LEARN NC

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

CEU courses open for enrollment

Practicum in Online Teaching - Carolina Online Teacher Program
Teach your online course with a pilot group of students or teachers. An experienced online-learning mentor will guide you through typical problem areas. The Practicum in Online Teaching may be done in conjunction with your school or county, and even as part of your normal teaching load.
Take this course: Begins January 5.

Didn't find what you were looking for?

Reading primary sources: Letters
This interactive guide to reading an 18th-century letter 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: letter (multiple pages)
The Declaration of Independence
In Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide, page 5
In this interdisciplinary lesson, students will examine the role of the Declaration of Independence in the development of the American Revolution and as part of the American identity. They will also analyze the argumentative structure and write their own declaration.
Format: article (grade 10 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
By Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., and NBCT.
The Declaration of Independence
Format: image/declaration
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence
Format: image/declaration
Assembly room, Independence Hall
Assembly room, Independence Hall
The Assembly Room in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Continental Congress met, the Declaration of Independence was signed, and the Constitution was debated.
Format: image/photograph
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence
John Trumbull's painting, Declaration of Independence, commissioned in 1817, depicts the presentation of the Declaration of Independence at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, in 1776. The "Committee of Five" presenting the Declaration...
Format: image/painting
An Engraving of the Declaration of Independence
Format: image/declaration
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence
John Trumbull's famous painting, Declaration of Independence, shows the five-man drafting committee (John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin) presenting their work to the Congress. Seated is the President...
Format: image/painting
Joseph Hewes
Joseph Hewes
Portrait of Joseph Hewes, one of North Carolina's signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Format: image/painting
Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide
Strategically plan a collaborative unit and learn how to overcome those everyday obstacles that prevent success. This guide is accompanied by four lesson plans to help you put collaboration into practice.
Format: series (multiple pages)
Meck Dec Day in Charlotte
Meck Dec Day in Charlotte
Reenactors at "Meck Dec Day," the celebration of the anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence on May 20, 1775.
Format: image/photograph
Moores Creek National Battlefield
This national park commemorates the decisive February 27, 1776 victory by 1,000 Patriots over 1,600 Loyalists at the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
A Virginian responds to Dunmore's Proclamation
In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.6
Response to a 1775 proclamation by the Royal Governor of Virginia offering freedom to slaves and indentured servants who agreed to serve in the king's army. The writer argues that the governor does not have slaves' best interests at heart. Includes historical commentary.
Format: newspaper
A call for independence
In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.9
After the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina's fourth Provincial Congress met at Halifax in April 1776, and resolved that the colony's delegates to the Continental Congress should support a move to declare independence.
Format: article
Revolutionary North Carolina
Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the era of the American Revolution. Topics include the Regulators, the resistance to Great Britain, the War for Indpendence, and the creation of new governments.
Format: book (multiple pages)
"I Declare, I believe this document May Flower!"
The learner will apply ideas of self-government as expressed in America's founding documents. To be used with/for SLD and other exceptional students.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies)
By Gary Peterson.
The Halifax Resolves
In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.10
After the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina's fourth Provincial Congress met at Halifax in April 1776, and resolved that the colony's delegates to the Continental Congress should support a move to declare independence. Primary source includes historical commentary.
Format: proclamation
Hanuman figure on float at Independence Day parade, August 17, 1986 in Peliatan, Bali
Hanuman figure on float at Independence Day parade, August 17, 1986 in Peliatan, Bali
A fuzzy white Hanuman figure stands atop a float at the Indonesian Independence Day parade on August 17, 1986 in Peliatan, Bali. Hanuman is standing on, and fighting with, a red serpent whose long neck projects upward from the float. Small Indonesian flags...
Format: image/photograph
Community and Government
This sampling of instructional resources will help students from elementary through high school learn about their communities, the federal, state, and local governments, and how to be responsible and effective citizens.
Format: bibliography/help
Had a declaration... Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776 (page 2 of 3)
Had a declaration... Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776 (page 2 of 3)
Second page of three-page letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776. The page reads: All these Causes however in Conjunction would not have disappointed Us, if it had not been for a Misfortune, which could not be foreseen, and perhaps...
Format: image/letter