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- 20th-century warfare: Unique contributions of American Indians
- In this lesson, high school students will assess the importance and contributions of the American Indian in the United States' twentieth century wars. They focus in particular on the Navajo Code Talkers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By John B. Jones.
- The Birchbark House
- This study guide was created by a group of third grade enrichment students. They were planning to read this book but could find no published guide to go with it. They decided to create their own as they read.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Carolyn Ridgway.
- Along the Trail of Tears
- A part of history is often forgotten when teaching younger students. This is the relocation of the Cherokee Indians when the white settlers wanted their property. The US Government moved whole groups of Indians under harsh conditions. This trip became known as the Trail of Tears. Using this as a background students will explore and experiment with persuasive writing as they try to express the position of Cherokee leaders.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Glenda Bullard.
- And justice for all: The Trail of Tears, Mexican deportation, and Japanese internment
- Many textbooks mention the Trail of Tears, but fail to mention that this early displacement of an ethnic minority is only the one of many legally-sanctioned forced relocations. This lesson will address the displacement of American Indians through the Trail of Tears, the forced deportation of Mexican Americans during the Great Depression, and the internment of Japanese American citizens during WWII.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Patricia Camp.
- Archaeobotany
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.6
- 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 (grade 4–5 and 8 Science and Social Studies)
- Artifact classification
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.4
- 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 3–4 Social Studies)
- Cherokee relocation
- Students will use primary sources to investigate the boundaries of the Cherokee lands set for North Carolina after the Revolutionary War.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 Social Studies)
- By Donna Hernandez.
- Colonial and state records of North Carolina
- Lessons developed using the Colonial State Records of North Carolina collection from Documenting the American South
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- A comprehensive study of North Carolina Indian tribes
- Students will apply their research skills of gathering and validating information to study the eight state-recognized American Indian tribes of North Carolina in order to create an Honors U.S. History Project. Students then will create a comprehensive study of those tribes to be compiled into a notebook to be copied and shared with the eighth grade teachers of North Carolina History in our county.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Wanda Taylor.
- Culture everywhere
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.3
- In their study of culture, students will use a chart to show the different ways that cultures meet basic human needs and recognize that archaeologists study how people from past cultures met basic needs by analyzing and interpreting the artifacts and sites that they left behind.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- The fate of North Carolina's native peoples: Causes and effects
- This activity provides a way for students to further their comprehension as they read an article about changes in the population of North Carolina in the early 1700s as European settlers displaced American Indians. Students will complete a graphic organizer and answer a series of questions.
- Format: worksheet/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- First Americans of North Carolina and the United States
- This lesson will use shared reading, center time, hands-on projects, and journal writing to help learners discover facts about first Americans, particularly those in the region that is today North Carolina, while at the same time developing their English language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Adriane Moser.
- Graphic organizer: John Lawson's assessment of the Tuscarora
- This graphic organizer will aid students' comprehension as they read a primary source account detailing an English traveler's encounters with the Tuscarora Indians in 1700-1701.
- Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Graphic organizer: Who owns the land?
- This graphic organizer will aid students' comprehension as they read an article about conflicting ideas of land ownership between European settlers in America and American Indians.
- Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- In the spirit of... (museum pre-visit)
- This is an integrated unit that focuses on masks in cultures as reflections of individual spirits. In this pre-visit lesson, students will explore the cultures of the Western Hemisphere.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- By Shannon Kelly.
- Inference by analogy
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.12
- 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 Social Studies)
- Language families
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.7
- 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 (grade 4 and 7–8 Mathematics and Social Studies)
- Name that point!
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.4
- In their study of projectile points (i.e., spear points or “arrowheads”) dating to the Archaic period in North Carolina, students use activity sheets to compare projectile point attributes and to identify and classify points based on clearly defined variables. They will also match projectile points to a chronology and determine when the points were made and why the information is important to archaeologists.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 6 Social Studies)
- 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.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Music Education and Social Studies)
- By Merritt Raum Flexman.
- Native American poetry workshop
- This week-long set of lessons uses four different center activities to help students respond to poetry written by American Indians. This lesson plan was written with ESL (English as a second language) students in mind, so there are many opportunities to practice vocabulary, discuss and talk with others, and model expectations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Liz Mahon.
