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- Teaching about Thanksgiving
- Resources and activities to help you bring historical accuracy, cultural sensitivity, and a broader context to discussions about the quintessentially American holiday.
- Format: article
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Persuasive speaking: A classroom model
- In Arts of persuasion, page 3
- A plan for teaching persuasive speaking in the middle school classroom, with tips for speakers and on how to recognize bias.
- By Pamela Myrick and Sharon Pearson.
- Alternatives to the famous person report
- In Rethinking Reports, page 3.1
- This "rethinking reports" series of articles provides alternative research assignments that challenge students to think critically about historical actors.
- By David Walbert and Melissa Thibault.
- The not-so-famous person report
- In Rethinking Reports, page 3.2
- Instead of teaching the history of the famous, use research in primary sources to teach students that the past and present were made by people like them.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Primary sources: a process guide for students
- Questions to consider when reading primary source documents.
- By Dan McDowell.
- Photographs: a process guide for students
- Questions to consider when looking at photographs as primary sources.
- By Dan McDowell.
- Reading primary sources: An introduction for students
- A step-by-step guide for students examining primary sources, with specific questions divided into five layers of questioning.
- Format: article/learner's guide
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- From documents to digitization
- To design a research project using primary sources from the Web, you'll need to know what's out there and how to find it. This article explains what's available, why, and where.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The value of oral history
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 1
- Why use oral history with your students? Oral history has benefits that no other historical source provides.
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Oral history links and resources
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 6
- Guides, tips, lesson plans, and examples of student projects on the web.
- Format: article
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Shadows of North Carolina's past
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.2
- Students will infer past Native American lifeways based on observation, construct a timeline of four major culture periods in Native American history, and compare these lifeways and discuss how they are different and alike.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- The Learning Page: Community Center
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 8
- This installment of the American Memory Guide explores the Learning Page's Community Center, highlighting features of particular interest to teachers.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Accessing the American Memory collection: Searching
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 2
- Take a look at the second installment in the American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide and find out how to search the collections with success. You'll learn all kinds of tricks and techniques, and even explore the Library of Congress's latest search tool.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- An example of how a single image can provoke discussions at all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
- By Bobby Hobgood and David Walbert.
- Accessing the American Memory collection: Multimedia formats and offline-use tips
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 4
- The American Memory collection contains a wide variety of formats including motion pictures, sound recordings, sheet music, maps, and photos. First, learn how to find them, then explore options for use in your classroom.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Grooming in 1930s North Carolina
- Using primary source materials, this lesson plan provides a glimpse into the lives of girls and women from the 1930s and will give students the opportunity to study what was considered attractive for the time, how the Depression affected grooming practices, and the universal concept of healthful living.
- Format: article (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The Learning Page: Getting started with primary sources
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 5
- Introduces a primary sources guide made available through the Library of Congress's The Learning Page. You'll also get an introduction to some of the LOC's lessons that will help your students use primary source materials.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- The parts of a lesson plan
- In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 1.4
- If you're thinking of submitting a lesson plan to LEARN NC, this primer will acquaint you with the various parts of a lesson plan and explain what should be included.
- Format: article/help
- Packaging resources
- In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 2.3
- LEARN NC is especially interested in publishing "packages" of resources that integrate instructional plans, best practices, and/or materials for student learning, including primary sources and multimedia. Teachers will be more likely to use and adapt upon...
- Format: /help
- Sound Recording Analysis Worksheet
- Worksheet for students to use when analyzing a sound recording. The worksheet assumes historical recordings produced in the United States, but could easily be adapted for other purposes. It may be used directly on the computer as a
- Format: document/worksheet
