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- Majestic peaks: Mountains of North Carolina and Ecuador
- In this lesson, students analyze two photographs: one of the mountains of Ecuador and one of the mountains of Western North Carolina. Students then analyze the two photographs together to gain an understanding of the two regions' similarities and differences.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Eric Eaton.
- Make your own cereal bowl
- In this lesson for kindergarten, students will learn that the art of creating functional pieces of pottery in North America first began over 4000 years ago in North Carolina. Students will learn where clay comes from and will create their own pottery pieces.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education)
- By Eileen Palamountain.
- Measuring pots
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.7
- Students will use an activity sheet or modern pottery rim sherds to compute circumference from a section of a circle and construct analogies based on their own experience about possible functions of ancient or historic ceramics.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Mathematics and Social Studies)
- Measuring the waters
- This lesson plan uses an excerpt from an oral history about measuring flood waters during Hurricane Floyd to teach students about the many ways measurements can be taken. Students are given an opportunity to practice measuring with a variety of tools and evaluate their effectiveness.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Mending pottery
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.9
- Students will mend broken pottery to learn what archaeologists learn by mending pottery.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- Moravian migration: Before a visit to Bethabara
- Students investigate NCECHO site to learn about the 1753 Moravian settlement of Bethabara. Student teams present information to classmates in some visual product in one of five categories. Students also will visit the photos on NCECHO and answer analytical questions to increase understanding of the past as compared to today.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Mountain cultures graphic organizer
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.4
- As students read the article "Peoples of the Mountains," this graphic organizer will help them develop an understanding of the cultures that existed in North Carolina's mountains hundreds of years ago.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Mountain dialect: Reading between the spoken lines
- This lesson plan uses Chapter 13 of Our Southern Highlanders as a jumping-off point to help students achieve social studies and English language arts objectives while developing an appreciation of the uniqueness of regional speech patterns, the complexities of ethnographic encounter, and the need to interrogate primary sources carefully to identify potential biases and misinformation in them. Historical content includes American slavery, the turn of the century, and the Great Depression.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- My North Carolina
- In North Carolina maps, page 1.3
- Using word association and early maps of North Carolina, students will examine their preconceptions about the state and connect them to what they learn. This is intended to be used before any lesson about colonial times or discovery of America in general—the students can consider themselves "explorers" along with the ones they learn about.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Jennifer Job.
- The mystery of the missing hippo!
- In this lesson, students will engage with a variety of primary documents from the Commemorative Landscapes database to learn about the mystery of the missing hippo statue in Orange County.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Kate Allman.
- N.C.- The Rip Van Winkle State
- This lesson introduces students to Washington Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle" and correlates it with the history of North Carolina. In the 1800s North Carolina was nicknamed "The Rip Van Winkle State."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Kay D. Lopossay.
- Name that point!
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.4
- In their study of projectile points (i.e., spear points or “arrowheads”) dating to the Archaic period in North Carolina, students use activity sheets to compare projectile point attributes and to identify and classify points based on clearly defined variables. They will also match projectile points to a chronology and determine when the points were made and why the information is important to archaeologists.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 6 Social Studies)
- Native American music: Two North Carolina tribes
- In this lesson plan, students will listen to songs from two North Carolina tribes. Students will learn about the music through listening, analyzing, singing, moving, and playing instruments.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Music Education and Social Studies)
- By Merritt Raum Flexman.
- Native Americans in North Carolina
- In North Carolina maps, page 2.6
- In this lesson, students create a PowerPoint presentation giving the history and impact of one of the six major Native American tribes of North Carolina. They will show understanding of population movement, different perspectives, and the roles the Native Americans played in the development of the state.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Jennifer Job.
- "Native Carolinians" additional activities
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.10
- These lessons from the UNC Research Laboratories of Archaeology's Intrigue of the Past can be used as additional activities for the digital history textbook module "Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Naval stores
- In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 2.5
- Introduction From early Colonial times until the Civil War, the naval industry was important to North Carolina. The term naval stores describes all products of the gum of the pine tree. The name itself explains its use in the shipbuilding industry....
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Gazelia Carter.
- Navigating the inlets and havens
- In this lesson plan, students read and analyze a primary source document written in the early 1700s that describes the inlets of the North Carolina coast. The students adopt the perspective of a contemporary ship's captain and discuss the importance of the information in the document.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The needs of animals
- In this lesson plan first grade students will examine photographs of 4-H club members with animals from North Carolina. They will make observations from the visual material to build an understanding of the needs of animals. They will begin to learn that these needs have remained the same in different times.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- North Carolina American Indian stories
- In this lesson students will select and read stories from some of the North Carolina American Indian tribes. They will compare and contrast two stories of their choice and complete a Venn diagram. Students will use the information on the Venn diagram to write three paragraphs. After reading several American Indian tales or legends, students will then create their own legend using the narrative writing process.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Janice Gardner.
- North Carolina Cherokee Indians: The Trail of Tears
- In this two week unit, students will study the Cherokee by participating in literature circles, learning about Native American story telling, writing a letter to Andrew Jackson to protest against the Creek War, and more.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Gina Golden.
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