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Tennis skills

Students will refine their basic tennis skills by participating in a variety of activities for the beginner.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 )

By Larry Siers.

Tennis ball can relay

Through tennis ball can relays, reading will be integrated into the physical education program. This will be done with instructions written on slips of paper. In relay form, students will pull them out of a tennis ball can one at a time and perform each task.

Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Healthful Living)

By Nancy Lee.

Meter madness

The students will identify 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time signatures. They will also identify the down-beat and begin to understand conducting patterns.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Music Education)

By Alice Barlowe.

The employee clubhouse

In 1933, the Employee Clubhouse opened in Woodcote, managed by Marjorie Edwards. Marjorie was not paid a salary; rather she made a profit from the meals she served. Marjorie’s responsibilities as a hostess were to keep the house clean, and to serve weekday...

Format: article

By Sue Clark McKendree.

Writing conventions

Examples of common errors in sentence formation, usage, and mechanics.

By Bobby Hobgood.

We all live downstream

This lesson uses the North American Streamside exhibit of the North Carolina Zoological Park as an inquiry-based starting point for a stream ecology study.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)

By Eddie Hamblin.

Overhand throwing

The students will perform the skills of throwing overhand. This is the third lesson in Manipulative Activities Unit in 2nd quarter that follows lesson on throwing a ball underhand.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 )

By Bozena Mielczak.

Rolling a ball

More than a Physical Education lesson plan! The main focus of this manipulative activities lesson is rolling a ball. Students will roll other objects and practice rolling themselves. Additionally, you will find many ideas for structuring and managing a PE class.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–3 )

By Bozena Mielczak.

Underhand throwing

The students will perform the skills of throwing underhand. This is the second lesson in Manipulative Activities Unit in 2nd quarter that follows lesson on rolling a ball.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–3 Healthful Living)

By Bozena Mielczak.

Teaching "style"

This exercise works best as a review at the mid-point or end of a literature course. Paired students describe the style of ten authors ranging from "ornate" to "plain," and then compare the authors' styles through a designated series of metaphors.

Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)

By Charlotte Osterman.

Interpreting a short story

Students will study the literary genre of the short story and examine how, through writing, an author can comment directly/indirectly on our society as a whole. Hopefully, the students will develop an awareness of the problems/concerns facing our society and an appreciation of how a skilled writer can mirror society's ills and sometimes offer solutions for the problems that plague us.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)

By Regina Johnson.

Southern women and the bicycle

In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.3

Editorial from the Charlotte Observer, 1895, on whether women in North Carolina were "ready" for bicycles. Includes historical commentary.

Format: newspaper

Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

Digging up discoveries

The students will study archaeology, practicing their knowledge of spelling patterns and capitalization and punctuation skills along the way. The students will go to a teacher-created excavation and discover a surprise in a “rock” from the excavation. The students will then write about their experience.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)

By Alyssa Slater.

Higher order thinking with Venn diagrams

Graphic organizers are powerful ways to help students understand complex ideas. By adapting and building on basic Venn diagrams, you can move beyond comparison and diagram classification systems that encourage students to recognize complex relationships.

Format: article/best practice

By David Walbert.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s “I Have A Dream” speech

Students will display their understanding of the symbolism and references that Dr. King used to enrich his famous speech on August 28, 1963 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by constructing a “jackdaw,” a collection of documents and objects.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

By Charlotte Lammers.

Student life at the Normal and Industrial School

In North Carolina in the New South, page 4.4

Excerpt from the student handbook of the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School, 1901. Includes historical commentary.

Format: book

The importance of recess

How classroom elementary teachers can promote physical education.

By Timothy Meyler and Sarah Banks.

Resources on the web

Bouncing Tennis Balls

In this lesson from Illuminations, students develop their skills in collecting and recording data using the real-world situation of a bouncing tennis ball. They use the data collected to formulate the relationship between the dependent and independent variable... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics