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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- The present state of Carolina [people, climate]
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 2.1
- Excerpt from John Lawson's 1709 A New Voyage to Carolina describing (and mostly praising) the European and native inhabitants, weather, and natural resources of Carolina, as well as what settlers should bring with them from Europe. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- Punched-tin lantern at Allen House
- Punched-tin lantern on the fireplace mantel at the Allen House in Alamance County, North Carolina.
- Format: image/photograph
- The Raleigh Standard protests conscription
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 4.2
- Newspaper editorial protesting the expansion of conscription by the Confederate government in January 1864. Includes historical commentary and background on conscription in the Civil War.
- Format: newspaper
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- Ratifying the amendments
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.4
- In 1835, a convention passed amendments to the North Carolina state constitution. In this activity, students map votes for ratification by county and explain the patterns they see.
- Format: activity
- By David Walbert.
- Reading images: an introduction to visual literacy
- Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn.
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- Reading photographs
- A picture is worth a thousand words — but which words? Questions can help students decode, interpret, and understand photographs thoughtfully and meaningfully.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- Reading slave narratives: The WPA interviews
- A reading guide for students working with WPA Federal Writers Project interviews with former slaves.
- Format: article/learner's guide
- By David Walbert.
- Real-world learning in a virtual environment
- Want to try project-based learning to get your students involved in real-world issues? A former North Carolina Technology & Learning Teacher of the Year talks about how she worked with the North Carolina Zoo to get students excited about learning.
- By David Walbert.
- The Redcoats prepare
- In a reenactment, British soliders drill before the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
- Format: image/photograph
- Regulator re-enactor with musket
- This historical re-enactor is dressed as a Regulator, a participant in a 1764–1771 North Carolina uprising against the corrupt colonial government in the state. He holds a musket, a muzzle-loaded long gun.
- Format: image/photograph
- Regulator re-enactor with musket and bayonet
- This historical re-enactor is dressed as a Regulator, a participant in a 1764–1771 North Carolina uprising against the corrupt colonial government in the state. He holds a musket, a muzzle-loaded long gun, with a bayonet attached to the muzzle. A bayonet...
- Format: image/photograph
- Retreat
- At a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, the last line of Continental soldiers retreats from the field.
- Format: image/photograph
- The Royal Coat of Arms
- A tent at a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse displays the royal coat of arms, including the royal motto, Dieu et mon droit, God and my right.
- Format: image/photograph
- A royal colony
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 3.9
- In 1729, the colony of North Carolina was taken over by the king, the turmoil of its early years quieted down, and for the next few decades, colonists enjoyed relative peace and stability. But one of the Lords Proprietors refused to sell back his share, and the administration of that "Granville District," encompassing the northern half of North Carolina, would cause problems for settlers later on.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Running for cover
- Continental soldiers watch as American militia retreat for cover in the woods in a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
- Format: image/photograph
- Scannability: organizing for the web
- In Writing for the Web, page 5
- How you organize and format your writing can go a long way toward making it readable.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Science as a verb
- Inquiry science requires active relationships between students, teachers, and science. Building these relationships is a three-step process that involves thinking about inquiry as a process of science, as a pedagogical strategy, and as a set of skills and behaviors to encourage in students.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Amy Anderson and David Walbert.
- The search for the Lost Colony
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 4.4
- No one knows what happened to the “Lost Colonists” of Roanoke Island -- but that has only made their story more interesting. Over the past 400 years, historians, archaeologists, storytellers, and outright liars have developed a number of theories about the vanished settlers.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Side view of Allen House
- Side view of the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C., showing the back porch, cellar door, and stone chimney.
- Format: image/photograph
- Smoke obscures the battlefield
- At a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, smoke from repeated volleys of muskets and cannon begins to obscure soldiers' view of the battlefield.
- Format: image/photograph
