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Time marches on!: Students will create autobiographical time lines, noting important events in their lives. Using these timelines, students will create word problems for their classmates to solve.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Jennifer Gayford.

"Hang" a time: Students will create their own timelines in a simple "clothesline" format using newspapers as a resource for dates, times and words for related events. Criteria will be simple at first to assure understanding but can be made more complex with subsequent activities.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Cora Mae Pipkin.

Disney World timelines: The students have won a trip to Disney World but there are several things they have to do before they get to Orlando. The students will make a timeline to display these events and answer questions about them.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Jennifer Williams.

Why I am me timeline: Student develops a timeline that correlates personal life events with world events. Research and bibliographic skills are incorporated.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Guidance and Information Skills); By Rita Briggs.

Welcome to my world!: Developing a personal narrative timeline: Students will create digital, narrative, and drawn versions of a timeline of at least five events of their life.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts); By DPI Integration Strategies.

Chronology: The time of my life: In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.6; In their study of chronology the students will use personal timelines and an activity sheet to demonstrate the importance of intact information to achieve accuracy, and compare and contrast their timelines with the chronological information contained in a stratified archaeological site.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

Transylvania Heritage Museum: Students will learn the importance of heritage when they visit this museum in the mountains of Transylvania County. Its exhibits celebrate the history of the area and and take visitors back in time.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Looking back - An Art/English interdisciplinary unit: This is an interdisciplinary unit that incorporates research of historical events of the past century. By students learning to recognize that society impacts the themes within art and literature, students then take this knowledge base and interview an individual to develop a biographical narrative, a collage, and oral presentation.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts); By Julie Osmon.

Alternatives to the President Report: In Rethinking Reports, page 1.1; The "President Report" is a common assignment in social studies classes from second grade, where biography is first introduced, through high school U.S. History. You know what we mean: students are asked to pick a U.S. president and write a biographical...; By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.

A living timeline of civil rights: This fifth grade lesson plan is one piece of a civil rights unit. This particular lesson is an opportunity for students to demonstrate knowledge of a specific person or event that occurred during the civil rights movement. The students will share their research with others as they take on the role of a museum artifact.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies); By Laurie Lietz.

Alternatives to the famous person report: In Rethinking Reports, page 3.1; This "rethinking reports" series of articles provides alternative research assignments that challenge students to think critically about historical actors.; By David Walbert and Melissa Thibault.

Where do I begin?: Picking a good beginning helps you to focus your story on just one main event. In this lesson students will learn how to pick a good beginning for their personal narratives.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

A Christmas Carol chronology: Christmas Carol Chronology, based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, provides students with an opportunity to develop comprehension by listing plot developments and arranging them sequentially. This lesson begins with cooperative learning groups and ends with an individual manipulative activity of cutting and pasting strips of events in chronological order.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); By Judy Gibbs.

Civil rights wax museum project: In this lesson plan, students will choose African Americans prominent in the Civil Rights Movement and research aspects of their lives. They will create timelines of their subjects' lives and a speech about their subjects, emphasizing why they are remembered today.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Sabrina Lewandowski.

Hidden stories: A three-part lesson in African American history, research, and children’s literature: In this high school lesson plan, students will create a timeline of African American history, review a work of children's literature, and then create their own works of children's literature drawing on a primary source document pertaining to the life of an ordinary African American.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts); By Edie McDowell.

An American hero: Harriet Tubman: In this lesson, the school librarian and classroom teacher should work together to teach students about the life of Harriet Tubman in recognition of African-American History and Cultural Heritage Month.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills and Social Studies); By Floanna Long.

North America: Discover Canada, Mexico, and Central America from this selection of great resources.; Format: bibliography/help

American History: This selection of American history resources found on LEARN NC takes students from the very infancy of our country to modern times.; Format: bibliography/help

A comprehensive study of North Carolina Indian tribes: Students will apply their research skills of gathering and validating information to study the eight state recognized American Indian tribes of North Carolina in order to create an Honors U.S. History Project. Students then will create a comprehensive study of those tribes to be compiled into a notebook to be copied and shared with the eighth grade teachers of North Carolina History in our county.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)

India: Having had few opportunities to learn about Asia when they were in school, many teachers find themselves challenged when faced with teaching their own students about India. We've put together a variety of resources from our collections that will not only provide you with the background information you need to know about the history, culture, and religions of India, but will also furnish you with the professional materials you need to catch your students interest and teach effectively about this complex nation.; Format: bibliography/help

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