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- Spin away
- Children will work in groups using spinners with 4 colors to make predictions about probability, gather and record data, and make conclusions about outcome.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
- By Gloria Wilson.
- Spin, toss, and roll!
- Students will use hands-on experiments to find the probability that certain events will occur.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Carol Baldwin.
- Medical careers: Working with probability
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.8
- In this lesson for grade six, students will use probability to predict the likelihood of occurrence of two unrelated health conditions and will understand how math can be applied to careers in mathematics.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Exploring probability
- Through teacher guidance, students will experiment with objects to generate probable outcomes to consider probability.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
- By John Cleveland.
- 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.
- Biologists: Working with probability
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.7
- In this lesson for grade six, students will use theoretical probability to predict genetic outcomes, and will understand how mathematical probability is used in biological careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- So many choices, so little time
- This lesson will introduce students to Theoretical and Experimental Probability using Crazy Choices and Spinner, a resource 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.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Beth Jorgensen.
- Exploring probability: Part 2 of 2
- This lesson will introduce students to the concept of fairness as it relates to probability following Part 1 of this lesson which introduces the concept and procedure for calculating probability. Both of these lessons use the 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 define fairness and determine if a game is fair.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Wendy Korbusieski.
- Fair or unfair: Introduction to probability
- This lesson introduces the idea of probability theory. Students will use everyday experiences and intuitive understanding to gain an understanding of probability.
This lesson uses 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." - Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Bonnie Boaz.
- Teaching mathematics through literature
- This lesson is a collaborative pair learning activity which uses the book Jumanji to teach Probability.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Brenda Davis.
- Hosap castle
- Another view of the Hosap castle near Van, Turkey. In all probability this is one of the main parts of the inner castle. The part of the castle in the photo has at least three round towers with walls between encircling a larger round tower. The castle has...
- Format: image/photograph
- The Health Adventure: A Health and Science Education Museum
- Features information about the museum and its exhibitions. Teachers will find a free lesson plan for 4th and 5th graders about world climate change, reservations for school classes, and downloadable teacher visiting guide.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- "A Society of Patriotic Ladies"
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 2.8
- 1775 cartoon, published in a London newspaper, satirizing the "Edenton Tea Party" at which prominent North Carolina women signed a petition supporting the American cause. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: cartoon
- Bridging language barriers
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 1.3
- How schools can ease the transition for Latino immigrant students.
- By Regina Cortina.
- Genetics
- Eye color, hair color, height, and other traits as well as predisposition to certain diseases are all determined by genes. This sampling of resources take you into the world of heredity and genetics and the cutting edge technologies of cloning, gene therapy, and DNA forensics.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Super sportswriters' camp
- Students will identify the parts of a newspaper sports article in order to plan and write their own sports article.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts)
- The Federalist Papers: No. 68. The mode of electing the president
- In Election 2008, page 4.5
- In this essay, written as a letter to the New York Packet in 1788, Alexander Hamilton argues for the method of electing the President spelled out in the original United States Constitution.
- Format: letter
- Bicycles: Scourge of the streets?
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.4
- Newspaper editorials about a collision between a bicylclist and a pedestrian in Wilmington, North Carolina, 1897. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Insurrections in North Carolina?
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.7
- Article from a Raleigh newspaper reporting alleged slave insurrections in North Carolina, and white responses to these rumors, following Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Cary's Rebellion
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 3.1
- Because North Carolina permitted religious freedom, Quakers made up a large portion of the colony's early population and were heavily represented in its government. A division opened in the colony between the Quaker party and supporters of the Church of England, and disputes between the two sides led to violence in 1710–1711.
- Format: book
