Melissa Harden
Research assistant
Melissa is a graduate student in the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. She has a degree in Elementary Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before going back to school, she taught fourth grade in Clayton, NC for four years. Melissa has several hobbies, including running, quoting movies, cooking, and traveling, but her favorite way to relax is by reading a good book. Her favorite season is autumn.
Resources created by Melissa Harden
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- Building the Blue Ridge Parkway
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 4.2
- In this lesson, students will learn about various ways in which the land was modified in order to build the Blue Ridge Parkway. They will analyze different types of resources for details and use those details to make generalizations about the work required to build the Blue Ridge Parkway.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Social Studies)
- By Melissa Harden.
- Introducing the Blue Ridge Parkway
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 4.1
- In this lesson, students will be introduced to the Blue Ridge Parkway. They will work in groups to analyze historical photographs of the Parkway in order to determine what purpose it serves and why it is such a unique landmark.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Social Studies)
- By Melissa Harden.
- Setting the scene for the Blue Ridge Parkway
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 4.3
- In this lesson, students will continue to learn about changes that were made to accommodate the Blue Ridge Parkway. Specifically, they will learn about changes and decisions that helped create the natural scene of the environment surrounding the Parkway. At the end of this lesson, students will write a journal response justifying whether or not these were good changes and decisions to make.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Social Studies)
- By Melissa Harden.
