David Walbert
David Walbert is Editorial and Web Director 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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- Introduction
- More than 9,000 years ago, the first humans arrived in what is now North Carolina. Their ancestors had migrated from Asia to North America about 12,000 years ago across a land bridge that had emerged when, during the last Ice Age, glaciers froze the oceans...
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Introduction: Rethinking reports
- A little creativity can make research a rewarding learning experience for students and teachers alike.
- By David Walbert and Melissa Thibault.
- Janet Schaw on American agriculture
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.3
- Excerpt from the diary of a Scottish lady traveling in North Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution. She describes, and harshly criticizes, the farming practices she finds in the colonies. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: diary
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- John Lawson's assessment of the Tuscarora
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 3.4
- Excerpt from John Lawson's 1709 A New Voyage to Carolina discussing the sources of conflict between the Tuscarora and English settlers in North Carolina and Lawson's hopes for integrating the Tuscarora into colonial society. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.4
- In May 1865, President Andrew Johnson offered amnesty to most former Confederate soldiers, excepting high-ranking officers, some politicians, and the wealthiest Confederates. Original source includes historical commentary.
- Format: proclamation
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- Keep it short (but not too short)
- In Writing for the Web, page 4
- Shorter paragraphs and pages will help make your writing easier to read on the web, but you don't have to sacrifice important content.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Kinetic connections: Bloom's taxonomy in action
- An introduction to strategies for using the web to push your students to higher levels of thinking.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood, Melissa Thibault, and David Walbert.
- Kitchen at Bennett Place
- Format: image/photograph
- Kitchen at Bennett Place
- During the negotiations of the surrender, James, Nancy, and their daughter Eliza and her child retired to the kitchenhouse to await the outcome. This kitchenhouse is a partial reconstruction identical to the original kitchen that stood on the Bennett Farm...
- Format: image/photograph
- The Knights of Labor
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.10
- Excerpt from the 1878 Platform of the Knights of Labor, an early labor union. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: declaration
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- Land and work in Carolina
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 1.10
- This article explains the key elements of feudalism, including its hierarchy of personal relationships and system of landholding, and how those elements evolved into the systems of labor and land ownership seen in colonial North Carolina.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Lattice multiplication
- Lattice multiplication is a method of multiplying large numbers using a grid. This method breaks the multiplication process into smaller steps, which some students find easier. Digits to be carried are written within the grid, making them harder to miss.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The learning cycle
- A three-part model of scientific inquiry that encourages students to develop their own understanding of a scientific concept, explore and deepen that understanding, and then apply the concept to new situations.
- Format: article/best practice
- By David Walbert.
- Leonidas Polk and the Farmers' Alliance
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 7.3
- Speech given by Leonidas L. Polk before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, 1890. Polk provided data showing the decline in farmers' wealth since the Civil War, argued that this decline was not the farmers' fault, and asked the Senate to enact laws that would help farmers. Includes historical commentary and explanations of some of the economic principles discussed (including supply and demand).
- Format: speech
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- Lincoln is inaugurated
- Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address, delivered March 4, 1861. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: speech
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- Lincoln's plans for reconstruction
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 7.5
- In Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, with the Civil War nearly over, Lincoln called for reconciliation between North and South.
- Format: speech
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- A little kingdom in Carolina
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 1.3
- The original vision for Carolina was a feudal province in which eight "Lords Proprietors" would have nearly royal power, but with an elected assembly and guarantees of religious freedom.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The Lords Proprietors
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 1.5
- Brief biographies of the eight men named Lords Proprietors of the province of Carolina by Charles II in 1663.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Making small groups work
- In Math for multiple intelligences, page 2
- For students to work effectively in small groups, a teacher needs not only to set rules but to build a sense of community and teamwork within the basic structure the rules provide.
- By Gretchen Buher.As told to David Walbert.
- Making the best of testing
- Two teachers offer a four-point plan for preparing students for end-of-grade tests without "teaching to the test": Teach to students' needs, integrate tested concepts into the curriculum, focus on learning before test-taking, and reduce students' stress.
- By David Walbert.
