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- Finding resources for students
- On the LEARN NC website, resources that can be used by students are called "learning materials." You can access them in a number of ways: 1. Site navigation menu On the site navigation menu in the left sidebar, select "Learning...
- Format: article/help
- Searching LEARN NC
- Searching from any page On every page of the website, you'll see a search form in the right-hand side of the banner. You can use this form to search across all our collections. Suggestions As you type a word or phrase into the search field,...
- Format: article/help
- Around the world in multimedia
- LEARN NC offers a collection of more than 2,000 high-resolution photographs and audio recordings from Asia and Latin America, with historical and cultural context and related lesson plans.
- Format: article/help
- Tools of the trade for information seekers
- A guide to understanding and using search engines, directories, and the invisible web.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Technology integration
- An introduction to LEARN NC's resources for integrating technology into your teaching.
- Format: bibliography
- Finding, not searching
- You can work smarter, not harder, by determining your searching style, learning more about what your searches return and why, and learning to look in the right place first.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- The Mini Page advanced search
- Format: image/photograph
- The capture of Plymouth
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 4.11
- At 4 P.M. on April 17, 1864, an advanced Union patrol on the Washington Road was captured by Confederate cavalry. A company of the 12th N. Y. Cavalry attacked the Confederates, but was repulsed. Soon a large force of Confederate infantry appeared on the Washington...
- Format: article
- The American Dream
- In conjunction with a unit on Puritanism, students will define and illustrate their personal definition of the American Dream or their concept of the dream in general.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Becky Ackert and Deborah Belknap.
- Teaching with primary sources
- This collection of resources includes best practice articles, primary source process guides, lesson plans that model historical inquiry, and book-length materials that incorporate primary sources.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Teaching students about the Creative Commons
- Technology makes stealing easy, but it makes sharing just as easy. The Creative Commons will let your students innovate in and out of the classroom without having to worry about copyright violations.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Bill Ferriter.
- Who started the Civil War? Comparing perspectives on the causes of the war
- This lesson plans presents the account of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a confederate spy during the Civil War. Students are encouraged to find confirming and refuting evidence of her perspective on what caused the Civil War by browsing the Documenting the American South Collection of digitized primary sources.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- Women in US history: Research lesson
- Students will use the Mini Page and other sources to research important women in US history: Bessie Coleman and Sally Ride. They will make a poster comparing these two women. This is intended as an introductory lesson to research skills.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Summer Pennell.
- Tiering to avoid tears: Developing assignments that address all learners' needs
- In Reaching every learner: Differentiating instruction in theory and practice, page 2
- This article presents an approach to differentiated instruction in which teachers create tiered assignments for three groups of students: 1) Students who are not yet ready for that grade level's instruction, 2) Students who are just ready, and 3) Students who are ready to go beyond. Includes step-by-step instructions and a list of ten criteria by which to modify assignments.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Linda Pigott Robinson.
- A smoke-free me
- In this lesson, students will use the "A Smoke-Free Me" Mini Page to learn about how the heart and lungs work, smoking regulations in their state, and the harmful effects of smoking. Students will create an anti-smoking poster using their new knowledge. If possible, students will hang these posters around the school to educate others.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Healthful Living and Science)
- By Summer Pennell.
- The Mini Page instructional plans
- A listing of unit plans and lesson plans using The Mini Page Archive, a project of the UNC University Libraries.
- Format: lesson plan
- Learning to look at art
- Strategies for helping students develop visual literacy in looking at paintings and other forms of visual art.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Who cares?: Using real-world perspectives to engage academically gifted learners
- In Reaching every learner: Differentiating instruction in theory and practice, page 5
- This article shares strategies for engaging gifted learners by creating assignments in which students adopt real-world perspectives on curriculum objectives. The result, the author suggests, is rich, rigorous, challenging learning for those who are ready to go beyond proficiency. Includes step-by-step instructions and sample assignments.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Linda Pigott Robinson.
- To market, to market: Photograph analysis
- In this lesson, students analyze photos of markets from around the world to gain an understanding of the similarities and differences between geographically distant places, to learn about the economic and cultural significance of markets, and to improve visual literacy skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Eric Eaton.
