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Rethinking Reports

Creative research-based assignments provide alternatives to the President Report, Animal Report, and Famous Person Report that ask students to think about old topics in new ways, work collaboratively, and develop products that support a variety of learning styles.

Format: series (multiple pages)

The student pathfinder

By creating pathfinders, students not only learn to manage time and produce a higher quality research project, but they also develop twenty-first century learning skills.

By Melissa Thibault.

Presidents pathfinder

In Rethinking Reports, page 1.5

Presidents and the Presidency The American Presidency Grolier's family of encyclopedias provides three levels of biographical material on presidents...

By Melissa Thibault.

North America

Discover Canada, Mexico, and Central America from this selection of great resources.

Format: bibliography/help

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)

The pathfinders

In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.2

An essay covering the pathfinders of the Paleoindian Period. Learn about the trek across Beringia and the lifeways of these early American Indians.

Best practices in school library website design

You're a librarian, not a web designer, but you can have a school library website that meets the needs of students and teachers if you keep it simple, don't take on more than you can manage, and focus on what you know.

Format: article

By David Walbert.

First peoples

In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.1

Beringia was a wide land bridge between Alaska and Siberia that was periodically exposed during the last Great Ice Age. According to a widely-held theory, the first people to live in North America were Asians who followed animal herds across Beringia. The Paleoindians living in North Carolina by 9000 BCE were descendents of these first North Americans. Nobody knows how long it took before the first Paleoindians reached North Carolina, but the few artifacts they left create an image of their past.

Format: article

The secret cultural institution in your school: The school library

A variety of best practices and imaginative ideas that the school librarian can use to create an environment where students fuse together required learning with learning that is driven by individual interest.

By Kim Campbell.

The forest people

In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.3

Paleoindian culture died out across North America by 8000 BC. Archaeologists say this was bound to happen. The Ice Age had ended, the megafauna were extinct, and the boreal forests faded as deciduous ones spread across the East in the warmer climate. Faced with significant environmental changes, the Native Americans adapted. Archaeologists call their way of life and the time in which they lived Archaic.

Resources on the web

Pathfinders and Passageways: the Exploration of Canada

The history of explorers of Canada as told by the explores and those who traveled with them. Illustrated with images of actual artifacts from the expeditions. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: National Library of Canada