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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

CEU courses open for enrollment

e-Learning for Educators - Data-Based School Reform for Administrators
Research shows that effective school improvement plans should be based on careful analysis of school data. Review current data-driven decision-making theory; use technology to identify, gather, and analyze data for patterns and trends; examine the role of data in equity reform; and develop action plans in support of their school-based data.
Take this course: Begins February 17.

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park Mountain Farm Museum
Historic buildings, farm animals, and demonstrations can be seen at the Smoky Mountains National Park Mountian Farm Museum.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Georgia rice field workers
Georgia rice field workers
19th-century image of four Georgia rice field workers.
Format: image/photograph
Reading primary sources: Newspaper advertisements
This interactive guide to reading classified advertisements in a 19th-century newspaper editorial steps through layers of questions, guiding the reader through the process of historical inquiry. This edition is one in a series of guides on reading historical primary sources.
Format: newspaper (multiple pages)
19th-century street in Cartagena, Colombia
19th-century street in Cartagena, Colombia
A block-long weather-beaten building borders a 19th-century street in Cartagena, Colombia. Cartagena is a large seaport town on Colombia's northern coast. It was settled in 1533 by Spanish conquistadors and was an important seaport during the colonial period....
Format: image/photograph
Asa Biggs House
This house was the home of Asa Biggs, a former U.S. Senator and federal judge prominent in the politics of the day. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places and house the Martin County Travel & Tourism Bureau.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Cedarock Historical Farm
Relive the American way of life at this farm which dates back to the 1830s.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Old Burke County Courthouse and Heritage Museum
Students can learn about the history of Burke County and the sessions of the NC Supreme Court held on this site in the mid-19th century when visiting the Old Burke County Courthouse.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Greenville Museum of Art
Permanent exhibits include 19th and 20th century art, North Carolina art and an impressive collection of Jugtown pottery.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
The Bostick Schoolhouse
Visit a restored 159 year old restored one-room school house near Ellerbe, North Carolina to learn how students were taught in the 19th century.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Old Wilkes Walking Tour
Touring Old Wilkesboro gives students insight into the town's past. Historic refurbished buildings with authentic artifacts show what life in Wilkesboro was like from the 1700s to the present.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Historic Johnson Farm
Students will feel as if they have gone back in time when they take a tour of this 19th century tobacco farm located near Hendersonville.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Alamance County Historical Museum
Learn about the history of Alamance County on a field trip to this museum.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Somerset Place (NC Historic Site)
Located on the banks of Phelps Lake, Somerset Place is a representative antebellum plantation offering a view of life during the period before the Civil War. It became one of North Carolina's most prosperous rice, corn, and wheat plantations.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Historic Oak View County Park
This nineteenth century farmstead has been made into a county park and is devoted to interpreting the area's agricultural and rural heritage for the citizens of Wake County.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Hickory Ridge Homestead
Visitors get insight into the lifestyle of early mountain settlers, how they lived, and what constituted a 'typical' mountain homestead at this eighteenth-century living history museum.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
The Shelton House Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts
Housed in a historic home in Waynesville, NC, the Museum of NC Handicrafts displays 19th century crafts, musical instruments, and Native American artifacts.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Historic Hope Plantation
Located near Windsor, NC, the plantation complex offers unique insights into the late 18th- and 19th-century rural life in eastern North Carolina and the South.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
The Cary Heritage Museum at the Page Walker Hotel
Learn about the heritage of the Town of Cary and see how it has grown from a railroad community to the city of today.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Historic Latta Plantation
A living history farm 20 miles north of Charlotte features an African American exhibit, virtual tour and history of this once cotton plantation, activities for kids, and teacher resources.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
The Roanoke Canal Museum and Trail
Now a hiking trail, the Roanoke Canal "shows some of the best preserved early 19th-century canal construction in the nation."
Format: article/field trip opportunity