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- Creating and understanding circles and their parts
- This lesson will offer a hands-on opportunity to explore and construct circles. Students will develop a definition for identifying the parts of a circle such as the center, radius, diameter, chord, and circumference. Students will use compasses and rulers in constructing these parts of a circle.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Patricia Tingen.
- Flying saucers: Circles
- Students will apply what they have learned about circles and finding averages with this lesson. This lesson should be broken up into 3 class periods of an hour for each class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)
- By Amy Romagnuolo.
- Edible geometry
- Students will use food to demonstrate their understanding of the sectors and arc lengths in a circle.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By shari frederick.
- Introduction to polar coordinates
- The student will be introduced to the definition of polar coordinates, how to graph them, and how to compare them to rectangular coordinates.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By vicky burlington.
- Valentine geometry
- Combine geometry construction skills with language arts and artistic ability.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By Tanis Schick.
- Discovering Pi
- This lesson introduces students to Pi through the discovery method of instruction. Students practice simple measuring skills to discover the relationship between the circumference and diameter of circular objects (Pi).They will be able to use this concept to find the circumference of any circle when the diameter is given.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Betty Shell.
- 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)
- Periodic table
- This lesson provides knowledge about periodic law, groups and periods. Students will be able to identify and label each group with their names. Students will be able to relate atomic number and atomic masses of different elements of periodic table. Students will also be able to discuss periodicity of different properties of elements.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Development and Science)
- By Abha Bhatnagar and Meera Madan.
- National Institute of Environmental Health
- Tour the National institute of Environmental Health campus in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and learn about environmental health as well as career options for those who are interested in going into the field of biomedical research.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- 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)
- Experience North Carolina's state parks with EELEs
- An EELE is an Environmental Education Learning Experience -- a site-specific program offered by the North Carolina state parks system. EELEs include pre-visit activities, on-site activities and post-visit activities, but they do not necessarily have to be used in conjunction with a group visit. Educators can attend EELE workshops to gain rich educational experiences that provide knowledge, insight, and immediate practical materials for use in the classroom.
- Format: article
- By Linda Dow.
- 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.
- Seven directions: Making connections between literature and American Indian history
- This middle school lesson uses picture books to integrate American Indian culture and belief systems with language and visual arts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Edie McDowell.
Resources on the web
- Discovering the area formula for circles
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students use a circle that has been divided into congruent sectors to discover the area formula by using their knowledge of parallelograms. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
- Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Chemicool Periodic Table
- An interactive periodic table with all kinds of information about the elements. Also find chemistry calculators and property graphs. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
