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LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Education,
finds the most innovative and successful practices in K–12 education and makes them available to the teachers
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- Farm Animal Immigrants
- Students will identify a rare or endangered farm animal and then locate its country of origin on a world map. Students will also research the animal and its uses to determine why it was an imported.
- Author: Meg Millard and Pamela Webb
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- Freedom songs of the civil rights movement
- Students will listen to freedom songs recorded during the civil rights movement, 1960–1965. Students will write about personal reactions to the music and lyrics. Through reading and pictures, students will briefly explore historical events where these songs were sung. Listening again, students will analyze and describe — musically — particular song(s).
- Author: Merritt Raum Flexman
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- George Washington's Obituary
- The following lesson will introduce students to the research process--formulating questions, choosing resources, fact finding, and note-taking. After completing their research, they will write a short obituary for George Washington. Activities will integrate Reading, Language, Social Studies, Writing, and Computer Skills.
- Author: Kathy Blades
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- A living time line of civil rights
- This fifth grade lesson plan is one piece of a civil rights unit. This particular lesson is an opportunity for students to demonstrate knowledge of a specific person or event that occurred during the civil rights movement. The students will share their research with others as they take on the role of a museum artifact.
- Author: Laurie Lietz
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- 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)
- Radial Symmetry Design
- Students will study the carving of 18th century America and create a rosette design using radial symmetry.
- Author: Lisa Mitchell
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- World War II at home: Victory Gardens
- Students will learn about home front activities during World War II. Using primary source documents and photographs, students will discover how children their own age participated by growing Victory Gardens. They will design their own gardens and propaganda posters.
- Author: Linda Mazzei
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- Artifacts in Context
- Students will explore an archaeological mystery that demonstrates the importance of context in learning from artifacts.
- Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Engaging students in a collaborative exploration of the “Gettysburg Address”
- This lesson invites groups of students to learn more about the historical significance of President Abraham Lincoln's famous speech, the “Gettysburg Address” as well as the time period and people involved.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- 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)
- I Hear the Locomotives: The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad
- Students analyze archival material in order to make connections between the arrival of the railroads and many of the changes that occurred subsequently in the United States and its territories.
- Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- I'm gonna sit right down and write someone a letter
- Students will read letters from famous people and discuss the conventions, uses, and power of letter writing.
- Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Interpreting rock art of the Anasazi
- Students are introduced to the ancient Anasazi people through samples of rock art preserved in the public lands of the Four Corners region.
- Provider: National Geographic
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- Lewis and Clark: Native American Contributions
- Using handouts and maps, students learn about specific instances in which Native Americans helped the Lewis and Clark expedition overcome obstacles.
- Provider: National Geographic
- Format: lesson plan (grades 5, 8)
- Lewis and Clark: Same Place, Different Perspectives
- Students write about several encounters between the Lewis and Clark expedition and various Native American groups from the viewpoint of an expedition member or one of the Native Americans.
- Provider: National Geographic
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3, 5)
- More Amazing Americans: A WebQuest
- Students use the web to explore the lives of some celebrated Americans. Working in small groups, they complete a WebQuest, identifying facts and locating different types of information in order to determine the criteria used for selecting these “Amazing Americans.”
- Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- A president's home and the president's house
- Students take virtual tours of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home in Virginia, and the White House. They compare the activities undertaken by Jefferson at Monticello with those undertaken by presidents at the White House.
- Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Format: lesson plan (grade 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)
- Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies
- Students will explore the ways in which First Ladies were able to shape the world while dealing with the expectations placed on them as women and as partners of powerful men.
- Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)