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

CEU courses open for enrollment

African American History to 1950
Examine African American history in the contexts of United States, North Carolina and world history. Assignments draw from a wealth of classroom-oriented primary sources, including slave testimonies, photographs, oral histories, and more.
Take this course: Begins January 6.

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Museum of the Cherokee Indian
Official site of the museum of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
A comprehensive study of North Carolina Indian tribes
Students will apply their research skills of gathering and validating information to study the eight state recognized American Indian tribes of North Carolina in order to create an Honors U.S. History Project. Students then will create a comprehensive study of those tribes to be compiled into a notebook to be copied and shared with the eighth grade teachers of North Carolina History in our county.
Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
North Carolina Cherokee Indians: The Trail of Tears
In this two week unit, students will study the Cherokee by participating in literature circles, learning about Native American story telling, writing a letter to Andrew Jackson to protest against the Creek War, and more.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
By Gina Golden.
The natural history of North Carolina
In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 1.2
If the five billion years of the earth's history were condensed into a single day, humans would have arrived in North Carolina just two tenths of a second before midnight! This article summarizes the major biological and geological events in North Carolina's history and explains how the land and environment of today came to be.
Format: article
By David Walbert.
The pathfinders
In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.2
An essay covering the pathfinders of the Paleoindian Period. Learn about the trek across Beringia and the lifeways of these early American Indians.