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- Artifact classification
- Students will use pictures of artifacts or objects from a teaching kit to classify artifacts and answer questions about the lifeways of a group of historic Native Americans.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
- Mending pottery
- Students will mend broken pottery to learn what archaeologists learn by mending pottery.
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)
- Native American music: Two North Carolina tribes
- In this lesson plan, students will listen to songs from two North Carolina tribes. Students will learn about the music through listening, analyzing, singing, moving, and playing instruments.
- Author: Merritt Raum Flexman
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)
- Observing connections: North Carolina pottery and face jugs
- This is the third lesson in a series of three in which students are creating art based on their observations: Lesson 1 Observing connections—art, poetry and the environment; Lesson 2 Observing connections—changing landscapes; Lesson 3 Observing connections—North Carolina pottery and face jugs.
- Author: Lisa Mitchell
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)
- Quilts
- This lesson plan in designed to be one part of a fourth grade social studies unit on the Appalachian Mountains. It is based on the mountain custom of quilt making. This plan uses the book The Quiltmakers Gift by Jeff Brumbeau. It also uses the book internet site and other related sites. Enrichments of this lesson would be to display quilts, have a real quilt maker visit, have the class create their own paper quilt, etc.
- Author: Barbara Waters
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
- Spirituals and the power of music in slave narratives
- In this lesson for grade 4, students will learn about the importance of music in the lives of slaves by reading slave narratives and listening to recordings.
- Author: Dayna Durbin Gleaves
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4)
- History in quilts
- Students will recognize how people from different cultures and time periods have passed down the tradition of quiltmaking.
- Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Quilting: The story of the Underground Railroad
- Students use the Internet to research the dangers that escaping slaves faced along the Underground Railroad and the factors that helped the slaves make it to freedom.
- Provider: National Geographic
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)