LEARN NC: Search results

The Davenport Homestead: See what everyday life was like over 200 years ago at the Davenport Homestead. The main house is the original home of Washington County's first state senator, Daniel Davenport.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Mapping life in a colonial town: In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.14; From a detailed map of colonial Edenton, North Carolina, we can learn a great deal about daily life and community life on the eve of the Revolution.; Format: activity; By L. Maren Wood.

Historic Bost Grist Mill: This working grist mill will transport students back to the 1800s and shows how people lived and worked in that time. Originally powered by water, the mill is operated by tractor with a belt and pulley today.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Somerset Place (NC Historic Site): Located on the banks of Phelps Lake, Somerset Place is a representative antebellum plantation offering a view of life during the period before the Civil War. It became one of North Carolina's most prosperous rice, corn, and wheat plantations.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Biome basics: This project involves the creation of a simple, yet effective display of the different biomes found on earth.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By B. Carl Rush.

The History Museum of Burke County: Objects, artifacts, and documents representing Burke County's heritage can be found in this museum in Morganton, NC.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

The value of oral history: In Oral history in the classroom, page 1; Why use oral history with your students? Oral history has benefits that no other historical source provides.; By Kathryn Walbert.

You ate what??: After reading the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, students will use primary sources to relate Paul's experience to the life of a North Carolina soldier. Students will create their own primary source journal entry.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts); By Kari Siko.

About wills and probate inventories: In Colonial North Carolina, page 7.1; Explanation of legal documents surrounding a person's death and how historians use them to understand daily life, family structure, and other aspects of the past.; Format: article; By David Walbert.

Antebellum North Carolina: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the antebellum period (1830–1860). Topics include slavery, daily life, agriculture, industry, technology, and the arts, as well as the events leading to secession and civil war.; Format: book (multiple pages)

St. James Place Museum: This is a private folk art museum housed in the restored old Robersonville Primitive Baptist Church. It features pieces from the personal collection of Dr. Everette James, Jr., a native of Robersonville and former chair of Radiology at Vanderbilt University.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Creating museum exhibits to understand slavery: In this lesson students will analyze primary source documents from the Built Heritage collection at the North Carolina State University. They will use their textbooks, knowledge of history, observation skills, and inference to draw conclusions about slavery in North Carolina.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Loretta Wilson.

Using a classroom webpage to communicate with parents: Kathleen Eveleigh keeps her parents involved in her first-grade classroom by integrating a classroom webpage with her daily instruction.; Format: article; By Sydney Brown.

Wills and inventories: A process guide: Guiding questions for students investigating daily life in the past through wills, inventories, and probate records.; Format: article/learner's guide; By David Walbert.

Plant power: Students will plant their own seeds in potting soil and measure plant growth. Before the students' plants are visible above the soil, students will explore the parts and functions of classroom plants and compare growth between the classroom plants. Using the weather channel website, students will predict weather the day's weather conditions are excellent, good, or poor for plant growth.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics and Science); By Rhonda Hathcock.

Soil and Composting: Soil is an important natural resource. These resources explain the types of soils, its importance to the growth of plants, and how we can create rich soil from leaves, grass clippings, and vegetable scraps.; Format: bibliography/help

The Middle Passage According to Olaudah Equiano: Olaudah Equiano is perhaps one of the most well-known abolitionist writers and former slaves to live in America. His narrative has been digitized as a part of the Documenting the American South North American Slave Narratives collection. His vivid retelling of his trip onboard a slave ship bound for the New World illustrates the horrific and dehumanizing experience.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies); By Regina Wooten.

Welcome to my world!: Developing a personal narrative timeline: Students will create digital, narrative, and drawn versions of a timeline of at least five events of their life.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts); By DPI Integration Strategies.

Fractional parts with pattern blocks: Through this lesson students will understand that fractions are part of a whole. Students will identify halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, eights of a whole. They will use terms numerator, denominator and write fractions from models of fractions. Also, they will use sheets of paper to fold for different size fractions and label each part to see proportion size from least to greatest or greatest to least.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Brenda Collins.

Animals, animals, animals: In this lesson students will learn to observe special characteristics and senses which influence the life of an animal and become aware of threats to animals and their habitats and how this affects everyone.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Science); By Joyce Poplin.

More results: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 | next

LEARN NC