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The Domino Effect

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students model the transmission of neural impulses with dominoes. In this nervous system lesson, students construct a device with dominoes. They use the device to model the way a nerve impulse is propagated from dendrite to axon.
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Deena's Lucky Penny

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover the coin denominations of U.S. Currency.  In this money lesson, students read the book Deena's Lucky Penny, then complete a coin matching activity using the Internet.  Students also read Shel Silverstein's poem...
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Ho'opiha - Growing in Knowledge: Terrarium Project

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore environmental protection by conducting a research experiment in class. In this botany lesson, students identify the necessities for growing a plant indoors and create a small terrarium for their plant. Students observe...
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Ocean Grazers: Class Field Trip

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore biology by participating in a field trip. In this oceanography lesson, students define the survival characteristics of bottom dwelling creatures also known as ocean grazers. Students attend a class field trip to a beach...
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Water Will, Water Way

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students test tap water for hardness and mineral content. In this environmental science instructional activity, students identify the different stages of the water cycle. They classify plant and animals according to the rules of taxonomy.
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Banking And Making Change

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders simulate making purchases based on infromation located in supermarket flyers. Working in groups, 12th graders alternately make purchases and calculate change from a given amount. Students role play common bank...
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Battleship

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students practice passing and shooting a hockey puck with accuracy when in a game situation.
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My Way

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students culminate a humanities project by improvising music to accompany a video of a particular era in US history.
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Wax On, Wane Off

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate the cycles of the moon through an in class experiment.  In this lunar lesson plan, students utilize a tennis ball and their own head to simulate the moon and Earth and create moon phases by observing the tennis ball...
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Human Sentences

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create human sentences in this hands-on activity to practice using comas correctly when punctuating dates in sentences.
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Earth: The Apple of our Eye

For Teachers K - 5th
Students are led through a demonstration in which they cut open an apple, which represents the earth. They follow through the hands-on lesson, cutting the apple into various portions--each representing some aspect of the earth.
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Youth Voices: Fair Access to Resources and Quality of Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Student delegates conduct "United Nations" style session in which they are challenged to develop resolution or resolutions that address how to feed growing population, taking into consideration quality of life and impact on environment.
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Infection Control/Workplace Safety

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students role play as nurse managers in a hospital and are faced with an infection control crisis. They are to examine the feasible ways to solve and control the problem. Students utilize technology, language arts, trade and industry,...
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Conjunction Junction

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders prepare a skit in which the entire dialogue must center around the grammar and mechanics of writing. They come up with a scenario on their own or you can provide them with one. Students can use props if they like. They...
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Money Matters

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice spending money by completing math word sentences.  In this economics lesson, students utilize problem solving strategies to complete word problems written on the board involving making purchases with money.  Students...
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Telling the Time

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice telling time by completing the various activities. In this telling time lesson, students view a large clock and discuss the words 'to' and 'past' the hour. Students count in 5s using the clock and then set their own...
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Revolt in Boston

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders study the American Revolution. In this American History lesson, 11th graders analyze primary sources. Students participate in a simulation on taxes. 
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Frederica: An 18th-Century Planned Community

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Young scholars explore life as early settlers in Frederica by pretending to be crafts/tradesmen there and writing letters describing the fort/town to a friend or family member still in Great Britain, debating reconstruction vs....
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Macarena Referee Dance

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students learn officiating hand signals through dance; to give students interested in sports a connection to dance
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Rainy Day Football

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners participate in a rainy day game to reinforce football rules.
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Note Bowling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice recognition of different music notes and their values and work on throwing cues, scoring, and addition.
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Money Matters

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners count, record, and calculate money. They save, as well as to explain the value of jobs and working hard.
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Shortenin' Bread Shuffle

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students learn a line dance that corresponds with the recreational dance curriculum of North Carolina. They respond to directional cues and terms in folk an line dancing.
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The Price is Right, So Let's Make Change

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students estimate, calculate, and count back the amount of change needed from purchases made during small group activities.

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