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A dicey stem and leaf plot: After being introduced to a stem and leaf plot, students will be able to create their own stem and leaf plots.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics); By Debbie Newton.

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.

Raisins, Raisins, Raisins: This lesson involves students in collecting data,organizing data into a line plot, discussing statistics, calculating mean, medain and mode and consumer awareness.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics); By Melanie Simmons.

A deathbed plot: In The Ramayana, page 1.10; This Indian painting shows Rama's father on his royal bed as he nears death. A wife and son are at his side.; By Lorraine Aragon.

Walk Two Moons: An integrated unit: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech is a bittersweet story of a teenager who desperately wants to be reunited with her mother. This unit is an integrated study combining setting, theme, point of view, character, and plot with geography and geometry.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts); By Janet Fore.

Statistics project: Students collect numeric and non-numeric data. They are then expected to use the data collected to construct different types of graphs as well as finding central tendencies.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5–8 Mathematics); By Audrea Saunders.

Space Shuttle O-ring failure: Students will use a TI82 or TI83 calculator to construct a scatterplot, find the equation of the least-squares regression line for a set of data, find the coefficient of determination, and make predictions by using the line.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics); By Brenda Goforth.

Beginning lesson on coordinate grids: First quadrant: Students will investigate the first quadrant of the Cartesian coordinate system. They will use online activities developed by Shodor.org to identify the coordinates of points, or plot specific points. Then students will progress to an activity where they direct a robot through a mine field laid out on the coordinate plane. Permission has been granted for the use of the materials as part of the workshop - "Interactivate Your Bored Math Students" by Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Bonnie Boaz.

Be the meteorologist: Students use internet data to plot the path of a hurricane over several days. At designated points, students will decide which areas of the coast to put under a hurricane warning and will justify their decisions. This lesson uses real weather data and allows students to "be the meteorologist."; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)

Story tellers and poets: Students will examine the style, purpose, and organization of folktales and poetry in order to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of both genres. With this knowledge, students will use the word choice and repetition of traditional folktales to transform them into modern poetry.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts); By Heather Bower and Michele Hicks.

Human box and whisker plot: Students will learn how to construct box and whisker plots as they actively participate in being a part of one based upon their heights. As an extension of the lesson, students will learn how to interpret a graph of this type.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Mathematics); By Nikki Honeycutt.

A new plot: In The Ramayana, page 4.2; In this Emerald Buddha Temple mural scene, the demon king Ravana instructs his niece to imitate Sita's appearance and behavior. Ravana speaks and gestures his instructions from a high palace veranda to his young and beautiful niece who sits respectfully on...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Hanuman learns Ravana's secret: In The Ramayana, page 6.4; Within an elevated pavillion, adorned with gold leaf, Hanuman kneels at the feet of a crowned demon. The demon gestures forward with his extended left arm, telling Hanuman how to proceed. Readers of the Harry Potter books will recognize a parallel plot device...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Oedipus the King reader's theatre: Students will rewrite the Greek tragedy in a modern context in order to review and analyze the plot. This assignment is designed as a final project in a Greek Theatre unit. It is expected that the literature has already been read and analyzed as a class. I have found that this project is an innovative way to review for a unit test on the play and Greek Theatre.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)

Learning literary elements through African and African American folktales: In this eighth grade lesson, students will apply their knowledge of literary elements (plot structure and archetypal characters) to the analysis and creation of African and African American folktales. Students will work in groups to read several picture book versions of African and African American folktales. Each group then creates a plot map for a story and highlights other literary elements identified within the text. Students then compare the folktales with fairy tales from other cultures and explain what they learned about African and African American culture from reading the folktales. Finally, students work independently to write their own modern-day folktale.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts); By Hardin Engelhardt.

Step right up!: The students will learn to name an ordered pair for a point and plot positions named by an ordered pair on a large grid located on the classroom floor.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Shelley Dodson.

"A sickening state of things": In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.9; Letter from Rachel Lazarus of Wilmington, North Carolina, to Eliza Mordecai of Mobile, Alabama. The writer describes the supposed plot of a slave insurrection in southeastern North Carolina and concludes that whites must live in fear until slavery is ended. Includes historical commentary.; Format: letter

Understanding the elements of a story: Students will read a story, understand the elements of the story, analyze characters, and complete research about good and evil.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Abha Bhatnagar and Meera Madan.

Sita's son is twinned: In The Ramayana, page 7.8; This mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple illustrates when Sita's son is sent to fetch water in the forest. On the right side of the frame, Sita stands in a blue-tinted forest and hands her son a bowl with which to fetch water from a nearby pond. A god, watching...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Oral history through personal narratives: Students apply their knowledge of story elements to art and literature of the 1950s by developing a story, comprehending someone else's story, and diagramming the five elements of plot. Students will then create, revise, edit, and publish their own personal narrative.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Mary Magee.

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