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- "A poor, ignorant, squalid population"
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 4.5
- Letter from Archibald Murphey to Thomas Ruffin, 1819, in which Murphey bemoans the character of the people around Fayetteville and blames the lack of trade, transportation, and economic opportunity. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Reading biographies and autobiographies
- In Rethinking Reports, page 3.3
- How good is that biography your students are reading? Here's how to make sure they get the most out of their reading and research.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Real-world approaches to reading
- Techniques for providing children with the literacy-rich environment that is crucial to both reading and writing success.
- By Alta Allen.
- Weathering the water cycle: Condensation
- This lesson introduces students to condensation as one phase of the water cycle. Through the use of the four lessons in this series in which students will learn that the water cycle is a continuous cycle.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)
- By Cathie Hill, Jackie Parker, and Karen Neilson.
- What do you see?
- This lesson is designed to teach color vocabulary and some basic animal names to novice level ESL students in grades 1-2 using Bill Martin's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
- By Cindy Young.
- Summary of a report sent to Bethlehem
- In Diary of a journey of Moravians, page 16
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 5.4
- In 1733, a group of Moravians -- a Protestant Christian denomination originating in fourteenth-century Bohemia -- moved from Europe to North America seeking freedom from religious persecution. In 1753, a group of twelve single brothers left Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for a new settlement in North Carolina. Their report back to Bethlehem describes what they found in their new home. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: report
- Features of print
- In this lesson, the teacher introduces the concept of gathering information from chapter headings, bold type and other organizational features of print (such as tables of contents) in non-fiction texts in print and online.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Gail Goodling, Susan Lovett, and Sue Versenyi.
- Thomas Jefferson on manufacturing and commerce
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 2.2
- Excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia (1781) in which he argues that the United States should remain an agricultural nation. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- PIZZA = "Fractions: Any Way You Slice It!"
- During this lesson, students will explore and investigate the relationships among fractions. Students will use paper pizzas divided into fractional parts to compare equivalent fractions. They will see part-whole fractions as fair shares and begin to understand that the parts must be equal.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills and Mathematics)
- By Alta Allen.
- Nutrition and the media: Cereal box consumerism
- This lesson will offer your students the opportunity to explore nutrition and how the media impacts our consumer decisions. Students will design a cereal box and read about how the use of color, slogans, and prizes impacts buyers. This lesson plan is easily adapted for exceptional children and can be expanded and/or adapted to suit your students' needs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts, Healthful Living, and Mathematics)
- By Gloria Simmons.
- Composing a Letter of Application
- Students will learn the importance of letters of application, what letters of application should contain, and how to format the letters. They will also enhance their composition skills, language skills, and proofreading skills.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Joyce Shepard.
- Leo Africanus describes Timbuktu
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 4.2
- Sixteenth-century description of the West African trading city of Timbuktu by a Spanish-born Muslim. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by Shane Freeman.
- Cargo manifests of Confederate blockade runners
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 4.4
- Cargo manifests of various ships that ran the Union blockade to bring goods from Nassau, in the Bahamas, to Wilmington, North Carolina, during the Civil War. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: document
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- Collection Connections
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 7
- In this installment of the American Memory Guide, learn to find teaching resources associated with the Library of Congress's primary source collections.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- "Some grievous oppressions"
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.4
- Excerpt of a sermon published by Herman Husband, Regulator leader, in 1770. Husband argued that North Carolina's colonial government was unfair to small farmers. Primary source includes historical commentary.
- Format: pamphlet
- Linking important geographic sites to world history
- Students will learn the importance of geography as it relates to significant events or periods in world history, especially that which pertains to Europe and the United States.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Social Studies)
- By Guy Swanson.
- Living the pioneer life
- In this lesson, students will use photographs of Appalachian log dwellings to understand how advances in technology, the desire to own land, and political incentives have resulted in economic and social changes over time for the people of North Carolina. The students will examine text and historical documents to assess the time period in which log cabin structures were built, the reasons for constructing them, and the lives of the people who built these houses.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Sonna Jamerson.
- North Carolina regions
- Working in cooperative groups, the students will learn about their assigned regions of North Carolina. A list of questions will be generated. When the research is completed, the students will design a way to orally present the information to the class. This also will integrate Visual Arts and Informational Skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Information Skills and Social Studies)
- By Patricia Britt.
- Preparing English language learners for reading comprehension
- In Reading comprehension and English language learners, page 1
- Use KWL charts, circle maps and brainstorming webs, and concept maps to prepare English language learners, content-area learners, and all students for reading comprehension.
- By Ellen Douglas.
- Expansion and empire, 1867–1914
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 6.1
- The United States expanded its economic influence and added overseas territory in the last decades of the nineteenth century, but the drive for empire was tempered by a strong anti-imperialist strain in American politics.
- Format: article
