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- Burke Arts Council
- Visit the three galleries housed in the Burke Arts Council to experience the visual arts of the Southern Appalachian region.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Homegrown Handmade
- Culture and agriculture come together on these unique “agri-cultural” trails which can be found in 72 North Carolina counties.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Clay County Historical and Arts Museum
- Visit the red brick jailhouse that has been turned into a museum and exhibit space by the Clay County Historical and Arts Council.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Chatham County Historical Museum
- Students will find many historic artifacts at this museum located in the center of Pittsboro in the old Chatham County Courthouse.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Rules and reasons
- Through active participation in a game without rules, students will discover the reason for rules and laws in our neighborhood and community. They will design a poster and write a story about rules.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Jeannette Renas.
- Celebrating the freedom to read
- Banned Books Week teaches the importance of our First Amendment rights and draws attention to the danger of restricting information in a free society.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough
- Take students on a guided walking tour through Hillsborough's historic district and go inside the Norwood Law Office, the Orange County Historical Museum, the Burwell School Historic Site, and the Hughes Academy. Along the way they will also see the Old Orange County Courthouse, historic churches, cemeteries, colonial and antebellum homes, and much more.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The George Moses Horton Project: Celebrating a triumph of literacy
- The only American poet to publish books of poems while living in slavery, George Moses Horton is an inspiration for the power of literacy in our lives.
- By Marjorie Hudson.
- Connecting with community through oral history
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 5
- Through interviews and photographs, Harnett County students learn about their community's agricultural past.
- By Jean Sweeney Shawver.
- The hero connection: From Beowulf to Batman
- After reading Beowulf,students will identify Beowulf's heroic traits, generalize from these traits a list of typical traits for heroes, and then use these traits to compare Beowulf with contemporary heroes. As a culminating activity, students will define their concept of hero and then create a booklet of personal heroes from various areas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- By Hilda Caldwell.
- Further reading
- In The five features of effective writing, page 7
- An annotated bibliography on the Features of Effective Writing.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- Connecting folktales and culture in North Carolina and beyond
- Students will explore connections to North Carolina culture as they engage in reading and analyzing three folktales of North Carolina Literary Festival author, William Hooks. After comparing these stories to other versions of the traditional tales, students will become authors and storytellers themselves as they rewrite a tale from a new cultural point of view. Opportunities are also included to extend this study to world cultures and folktales.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Jeanne Munoz.
- Focus
- In The five features of effective writing, page 2
- Focus, the first Feature of Effective Writing, is the "so what?" in a piece of writing. This article will help you teach students to stay on topic.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- The zoo is coming, the zoo is coming
- The zoo is coming is a lesson that will give students an opportunity to write a letter to a fictional governor about the pros and cons of having a zoo come to their town.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Science)
- By steven sather.
- Reading biographies and autobiographies
- In Rethinking Reports, page 3.3
- How good is that biography your students are reading? Here's how to make sure they get the most out of their reading and research.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Culture everywhere
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.3
- In their study of culture, students will use a chart to show the different ways that cultures meet basic human needs and recognize that archaeologists study how people from past cultures met basic needs by analyzing and interpreting the artifacts and sites that they left behind.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- North Carolina powwow
- In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 5.2
- Introduction American Indians who have lived in North Carolina have contributed to and continue to contribute to the development of the state. Correcting the stereotypes found in movies & inaccurate literature is necessary for thinking skills development....
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Linda Tabor.
- Interdisciplinary teaching
- This education reference article explains the concept of interdisciplinary teaching and discusses considerations for developing interdisciplinary curriculum.
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Incorporating oral history into the K–12 curriculum
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 3
- Oral history techniques for use with students at all levels, from kindergarten through high school.
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Holding a poetry slam
- Introducing students to “the competitive art of performance poetry” builds enthusiasm for literature among even reluctant readers. This article explains how a high school in Cleveland County, North Carolina, held its first poetry slam.
- By Nancy Blalock.
