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- Educating leaders for tomorrow
- The intent of this lesson is to demonstrate the need for (student) citizens to assume learning and leading roles and behaviors that will better ensure a successful future.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies)
- By David Newsome.
- African Americans get the vote in eastern North Carolina
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.9
- After the Civil War, African American communities in eastern North Carolina, having already tasted freedom during the war, were ready to fight for political rights.
- Format: article
- Graphically organize a biography
- This lesson is a good ending to a unit on biographies. The students will work together in small groups to create a poster that displays the information from a biography in a graphic organizer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Information Skills and Social Studies)
- By Ellen Benton.
- Creating an inclusive environment: Understanding feelings
- The students will learn about feelings and how to get along with others in group situations. Children will discuss what makes a friend, how friends make each other feel, what friends do together and how to resolve differences between friends. They will identify the qualities of friendship.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance and Social Studies)
- By Dianne Prohn.
- Truth or care? Saving Shiloh
- The students will be able to explain the importance of responsible citizenship and identify ways they can participate in civic affairs after reading the novel Shiloh and completing research of their own on animal abuse. Through this research, they will be responsible for gathering facts to support their stances on the dilemma Marty faces when deciding whether to return Shiloh to his owner, or secretly keep him in order for him to be safe. Students will have real-world experience when they create and are reponsible for caring for their own pet.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Social Studies)
- By Leah Shomaker and Mary Shomaker.
- 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.
- Job twister: A lesson in career competency
- Twister provides an excellent opportunity to discuss shared responsibilities at home/school as well as to demonstrate working together in a "movement" situation. Young children will enjoy the movement involved while learning directional words, such as right, left, etc. This lesson incorporates literature, technology, and motor skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Social Studies)
- By Ann Sumners.
- Australia: Careers, collisions, and compromises
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 4.8
- In this lesson for grade seven, students learn about Australia and discuss the compromises that are sometimes necessary between economic development and environmental preservation. Students work through problem-based learning questions using Australia as the background.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies)
- By Joann Via.Adapted by Meredith Ebert.
- Military reconstruction
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.10
- First Reconstrution Act, passed by Congress over President Johnson's veto in 1867, which established military rule in the former Confederacy until states were formally readmitted to the Union. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: legislation
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Effects of civil action
- In this lesson, secondary students will analyze primary source materials to investigate how 4-H clubs made an impact on the home front in completing projects that supported the war effort during World War II. This lesson should be taught at the end of a World War II unit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- "The duty of colored citizens to their country"
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 6.3
- Sermon urging African Americans to support the war effort against Spain and to enroll in the U.S. army, thereby making a good statement for themselves and demonstrating their loyalty, even the face of continued suffering.
- Format: speech
- The arrival of Swiss immigrants
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 2.3
- Although it was frowned upon in Switzerland, many Swiss citizens migrated to Carolina in the eighteenth century.
- Format: article
- Get your character education act together!
- Elements of an effective character education program and lots of ideas for implementation—all across the curriculum.
- By Frances B. Lewis.
- Matchmaking
- Students examine the benefits of pet adoption. Students will learn about the responsibilities associated with pet ownership and how to make a good match between pets and potential owners.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Social Studies)
- By Barbara Lapointe and Kathleen Johnson.
- Too many pets, too few homes
- Students examine the problem of pet overpopulation both in the United States and in North Carolina. Students will learn about the importance of spaying and neutering in combating pet overpopulation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Social Studies)
- By Barbara Lapointe and Kathleen Johnson.
- 4-H on the home front
- In this lesson plan, secondary students will analyze a variety of primary source textual materials to investigate how young rural people were encouraged to support the war effort during World War II.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- And justice for all: The Trail of Tears, Mexican deportation, and Japanese internment
- Many textbooks mention the Trail of Tears, but fail to mention that this early displacement of an ethnic minority is only the one of many legally-sanctioned forced relocations. This lesson will address the displacement of American Indians through the Trail of Tears, the forced deportation of Mexican Americans during the Great Depression, and the internment of Japanese American citizens during WWII.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Patricia Camp.
- Thomas Jefferson on manufacturing and commerce
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 2.2
- Excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia (1781) in which he argues that the United States should remain an agricultural nation. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- 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.
- 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.
