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- Why inquiry?
- The rationale for using discovery learning methods in teaching science.
- Termites, ink pens and pheromones
- Students will investigate the behavior of termites to understand and use the scientific method.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Jacki Clark.
- Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center at Purchase Knob
- Visit the Learning Center at Lake Junaluska and participate in a scientific research program that focuses on the scientific method, air quality, or soil health.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Science is a puzzle: Lessons in observation
- Simple, fun activities using observation to introduce students to the scientific process.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By Cindy Ellis.
- Density of common liquids
- Each lab team will determine the density of water and one of the sample liquids. The class will then compile their information.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Mathematics and Science)
- By Sansia Coble.
- Science as a verb
- Inquiry science requires active relationships between students, teachers, and science. Building these relationships is a three-step process that involves thinking about inquiry as a process of science, as a pedagogical strategy, and as a set of skills and behaviors to encourage in students.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Amy Anderson and David Walbert.
- Convection currents
- Students work together to show convection currents in the air. They construct a paper propeller that will be caused to spin as a result of the transfer of heat energy through the air.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By Jillian Dube.
- From clay to pot
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 12
- The remainder of this field trip is devoted to showing what humans must do to convert the clays recovered from the ground as shown in the first two photographs into the objects shown in Figures 3 through 9. We need to begin by describing what happens to native...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Amazing liquid conductor
- Students will mix a variety of liquid solutions together to see if they will light a light bulb in a electrical circuit. They will be able to identify liquid electrical conductors and nonconductors. Also they will be able to identify that liquid solutions that contain a noticeable amount of acid or salt are good conductors of electricity. Each group of students will make a closed circuit to test their solutions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science)
- By Martha Martin.
- Why is the past important?
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.2
- As an introduction to the study of North Carolina's archaeological heritage, students will use personally owned object to share the importance of their past and connect this importance with reasons why the human past is important.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- Inside a baby seed
- Students will identify the three main parts of a seed after the bean/seeds have been soaked in water overnight.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science)
- By Thelma Pike.
- Popcorn math
- In this lesson students will use a consumable manipulative to understand percent, fraction and decimal conversions. They will also collect data on a teacher produced spreadsheet while using a computer generated spreadsheet to make conversions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- Night of the Twisters
- Reading strategies are used to introduce a literary work.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts)
- By Authurice Mitchell.
- What happens to plant cells in hypertonic and hypotonic solutions?
- Students will be using actual laboratory examples and classroom examples to understand the movement of molecules across the cell membrane. Looking at weight change in potato cells, color change in diffusion, and the shrinking of living tissue will allow the student to experience diffusion and osmosis.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Tricia Kershner.
- 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.
- Making connections for environmental education
- How can you get students fired up about environmental education? Get them outside and get them involved in local issues through activism, service learning, and teaching others.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Carolyn Moser.
- Concept chairs: A format for classroom discussion
- This is a culminating activity that provides a format so that all participants are drawn into a discussion.
The discussion for the "Concept Chairs" will be based on a unit of study that assesses the effectiveness of the Judicial System while examining various types of justice within society (social, personal and constitutional). Primary texts, fictional literature and non-print sources will provide the basis for this discussion. - Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Marion O'Quinn.
- Archaeology as a career
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.2
- In their study of archaeology as a career, students will read essays and complete an activity to gain an understanding of and appreciation for the career of a professional archaeologist.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- Confirming and visualizing Lewis dot structures
- With this activity, students can calculate and visualize the atomic and molecular structures of bonds and lone pairs in the molecule methanol (methyl alcohol, CH3OH).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Bob Gotwals.
- The process of archaeology
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.11
- Archaeologists use several processes to address questions about the past. They may gather new data by conducting regional surveys to locate archaeological sites. Occasionally sites are partially or completely excavated to address specific research questions or to salvage information prior to disturbance by a development project. All data recovered are thoroughly analyzed following scientific inquiry procedures before conclusions are reached.
- Format: article
