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- Cause and effect writing: What it looks like and who reads it
- Students examine the causes and effects presented in a brochure called “Ozone: The Good and the Bad.” They also examine the language of the brochure with regard to audience appropriateness. Students then write their own brochures examine their classmates' brochures for cause and effect and for audience appropriateness.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Michelle Roberts.
- Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate!
- Using chocolate as a theme, students will become involved in reading, writing, math, word study/spelling and other developmentally appropriate (integrated) activities. The unit includes centers for the classroom along with whole group activities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Luwonna Oakes.
- Cooperation, trust, and interdependence
- This activity involves two group initiatives designed to give students the opportunity to experience what it is like to depend on others for their safety. These initiatives will be used to explore trust, cooperation and interdependence while using problem-solving skills and effective communication.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Guidance)
- By Laura Janson.
- County government in North Carolina
- Students will become familiar with aspects of county government in North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Sadie Allran Broome.
- Create a Music Carnival
- This is a lesson in which the students will combine their knowledge of rhythm, pitch, and tone color with their imaginations to create original compositions about animals. They will use "Carnival of the Animals", by Saint-Saens, and "Peter and the Wolf", by Prokofiev, for comparisons.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Music Education)
- By Rowena Licko.
- Creating a community
- Students will design a community and take into consideration the structures and human resources necessary for a balanced community. They will evaluate their community as they evaluate differences between wants and needs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Social Studies)
- By Helen Byrd.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 2 (cooperative planning)
- This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community through use of group goal-setting, decision-making, brainstorming, peer feedback, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure. The lessons will help students create and maintain a supportive environment for learning. Part 1 focused on goal-setting process and practice. In Part 2, students will apply knowledge of the goal-setting process by cooperatively creating a plan to work on group goals.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- Data gathering - Linear regressions
- In groups of three, students gather data by experiment or observation in one of nine activities. Each group models the data they gathered, creates a display, and presents results to the class using an overhead projector.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Mathematics)
- By Judy Pickering.
- Dictionary guide words: How do they guide us?
- Students have difficulty locating words in a dictionary. This lesson will allow students to learn how to use guide words in a dictionary to locate words.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Anne Campbell and Carol Troutman.
- Diseases of Africa
- Students will demonstrate an ability to research diseases in Africa and the causes, symptoms, treatment, and long-range solutions involving infrastructure development. They will compare and contrast countries and diseases. Working in groups, students will do research and prepare a multimedia presentation on the disease.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Jim Carson.
- Does it float? Exploring density
- Density is a property of matter that requires abstract understanding from your students. This lesson plan is a hands-on lab for exploring the concepts of mass, volume, density, and their relationship. This lab achieves several 8th grade science objectives and incorporates mathematical objectives as well. The lab can easily be used as an introductory lab for the year, thus covering not only the content objectives, but also procedures for completing labs throughout the course of the year.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Trish Loudermilt.
- Ecosystem problem solving
- Students will apply their knowledge of ecosystems and the interdependence of plants and animals to creatively solve problems.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- By Kelley Turner.
- Employment applications and resumés
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 1.4
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will discuss the parts of a job application and resumé. Students will complete an application and resumé for either a medical job or a construction job, and will compare and contrast the application materials needed for each of the two kinds of jobs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Anissia Jenkins.Adapted by Kenyatta Bennett and Sonya Rexrode.
- Essays of definition: Lively writing through professional models
- This lesson examines a professional model of a definition paper and asks students to analyze and imitate the structures of using anecdotes and cause and effect to elaborate an essay of definition.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Margaret Ryan.
- Everyday geometry: Hidden figures and polygons
- A lesson plan for grade 5 math in which students use historical photographs and drafting plans to demonstrate their knowledge of mathematical figures and polygons.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
- By Sonna Jamerson.
- 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 8–12 Science)
- By Miriam Sutton.
- Exploring the church in the southern black community
- Students explore the Documenting the American South Collection titled, the “Church in the Southern Black Community.” Beginning with a historian's interpretation of the primary sources that make up the collection, students search the collection for evidence to describe the experiences of African Americans living in the south during the Antebellum through the Reconstruction Period centering on their community churches. The activity culminates in student presentations of a digital scrap book.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- Fast food frolics
- Students will research nutritional guides from local fast food restaurants. Based on this research, students will compare menus for nutritional values and create healthy and unhealthy meal advertisement posters.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Healthful Living)
- By Lisa Pastor.
- Figurative language: Metaphor
- This lesson is a part of a unit on poetry and figurative language. It is designed to teach students the characteristics of metaphor within the context of poetry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Nancy Meyers.
- Finding your way in North Carolina
- Students will become familiar with the regions and local features of North Carolina and be able to write directions for others to find these features on a map.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Social Studies)
- By Sadie Allran Broome.
