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CareerStart lessons: Grade six: This collection of lessons aligns the sixth grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.; Format: (multiple pages)

Scale drawings: In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.7; In this lesson for grade seven, students will use maps to measure the distances between cities in North Carolina. Students will write equations using the maps' scales to calculate the actual distances in miles.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics); By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.

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)

Topography of North Carolina and its influence on settlement: This lesson explores where North Carolina is in relation to the United States and North America. Also, we will explore the different regions of North Carolina and how the topography of the region affected settlement.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Development and Social Studies); By Jessica Wilson and Tabitha Horton.

Map skills and transportation careers: In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.1; In this lesson for grade six, students will create maps to assist their understanding of relative and exact location and will conduct research on transportation careers.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies); By Mandy Matlock.

Africa: Interpreting physical maps: In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 4.1; In this lesson for grade seven, students look at a physical map of Africa and use it to speculate how the geography of a given region might affect human culture in that area.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics); By Mary B. Taylor.Adapted by Kenyatta Bennett and Sonya Rexrode.

North Carolina place names: In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.8; This lesson contrasts and compares the names that Native Americans living in North Carolina gave to their villages and places with the names that European and other settlers gave to theirs.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)

Traveling through Africa: Students will plan a one-week, three country trip through Africa and create a travelogue of places they will visit. The students will create an electronic scrapbook of highlights of the trip (including cultural highlights, historical points of interest, geographic features, etc.); Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies); By Ren Bryan.

Mapping rumors of Nat Turner's Rebellion: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.2; Introduction to a series of primary sources about Nat Turner's Rebellion and the responses to it in North Carolina, including rumors of further slave insurrections and retaliation against African Americans allegedly involved. This page provides maps showing the locations of key events, the distribution of slaves in North Carolina, and the location of roads along which news would have traveled.; Format: activity

Mapping life in a colonial town: In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.14; From a detailed map of colonial Edenton, North Carolina, we can learn a great deal about daily life and community life on the eve of the Revolution.; Format: activity; By L. Maren Wood.

Excavating Occaneechi Town: An archaeology primer: Republished with permission from the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, the Archaeology Primer uses photographs of the excavations at Occaneechi Town to introduce fundamental concepts of archaeology. The primer provides an introduction to the methods of archaeology and to some common types of artifacts, and prepares students to participate in an electronic archaeological dig.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Allison Woods: Offers outdoor classroom educational opportunities at Allison Woods or in your classroom for students age 6 and up.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Is Mr. Wolf really a bad guy?: This lesson is intended to show children the importance of evaluating information as they read. The author's point of view is limited in that it only truly shows one side of the story. There is always another perspective. How the author views a subject colors everything that he or she writes about.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)

Mapping HIV infection in Africa: Using statistical information and maps, students will note the correlation between socio-economic factors and the impact of HIV/AIDS in the countries of Africa.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By Greg Mitchell.

Resources of South America: In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.9; In this lesson for grade six, students will research the resources of a South American country and will create a map illustrating those resources.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies); By Shea Calloway and Joann Via.

Gridding a site: In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.2; In their study of how to grid a site, students will use a map and the Cartesian coordinate system to establish a grid system over an archaeological site, labeling each grid unit; determine the location of artifacts within each grid unit; and construct a scientific inquiry concerning the location of artifacts on the site.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics and Social Studies)

Cloudy with a chance of... what?: Students will enjoy reading about a town where no one ever goes hungry because the sky provides food while learning about weather, healthy and unhealthy foods, and creating a database.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts and Science); By BJ Larson and Paula Sharpe.

Diction in Maya Angelou's poem "Remembering": The class will annotate and discuss Angelou's poem. Then they will select specific words and complete a webbing that asks them to explore the connotations of the word as well as consider the author's purpose in using it.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts); By Vickie Smith.

"Where Am I?" Reading guide and activities: In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 3.3; This lesson for grade 8 will help students to understand the article "Where Am I? Mapping a New World" through the use of a graphic organizer and a reading guide.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Trees in your own backyard: This activity lets students discover the benefits of urban forests by looking at trees on the schoolyard. Students will read a synopsis of the 400-year history of communal forests, survey their schoolyard trees, and draft a schoolyard tree ordinance.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Lucy Laffitte.

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