David Walbert
David Walbert is Editorial Director and Lead Designer/Developer for LEARN NC in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education. He is responsible for all of LEARN NC’s educational publications, oversees development of various web applications including LEARN NC’s website and content management systems, and is the organization’s primary web, information, and visual designer. He has worked with LEARN NC since August 1997.
David holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America, published in 2002 by Oxford University Press. With LEARN NC, he has written numerous articles for K–12 teachers on topics such as historical education, visual literacy, writing instruction, and technology integration.
Resources created by David Walbert
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- Allen House
- The Allen House, a log home occupied by John Allen and his family in the late 1700s. Allen built the house for his family around 1780 near Snow Camp, North Carolina, in Alamance County. In 1967 the house was donated to the state and was moved to Alamance Battleground....
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- Allen House cellar door
- Photo of the cellar door at the Allen House in Alamance County, North Carolina.
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- Alternatives to the famous person report
- In Rethinking Reports, page 3.1
- This "rethinking reports" series of articles provides alternative research assignments that challenge students to think critically about historical actors.
- By David Walbert and Melissa Thibault.
- Alternatives to the President Report
- In Rethinking Reports, page 1.1
- The "President Report" is a common assignment in social studies classes from second grade, where biography is first introduced, through high school U.S. History. You know what we mean: students are asked to pick a U.S. president and write a biographical...
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- Artillery fire
- As the British troops advance, Continental soldiers fire artillery in a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
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- Assessing the learning process
- Assessment, like instruction, needs to be geared toward various learning styles, and teachers can create rubrics for ongoing assessment that keep a formal daily record of what students are learning.
- By Gretchen Buher and David Walbert.
- The battle begins
- In a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Continental soldiers watch while British troops fire at American militia. The militia were ordered to fire twice, then break formation. Since militia were not professional soldiers, how well they obeyed...
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- The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
- Soldiers reenact the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
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- Bear painting on major temple interior wall
- Painting of a bear on an interior wall of the major temple at Town Creek Indian Mound. The recreated temple approximates the most important house of worship at Town Creek. Each wall is painted with an image of a different animal, representing the town's different...
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- Best practices in school library website design
- You're a librarian, not a web designer, but you can have a school library website that meets the needs of students and teachers if you keep it simple, don't take on more than you can manage, and focus on what you know.
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- By David Walbert.
- A British victory
- The British take the field after the Continental retreat at a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
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- Cannon at Alamance Battleground
- A cannon sits in the grass at Alamance Battleground Historic Site in North Carolina, illustrating the kinds of weapons used during the 1764–1771 uprising of the Regulators against the colonial government in the state.
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- Cannon smoke
- After the Continentals fire their cannon at a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, smoke obscures their view of the battlefield.
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- Casualties
- In a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, men begin to fall as the British and Continentals exchange musket fire.
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- The clinical interview
- In Problem centered math, page 3
- Do your students have a strong number sense, or do they rely on memorized procedures, floundering when faced with unfamiliar problems? A clinical interview can help you to assess how your students think about mathematics. This example interview provides a model.
- By David Walbert.
- The clinical interview
- Before you can help your students develop their own mathematical understanding, it's important to understand how they already think about math. Do they have a strong number sense, or do they rely on memorized procedures,...
- By David Walbert.
- Close-up view of fireplace at Allen House
- Close-up of the fireplace in the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C., where John and Rachel Allen lived with their family in the late 1700s. On the floor of the fireplace, two andirons stand in the ashes holding a log. To the right of the andirons, a kettle...
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- Colonial bed at Allen House
- Inside view of the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C., showing the kind of furniture and household items that would have been present when the house was occupied in the late 1700s. In the center of the image is a wooden-framed bed with a straw mattress supported...
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- Colonial candle-making demonstration
- At the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C., a colonial re-enactor dips a wick into a pot of hot wax to make candles.
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- Colonial candle-making tools
- This photograph, taken at a recreation of colonial life at Alamance Battleground, N.C., shows some of the tools that were used to make candles in the colonial era.
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