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Practicum in Online Teaching - Carolina Online Teacher Program
Teach your online course with a pilot group of students or teachers. An experienced online-learning mentor will guide you through typical problem areas. The Practicum in Online Teaching may be done in conjunction with your school or county, and even as part of your normal teaching load.
Take this course: Begins January 5.

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Reading primary sources: Letters
This interactive guide to reading an 18th-century letter steps through layers of questions, guiding the reader through the process of historical inquiry. This edition is one in a series of guides on reading historical primary sources.
Format: letter (multiple pages)
The Declaration of Independence
In Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide, page 5
In this interdisciplinary lesson, students will examine the role of the Declaration of Independence in the development of the American Revolution and as part of the American identity. They will also analyze the argumentative structure and write their own declaration.
Format: article (grade 10 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
By Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., and NBCT.
Mexico's Independence Day
Mexico's Independence Day
Mexico's Independence Day, the 16th of September is a big celebration.
Format: image/photograph
Assembly room, Independence Hall
Assembly room, Independence Hall
The Assembly Room in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Continental Congress met, the Declaration of Independence was signed, and the Constitution was debated.
Format: image/photograph
195 Years of Independence!
195 Years of Independence!
Mexico's Independence began in 1810 and has continued for more than 195 years. Every year they celebrate their freedom on the sixteenth of September
Format: image/photograph
Activity: 16 de Septiembre
In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 2.2
Contact the local Hispanic cultural or resource center and establish contacts with Mexican immigrants. Have your students interview families, especially those with children of comparable ages and discuss how Mexicans celebrate the 16th of September...
Format: activity
Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide
Strategically plan a collaborative unit and learn how to overcome those everyday obstacles that prevent success. This guide is accompanied by four lesson plans to help you put collaboration into practice.
Format: series (multiple pages)
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence
John Trumbull's painting, Declaration of Independence, commissioned in 1817, depicts the presentation of the Declaration of Independence at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, in 1776. The "Committee of Five" presenting the Declaration...
Format: image/painting
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence
John Trumbull's famous painting, Declaration of Independence, shows the five-man drafting committee (John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin) presenting their work to the Congress. Seated is the President...
Format: image/painting
Young boys carry bamboo poles with soldier figures at Independence Day parade
Young boys carry bamboo poles with soldier figures at Independence Day parade
Young boys carry bamboo poles mounted with soldier figures at Independence Day parade. The boy in front, who wears a red elementary school T-shirt, holds up a float showing an Indonesian revolutionary fighter. The constructed figure has long dark hair, a moustache,...
Format: image/photograph
The Declaration of Independence
Format: image/declaration
School children with flags and torches depart Independence Day ceremonies
School children with flags and torches depart Independence Day ceremonies
A large group of school children with flags and torches depart Independence Day ceremonies on August 17, 1986. As twilight sets in, everyone at the ceremony in Ubud lights the end of a bamboo stick and the twinkling torches light their way home.
Format: image/photograph
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence
Format: image/declaration
Independence Hall Philadelphia
Independence Hall Philadelphia
Format: image/photograph
Painted tiles commemorating independence
Painted tiles commemorating independence
A wall of tiles has been painted with a historical scene of the movement for independence. Behind a cauldron a fire a man, most likely Simon Bolívar, holds a broken chain. The right of the mural is a cross section of the population of Ecuador: farmers, businessmen,...
Format: image/photograph
An Engraving of the Declaration of Independence
Format: image/declaration
The Halifax Resolves
In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.10
After the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina's fourth Provincial Congress met at Halifax in April 1776, and resolved that the colony's delegates to the Continental Congress should support a move to declare independence. Primary source includes historical commentary.
Format: proclamation
Man lays wreath at stone memorial on Independence Day, August 17, 1986
Man lays wreath at stone memorial on Independence Day, August 17, 1986
A Balinese man formally dressed in white pants and a red jacket and hat bends over to lay a flower wreath at a stone memorial during a ceremony for Indonesia's Independence Day, August 17, 1986. The man's outfit is coordinated to match the Indonesian flag:...
Format: image/photograph
Line of children hold flags and wreaths at Independence Day, August 17, 1986
Line of children hold flags and wreaths at Independence Day, August 17, 1986
A line of Balinese school children hold red and white Indonesian flags and flower wreaths at a ceremony on Independence Day, August 17, 1986. The red and white flower wreaths are shaped as circles and hearts. A large crowd of spectators stand watching the...
Format: image/photograph
The Mexican eagle
The Mexican eagle
A massive display of Mexico’s national emblem, the eagle, for Mexican Independence Day.
Format: image