This resource is the online interactive for the Simple & Complex Machines activity "Inclined Plane and Pulley." In this activity, students will describe and investigate two of the simple machines, represent data in a table and calculate the mechanical advantage.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This multimedia resource, part of the NC Science Now series, describes how researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine are applying their understanding of the hierarchical structural organization of multicellular organisms to culture a variety of human tissues. By growing miniature human livers, hearts and kidneys and linking them together with a blood substitute, they can evaluate the effects of new drug therapies. Components of this resource include a video and a related blog article. Links to these components are provided on the page under the heading "UNC-TV Media."
Material Type: Lesson
The main resource on this website is an informative interactive that instructs students on the four types of tissues in the human body. Note: Other links on the site align to additional standards.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson
Students will observe that biological organization is a hierarchial system of classification in which each successive level is more complex than the lower level, and each successive level has properties that did not exist before. Students will sequence the levels of organization and make a foldable that lists and describes the levels.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Explore relationships between temperature, pressure, and humidity with daily weather forecasts. GeoInquiries are designed to be fast and easy-to-use instructional resources that incorporate advanced web mapping technology. Each 15-minute activity in a collection is intended to be presented by the instructor from a single computer/projector classroom arrangement. No installation, fees, or logins are necessary to use these materials and software.
Material Type: Lesson
In this interactive resource, students analyze the historical developments of the Scientific Revolution and its lasting effect on religious, political, and cultural institutions and analyze political, social, and economic change as a result of the Age of Enlightenment in Europe.
Material Type: Interactive
In this resource, students will explore the protections and limitations on authority contained in the Bill of Rights and the process by which the First Congress created it. They will do this by compiling a list of their rights as students, analyzing the Bill of Rights, and studying primary source documents to trace the origin and development of the first ten amendments. Students will then consider how the Bill of Rights might be updated to reflect 21st century circumstances.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students complete water quality tests such as pH, dissolved oxygen, nitrates, phosphates, and salinity for a water sample. After following these activities, students should understand the purpose of these tests, know how to run accurate water quality tests, and see how these parameters relate to the quality of the water in an estuary.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students investigate epidemics and the spread of disease. Selected students, with certain characteristics in common, are given "DZ" signs representing a fictitious disease. Then students observe how the disease is distributed and develop hypotheses about what might have caused that "DZ" distribution.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students begin by brainstorming a list of ways that organisms may interact within an ecosystem. Then students will have an opportunity to share their list with a peer and with the class. Next, students will create a jot chart that will detail the five relationships that may exist between organisms in an ecosystem: competition, predation, mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. At the conclusion of the lesson, students will examine food webs and predict the patterns of interactions that may exist between and among organisms in an ecosystem.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students diagram the flow of energy through living systems, including food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this STEM lesson, students use the engineering design process to build and test a model coring drill capable of penetrating several sediment layers respresented by different colors of clay/dough. Then they will use their drill to explore the sediment beds at 4-6 "sites."
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this multimedia lesson, students learn about energy resources that can be harvested from the oceans. Associated interactive activities include "Wave Power," where students view the wave-energy generation process, "Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion," where students examine and compare two diagrams of OTEC facilities, and "Methane Hydrates," where students investigate the conditions that affect the stability of methane hydrates.
Material Type: Interactive
In this lesson, students will learn about the techniques and outcomes of genetic technology, and discover how North Carolina scientists are using genetic technology to turn soybeans into vaccines, and to strengthen silkworm silk using spider DNA.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students are introduced to natural selection, specifically how it unfolds from generation to generation.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This site looks at those who fought for the ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the emancipation of enslaved Africans in the British colonies. The site has been designed to provide background information, lesson ideas and tools for teachers and learners.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration
This lesson introduces students to the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of the "big 5" civil rights organizations (the other four were: the Urban League, NAACP, SCLC, and CORE). The SNCC is credited with having led the student portion of the civil rights movement and with helping initiate the movement's transition to the Black Power phase of the late 1960s. Students will understand the motivation of African-American students in organizing the sit-in in Greensboro and the formation of the SNCC, how the generational differences between members of SNCC and other civil rights groups led to a difference in emphasis in the organizations, and the ideological transition to Black Power in the late 1960s.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students are drawn into post-Revolutionary Philadelphia during the midst of the infamous yellow fever epidemic of 1793 by reading Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Fever 1793. Use this novel as supplemental reading to assist students in developing their understanding of and interest in colonial times, while heightening their reading skills and ability for higher order thinking.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students analyze videos to make observations about species, populations, and communities of organisms and discuss their symbiotic relationships. Then they create a hypothetical marine ecosystem and describe the adaptive, trophic, and symbiotic relationships between the biotic and abiotic components of the ecosystem.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will explore greenhouse gases, how they affect the carbon cycle and the human role in climate change.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
