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"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.

Bones from Kennewick Man

In 1996, the skeletal remains of a prehistoric man were found on the bank of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. An archaeologist determined that the man -- referred to as "Kennewick Man" -- had lived 9,200 years ago and died of a projectile wound...

Format: image/photograph

Two worlds: Educator's guide

Lesson plans and activities to be used with "Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony" -- the first part of a North Carolina history textbook for secondary students.

Format: book (multiple pages)

Museum of the Cape Fear

This museum interprets the history and culture of southern North Carolina from prehistory to the present.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Davidson County Historical Museum

Located in the Old Davidson County Courthouse (ca. 1858), the Museum is the centerpiece of Uptown Lexington's National Register Historic District. Visit the Museum to learn more about local and regional history while exploring the grandest of North Carolina's antebellum courthouses.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Why is the past important?

In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.2

As an introduction to the study of North Carolina's archaeological heritage, students will use personally owned object to share the importance of their past and connect this importance with reasons why the human past is important.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)

Giant Ground Sloth skeleton at Cape Fear Museum of History and Science

At Cape Fear Museum of History and Science in Wilmington, North Carolina, the skeleton of a Giant Ground Sloth towers menacingly. The Giant Ground Sloth was a mammal that lived in North America during the Pleistocene Epoch.

Format: image/photograph

The Topsail Island Museum, Missiles and More

Displays showing the history of the Navy test missile site of the 1940s, artifacts of Native Americans found on the island, and exhibits of colonial era pirates can be found at the Topsail Island Museum.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Reading guide: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region

In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.8

This worksheet will help students understand the article "Native Peoples of the Chesapeake Region," and will encourage them to make connections between the Chesapeake Indians and the Indians of coastal North Carolina. Students will also consider multiple perspectives as they think critically about the interactions between Indians and newly-arrived Europeans in the 1600s.

Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)

By Pauline S. Johnson.

North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences

Resources for learning about natural North Carolina including animals, snakes, insects and ecosystems.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

North America

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

Format: bibliography/help

De Soto in America

In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 3.4

In this lesson for grade 8, students will evaluate the effectiveness of the De Soto expedition through the interior of the southeastern United States in the years 1539-1543. They will examine the impact of that trip on the Native Americans. Students will engage in historical empathy as they put themselves in the place of the Native Americans and the Spanish soldiers who encountered them on the expedition.

Format: lesson plan

By Pauline S. Johnson.

Shadows of a people

In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.3

Archaeologists divide North Carolina's prehistory -- the time before contact with Europeans -- into four periods: Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian.

Format: article

The De Soto expedition

In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.3

Hernando De Soto’s expedition through the southeastern United States in 1539–43 was one of the earliest of the early contacts between Europeans and native peoples. While historical documents tell the story of do Soto's journey, advances in both history and archaeology have enabled researchers to reconstruct the de Soto route.

Format: article

American Indians

A guide to some of the best resources for teaching about American Indians, including lesson plans, articles, websites, and field trip opportunities.

Format: bibliography/help

The regions of North Carolina

In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.2

In this lesson, students analyze the differences between North Carolina's geographical regions: the Mountains, the Piedmont, and the Inner and Outer Coastal Plain.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)

By Pauline S. Johnson.

Experimental archaeology: Making cordage

In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.8

Students will make cordage and use an activity sheet to experience a technique and skill that ancient Native Americans in North Carolina needed for everyday life. They will also compute the amount of time and materials that might have been required to make cordage and construct a scientific inquiry to study the contents of an archaeological site.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

The village farmers

In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.5

North Carolina sat on a crossroads by AD 1000. Cultural ideas from other places breezed through it and around it: how to decorate pottery, how to orient political and social life, how to honor the dead, how to structure towns.

The pottery makers

In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.4

Archaeologists do a bit of shrugging when asked about the Woodland—that time and lifeway tucked between 1000 BC and AD 1000. Some things they readily understand, but others leave them wondering.

Resources on the web

Great Archaeological Sites

Do a little archaeological excavation in France online! In fact, some of the fascinating sites you will visit here can only be traveled to virtually, such as the The Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc. Other features include the Eternal Monuments of Ramses II, Gauls... (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: French Ministry of Culture