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- Blackbeard: The most feared pirate of the Atlantic
- Students will acquire information about Blackbeard and apply their knowledge to create a newspaper article concerning his life.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Carol Holden and Tanya Klanert.
- 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)
- North Carolina: A pirate's safe haven
- In Colonial and state records of North Carolina, page 6
- In this lesson, students will examine written records regarding the presence of pirates off the coast of the North Carolina colony. Using primary source documents, the students will discover that North Carolina did not discourage pirates from living along the coast. The students will also explore economic and social reasons for harboring pirates.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Lara Willox.
- Pirates and economics
- In this lesson, students will learn the basics of a market economy and how pirates impacted the economic system in colonial times. Students will read one Mini Page about the famous pirate Blackbeard and another about economics. Students will map out the colonial economic system to demonstrate their knowledge of both economics and pirates' interventions. At the end of the lesson, students will imagine they are colonists and write a letter to the governor either in support or in opposition to piracy. This allows students to utilize economic vocabulary in a variety of creative ways.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Summer Pennell.
- Teaching suggestions: Graveyard of the Atlantic
- Suggested activities for use with the article "Graveyard of the Atlantic," which explains why the waters off North Carolina's coast have been unusually treacherous for shipping.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
