Subject Area: Mathematics
Diet, Health and Food Systems
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8By Yusupha Auber from East Cary Magnet Middle School: Center for Global Studies & World Languages OVERVIEW OF LESSON: In the early morning, my students regularly consume Takis, Doritos, various sweets, and caffeinated energy drinks with more than the recommended daily serving of sugar. Often, when they ask for something…
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Exploring Indigenous Cultures of North Carolina: Part I, THE PAST
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: 6-8, 9-12, Community College, K-5This brief slide deck and associated text provides background information for teachers using any of the lesson plans developed as part of the 2021-2022 UNC World View Fellows Program, Exploring Indigenous Cultures: Ancient North Carolinians, Past and Present. Educators are welcome to use these slides to introduce or enhance any of the lessons…
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Exploring Indigenous Cultures of North Carolina: Part II, THE PRESENT
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: 6-8, 9-12, Community College, K-5This brief slide deck and associated text provides background information for teachers using any of the lesson plans developed as part of the 2021-2022 UNC World View Fellows Program, Exploring Indigenous Cultures: Ancient North Carolinians, Past and Present. Educators are welcome to use these slides to introduce or enhance any of the lessons…
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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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Impacts of the Atlatl and Proving Their Effectiveness Mathematically
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: 9-12The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the atlatl, an instrument or spear-thrower used by American Indians in North Carolina to aid in hunting, and to examine this instrument from a mathematical perspective. In doing so, students will use prior knowledge of circles to understand the concept…
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Modeling the Garden Creek Mounds
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: 9-12The Garden Creek mounds are located approximately 1.7 miles from Pisgah High School, along the Pigeon River near Canton in Haywood County, North Carolina. After learning about the history of the periods in which these mounds were constructed and the history behind them, students will model the amount of earth…
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Site Excavation
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: K-5Through the Excavating Occaneechi Town online module on the Ancient North Carolinians website, students will learn the five-step procedure archaeologists follow during site excavation. Students will then conduct their own excavation process of a fictional site, plotting artifacts on a grid, and drawing conclusions about the lifeways of the people that lived there.
UNSDG Mini-Golf Course
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12By Angela Love Moser from Innovation Early College High School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: Students will work in pairs to research a chosen UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG) that will become the thematic basis of a mini-golf course hole. As a group, students will complete an entire UNSDG-themed mini-golf course that…
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