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Pumpkin punctuation: Students will identify different end punctuation marks that are used in a book they read, and then use those punctuation marks in sentences they write.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Sherry Harris.

What's happening now?: This comprehension and writing lesson helps the student develop skills in predicting what will happen next and sequencing. It also develops the ability to answer what, where, when, and how questions. It can also include a writing activity that teaches writing in a newspaper format by answering the "W" questions and creating a class newspaper book.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Nancy McGowan.

Reindeer boots: Children will use problem-solving techniques to answer the question, “How many boots will Santa need for his reindeer?”; Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics); By Vanette Hann.

Penguin paradise: Students will demonstrate their understanding of how to communicate statements of information through the composition of a one paragraph summary about a penguin.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science); By Jovonne Shivers.

Local authors database: Search through more than 200 authors in 15 minutes to answer specific questions. Add records and fields to an incomplete database.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills); By DPI Integration Strategies.

In full bloom: This mini-unit uses the wonderful story of Miss Rumphius by Barbara Clooney. Miss Rumphius travels to faraway places and makes the world more beautiful by planting her favorite seeds. The book sets the stage for activities relating to core curriculum objectives to be implemented into the learning environment, using technology tools and applications to create student products.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Science); By Kay Ball.

Using bilingual dictionaries: This lesson focuses on learning to use a bilingual dictionary while acquiring first and second language vocabulary about language and grammar.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Second Languages); By Carolyn Zuttel.

North Carolina regions: Working in cooperative groups, the students will learn about their assigned regions of North Carolina. A list of questions will be generated. When the research is completed, the students will design a way to orally present the information to the class. This also will integrate Visual Arts and Informational Skills.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Information Skills and Social Studies); By Patricia Britt.

Be the sentence: An interactive language arts activity: Students take on the roles of different words and punctuation and work collaboratively to create a complete sentence using correct parts of speech, word order, and punctuation. Students progress from simple sentences to more complex sentences.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Measuring pots: In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.7; Students will use an activity sheet or modern pottery rim sherds to compute circumference from a section of a circle and construct analogies based on their own experience about possible functions of ancient or historic ceramics.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Mathematics and Social Studies)

Do you really believe in magic?: Students are introduced to the genre (or mode) of Magical Realism in World Literature by reading Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's short story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings." This lesson plan is modified for an English Language Learner (ELL) at the Intermediate Low (IL) proficiency level.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Ann Gerber and Tericia Summers.

Managing a classroom with brain food: Tina Maples' eighth-grade language arts students are serious about their work they do. When students work on projects they care about — what Maples calls "brain food" — they manage the classroom themselves.; By Kathleen Casson.

Learning from a tree: Observation of a single tree throughout the year can be the starting point for explorations of nature, life science, and environmental science.; By Linda Dow.

Interdisciplinary integrated unit on DNA and genetics Part A: Science: The first part of an interdisciplinary week-long unit on DNA and genetics, focusing on science. Parts B and C of the unit focus on math and language arts.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Information Skills and Science); By Jane Lentz, Jimmy White, Tori Goldrick, and Marlene Smith.

Strategy lesson: KWL: This lesson activates students' prior knowledge about famous North Carolinians and helps them organize thoughts and questions before they read biographies.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Information Skills); By Alisa McAlister, Sherry French, and Harnetha Hudgins.

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)

An integrated poetry unit: My students have always disliked poetry. The different ways in which this lesson approaches poetry and the connection it makes to their "March Madness" studies seems to make poetry more enjoyable, fun, and relevant for my students. In order to integrate with the sixth grade math and social studies teachers, I teach this unit during the ACC tournament to coincide with the "March Madness" unit that is covered in the math classes.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts); By Nancy Guthrie.

Vietnam: Educator's guide: A guide for K–12 teachers to teaching about Vietnam using LEARN NC's slideshows, with a focus on the question Why should we care about Vietnam?; Format: article/teacher's guide (grade 6–12 Social Studies); By Steve Goldberg.

Water cycle word study: Students will look at the written similarities in the words used to describe the water cycle (ex., evaporation, transpiration, precipitation, accumulation, condensation), focusing on suffixes and prefixes as a way to gain understanding of those terms. Students will group words by meaning and label a blank water cycle chart based on the categories for the groupings they create. This lesson is designed in conjunction with “More than just a rainy day—the water cycle.”; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science); By Kelly This and Leigh Thrower.

Rip Van Winkle: The classic short story by Washington Irving, in which the title character walks into the Catskill Mountains, drinks a magic draught, and falls asleep for twenty years, missing the American Revolution and the changes it wrought.; Format: story

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