Lesson Plans
Exploring Plastic in Oceans
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8By Kristen Cox from East Cary Magnet Middle School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: This lesson will allow students to explore the impact of plastic in oceans. They will discuss how this affects life in the water and ultimately impacts humans as well. By the end of the lesson, students will explore…
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Exploring the Challenges of Food Security in Global Communities: A Research Simulation
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8By Alissa M. McElreath from Dillard Drive Magnet Middle School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: After researching the Global Food Security Index, students will select a global community and make an argument for which of Michael Pollan’s four food chains (Industrial, Industrial-Organic, Local and Sustainable, Hunter-Gatherer) would best address issues of food…
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From Artifact to Art
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: 6-8, 9-123D printing is the perfect connection between science and art. Seeing artifacts in a museum is one thing, but holding an artifact in your hand is quite another. In this lesson, students will examine scans of archaeological artifacts, and will learn how to translate 3D scans into printable files. After…
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From Shakespeare to Siouan: An Investigation of European and American Indian Cultures
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: 9-12In this lesson students will explore American Indian lifeways during Shakespeare’s lifetime, AD 1564-1616. They will compare American Indian culture during that general time period in North Carolina to that of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan England and consider what may have caused conflicts between the two groups following European settlement and colonization….
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Gender Equality
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12By Jessamyn Bailey from High Point Central High School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: The goal of this lesson is to give students the background knowledge and critical thinking skills to analyze gender equality in different societies and to advocate for equity for all genders. The lesson presents global facts, a regional…
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Gender Equality, Gender Portraits
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12By Jessamyn Bailey from High Point Central High School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: The goal of this lesson is to have students think critically about gender equality in their own lives and in the life of a family member they admire. This lesson will cover SDG Goal 5: Gender Equality and…
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Hand Talk – Native American Sign Language
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: K-5Students will learn about and practice Hand Talk, Native American Sign Language, with a focus on the most extensively researched and documented Native American sign language, Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL). Students will investigate this form of communication, used by both deaf and hearing Native Americans, that thrived for centuries…
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Harness the Wind
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: K-5By Laurie Newhouse from Dillard Drive Magnet Elementary OVERVIEW OF LESSON: As first grade students learn about force and motion in science, they will read about the true story of a boy named William and how he created a windmill to help save his family during a time of drought…
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Housing Affordability for Teachers in North Carolina
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8By Yusupha Auber from East Cary Magnet Middle School: Center for Global Studies & World Languages OVERVIEW OF LESSON: The mathematical goal of this lesson is to reinforce the concept of proportional relationships. It is assumed that students have completed Unit 1: Scale Drawings and Unit 2: Introducing Proportional Relationships….
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Hurricanes, Climate Change and Infrastructure
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12By Maggie LeGrand, North Gaston High School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: How can your local community reduce the risk of flooding from climate change? What causes hurricanes and flooding? What can we learn from looking at cities around the world that are searching for solutions to this growing problem? Because many…
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