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Rock art

In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.3

Students will use art materials, drawings, and rock art examples to differentiate between symbol, petroglyph, pictograph, and rock art. They will also interpret rock art to illustrate its importance in the cultural heritage of a people and as a tool for learning about the past.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

Creating your own rock art

In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.4

Students will use regional rock art symbols or their own symbols to cooperatively create a rock art panel. They will also use a replica of a vandalized rock art panel to examine their feelings about rock art vandalism and discuss ways to protect rock art and other archaeological sites.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

Hiddenite Center

See gemstones and minerals, a restored historic home, a gallery of art work and folk art, and a doll museum at Hiddenite Center.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

American Indian stalking deer

This 1993–1994 painting depicts an American Indian hunting deer with a bow and arrow. The hunter stands on a rock in a stream facing a buck and a doe. He is camouflaged, wearing a deer head and skin over his own head and torso. In the background, the...

Format: image/painting

Laksman, Rama, and Sita sit in forest (Thai Ramayana mural)

This detail on a painted mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple depicts Laksman, Rama, and Sita sitting on a rock deep in the forest during their fourteen year exile. A fourth individual with dark skin, a white turban, and a loin cloth, probably a forest hermit,...

Format: image/photograph

Issues in archaeology: Introduction

In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.1

Most lessons in this part provide opportunities for students to explore and sometimes wrestle with their values concerning archaeological resources and their protection.

Issues, we've all got them: Language arts/visual arts integration

Students will learn how to deal positively with social issues important in their lives through personal investigation of social issues addressed in literature and art.

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and English Language Development)

By Runell Carpenter.

Is no man an island?

This unit is designed to encourage thinking about our connectedness to and responsibilities toward others. Materials in this unit are used to demonstrate humankind's need to refute an impersonal natural order.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)

By Jewell Kendrick.

Stone carvings in Mahabalipuram, India

These are stone carvings in Mahabalipuram, India. The one furthest to the left is a woman dressed in a clingy dress. She is holding a pot in her left arm and is holding a pitcher loosely in her right hand with the mouth of it turned down. Her expression is...

Format: image/photograph

KidSenses Children's InterACTIVE Museum

The interactive exhibits at this children’s museum spark the imagination and kids have fun as they play and learn.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

What makes a dog a dog

This lesson can be used as a culminating activity to review what students have learned about the parts of a dog (easily adapted to most anything-- plant, fish, sentence, etc.) or as an insight instrument to students' prior knowledge of a subject.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

By Teresa Chichester.

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)

School desegregation pioneers

In this lesson, students will learn about the challenges faced by the first students to desegregate Southern schools. Students will hear oral histories telling the story of desegregation pioneers from Alabama and North Carolina and critically analyze images of school desegregation. They will synthesize the information by writing a narrative from the point of view of a black student desegregating a white school.

Format: lesson plan

By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.

Technological artifacts and the evolution of the student desk

In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 5.2

In this lesson, students discuss a variety of definitions for the word technology and the relationships between technology, science, and society.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)

By Tammy Johnson and Martha Tedrow.

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

Shadows of North Carolina's past

In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.2

Students will infer past Native American lifeways based on observation, construct a timeline of four major culture periods in Native American history, and compare these lifeways and discuss how they are different and alike.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)

Resources on the web

Interpreting rock art of the Anasazi

Students are introduced to the ancient Anasazi people through samples of rock art preserved in the public lands of the Four Corners region. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

Provided by: National Geographic

Bradshaw Foundation

Watch films and animations to learn more about the journey of mankind including migration, evolution, ancient rock art and more. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by:

Timeline of Art History

A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art featuring works from around the world remarkable for both form and function: mosaic and tapestry, cloth and wood, architectural and decorative. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ocean Oasis

Sponsored by the San Diego Natural History Museum and PRONATURA, this website features comprehensive information about Mexico's Sea of Cortez and the Baja California Desert in english and spanish. The stunning content of this website focuses on how oasis's... (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: San Diego Natural History Museum