and measuring techniques, they will complete information needed for a spreadsheet and database. Students wrap up the lesson by writing a letter to the company with the most wasted paper to explain how the waste affects them as consumers and a suggestion for correcting the problem.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Tonya Thompson.
- North Carolina living through photos, then and now
- Students will examine historical photographs of North Carolinians at work or in social settings. They will develop and share skills of “reading” photographs. Then they will use these skills to identify “historical clues” in a photo, and draw their own version of the same person or people in North Carolina today.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Michael Sharp.
- Savor the rainbow
- Use skittles to help the students practice the concepts of sorting data, recording data, writing the data collected in fraction form (part/whole), changing the fractions into decimals and percents, and taking the data collected and making a spreadsheet, bar graph, and circle graph of the data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Beverly Revis.
- Water, water everywhere...
- This is a good beginning of the year lesson to review fractions, decimals, geometry (the number of degrees in a circle and drawing a circle with a protractor), graphing, and metric measurement. This lesson is a good way for students to meet their peers while working cooperatively in a task-oriented group. The watermelon you will be using for the activity is also a good start-of-the-year treat. Be sure to get an extra watermelon or two to share at the end of the activity.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Jayne Brown.
- From rural Mexico to North Carolina
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 1.2
- Most immigrants to North Carolina from Mexico come from rural areas, and it is valuable for teachers to understand these students' cultural backgrounds.
- By Regina Cortina.