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- Seasons change
- This lesson introduces students to the characteristics of the changing seasons and allows students to see how plants, animals, and people adapt to the changes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- By Beth Herron.
- Masonboro Island
- One of the four sites of the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve. Interpreter led field trips must be reserved two seasons ahead. This is a favorite field trip for many teachers.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Living in the field
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 17
- Highland families may use these small houses on a permanent basis, especially if they are near permanent wet-rice fields. Yet the houses sometimes are moved or abandoned when families cultivate other fields during different years or seasons. The canal running...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Seasonal farm landscapes
- Students will have visited the farm landscape four times throughout the year, recording their observations during four seasons. The drawings will incorporate their knowledge of farms from our visits, their exposure to the seasonal landscapes of Grant Wood and Claude Monet, and their knowledge of landscape art and its elements of color and perspective developed at the Museum. The final project will be individual student books containing their landscape drawings and text.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Visual Arts Education)
- By Jamie Barnhill.
- Cypress savanna
- In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 18
- Figure 17 shows an example of another rare community: a cypress savanna. Savannas are defined as tropical or subtropical grasslands with scattered trees, and in this case the trees are not pines, they are cypresses. Most cypresses in North Carolina occur in...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Using K-W-L to confirm what you know
- Students will learn to use a K-W-L to activate their prior knowledge and help them set a purpose for reading and recording what they learned. They will also extend their K-W-L chart to confirm the accuracy of their prior knowledge and of what they learn.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Kathleen Neff.
- How the world was made
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 1.3
- This Cherokee creation story, written down in the 1800s, describes how the earth was created from soft mud "when all was water."
- By James Mooney.
- Zeke's Island North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve
- Part of the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve, Zeke's Island has interpreter led field trips which focus on the importance of estuaries to the North Carolina coast.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The migration of the monarch butterfly
- The students will listen to and discuss books about butterflies and the migration of monarch butterflies to Mexico in order to integrate science, social studies, and language arts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Development, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Martha H. Dobson and Margaret Monds.
- Robeson Planetarium/Science and Technology Center
- A part of the public schools of Robeson County, this planetarium and science center specializes in programs geared to 3rd through 8th grade science.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Field house located on canal in highlands near Mai Chau
- A thatched roof house is located along a canal used for irrigating wet-rice fields in the highlands near Mai Chau. Such small houses built of local plant materials may be used by Southeast Asian highland families on a permanent basis, especially if they are...
- Format: image/photograph
- National Estuarine Research Reserve Systems - The Rachel Carson Component
- Located in one of North Carolina's fastest growing areas, the Rachel Carson site is a center of marine research and education. The reserve is a diverse and productive estuarine system for birds, mammals, and fish.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Spring cinquain poems
- Students will review parts of speech by learning what a cinquain poem is and then writing and typing a Spring cinquain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Williams.
- Tanglewood Park Nature Education Center
- In spring and fall, Tanglewood Park offers quality nature education programs which are correlated with the N.C. Standard Course of Study for Science or Social Studies.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The bear who wouldn't sleep
- Intermediate-level ESL students will apply facts from a content-based reading passage to create a short story about a bear who doesn't hibernate with his family.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By Donna Kauffman.
- Sorting seeds
- This lesson will engage students in manipulating, sorting, counting, and graphing seeds. The students will be involved in the creation of a graph using the computer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
- By Mary Jackson.
- A'planting we will go
- This lesson is based on the book, The Tiny Seed, by Eric Carle. This story will be used to introduce the children to the concept that seeds change and grow into plants when conditions in the environment including temperature, light, water and soil are appropriate. Children will learn that plants produce seeds that can become new plants. Through extended activities, the children will experience first-hand the germination of seeds. They will become familiar with the parts of a plant and learn how each part works to produce a healthy plant.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science)
- By Karol Schriber.
- Chimney Rock State Park
- Explore the wonders of nature up close and personal at Chimney Rock Park. From nature talks and special programs to hiking trails, there is much to do and see.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Postal polynomials
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.6
- In this lesson, students use polynomials to solve problems, and discuss how polynomials are relevant in some careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- StreamWatch
- This lesson is intended as a long term project to determine the overall health of a stream or wetland. Students identify seasonal changes that occur within the ecosystem, ideally with a minimum of bimonthly or monthly monitoring.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By B. Carl Rush.
