LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

North Carolina History: A Digital Textbook

Primary sources, multimedia, readings, and lesson plans to tell the many stories of North Carolina's past.
Replace your textbook — or enhance your teaching with selections.

What’s a digital textbook?

LEARN NC’s “digital textbook” for 8th-grade North Carolina history offers a new model for teaching and learning. It makes primary sources central to the learning experience, using them to tell the stories of the past rather than merely illustrating it. Special web-based tools help students learn to read those sources and ask good questions of them. And because it’s on the web, this textbook relies on multimedia whenever possible to supplement or even replace text.

Teaching and learning online

Designed for use online, our digital textbook includes interactive tools to help students understand and interpret historical sources and readings. A modular approach lets teachers use as little or as much of the textbook as meets their needs. And every section will come classroom-ready with lesson plans and activities.

You can read more or watch this animated tour to learn more about the features and resources of our digital textbook.

Publishing schedule

The textbook will be ready to be taught in its entirety during the 2009–2010 school year. The remaining modules will be published in January 2010, and a complete educator's guide will be available in summer 2010.

Questions?

Get answers to frequently asked questions about the digital textbook. (If we haven't answered yours, feel free to contact us for more information.

You can also download a flyer (PDF, 95KB) about the digital textbook project.

Explore

Pre-Colonial

to 1600

Indians cooking fish

Colonial

1600–1763

a woman weaving

Revolution

1763–1789

Revolutionary militia

Early National

1789–1836

flag from Fort McHenry

Antebellum

1836–1860

a slave mother and child

Civil War

1860–1876

soldier

New South

1876–1900

Biltmore

Early 20th Century

1900–1929

early automobile

Depression & War

1929–1945

woman at work on a bomber

Postwar

1945–1975

civil rights protest

Recent

1975–2009

Browse

This is a tag cloud. It shows the most common keywords or "tags" assigned to pages of the textbook. Tags assigned to the most resources appear larger.