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Pizza anyone?

Students survey their class and analyze data about favorite pizza toppings. This activity is meant to be fun and engaging, with the class participating and making decisions as a whole.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)

By Jack Hunter.

Rock art

In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.3

Students will use art materials, drawings, and rock art examples to differentiate between symbol, petroglyph, pictograph, and rock art. They will also interpret rock art to illustrate its importance in the cultural heritage of a people and as a tool for learning about the past.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

Weather activities with Night of the Twisters

While reading the novel Night of the Twisters, students will complete activities related to weather concepts described in the story. Students will complete activities which explore the key concepts of cloud formation, air pressure, and local weather patterns.

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)

By Melissa Bancroft.

M&M math

M&M Math provides students with hands-on activities. Students will be sorting objects, comparing whole numbers, writing fractions, performing addition, subtraction, and division problems with the use of manipulatives.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)

By Angela Gillie.

Biomagnification and bald eagles

In this activity, students will study biomagnification by using paper cutouts to represent food containing chemicals eaten by fish. The students will then repeat this activity but as an eagle collecting fish. The amount of chemicals taken in by each eagle will then be compared to amounts taken in by each fish.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)

By Elizabeth Caveny, Janet Carson, Heather Subleski, and Jeannie Galluzzo.

Creating your own rock art

In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.4

Students will use regional rock art symbols or their own symbols to cooperatively create a rock art panel. They will also use a replica of a vandalized rock art panel to examine their feelings about rock art vandalism and discuss ways to protect rock art and other archaeological sites.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

An integrated lesson comparing the butterfly and frog life cycles

Students will build on their prior knowledge about the butterfly life cycle to compare and contrast the life cycles of butterflies and frogs. Students will locate butterflies on the school grounds and create pictographs and models of fractions to explain their findings mathematically. Students will also use a variety of resources to read about and study the food, space and air needed by butterflies and frogs to grow. They will create visual and written products to demonstrate their findings.

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Development, Mathematics, and Science)

By Martha Dobson and Margaret Monds.

Sweet potato fun

These activities allow students to gain knowledge of the North Carolina state vegetable and have fun while doing it! Activities include describing, analyzing and comparing facts about sweet potatoes, creative writing and dramatization, taste testing and completing an online scavenger hunt.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)

By Amy Luna and Kathy Beck.

Intrigue of the Past

Lesson plans and essays for teachers and students explore North Carolina's past before European contact. Designed for grades four through eight, the web edition of this book covers fundamental concepts, processes, and issues of archaeology, and describes the peoples and cultures of the Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods.

Format: book (multiple pages)

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Can you picture it?

Students collect data about favorite vegetables, record the data in a pictograph, and then interpret this representation. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The soup spot

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students conduct a survey based on a food court theme and then create pictographs and line plots. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Freckle Face

Students collect data about a partner's face and tally the data from the whole class. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

What's in a name: Looking back and moving forward

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students create graphs based on the characteristics of sets of names and find measures of center and spread. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Great American Landmarks Adventure

Travel back through time with the help of Roxie Munro to a prehistoric cave, to a Shaker village, to the Octagon House, and many more great American landmarks. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: National Park Service Heritage Preservation Service

Food court: Looking back and moving forward

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students conduct and present the results of surveys in several ways. Students work in pairs to plan a party based on four menus and then calculate the party's cost. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics