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- The highways or the byways: Mapping routes in North Carolina
- In North Carolina maps, page 2.1
- In this lesson, students use mathematical skills to choose the best routes for traveling around the state. Students will also use various internet resources for determining and plotting distance and ratio of miles per hour to time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
- Home is where the hearth is: Using photographs to discuss traditional family roles
- In this lesson students will examine pictures of hearths (fireplaces), which used to be the cornerstone of the home and family life. These images, from the Built Heritage Collection at North Carolina State University, will help students use observation skills and inference to draw conclusions about the culture of family life at various points throughout the history of North Carolina and the United States.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Loretta Wilson.
- How are we changing North Carolina?
- In North Carolina maps, page 2.2
- In this lesson, students look at soil survey maps to draw conclusions about the impact North Carolinians have had on the land. This lesson is meant to accompany instruction on soil type, use, and erosion
- Format: lesson plan
- How do I look to you?
- In this lesson, students will evaluate public service posters and a grooming pamphlet to determine if and how propaganda was used to improve the health of children, and define acceptable appearances for young women in the 1930s.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Loretta Wilson.
- Immigrants' experiences in colonial North Carolina
- In this lesson plan, students read two primary-source documents describing the experiences of new arrivals to North Carolina during the colonial period: One is a summary of a report written by a young Moravian settler from Pennsylvania; the other is a letter from a German immigrant. Students compare and contrast the journeys and settlement of the two groups.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Industrialization and Progressive Reform in the Craft Revival
- In this lesson plan, originally published on the Craft Revival website, students will analyze the process of making a hobby into a job. They will explore Craft Revival work environments, representations of industrial work environments, and data regarding Craft Revival work. To close the activity, students write a journal entry comparing Craft Revival and industrial work experiences.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 Social Studies)
- By Patrick Velde.
- Inference by analogy
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.12
- Students will use historical sources and an archaeological site map to infer the use or meaning of items recovered from a North Carolina Native American site based on 17th-century European settlers' accounts and illustrations. They will also describe prehistoric lifeways based on archaeological and ethnohistoric information and explain why archaeologists use ethnohistoric analogy.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- Inquiry-based exploration of human impacts on stream ecosystems: The Mud Creek case study
- This unit plan for high school earth and environmental science explores the impact of human activity on the health of streams in urban and non-urban settings. Students mimic current scientific research by measuring physical, chemical, and biological indicators of stream health.
- Format: (multiple pages)
- Interpreting lives through tombstone analysis
- In this lesson students will take on the role of archaeologists by examining pictures of gravestones from the Built Heritage collection at North Carolina State University. They will use their knowledge of history, observation skills, and inference to draw conclusions about the lives and deaths of past North Carolina residents.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Loretta Wilson.
- Interstate highways from the ground up
- This lesson gives students a first-hand opportunity to hear about the planning and effort it takes to build a highway by through an oral history of a North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) resident engineer.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Introducing students to environmental justice: A North Carolina case study
- This lesson plan for science and social studies uses the 5E model to have students consider an environmental justice case study.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Dana Haine.
- Introducing the Blue Ridge Parkway
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 4.1
- In this lesson, students will be introduced to the Blue Ridge Parkway. They will work in groups to analyze historical photographs of the Parkway in order to determine what purpose it serves and why it is such a unique landmark.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Social Studies)
- By Melissa Harden.
- The introduction of the car to North Carolina
- In North Carolina maps, page 1.4
- In this lesson, students look at the impact the introduction of the automobile had on North Carolina travel and city growth.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Jennifer Job.
- An introduction to reading North Carolina maps
- In North Carolina maps, page 1.2
- In this lesson, students are introduced to the language of maps and why maps are important in our world. They are given the opportunity to read simple maps and find major features of more complicated maps.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–3 Social Studies)
- By Jennifer Job.
- Is China to blame?
- In this lesson, students participate in a Paideia seminar about North Carolina's dwindling furniture industry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 Social Studies)
- By Susan Taylor.
- Jonkonnu celebrations in North Carolina and beyond
- In this lesson plan, students read two articles about Jonkonnu, an African American and Afro-Caribbean celebration among slave populations with origins in West Africa. Students complete a graphic organizer comparing Jonkonnu in North Carolina, Belize, and Jamaica.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11 Social Studies)
- By Jamie Lathan.
- Labor unions in the cotton mills
- In this lesson, students will learn about the labor union movement in the U.S. by listening to oral histories, and they will then deliver a persuasive speech arguing for or against unionization.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies)
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- "Land and Work in Carolina" teaching strategies
- A variety of suggested activities for use with an article that explains the key elements of feudalism, with a focus on how those elements evolved into the systems of labor and land ownership seen in colonial North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The land of milk and honey: Propaganda and the colonies
- In Colonial and state records of North Carolina, page 3
- In this lesson, students use primary sources to examine the use of propaganda and how it influenced people's decisions to immigrate to the colonies.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Lara Willox.
- The land of milk and honey: Reasons for migration
- In Colonial and state records of North Carolina, page 2
- In this lesson, students brainstorm reasons people leave their homes and move somewhere else. After discussing modern day reasons for migration, students will explore the motives of early settlers to immigrate to colonial North Carolina. Motives will be explored using a primary source, specifically letters from potential settlers asking for permission to come to the "land of milk and honey."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Lara Willox.
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