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- The Blue Ridge Parkway and national parks today
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 2.1
- This is the first lesson in the Competing Routes unit. In this lesson, students are introduced to the role of national parks in the United States with a special focus on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- The Blue Ridge Parkway and North Carolina
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 2.3
- This is the third lesson in the Competing Routes unit. In this lesson, students look more closely at the relationship between North Carolina and the Blue Ridge Parkway and determine areas of interest in this broad topic. The first two lessons were aimed at putting students on equal footing in terms of prior knowledge and primary source analysis skills to start their research. This lesson allows them to pursue areas of their own interest, locate resources independently, and create new knowledge with those resources. Students will continue to use primary sources and practice their historical analysis skills.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- Blue Ridge Parkway communities today
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 2.7
- This is the seventh lesson in the Competing Routes unit. This lesson allows students to look critically at the state of the communities which exist along the Blue Ridge Parkway today and contrast them against their historical counterparts, helping students to explore the effects of the Parkway on surrounding communities.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- Blue Ridge Parkway communities: Before the Parkway
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 2.5
- This is the fifth lesson in the Competing Routes unit. It is part of a series of three lessons intended to help students think critically about the effects of the Blue Ridge Parkway on the environment, economy, and lifestyle of its surrounding communities. This lesson focuses on Blue Ridge Parkway communities before the arrival of the Parkway.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- Blue Ridge Parkway construction: Effect on communities
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 2.6
- This is the sixth lesson in the Competing Routes unit. This lesson is designed to get students thinking critically about the reactions of members of communities affected by the routing of the Blue Ridge Parkway and the reasons behind those perspectives. Students will analyze a variety of viewpoints, photographs, and documents to gain an understanding of the impact of the Parkway routing for different members of these communities. Then they will select one community member (real or imagined) and write a newspaper editorial from their point of view about the Parkway's routing.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- The Blue Ridge Parkway in your community: For or against?
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 2.8
- This is the final lesson in the Competing Routes unit. In this lesson, students reflect on the unit as a whole, and synthesize their new knowledge into a sophisticated presentation debating the routing of the Blue Ridge Parkway. In this lesson, students will be grouped into presentation committees based on geographical similarity (the communities closest to one another will work together) to lobby for or against the Blue Ridge Parkway being routed through their communities.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- Blue Ridge Parkway Travelogue
- Students plan and develop a week-long trip along the Blue Ridge Parkway, from beginning to end. The virtual tour culminates in the creation of a travelogue that will outline the trip.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Social Studies)
- By Rachel Elliott.
- Building the Blue Ridge Parkway
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 4.2
- In this lesson, students will learn about various ways in which the land was modified in order to build the Blue Ridge Parkway. They will analyze different types of resources for details and use those details to make generalizations about the work required to build the Blue Ridge Parkway.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Social Studies)
- By Melissa Harden.
- Conservation and capitalism: Focus on primary sources
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 2.2
- This is the second lesson in the Competing Routes unit. In this lesson, students consider whether it is possible to be a conservationist and a capitalist through the lens of Hugh Morton's role in the battle over the Grandfather Mountain link of the Blue Ridge Parkway. These discussions and primary source materials offer a look at the effects of human intervention on nature in North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway
- In these lessons and units for eighth grade, students delve into the rich primary sources and historical overlooks from the Driving Through Time project and explore the history of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Introducing the Blue Ridge Parkway
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 4.1
- In this lesson, students will be introduced to the Blue Ridge Parkway. They will work in groups to analyze historical photographs of the Parkway in order to determine what purpose it serves and why it is such a unique landmark.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Social Studies)
- By Melissa Harden.
- Little Switzerland, legally speaking
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 3.3
- This is the second lesson in the Battle Over Little Switzerland unit. In this lesson, students research the point of view of an individual or subset of the Little Switzerland community in order to understand their perspective on the battle over Little Switzerland land purchase. Students then take on the role of a specific individual who was engaged in the debate over Little Switzerland land prices and the court case of the State Highway Commission vs. the Little Switzerland Company and present their case to the class.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- Reading Blue Ridge Parkway historic maps
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 1.1
- This lesson serves as an exploratory introduction to reading historic maps. In preparation for this lesson, teachers may want to review the North Carolina Maps resource Why use historic maps in the classroom?
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- Routing Little Switzerland
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 3.2
- This is the first lesson in the Battle Over Little Switzerland unit. In this lesson, students become familiar with the timeline for the case of the North Carolina State Highway Commission vs. the Little Switzerland Company as well as the routing plans for the Blue Ridge Parkway and ownership issues surrounding this area.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- Untold stories: The Blue Ridge Parkway experience
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 1.2
- This lesson is intended to complement a Story of the American South: The Blue Ridge Parkway Experience. After reading The Blue Ridge Parkway Experience, students will determine an area of interest related to the story, research that topic through the Driving Through Time resources, and develop a digital historical narrative to share their research and understanding.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- You be the judge: Settling Little Switzerland
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 3.4
- This is the final lesson in the Battle Over Little Switzerland unit. In this lesson, students reflect on the activities of the last two lessons and determine how much landowners should be awarded for their property. They will also make a recommendation as to which route should be selected. They will express their decisions on these matters by writing a letter from the point of view of one of the judges in the case of Little Switzerland vs. the State Highway Commission.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
