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- Finding, not searching
- You can work smarter, not harder, by determining your searching style, learning more about what your searches return and why, and learning to look in the right place first.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Searching LEARN NC
- Searching from any page On every page of the website, you'll see a search form in the right-hand side of the banner. You can use this form to search across all our collections. Suggestions As you type a word or phrase into the search field,...
- Format: article/help
- How to identify search terms in an index
- Students will learn to use the index to determine if the source has information about a topic and, if so, how to find the information.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Information Skills)
- By April Wells, Christina Klonne, Jennifer Tuttle, and and Julie Bingham.
- Accessing the American Memory collection: Searching
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 2
- Take a look at the second installment in the American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide and find out how to search the collections with success. You'll learn all kinds of tricks and techniques, and even explore the Library of Congress's latest search tool.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- What in the world does this have to do with maps and globes?
- This lesson focuses on the similarities and differences between a globe and a flat world map. It introduces critical vocabulary relating to cardinal directions and longitude and latitude.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Phebe Watson and Sylvia Easterling.
- Weather conditions database
- Students will search and sort various fields of a given database file.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 )
- By DPI Integration Strategies.
- Education glossaries on the web
- Can't find what you're looking for in LEARN NC's education glossary and reference? Here are some additional references.
- Format: bibliography
- Persuasive pumpkins
- Using observation skills and comparative language, the children will express their own ideas to compare likenesses and differences of pumpkins. They will sort by their own rules and explain their reasoning. Using cooperative learning, they will listen to other children's discussions and come to some agreements.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
- By RC Griffin.
- English language learners
- An introduction to LEARN NC's resources for teachers and administrators working with students with limited English proficiency.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Who's Your Mama?: A Family Who's Who
- This is the first of two lessons that can be used with Cynthia Rylant's book, The Relatives Came. Students will read, draw, role-play and sing about family roles and titles.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Social Studies)
- By Laura Bahlmann and Mary Lail.
- In math, "elegant" means "cool"!
- An elegant solution to a math problem is one that requires less time and work. Encouraging students to find such solutions will help them build number sense or numeracy.
- By Russ Rowlett.
- Everyday geometry: Hidden figures and polygons
- A lesson plan for grade 5 math in which students use historical photographs and drafting plans to demonstrate their knowledge of mathematical figures and polygons.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)
- By Sonna Jamerson.
- Privacy policy
- LEARN NC recognizes that your privacy is important and that, as a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we have a responsibility to protect your private information. This policy applies to all websites and services provided by LEARN NC.
- Format: policy/help
- Cherokee relocation
- Using primary sources from the Documenting the American South collection, students will investigate the boundaries of the Cherokee lands set for North Carolina after the Revolutionary War.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Donna Hernandez.
- Local authors database
- Search through more than 200 authors in 15 minutes to answer specific questions. Add records and fields to an incomplete database.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By DPI Integration Strategies.
- The U.S. Constitution
- On September 17, 1787, thirty-nine of the fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed the Constitution of the United States of America. Since 2005, Constitution Day has been officially celebrated every September 17. This collection of resources offers many different ways to teach about the Constitution and its impact on students' lives.
- Format: bibliography/help
- And justice for all: The Trail of Tears, Mexican deportation, and Japanese internment
- Many textbooks mention the Trail of Tears, but fail to mention that this early displacement of an ethnic minority is only the one of many legally-sanctioned forced relocations. This lesson will address the displacement of American Indians through the Trail of Tears, the forced deportation of Mexican Americans during the Great Depression, and the internment of Japanese American citizens during WWII.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Patricia Camp.
- Election time database
- After using various methods of researching information, students will create a database and use it to answer questions about the current election. At the conclusion, students will create a poster or Hyperstudio presentation of their findings.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Computer/Technology Skills and Social Studies)
- By Lee Yahnker.
- Change in a democratic society (Lesson 1 of 3)
- This lesson will demonstrate how art can imitate society. Students will learn about democracy in America through an examination of and a Paideia seminar on "The Sword of Damocles," an oil painting by British painter Richard Westall. This lesson should be used after a study of colonial times in America and through the American Revolution.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Sharyn West.
- A renaissance of jazz and poetry
- The Harlem Renaissance was the birth of a creative plethora in all fields of art for African Americans. The poetry and jazz composed during or inspired by this era naturally complemented each other. Furthermore, many of the themes from the musical and literary worlds are universal and provide a great lesson on how two different works can have a parallel theme.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Arts and Music Education)
- By Janet Fore.
