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School of Education,
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- Folklife
- Students will learn North Carolina folklore, traditions, war activities, local legends, superstitions, food preparation traditions, art, songs and dances which are unique to the area.
- Author: Carolyn Early
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
- Master Artist Internet Research Project: Timeline
- Students apply their knowledge of how to find specific information about a topic on the Internet using an outline created by the class prior to the lesson. Using this outline, the students will create a chronological timeline of the artist's life on MSPublisher.
- Author: Gail Dreis
- Format: lesson plan (grades 7–8)
- Pottery traditions
- Students will learn how Indian people of North Carolina made and used coiled pottery, summarize why archaeologists study pottery, and make and decorate a replica of a North Carolina coiled pot.
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4, 8)
- Rock art
- Students will use art materials, drawings, and rock art examples to differentiate between symbol, petroglyph, pictograph, and rock art. They will also interpret rock art to illustrate its importance in the cultural heritage of a people and as a tool for learning about the past.
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4, 8)
- Capturing history
- Students study the political and economic reasons for the African-American migration to Northern cities between the World Wars.
- Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Format: lesson plan (grades 5–8)
- Horsing around: A virtual romp through the history of art
- Students examine how artists from different cultures and time periods have portrayed the horse and then get to express their own views of the horse by creating original works of art.
- Provider: @rtroom
- Format: lesson plan (grades 6–8)
- What portraits reveal
- Students recognize that portraits, whether paintings or photographs, can tell us more about people of the past than just what they looked like.
- Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Format: lesson plan (grades 8, 11)