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- Marketing careers: Working with scale drawings
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.6
- This activity for grade six combines math, art, and writing, as students create a scale drawing of a toy car and reflect on how math can be used in marketing careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- More folding
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 10
- Close examination of the rock surfaces above Gorges Creek shows small-scale folds of exactly the type you would expect to find where flexible layers of rock were being dragged over one another during development of a large scale fold in the overlying layers,...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Scale drawings
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.7
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will use maps to measure the distances between cities in North Carolina. Students will write equations using the maps' scales to calculate the actual distances in miles.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- A walk through the solar system
- A practice in scientific notation, measurement, and scale distances, this lesson plan integrates mathematics into the science curriculum.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics and Science)
- By RhondaS Dausman.
- What makes an estuary?
- In Cape Fear estuaries: From river to sea, page 2
- Estuaries are defined as semi-enclosed bodies of water with intermediate salinities caused by the mixture of fresh and salt waters. That sounds simple enough, but the true qualities of estuaries are found in the interaction between the river and ocean inputs...
- By Steve Keith.
- Changes in sea level, great and small
- In Evidence of rising sea level: Coastal erosion and plant community changes, page 1
- The level of the sea is always changing. These changes may be small and short-lived, as when water rushes up the beach after waves break, but others are large and long-lived — as has been the case with the post-glacial rise of the present era. Small-scale...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Interior design: Designing my dream room
- Students will study interior design as a profession. They will integrate their study with math, writing, vocational education, and computer skills by designing their own dream bedroom.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Mathematics)
- By Paula Hightower.
- Homerun hoopla
- This lesson is designed for students to gather and analyze data about baseball figures. The student will use the Internet or other resources to collect statistical data on the top five home run hitters for the current season as well as their career home run totals. The students will graph the data and determine if it is linear or non-linear.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By Anne Walters.
- Micromonadnocks
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 3
- The process of monadnock formation is often demonstrated in small scale when rocky fill dirt erodes during rainstorms. An example of such a “micromonadnock” in some eroded fill near Chapel Hill is shown in Figure 2. Note the flat rocks at the peak...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Walk the line
- This lesson demonstrates the effects of changing the slope and y-intercept on the graph and equation of a line.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Mathematics)
- By Carol Huss.
- Gneiss and gabbro
- In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 9
- Figure 7 shows a close-up of the contact between the gneiss and the intruded gabbro. The gneiss is at the top. It is light colored and its surface is pocked by erosion. The gabbro is on the bottom, is darker and has a much smoother surface. The knife (shown...
- By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Working in the fields
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 5
- Both men and women work in the wet-rice fields. Rural women living in highland Southeast Asia typically scale high mountains and do hard outdoor physical labor, which keeps them physically fit and strong. With one basket strapped at the waist and another larger...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Meaningful mathematics: using balances for problem solving
- Using balances to represent equations forces students to find their own meaning in mathematical problems.
- By Grayson Wheatley and George E. Abshire.
- What causes sea level change, and why is it rising now?
- In Evidence of rising sea level: Coastal erosion and plant community changes, page 2
- North Carolina's coastal zone preserves evidence of both the current rise in sea level and the long decline that preceded it (see the Coastal Wetlands field trip included in this series). Evidence of declining sea level is found in the series of old shorelines...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Zoo integrated unit
- The unit uses the North Carolina Zoological Park as a teaching tool rather than as a nice place to visit. It can be used by a single teacher or multiple teachers of different subjects, and it is aimed at 7th and 8th graders.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Craig Smith.
- A low-lying peninsula
- In Evidence of rising sea level: Coastal erosion and plant community changes, page 6
- We now take a virtual leap from a barrier island to the far end of Carteret County's Down East peninsula. This peninsula separates Bogue Sound from the Neuse River estuary, but does so with a flat and low-lying land. This characteristic of the land was noticed...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Hurricane response: What do we do first?
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.8
- In this lesson for grade seven, students take on the roles of officials preparing for and responding to a hurricane.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- By Emma Couch.Adapted by Mitzi Talbert.
- Bentonville Battleground
- The website for a historic landmark in North Carolina which contains information about the last full-scale action of the Civil War in which a Confederate army was able to mount a tactical offensive and maps reflecting troop movements.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Interior Design Project
- Within this lesson, students will role play the job of an interior designer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–12 )
- By Shannon Braxton.
- Exploring pumpkins
- This lesson will allow students to use a variety of methods to explore pumpkins.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics and Science)
- By Angelia Braswell.
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