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- When teachers don't understand
- Teaching should be informed not only by the content of the discipline but also by the lives of the students.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Crossing Cultures: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for Crossing Cultures, a course to help teachers gain a greater awareness of their own cultural background, as well as acquire tools to interact appropriately and effectively with people from a variety of cultures.
- Format: syllabus
- Two perspectives on slavery: A comparison of personal narratives
- This activity for grade 11 will help students evaluate and critique authors' perspectives. Students will read two first-person narratives and analyze how each text is influenced by its author's cultural background.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- Why is the past important?
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.2
- As an introduction to the study of North Carolina's archaeological heritage, students will use personally owned object to share the importance of their past and connect this importance with reasons why the human past is important.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- An American hero: Harriet Tubman
- In this lesson, the school librarian and classroom teacher should work together to teach students about the life of Harriet Tubman in recognition of African-American History and Cultural Heritage Month.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills and Social Studies)
- By Floanna Long.
- 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.
- In the spirit of... (museum pre-visit)
- This is an integrated unit that focuses on masks in cultures as reflections of individual spirits. In this pre-visit lesson, students will explore the cultures of the Western Hemisphere.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- By Shannon Kelly.
- 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)
- Culturally relevant teaching
- Culturally relevant teaching is a term created by Gloria Ladson-Billings (1994) to describe "a pedagogy that empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes."
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- 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
- Creating your own rock art
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.4
- Students will use regional rock art symbols or their own symbols to cooperatively create a rock art panel. They will also use a replica of a vandalized rock art panel to examine their feelings about rock art vandalism and discuss ways to protect rock art and other archaeological sites.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- North Carolina place names
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.8
- This lesson contrasts and compares the names that Native Americans living in North Carolina gave to their villages and places with the names that European and other settlers gave to theirs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- Global education as good pedagogy
- A wide variety of teaching strategies and resources pass under the name of global education. This article provides strategies for evaluating global education and ensuring that it focuses on students' academic success.
- By Suzanne Gulledge.
- Reaching Latinos through social studies
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 4.1
- Teachers can help immigrant students feel more comfortable in the classroom by basing social studies lessons on students' own knowledge and backgrounds.
- By Paul Fitchett.
- Heaven or Groundhog Day?
- This unit is designed to appeal to adolescents with its non-print text base, the movie Groundhog Day. The pre-viewing activities prepare students for the allusions in the movie and include cultural literacy. The teacher can pick and choose from the activities to apply the concept of personal growth. The teacher may select from activities for science, workplace ethics, music, computer competency, and English language arts. The teacher may modify any of the attachments to suit the students' needs and interests.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By David Melton and Julia Millush.
- The big, bad, red wolf: Fact and fantasy
- This lesson will explore the myths and legends surrounding wolves. We will also investigate factual information about the endangered red wolf.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Science)
- By steven sather.
- The role of Mexican folklore in teaching and learning
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 2.4
- One way teachers can connect with students of Mexican origin is by understanding the cultural knowledge they bring with them into the classroom, including the stories, proverbs, and legends they've learned. Learn more about Mexican folklore from this booklist and collection of online resources, and share this rich oral tradition with all your students.
- Format: article
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- Reading photographs
- A picture is worth a thousand words — but which words? Questions can help students decode, interpret, and understand photographs thoughtfully and meaningfully.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
- In Brown versus Board of Education: Rhetoric and realities, page 2.5
- The text of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- Shadows of North Carolina's past
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.2
- Students will infer past Native American lifeways based on observation, construct a timeline of four major culture periods in Native American history, and compare these lifeways and discuss how they are different and alike.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
