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- Three weeks and counting: What winter break might really mean
- In The First Year, page 2.9
- Your students might not be looking forward to a break in their routine as much as you think.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- New beginnings
- In The First Year, page 2.11
- Treat January as an opportunity to start fresh, in your relationships with students and colleagues and in your classroom management and instruction.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- The First Year
- Essays on the author's experiences in her first year of teaching: the mistakes she made, what she learned from them, and how she used them to become a better teacher — and how other first-year teachers can, too.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- How the world was made
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 1.3
- This Cherokee creation story, written down in the 1800s, describes how the earth was created from soft mud "when all was water."
- By James Mooney.
- Winter advisory: The effect of salt on the freezing point of water
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 5.9
- In this lesson, students complete a lab to help them understand the effect of salt on the freezing point of water. Students discuss the benefits and drawbacks of using salt as a de-icing and anti-icing agent on roads.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- By Tammy Johnson and Martha Tedrow.
- The migration of the monarch butterfly
- The students will listen to and discuss books about butterflies and the migration of monarch butterflies to Mexico in order to integrate science, social studies, and language arts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Development, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Martha H. Dobson and Margaret Monds.
- "My dear I ha'n't forgot you"
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 6.1
- Letter from Elizabeth Watson to her husband, James, a Confederate solider in the Civil War, telling him news from home and how much she misses him. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- It’s November. Do you know where your energy is?
- In The First Year, page 2.6
- How to sustain your energy as the year wears on.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Inquiry: You are an earthworm
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 3.5
- This lesson for grade 6 will help students understand the cycling of matter. Students assume they are earthworms and learn by asking questions about their life processes. The lesson also introduces career possibilities in the soil science field.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By April Galloway and Christine Scott.
- Catherine Edmondston and Reconstruction
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.7
- Excerpts from the diary of Catherine Edmonston of Halifax County, North Carolina, 1865–66, in which she describes her frustration with emancipation and her family's attempts to control its former slaves. Includes historical commentary. Note: This source contains explicit language or content that requires mature discussion.
- Format: diary
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Making the best of testing
- Two teachers offer a four-point plan for preparing students for end-of-grade tests without "teaching to the test": Teach to students' needs, integrate tested concepts into the curriculum, focus on learning before test-taking, and reduce students' stress.
- By David Walbert.
- "Liberty to slaves": The black response
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.4
- During the American Revolution, some black people living in the colonies fought for the British and some fought for the revolutionaries. Their actions during the war were often decided by what they believed would best help them throw off the shackles of slavery. Most believed that victory by the British would bring an end to their enslavement.
- Format: article
- By Jeffrey J. Crow.
- A German immigrant writes home
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 2.4
- Letter (c. 1710) from a immigrant to North Carolina to his family and friends in Germany, telling about his life and experiences in Carolina and giving advice to others who might follow him. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- A soldier recalls the Trail of Tears
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.8
- In this letter to his children, written on his eightieth birthday, Private John G. Burnett tells the story of the removal of the Cherokee to the West. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Selected excerpts from Frederick Douglass slave narrative
- Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818. He escaped from slavery at age 20 and became an active figure in the abolitionist movement, eventually becoming one of the most important black American figures of the 19th century. In these excerpts from his first autobiography, he describes his experiences as a slave.
- Format: book/primary source
- 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.
