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Biodiversity in Your Backyard
Designed especially for teachers of elementary-aged students, this course will expand your life science content knowledge with material aligned to the NC Standard Course of Study. You will have two classrooms during this course–-this interactive, online classroom and your own backyard!
Take this course: Begins March 9.

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State House of Representatives
In Election 2008, page 2.6
North Carolina House districts There are 120 House districts in North Carolina. You can find out which district you're in and who currently represents you at the North Carolina General Assembly website's representation...
Nathaniel Macon
Nathaniel Macon
Format: image/painting
Send me to Congress
Students learn about the qualifications for and job description of members of the U.S.Senate or the U.S.House of Representatives by designing and creating a campaign brochure. Students apply their knowledge of these requirements by "selling" their candidate to the general public.
Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies)
By Tim Raines.
The Regulators organize
In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.3
Subscription to an organization of Regulators, January 1768. The subscribers agreed to resist paying taxes and fees they considred unlawful and to petition their representatives to change laws they considered unfair. Primary source includes historical commentary.
Format: declaration
Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr. (1758–1802)
Richard Dobbs Spaight was a North Carolina delegate to the Constitutional Convention and active in state and national politics.
Format: biography
Address to the Colored People of North Carolina
In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 10.7
1870 broadside urging African Americans to support Governor William Woods Holden, then facing impeachment for his use of the militia to stop Ku Klux Klan violence. Includes historical commentary.
Format: poster
Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
Amending the U.S. Constitution
In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.8
Text of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, passed after the Civil War to abolish slavery and to guarantee the civil rights of African Americans.
Format: constitution
Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
The Constitution of the United States: Amendments 11-27
Amendment XI Passed by Congress March 4, 1794. Ratified February 7, 1795. The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against...
Format: constitution
Stephen A. Douglas portrait
Stephen A. Douglas portrait
Portrait of Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861), a politician who served in the Illinois state legislature as well as the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Douglas was famous for his role in a series of debates with Abraham Lincoln, and his support...
Format: image/photograph
Election 2008
Educational resources to help students and teachers understand the 2008 elections.
Format: (multiple pages)
Nathaniel Macon
In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 1.6
Biography of Nathaniel Macon (1758–1837), North Carolina political leader from Warren County.
Format: biography
U.S. House of Representatives
In Election 2008, page 2.4
There are 13 congressional districts in North Carolina. A map of North Carolina's congressional districts is available from...
U.S. House of Representatives
There are 13 congressional districts in North Carolina. A map of North Carolina's congressional districts is available from...
What are the amendments?
Before the reading of "I Want to Vote" in the Scott Foresman basal reader, I assigned each member of my class to look up a Constitutional Amendment. This was done in order to give the students a background in Amendments and the history of America. Following the assigning of the Amendments the students interviewed 10 adults to find out how many people are familiar with their Constitutional Amendments. One math extension is to graph the results of the students' interviews.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)
By Jeremy Luna.
National news
In Election 2008, page 1.3
These links to some of our most trusted media outlets will help not only to instruct about the elections themselves but also to demonstrate the role the press plays in the electoral process.
Format: bibliography
Debating war with Britain: Against the war
In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 8.5
Article from the Carolina Federal Republican of Raleigh, published just after Congress declared war on Great Britain in 1812, arguing against the war. Includes historical commentary.
Format: newspaper
Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
The expansion of slavery and the Missouri Compromise
In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 8.8
By 1820, a growing population gave the North a majority in the House of Representatives, but slave and free states still had equal representation in the Senate. The admission of Missouri to the Union as a slave state threatened that balance, but the "Missouri Compromise" maintained it by admitting Maine as a free state and banning slavery in the Lousiana territory north of Missouri's southern boundary. Page includes a map showing U.S. territorial expansion.
Format: article
The Federalist Papers: No. 68. The mode of electing the president
In Election 2008, page 4.5
In this essay, written as a letter to the New York Packet in 1788, Alexander Hamilton argues for the method of electing the President spelled out in the original United States Constitution.
Format: letter
The compromise of 1877
In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 10.8
After the disputed presidential election of 1876, Democrats in Congress agreed to certify a majority vote for Republican Rutherford B. Hayes if Republicans agreed to end military reconstruction.
Format: article
The Albany Plan of Union
In Colonial North Carolina, page 8.4
Transcription of a plan adopted by representatives of seven colonies in 1754 to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. Although never carried out, it was the first important plan to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government.
Format: constitution