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Social Studies — Grade 8
Goal 1, Objective 1.01
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Writing activities: William Hilton explores the Cape Fear River
- These suggested writing activities are designed to help students understand William Hilton's report on his 1663 exploration of the Cape Fear River. The activities include exercises in understanding chronology, adopting multiple perspectives, and building historical empathy.
- Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Where do the Lumbee live?
- In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 3.6
- Introduction Knowing the location of a community, city, state or nation is important. More important, however, is understanding of the personality of the location. Robeson County, home of the Lumbee Tribe, is more than a North Carolina county that...
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Gazelia Carter.
- Welcome to the New World
- This lesson provides students an opportunity to read and interpret writings of the late 1500's and to transfer the information provided in the writings into a visual medium as a means of understanding and interpretation. The lesson also provides students practice in persuasive techniques.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Barbara Jean.
- A visit to colonial North Carolina
- This lesson plan extends student learning about the colonial period in North Carolina history by incorporating primary sources from the Documenting the American South collection. After reading first-hand accounts of travelers to colonial America, students will create their own travel brochure advertising North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- "Two Worlds" introductory activity
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.1
- Through the use of a carousel brainstorming strategy, this introductory activity for 8th grade social studies enables teachers to discover what their students already know about the geography and history of North Carolina. Students will work cooperatively and will recognize that they have much to learn about their state.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Topography of North Carolina and its influence on settlement
- This lesson explores where North Carolina is in relation to the United States and North America. Also, we will explore the different regions of North Carolina and how the topography of the region affected settlement.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Jessica Wilson and Tabitha Horton.
- Teaching suggestions: Graveyard of the Atlantic
- These suggested activities will help your students develop a deeper understanding of the information in the article "Graveyard of the Atlantic."
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Take action, save the past
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.8
- In their study of archaeological resource conservation, students will use a problem-solving model to identify a problem and solve it creatively.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Shifting coastlines
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.3
- In their study of North Carolina's changing coastline during the Paleoindian and Archaic periods, students will determine the positions of the coastline at different times and decide what types of archaeological information has been lost due to rising sea levels.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Science and Social Studies)
- The regions of North Carolina
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.2
- In this lesson, students analyze the differences between North Carolina's geographical regions: the Mountains, the Piedmont, and the Inner and Outer Coastal Plain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Reading guide: A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina
- These questions will help to guide students' reading of "A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina" and encourage them to think critically about the text.
- Format: worksheet/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Reading Amadas and Barlowe
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 4.2
- In this lesson, students will read about Amadas and Barlowe's 1584 voyage to the Outer Banks, and will practice thinking critically and analyzing primary source documents.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Provisions for Carolina: Comparing lists
- In this lesson, students will compare and contrast two historical documents: A list of recommended provisions for colonists traveling to Virginia in 1622, and a similar list of recommended provisions for colonists traveling to Carolina in 1709. Students will infer what has changed and what has stayed the same between the publication of these two documents.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- "The present state of North Carolina": Making decisions
- In this lesson, students read an excerpt from John Lawson's 1709 book A New Voyage to Carolina and use a graphic organizer to decide whether they would have emigrated to Carolina as a result of reading Lawson's book.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- North Carolina's physical and cultural geography
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.3
- In this lesson students will make assumptions about the influence of geography on various aspects of historical human and cultural geography.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Navigating the inlets and havens
- In this lesson plan, students read and analyze a primary source document written in the early 1700s that describes the inlets of the North Carolina coast. The students adopt the perspective of a contemporary ship's captain and discuss the importance of the information in the document.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The Lumbee: Who are they?
- In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 3.4
- Introduction This activity for middle school grades allows students to survey the various theories concerning the ancestry of the Lumbee. Students will read and analyze four threads that seek to chronicle the ancestry of North Carolina’s largest...
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Gazelia Carter.
- Lumbee English
- In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 3.1
- Introduction Linguist Walt Wolfram, a professor at North Carolina State University says, “The Lumbee English dialect bears the imprint of the early colonization by the English, Highland Scots, and Scots-Irish. Moreover, Lumbee American Indians’...
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Gazelia Carter.
- Educator's guide: The arrival of Swiss immigrants
- Teaching suggestions to help your students synthesize the information in the article "The Arrival of Swiss Immigrants."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The Carolina colony: Comparing three perspectives
- In this lesson, students compare three different primary sources written by early colonists, and consider the reasons the colonists had for moving to Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
