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- Observation and inference
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.4
- In their study of observation and inference, students will use activity sheets and coins to differentiate between observation and inference through a problem-solving approach, and demonstrate their knowledge by analyzing an archaeological artifact and creating their own observation-inference statements.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- The Great Depression: Impact over time
- In this lesson students listen to oral history excerpts from Stan Hyatt from Madison County and evaluate how the Great Depression affected one North Carolina family over time.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- "Native Carolinians" additional activities
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.10
- These lessons from the UNC Research Laboratories of Archaeology's Intrigue of the Past can be used as additional activities for the digital history textbook module "Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity two
- This activity for grades 3–6 will teach students how examining photographs can help them to better understand the past. This activity can be used as an introduction to looking at primary source photographs.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Think like a scientist
- Written to accompany a sixth-grade science lesson, this article explains important concepts in scientific inquiry, including observation, inference, prediction, classification, model-making, and communication.
- Format: article
- By April Galloway and Christine Scott.Edited by Julie McCann.
- Scientific inquiry
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.8
- In their study of scientific inquiry, students will use an activity sheet to make inferences about what activities go on at different places in school (desk, locker, etc.) and form an hypothesis about how space is used. They will also simulate how archaeologists learn about past people by designing and conducting a research project.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–9 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Looking at an object
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.10
- Students will analyze unfamiliar objects in order to observe the attributes of an object, infer the uses of objects; and discover how archaeologists use objects to learn about the past.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Intrigue of the Past
- Lesson plans and essays for teachers and students explore North Carolina's past before European contact. Designed for grades four through eight, the web edition of this book covers fundamental concepts, processes, and issues of archaeology, and describes the peoples and cultures of the Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- A Siouan village
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.6
- In their study of an excavated village site, students will record observations about a site feature and infer how past peoples used individual features and the site as a whole. They will also summarize how archaeologists use observation and inference to determine past lifeways.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- It's in the garbage
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.9
- In studying archaeological concepts, students will analyze garbage from different places demonstrate competence in applying the concepts of culture, context, classification, observation and inference, chronology and scientific inquiry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Using inquiry skills
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 3.1
- This lesson for grade 6 introduces students to important scientific skills such as observation, inference, prediction, classification, and communication. Students practice some of these skills and discuss how they may be used in various careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By April Galloway and Christine Scott.Edited by Julie McCann.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity three
- In this activity for grades 7–12, students will evaluate primary source photographs from the Tobacco Bag Stringing collection.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Termites, ink pens and pheromones
- Students will investigate the behavior of termites to understand and use the scientific method.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Jacki Clark.
- Soil and erosion unit: Section 1
- This two week unit will involve descriptive information on North Carolina soil types and how the presence of plants affects soil erosion. Upon completion of Section 1, you may continue to Section 2.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Amy Robertson.
- Check your answers
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 2.8
- To check your answers, view the marked miscue sheet. I color-coded my typescript to keep certain features distinct: the miscue markings are completed in green, the level of graphic similarity is completed in orange, and the miscue...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- 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.
- Inference by analogy
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.12
- Students will use historical sources and an archaeological site map to infer the use or meaning of items recovered from a North Carolina Native American site based on 17th-century European settlers' accounts and illustrations. They will also describe prehistoric lifeways based on archaeological and ethnohistoric information and explain why archaeologists use ethnohistoric analogy.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- Analyzing historical maps of North Carolina
- In this lesson students will analyze historical maps and will use their knowledge of history, observation skills, and inference to draw conclusions about the events that affected the geographic development of North Carolina over time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Loretta Wilson.
- Reading comprehension strategies for English language learners
- In Reading comprehension and English language learners, page 2
- Strategies like think-pair-share, think-alouds, and GIST can help English language learners, content-area learners, and all students make sense of text while they read.
- By Ellen Douglas.
- Reporting on Nat Turner: The Raleigh Register, Sept. 1
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.5
- Article from a Raleigh newspaper reporting the events of Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
