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- Civil rights protests and dilemmas
- In this lesson students explore well-known civil rights protests then listen to two oral histories of individuals who protested in their own way to promote equality for African Americans. Students specifically will consider personal risks involved in protest.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Civil War journals
- This lesson integrates creative writing with Social Studies and enhances knowledge of the effects of the Civil War on people.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Gwen A. Jones.
- The coastal dilemma
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.15
- This lesson is part of chapter one of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks. Students look at examples of shoreline erosion. They reflect on the impact this erosion can have on human life on the Outer Banks.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- Coastal Plain cultures graphic organizer
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.5
- As students read the article "Peoples of the Coastal Plain," this graphic organizer will help them develop an understanding of the cultures that existed in North Carolina's Coastal Plain hundreds of years ago.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- College collage
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.10
- In this lesson for grade seven, students brainstorm careers in the sciences and research local colleges that offer degrees in those fields.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Guidance and Science)
- By John Boyd.Adapted by Mitzi Talbert.
- Commercial and industrial designers: Working with volume
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.7
- In this lesson, students calculate the volume of a variety of boxes, and calculate the change in volume that would result from a change in the boxes' dimensions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Mathematics)
- By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.
- Comparing The Jungle with Fast Food Nation
- In this lesson plan, students read an excerpt from Upton Sinclair's 1906 The Jungle and an excerpt from Eric Schlosser's 2002 Fast Food Nation. Students write an essay comparing the intentions, content, and effects of these two publications.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 English Language Arts)
- By Jamie Lathan.
- Comparing and contrasting careers
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.9
- This lesson for grade six will help students understand comparing and contrasting. Students will conduct career surveys with adults and will use the results to create Venn diagrams.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Comparing and contrasting colonial rice and tobacco agriculture
- This graphic organizer will help students understand the processes of growing rice and tobacco in colonial North Carolina after reading two related articles from the North Carolina digital history textbook — "The...
- Format: document/worksheet
- Comparing creation stories
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.5
- In this activity, students compare creation stories from three peoples -- Cherokee, European, and West African -- that met in colonial North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Comparing resumés
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 1.1
- In this lesson plan, students will work in groups, acting as hiring committees for a college newspaper staff. Students will use two candidates' resumés to determine which applicant is the best fit for the job.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Andrea Fedon, Gail Frank, and Cindy Neininger.
- A comparison of the plant ecology of two fields
- Students will apply random sampling techniques to do a plant population/community/ecosystem study to model how these things are interrelated.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science)
- By Linda Sutton.
- Composing a Letter of Application
- Students will learn the importance of letters of application, what letters of application should contain, and how to format the letters. They will also enhance their composition skills, language skills, and proofreading skills.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Joyce Shepard.
- Conduct your own oral history project
- In this unit, students will research the moviegoing experience in the early 20th century by analyzing primary sources. They will then conduct oral history interviews to learn about what it was like to go to the movies in various generations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 12 Social Studies)
- By Lisa Speaker.
- Confederate currency: An inflation simulation
- Using primary sources from the Documenting the American South collection, students will engage in a brief simulation of inflation during the Civil War while learning about issues faced on the home front in North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Lewis Nelson.
- Conflicts in North Carolina colonial history: Culpeper's Rebellion
- In Colonial and state records of North Carolina, page 9
- In this lesson, students will work independently to examine primary source documents and secondary sources to answer questions about Culpeper's Rebellion. This lesson is best taught after the lesson Conflicts in North Carolina Colonial History: Tuscarora War.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Lara Willox.
- Conflicts in North Carolina colonial history: Tuscarora War
- In Colonial and state records of North Carolina, page 8
- In this lesson, the class will work together to examine primary source documents and secondary sources to answer questions about the Tuscarora War.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Lara Willox.
- Connecting oral history to geography: The changes of Madison County
- In North Carolina maps, page 2.4
- In this lesson, students ground the story of a county in corresponding maps. Students will show an understanding of the geography surrounding an oral history.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Jennifer Job.
- Conservation and capitalism: Focus on primary sources
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 2.2
- This is the second lesson in the Competing Routes unit. In this lesson, students consider whether it is possible to be a conservationist and a capitalist through the lens of Hugh Morton's role in the battle over the Grandfather Mountain link of the Blue Ridge Parkway. These discussions and primary source materials offer a look at the effects of human intervention on nature in North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- The control game
- The control game is an experiential, hands on opportunity for students to explore their ideas about personal control and influence in their own lives and their control and influence in the lives of others.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Guidance)
- By Wendy Logan.
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