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- Around the world in one semester!
- This lesson is a semester-long project that focuses on countries that speak the target language. Students will research a chosen country and do an oral presentation for the class. They will then research and present a current event weekly for the remainder of the semester.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Crystal Humphrey and Michelle Chrismon.
- Current events in Africa
- In this lesson for grade seven, students find two news stories about a current event in Africa: one from an American media source and one from an African media source. Students compare the two to gain an understanding of cultural bias and perspective.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies)
- By Shane Freeman.
- Impressed with embargo
- Students will learn about the causes of the War of 1812 and make connections to current world events.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Andrea McGuire.
- Science News
- Science doesn't happen in textbooks! This selection of websites give you a look at what's going on in the world of science right now, and how it's changing our world.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Resource recon
- Teams of students will search for the answers to questions using various information resources. The questions will be in categories such as: biography, current events, historical events, geography, language. Besides competing for the fastest answer, the students will learn (1) how to use the resource effectively, and (2) which resource is best for finding different types of information.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Keith Dudley.
- Northampton County Museum
- Exhibits focus on the history of the Northampton County area from the prehistoric to the present.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- A Christmas Carol chronology
- Christmas Carol Chronology, based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, provides students with an opportunity to develop comprehension by listing plot developments and arranging them sequentially. This lesson begins with cooperative learning groups and ends with an individual manipulative activity of cutting and pasting strips of events in chronological order.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Judy Gibbs.
- Wayne County Museum
- Students will learn about the history of Wayne County as well as the influence of historic events on the people and way of life in the area.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Reading newspapers: Editorial and opinion pieces
- A learner's guide to identifying, reading, and understanding editorial and opinion pieces in historical newspapers.
- Format: article/learner's guide
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Ensign Worth Bagley
- A portrait of Ensign Worth Bagley of Raleigh (1874–1898), the only U.S. Naval officer to be killed during the Spanish-American War.
- Format: image/photograph
- Teaching with disturbing images
- Photographs are especially powerful tools for explaining current and historical events — not least horrible or brutal events, such as war, genocide, famine, terrorism, slavery, and lynching. In fact, photographs are often used specifically to raise an...
- By David Walbert.
- 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.
- Bulletin boards and other displays
- Using your bulletin boards as a teaching tool — not just as decoration.
- By Denise Young.
- CareerStart lessons: Grade seven
- This collection of lessons aligns the seventh grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.
- Format: (multiple pages)
- Is no man an island?
- This unit is designed to encourage thinking about our connectedness to and responsibilities toward others. Materials in this unit are used to demonstrate humankind's need to refute an impersonal natural order.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Jewell Kendrick.
- Analyzing historical maps of North Carolina
- In this lesson students will analyze historical maps and will use their knowledge of history, observation skills, and inference to draw conclusions about the events that affected the geographic development of North Carolina over time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Loretta Wilson.
- Life history slide show
- Students will use photos to create a slide show of their life. They will plan a presentation based on significant episodes of their life and describe their personal experiences in writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–9 English Language Arts)
- By Mary Lou Faircloth.
- Bring history to life with a Living History Day!
- In Rethinking Reports, page 3.4
- A Living History Day turns students into teachers and challenges them to think historically.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Reading newspapers: Factual reporting
- This learner's guide introduces students to the use of historical newspapers as primary sources and provides key questions for reading them.
- Format: article/learner's guide
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Afro-American Cultural Center
- This cultural center was created to preserve the visual and performing arts heritages of African-Americans and other minorities. The Center has an art gallery with “over 100 works of art from renowned artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, John Biggers.” It also offers art classes to all age groups.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
