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LEARN NC welcomes submissions of images, audio, and video of educational value for our Multimedia Library, and we encourage authors of lesson plans, best practices, and learning materials to include media where appropriate. Photographs We welcome...
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The student pathfinder
By creating pathfinders, students not only learn to manage time and produce a higher quality research project, but they also develop twenty-first century learning skills.
By Melissa Thibault.
Canning for country and community
In this lesson plan, students will use primary source documents to evaluate the technological challenges of food preservation in the 30s and 40s, compare food preservation in the first half of the twentieth century with today, and consider the political role of food in the community.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
By Melissa Thibault.

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A place, either virtual or physical, that promotes the sharing and unrestricted access to information.

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An information commons is a space, either virtual or physical, that cultivates community access to information and ideas and diminishes any hindrances that may be discriminatory to individual usage, such as a subscription fee.

Libraries are an example of information commons.