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- 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.
- Cape Fear River Watch
- Offer several opportunities for environmental education and community development which include hands-on experiences for field trip groups.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- 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.
- Superfund in science class
- In Bringing current science into the classroom, page 2
- Four Web-based activities let students identify Superfund sites, define hazardous waste, see how aquifers work, and explore cleanup solutions.
- By Michele Kloda.
- Allison Woods
- Offers outdoor classroom educational opportunities at Allison Woods or in your classroom for students age 6 and up.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Eno River State Park
- Students will learn about the plants and animals found in Eno River State Park as well as the importance of water quality and stewardship to their local watershed.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Lake Norman State Park
- Lake Norman was created when Cowans Ford Dam was built to generate electricity for the people of the area. Though rarely seen there are over 35 species of mammals in the park in addition to birds, amphibians, and reptiles. When visiting the park students will learn the importance of clean water to both animals and humans.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Exploring properties of matter with submersibles
- This inquiry-based learning activity allows students to explore the relationships between mass, volume, density, and buoyancy as they manipulate various materials to construct a submersible “vehicle” for deep-sea research.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- By Miriam Sutton.
- 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.
- Magnetic magic
- Students will explore and experiment with a magnet's mysterious invisible strength by rotating through five hands-on centers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science)
- By Thelma Pike.
- A case study of "A Civil Action"
- In Bringing current science into the classroom, page 3
- This is a short, culminating activity that can be used to assess your students' understanding of the steps needed to determine if a water source is contaminated and how it got that way, and to suggest possible methods of cleanup or remediation. Students review a portion of the film "A Civil Action" and identify the problem and the people involved. Students then take the role of environmental scientist and apply their knowledge of water and hazardous waste contamination to create a plan to help lawyer, Jan Schlichtmann, try the case.
- Format: (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Michele Kloda.
- Pettigrew State Park
- Named for the Pettigrew family and their farm, this land was made a state park in 1939. The park has more than 1,200 acres of land and 16,600 acres of water. Students will discover the natural history of this area as well as the history of the people who have lived on this land.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Float, sink, flink!
- In this lesson, students will learn to make things flink, meaning they neither float to the top nor sink to the bottom of a fluid. They will discover that whether an object floats or sinks depends not only on the properties of the object itself, but also on the properties of the fluid (either gas or liquid) in which it is situated.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)
- By Erin Denniston.
- Microbiology: Bacteria in our environment
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 5.5
- In this lesson, students will learn about bacterial cells and will participate in a lab measuring the growth of bacterial colonies.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- By Tammy Johnson and Martha Tedrow.
- Soil and erosion unit: Section 1
- This two week unit will involve descriptive information on North Carolina soil types and how the presence of plants affects soil erosion. Upon completion of Section 1, you may continue to Section 2.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Amy Robertson.
- North Carolina rivers
- Students will locate 28 rivers within the state of NC, noting names and origins of names, directions of flow, navigability, and development of population centers in relation to the rivers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Mike Stevenson.
- The search for the Lost Colony
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 4.4
- No one knows what happened to the “Lost Colonists” of Roanoke Island -- but that has only made their story more interesting. Over the past 400 years, historians, archaeologists, storytellers, and outright liars have developed a number of theories about the vanished settlers.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The natural history of North Carolina
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 1.2
- If the five billion years of the earth's history were condensed into a single day, humans would have arrived in North Carolina just two tenths of a second before midnight! This article summarizes the major biological and geological events in North Carolina's history and explains how the land and environment of today came to be.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Two paths to knowledge
- For students who who always finish their class work early or want more information than you have time to give, try curriculum compacting.
- By Waverly Harrell.
- The pottery makers
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.4
- Archaeologists do a bit of shrugging when asked about the Woodland—that time and lifeway tucked between 1000 BC and AD 1000. Some things they readily understand, but others leave them wondering.
