Standard Course of Study :: Social Studies — Grade 8

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Archaeobotany: Students will use pictures of seeds, an activity sheet, and a graph to identify seven seeds and the conditions in which they grow. They will also infer ancient plant use by interpreting archaeobotanical samples and determine changing plant use by Native North Carolinians by interpreting a graph of seed frequency over time.; Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5, 8)
Experimental archaeology: Making cordage: Students will make cordage and use an activity sheet to experience a technique and skill that ancient Native Americans in North Carolina needed for everyday life. They will also compute the amount of time and materials that might have been required to make cordage and construct a scientific inquiry to study the contents of an archaeological site.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
Facial Studies Through Creation of a Face Jug: Students study the anatomy of a face and use what they have learned about rendering faces and three dimensional objects to create thumbnail sketches of expressive faces on jugs.

They learn to blend values to create the illusion of volume in both facial features and clay jugs. Three dimensional understanding is reinforced by adding expressive facial features to coiled clay jugs. Earth Science is integrated through the study of clay. Social Studies in integrated through the study of face jugs found as far back in history as Pre-Columbian times. Artistic meaning is explored through facial expression and the psychological implications of color.

They look at examples of face jugs. They learn about types of clay. They learn to roll clay coils and create a jug using coil construction. They score, slip and blend facial features to the jug. They choose either underglaze decoration followed by a clear glaze coating or colored glaze decoration applied after bisque firing as a finish.; Author: Lori Shepley, Melissa Thibault and Nelle Hayes; Format: lesson plan (grades 8–12)
Inference by analogy: Students will use historical sources and an archaeological site map to infer the use or meaning of items recovered from a North Carolina Native American site based on 17th-century European settlers' accounts and illustrations. They will also describe prehistoric lifeways based on archaeological and ethnohistoric information and explain why archaeologists use ethnohistoric analogy.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
Language families: Students will identify and locate the three language families of contact period North Carolina and calculate the physical area covered by each language family.; Format: lesson plan (grades 4, 8)
North Carolina place names: 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)
Power sharing and The Lord Proprietors of North Carolina: This lesson examines the essential question: How did government instability under the Lord Proprietors effect the development of North Carolina?

The lesson has been modified for novice low English language learners.; Author: Pamela Glover and Laura Packer; Format: lesson plan (grade 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)
American prehistory: 8000 years of forest management: Students study the evidence of 8000 years of Native American prehistoric land use practices. By analyzing images of Native American material culture, students will understand how artifacts and architecture reveal environmental attitudes of the culture.; Provider: Forest History Society; Format: lesson plan (grade 8); Media: document
Battling for liberty: Tecumseh's and Patrick Henry's language of resistance: This lesson extends the study of Patrick Henry's “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech to demonstrate the ways Native Americans also resisted oppression through rhetoric and action.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
From forest to farm and back again: How did pioneer farmers manage the landscape? Students will examine, interpret, and analyze physical and cultural patterns of forest use and management over a 300-year period.; Provider: Forest History Society; Format: lesson plan (grade 8); Media: document
Myth and Truth: "The First Thanksgiving": By exploring myths surrounding the Wampanoag, the pilgrims, and the first Thanksgiving, this lesson asks students to think critically about commonly believed myths regarding the Wampanoag Indians in colonial America.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grade 8)