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Social Studies — Grade 8
Goal 1, Objective 1.02
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.
- What does it mean?
- In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 3.5
- Introduction Visual symbols can be important ways of communicating ideas. Individuals, corporations, communities, and organizations use logos, seals, flags, icons, and other visual symbols to represent their values, share their histories, and send...
- 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.
- Theories of migration
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.1
- In this lesson, students will read about and evaluate differing theories about the migration of the first people to the Americas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Shadows of North Carolina's past
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.2
- Students will infer past Native American lifeways based on observation, construct a timeline of four major culture periods in Native American history, and compare these lifeways and discuss how they are different and alike.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- Reading guide: The religious world of the Cherokee
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.6
- These questions will help to guide students' reading of "Maintaining Balance: The Religious World of the Cherokee" and encourage them to think critically about the text. The questions ask the students to consider Cherokee religious beliefs and how they may have affected interactions with the Europeans who arrived in the early 1700s.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Reading guide: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.8
- This worksheet will help students understand the article "Native Peoples of the Chesapeake Region," and will encourage them to make connections between the Chesapeake Indians and the Indians of coastal North Carolina. Students will also consider multiple perspectives as they think critically about the interactions between Indians and newly-arrived Europeans in the 1600s.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Reading guide: Cherokee women
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.7
- These questions will help to guide students' reading of "Cherokee Women" and encourage them to think critically about the text. The questions focus primarily on the Cherokee matrilineal kinship system and on the cultural differences between the Cherokee and the Europeans who arrived in the early 1700s.
- 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.
- Pottery traditions
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.5
- 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 (grade 4 and 8 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- Piedmont cultures graphic organizer
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.3
- This activity will assist students in understanding Piedmont cultures as they read the article "Peoples of the Piedmont."
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- North Carolina powwow
- In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 5.2
- Introduction American Indians who have lived in North Carolina have contributed to and continue to contribute to the development of the state. Correcting the stereotypes found in movies & inaccurate literature is necessary for thinking skills development....
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Linda Tabor.
- North Carolina place names
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.8
- This lesson contrasts and compares the names that Native Americans living in North Carolina gave to their villages and places with the names that European and other settlers gave to theirs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- "Native Carolinians" additional activities
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.10
- These lessons from the UNC Research Laboratories of Archaeology's Intrigue of the Past can be used as additional activities for the digital history textbook module "Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Mountain cultures graphic organizer
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.4
- As students read the article "Peoples of the Mountains," this graphic organizer will help them develop an understanding of the cultures that existed in North Carolina's mountains hundreds of years ago.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Measuring pots
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.7
- Students will use an activity sheet or modern pottery rim sherds to compute circumference from a section of a circle and construct analogies based on their own experience about possible functions of ancient or historic ceramics.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Mathematics and Social Studies)
- 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.
- Legends: Dramatic story telling
- In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 5.1
- Introduction The act of storytelling makes learning exciting. Participating in a dramatic presentation of American Indian Legends allows class members to create, learn, and teach. Learning Outcomes Students will select an American...
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4, 6, and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Linda Tabor.
