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- Sample classroom floor plans
- Basic floor plans and explanations for a traditional classroom, discussions/debates, a horseshoe arrangement, and centers.
- By Mitch Katz.
- One man's home
- In this lesson students will examine house plans from the Built Heritage Collection at the North Carolina State University. They will use their knowledge of history, observation skills, and inference to draw conclusions about how the functionality of homes has changed over time to meet the needs of the homeowners.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Loretta Wilson.
- Interior Design Project
- Within this lesson, students will role play the job of an interior designer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–12 )
- By Shannon Braxton.
- General contractors: Working with area
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.10
- This activity for grade six combines math, art, and writing, as students design a floor plan for a house and use calculations of area to arrive at a cost estimate.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Interior design: Designing my dream room
- Students will study interior design as a profession. They will integrate their study with math, writing, vocational education, and computer skills by designing their own dream bedroom.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Mathematics)
- By Paula Hightower.
- Technological inspirations for Biltmore House
- In A technological tour of the Biltmore Estate, page 2
- Architect Richard Morris Hunt and George Vanderbilt first met in 1885, when Vanderbilt was just twenty-two years old. These first meetings between George Vanderbilt and Hunt to complete work in the Vanderbilt family mausoleum began an association that would...
- Classroom management
- A guide to LEARN NC's collections, designed especially for new teachers.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Kneeling princes hear about plans for Sita's marriage (Thai Ramayana mural)
- A Ramayana mural in the Emerald Buddha Temple shows princes gathered to hear how they might compete for Sita's hand in marriage. Young men kneel on a blue tiled floor in a walled courtyard around two small roofed pavillions where announcement of the competition...
- Format: image/photograph
- 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
- Twelve rules for arranging your classroom
- In The First Year, page 1.1
- You'll want to set up your classroom as quickly as possible, but consider these factors before you start.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- 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.
- Experience North Carolina's state parks with EELEs
- An EELE is an Environmental Education Learning Experience -- a site-specific program offered by the North Carolina state parks system. EELEs include pre-visit activities, on-site activities and post-visit activities, but they do not necessarily have to be used in conjunction with a group visit. Educators can attend EELE workshops to gain rich educational experiences that provide knowledge, insight, and immediate practical materials for use in the classroom.
- Format: article
- By Linda Dow.
- Living the pioneer life
- In this lesson, students will use photographs of Appalachian log dwellings to understand how advances in technology, the desire to own land, and political incentives have resulted in economic and social changes over time for the people of North Carolina. The students will examine text and historical documents to assess the time period in which log cabin structures were built, the reasons for constructing them, and the lives of the people who built these houses.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Sonna Jamerson.
- Conversations, questions, and answers for a beginning teacher
- A kindergarten teacher begins her career with an excellent support network.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Biltmore Estate
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.1
- George Washington Vanderbilt inherited a tremendous sum of money and used it to build a massive house and grounds near Asheville.
- Format: article
- George Henry White
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 7.6
- George Henry White represented North Carolina's "black second" district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1897 to 1901. He was the last African American to serve in Congress for three decades.
- Format: biography
- Camp Earth bound: Problem solving and finding for fun
- Students will work together in small groups of four to six students to solve the following word problems. Their solutions will require them to practice interview techniques and create a database and/or spreadsheet of their results. This information will be the basis of the answers to the following eight word problems. Skills such as area, cost, calorie count, ratio, percentage and scale, as well as persuasive writing will be applied.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- Science Family Fun Night
- One night a month Vivian Smith opens her classroom to families where they work together to solve logic problems and conduct experiments. Learn how this science teacher increases family involvement in her students' education and find ideas for science experiments, webquests, projects, and construction contests.
- By Waverly Harrell.
- Unraveling a cultural mystery: Nepal
- In this lesson, students explore two religious festivals in Nepal through audio recordings and photographs. Students begin with a vague knowledge about the festivals and develop a more thorough understanding as more information is revealed through the course of the lesson. The author recommends incorporating these activities into a larger lesson plan of your design.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies)
- By Kristin Post.
- An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 4.6
- Excerpt from a book by a former surgeon on a slave ship, describing the horrors of the Middle Passage from Africa to America. Historical commentary is included. Warning: This document may not be suitable for all ages. Please use discretion.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by Shane Freeman.
