North Carolina Museum of History

Get a sneak preview of the Museum before you visit! You can search for artifacts, preview the exhibitions, and read about important events in North Carolina history. The Museum offers teachers a variety of resources--many are online! Find lesson plans, information on history in a box kits, professional development workshops, and more!

http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/

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1. Professional development offerings

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• First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 Includes hundreds of diaries, autobiographies, travel accounts, and memoirs dealing with life in the southern states before, during, and after the Civil War.
• Durham County Library North Carolina Collection Includes a collection of 1,400 historic photographs that can be searched by thumbnails or keywords. These images of historical Durham range from 1860 to 1975.
• Historical Highlights of North Carolina A brief history of the state beginning with the early history and a description of many of the native tribes of North Carolina including the Cherokee, Catawba, and the Coastal Algonquian. Find information about the Colonial Period, the Halifax Resolves, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and significant events in the twentieth century.

Related pages

• Museum of the Cherokee Indian: Official site of the museum of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.
• African American Cultural Complex: Originally named Black Heritage Park, the African American Cultural Complex celebrates the outstanding contributions made by African-Americans.
• Alamance County Historical Museum: Learn about the history of Alamance County on a field trip to this museum.

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• Learn more about African Americans, American Indians, Indians, North Carolina, North Carolina history, Wake County, arts, civil war, colonial, folk art, history, history museums, pottery, and women.

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The North Carolina Museum of History website offers a multitude of information, opportunities, and resources for teachers, students, and learners of all ages. Get the scoop on planning a visit to the museum. A special section for those teachers taking their students on a field trip includes descriptions of available tours (thematically tied to American Indians, Health and Healing, NC Folklife, Civil War stories, Aviation, and African American), a downloadable resource guide, and a planning checklist.

The Education portion of the site also contains special features for teachers, which includes instructions for museum materials for loan, curriculum notebooks, video and slide programs, virtual field trips, and professional development programs. Some of these resources require a small fee. Also located here are several lesson plans focusing on aspects of North Carolina such as pottery and health and healing.

In addition to these teacher resources, learners can search the collection for artifacts (all artifacts have descriptions but few are complete with images); read about the exhibits (some have previews); and consult timelines that describe major events during different periods of North Carolina history.

Each year the North Carolina Museum of History holds virtual field trips via the NC Information Highway. Geared to 4th and 5th graders, the classes give young people who live outside of the Raleigh area an opportunity to take advantage of the museum’s holdings. For some field trips, reproductions of artifacts and objects to touch are sent in advance. Each class is free of charge to North Carolina educators and are available Monday through Wednesday, 9am - 10am. They are also offered to students out of state. Contact Susan Friday Lamb at 919-807-7943, or Ann Kaplan at 919-807-7982.

Also see: A Virtual Visit to the North Carolina Museum of History.

The North Carolina Museum of History offers a variety of on-site tours for all age groups. Call Capital Area Visitor Services at 919-807-7950 to make reservations. Requests for all tours are taken on a first-come, first-served basis. Schedule tours for early autumn, January, February, or the summer months to avoid crowded galleries.

The North Carolina Museum of History also has six regional “sister” museums: the Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City, the Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex in Fayetteville, the Mountain Gateway Museum and Heritage Center in Old Fort, and the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort and its branches in Manteo and Southport. These provide wonderful history exhibits for everyone in the state of North Carolina.

Professional development offerings

Our professional development classes are North Carolina history-based courses with connections to other subjects - language arts, science, math, and the arts. Museum curators and historians provide research materials. The online courses connect teachers through a discussion bulletin board. The Summer Institute provides speakers, discussion, and field trips.Teachers will learn historical content and apply it to innovative, multidisciplinary classroom applications.

• Workshops typically serve between 10 and 25 educators per session.
• Content is aligned with North Carolina standards for professional development and is tailored to the needs of the requesting school system. Offerings are based on theory, classroom strategies and subject matter content.
• Sessions offered are a combination of lecture and processing activities with time to process the learning with other participants.
• Follow-up activities include an optional evaluation of the professional development session with electronic follow-up.
• Materials are included in the cost of the workshops.