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- Penderlea Homestead Museum: A Homestead Community of the Depression Era
- Visit this Depression-era community built by President Roosevelt's New Deal progra, in 1934. The museum in Willard, North Carolina is open on Saturdays and by appointment.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Surviving those scholarship interviews!
- This activity is designed to provide an opportunity for students to practice interviewing skills. It is particularly geared toward those students who will be facing competitive scholarship interviews (Teaching Fellows, Moreheads, civic organizations, etc.).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Guidance)
- By Sharon Waugh.
- Postcards of the past
- Students will participate in Heritage Day activities that will enhance students' awareness of their heritage. They will take digital pictures of activities to include on a web page, and research and report on information gathered. Students will create a web page to present their information.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies)
- By Karol Leaptrott, Rebecca Watt, and Regina Welsted.
- Pocosin wetland
- In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 13
- Figure 12 shows an area where the longleaf pine forest meets, and grades into, a pocosin wetland. Pocosins are unusual wetlands because they are generally higher than their surroundings. Native Americans recognized this and called these communities “swamps...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- 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
- Maintaining safe water: Whose job is it?
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 5.3
- In this lesson plan, students learn about careers that are involved in maintaining water quality.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- By Tammy Johnson and Martha Tedrow.
- Greensboro Children's Museum
- Students will enjoy the hands-on learning activities that will teach them about their community, transportation, money, and more at the Greensboro Children's Museum.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Improving your technology utilization
- A quick review can help you determine whether your school is making the most of its technology budget.
- By Chris Hitch.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 3 (monitoring progress)
- This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community through use of group goal-setting, decision-making, brainstorming, peer feedback, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure. The lessons will help students create and maintain a supportive environment for learning. Part 1 focused on goal-setting process and practice. In Part 2, students applied knowledge of the goal-setting process and cooperatively created a plan to work on short-term group goals. In part 3, students will monitor the effects of their plan by determining whether short term goals are being achieved.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 1 (setting goals )
- This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community. Group goal-setting, brainstorming, peer feedback, group decision-making, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure are used to create a safe, supportive environment for learning in the classroom.
In Part 1, students are introduced to the goal-setting process. They will practice the first step of the process as they set individual and class behavioral goals. - Format: lesson plan (grade 1–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 4 (rewarding improvement)
- The fourth lesson in a series on improving classroom learning climate, this lesson provides an opportunity to evaluate student progress and to provide positive reinforcement for improvements in behavior. Using a one to ten continuum, students will subjectively evaluate class progress on the ten adjectives listed as class climate goals. After this process, students will publicly recognize those classmates who have helped the class improve or who have personally improved.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- About LEARN NC
- LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, provides lesson plans, professional development, and innovative web resources to support teachers, build community, and improve K-12 education in North Carolina.
- Format: article/help
- Oral history links and resources
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 6
- Guides, tips, lesson plans, and examples of student projects on the web.
- Format: article
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 2 (cooperative planning)
- This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community through use of group goal-setting, decision-making, brainstorming, peer feedback, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure. The lessons will help students create and maintain a supportive environment for learning. Part 1 focused on goal-setting process and practice. In Part 2, students will apply knowledge of the goal-setting process by cooperatively creating a plan to work on group goals.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- Greece: Part 1
- This lesson is one of three created as an interdisciplinary unit on the connection between the art and artifacts of a culture and the values and beliefs of the members of that culture. This unit begins with a class-wide investigation of Ancient Greece and concludes with a visit to the Ackland Art Museum. During the visit, students will have the opportunity to assess their predictions about the Ancient Greeks. In addition, students will look at works of art from other cultures and compare and contrast the visual information provided about those cultures with visual information provided about Greek culture.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies)
- By Winn Wheeler.
- Creating a community
- Students will design a community and take into consideration the structures and human resources necessary for a balanced community. They will evaluate their community as they evaluate differences between wants and needs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Social Studies)
- By Helen Byrd.
- Porters in Ulleri
- Porters climb the steps leading into Ulleri, a small Magar village in the Annapurna region of Neapal. Nepal is home to approximately 400 ethnic groups and the Magar tribe represents 7 percent of the country's total population. The Magars are traditionally...
- Format: image/photograph
- Comparing proverbs
- The lesson will feature comparisons of American and African proverbs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Pat Chancer.
- Graphically organize a biography
- This lesson is a good ending to a unit on biographies. The students will work together in small groups to create a poster that displays the information from a biography in a graphic organizer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Information Skills and Social Studies)
- By Ellen Benton.
- The Kirk-Holden War
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 10.5
- In response to Ku Klux Klan violence during Reconstruction, North Carolina Governor William Woods Holden declared martial law in Alamance and Caswell counties in 1870. The militia, led by former Union Col. George W. Kirk, rounded up Klan leaders in what opponents called the "Kirk-Holden War."
- Format: article
