Educator's Guides: North Carolina Digital History

Educator's Guides: North Carolina Digital History

What’s a “digital textbook”? How can students learn (and teachers teach) history entirely with web resources? Come on in and find out!

In this educator’s guide to North Carolina Digital History, our digital textbook for grades 4 and 8 covering the history of North Carolina and the United States you’ll find:

an overview of the textbook and how to find the resources you need for your classroom
process guides and worksheets for working with specific types of primary sources
suggestions for teaching about particular topics and pages within the textbook
strategies for managing discussions, including discussions of controversial issues

Please note: The educator’s guide now is available for 4th grade!

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Contents: Educator's Guides: North Carolina Digital History

A “digital textbook”

LEARN NC’s digital textbook for North Carolina History uses primary sources and multimedia to tell many stories about the past, not just one. Its resources are suitable not only for grade 4 and 8 North Carolina history courses but for high school history and social studies, as well.

This educator’s guide offers some general ideas and resources. Many pages of the textbook come with specific lesson plans — look for the heading “For teachers” in the right-hand column.

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