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- How much is that cupcake really worth?!
- Use this as an introductory lesson to supply & demand for Economic, Legal and Political Systems students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies)
- By Joy Walker.
- Economics: Market surveys
- This lesson plan is for an accelerated, academically gifted 4/5th grade combination class. The unit of study is economics (social studies). The SCoS goals and objectives cross grade levels and curriculum areas because of the nature of the children for whom this lesson was designed. This lesson was designed as a supplemental lesson for a unit I taught called Mini-Society (supported by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership). I taught this unit for the first time this year after attending a workshop at Chapel Hill, NC. This lesson enhances the Mini-Society unit in which children create their own businesses.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Social Studies)
- By Denise Delp.
- The “knees” of cypress
- In Wetlands of the coastal plains, page 11
- The other major adaptations of cypress and gums to flooded soils is their characteristic root extensions called “knees” shown in Figures 10 and 11. These structures are gas exchange systems within which oxygen from the air is conducted along the...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Bonus marchers and police battle in Washington, DC
- Original caption read, "'Bonus Marchers' and police battle in Washington, DC. The marchers came to Washington, DC, to demand their veterans 'bonus' payment early from Congress. After several months of camping near the Anacostia River and after several confrontations...
- Format: image/photograph
- East Asian trading ships
- Each student will work with a partner as an owner of an overseas shipping company with one cargo ship in East Asia. Students are given these instructions in the overview: In each Asian country that you travel to you will fill your cargo ship with items that you can buy from the list of exports. You will then try to sell these items when you travel to another country that is willing to import these commodities. The winner of the game is the company with the biggest profits at the end of the pretend 15 day time period. Good Luck!
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies)
- By Tami Kaiser Polge.
- Introduction: Rethinking reports
- A little creativity can make research a rewarding learning experience for students and teachers alike.
- By David Walbert and Melissa Thibault.
- Spanish had many reasons for Pardo expedition
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.5
- What spurred the Spanish to set up a territorial capital on the South Carolina coast in the 1560s and launch Juan Pardo’s expedition into the Southeastern interior? The reasons range from the self-serving (protecting an enormously profitable silver mine) to the spiritual (converting the Indians to Christianity) to the anxious (reducing the capital’s population to lower the demand for food).
- Format: article
- The "Revolutionary Mayor" of Wilmington
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 8.4
- Account of the Wilmington Race Riot by Alfred Waddell, who had led the violence. Waddell blamed the violence on blacks and Wilmington's white Fusionist leaders, and he claimed that he had been legally elected mayor of Wilmington. Includes historical commentary.
- Tobacco workers strike
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.12
- Magazine article describing an unsuccessful strike by tobacco mill workers in Durham, North Carolina, 1881.
- Format: magazine
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Leonidas Polk and the Farmers' Alliance
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 7.3
- Speech given by Leonidas L. Polk before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, 1890. Polk provided data showing the decline in farmers' wealth since the Civil War, argued that this decline was not the farmers' fault, and asked the Senate to enact laws that would help farmers. Includes historical commentary and explanations of some of the economic principles discussed (including supply and demand).
- Format: speech
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- Why problem-centered learning?
- In Problem centered math, page 2
- The world our students will live and work in will require them to gather, organize, and interpret data in the process of finding solutions to complex problems. Problem-centered learning creates a model where the student becomes the thinker.
- By Mike Kestner.
- The rise of labor unions
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.9
- Little of the wealth that industry produced went to workers, and improvements in technology further reduced wages without making work any easier or less dangerous. In the late ninenteenth century, workers began to organize to demand higher wages and better working conditions.
- Format: article
- Orange County inhabitants petition Governor Tryon
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.6
- Petition from residents of Orange County, North Carolina, to Governor William Tryon, May 1768, apologizing for recent acts of violence by Regulators and asking him to address the illegal fees demanded by court officials. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: petition
- Eli Whitney and the cotton gin
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 2.5
- In 1794, inventor Eli Whitney patented his cotton gin, a machine for removing seeds from cotton. The invention made cotton production -- and with it, slave labor -- far more profitable, and it helped to cement the South's status as an agricultural region and a slave society.
- Format: article
- A female raid
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 6.7
- Newspaper coverage of a raid on local stores by Confederate soldier's wives in Salisbury, North Carolina on March 18, 1863. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- You can't tell it all!: Narrowing the focus of personal narratives
- Students will learn to focus their personal narratives on just one main event by listing events on a topic and identifying one main event to write about. Focusing their personal narratives on one main event helps students to write about only the important things and leave out events and details that are not related to the main event.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Finding your audience: a primer
- In Writing for the Web, page 3
- Before you sit down to write something, ask yourself some questions about the people who will read it.
- By David Walbert.
- The tobacco industry and Winston-Salem
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.8
- Tobacco was one of two industries that changed Winston-Salem and Forsyth County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Format: article
- The Stanly-Spaight Duel
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 8.1
- In early nineteenth-century North Carolina, arguments often ended in duels. The 1802 duel between Richard Dobbs Spaight and John Stanly, in which Spaight was killed, led to legislation outlawing the practice, but the law had little immediate effect.
- Format: article
- "The Southern Cross"
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 1.9
- George Tucker's adaptation of the Star Spangled Banner to the Confederate cause. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: music
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
