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- 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)
- Discussion guide: Religion in early America
- In Educator's Guides: North Carolina Digital History, page 3.4
- This discussion guide will help students understand the larger context of religion in colonial America as they read about topics such as Quaker emigration and the Great Awakening.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Educator's guide: The arrival of Swiss immigrants
- Teaching suggestions to help your students synthesize the information in the article "The Arrival of Swiss Immigrants."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Graphic organizer: From Caledonia to Carolina
- Graphic organizer designed to aid students' comprehension as they read an article about the immigration of Highland Scots to North Carolina in the colonial era.
- Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Immigrants' experiences in colonial North Carolina
- In this lesson plan, students read two primary-source documents describing the experiences of new arrivals to North Carolina during the colonial period: One is a summary of a report written by a young Moravian settler from Pennsylvania; the other is a letter from a German immigrant. Students compare and contrast the journeys and settlement of the two groups.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The land of milk and honey: Propaganda and the colonies
- In Colonial and state records of North Carolina, page 3
- In this lesson, students use primary sources to examine the use of propaganda and how it influenced people's decisions to immigrate to the colonies.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Lara Willox.
- The land of milk and honey: Reasons for migration
- In Colonial and state records of North Carolina, page 2
- In this lesson, students brainstorm reasons people leave their homes and move somewhere else. After discussing modern day reasons for migration, students will explore the motives of early settlers to immigrate to colonial North Carolina. Motives will be explored using a primary source, specifically letters from potential settlers asking for permission to come to the "land of milk and honey."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Lara Willox.
