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- North Carolina Coastal Plain province
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.7
- This lesson is part of chapter one of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students compare and contrast the Northern Coastal province and the Southern Coastal province.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- North Carolina maps
- A collection of lesson plans for grades K-12 centered on historic maps of North Carolina
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- North Carolina regional travel brochure
- The students will cooperatively design travel brochures that describe major physical and cultural characteristics of the regions in North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Deborah Harrell.
- 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 3–4 Information Skills and Social Studies)
- By Patricia Britt.
- North Carolina rivers
- Students will locate 28 rivers within the state of North Carolina, noting names and origins of names, directions of flow, navigability, and development of population centers in relation to the rivers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Social Studies)
- By Mike Stevenson.
- North Carolina's physical and cultural geography
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.3
- In this lesson students will make assumptions about the influence of geography on various aspects of historical human and cultural geography.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Of earth, water, and fire: World pottery traditions
- In this lesson, a photo analysis activity helps students learn about pottery traditions from around the world. Students discuss how these traditions are similar to and different from one another.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- By Eric Eaton.
- Reading guide: Spain and America
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 3.2
- These terms and questions will guide students as they read "Spain and America: From Reconquest to Conquest." Filling in the chronological list of dates will enable students to understand the order in which events unfolded in Spain and in America, and answering the questions will encourage students to think critically about the readings in the chapter.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Reading maps for town size in North Carolina
- In North Carolina maps, page 1.1
- In this lesson, students examine maps and map features to evaluate town size and growth over time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Social Studies)
- By Jennifer Job.
- Regions of Nepal: A virtual trek
- This lesson for grade seven helps students understand the connections between geography and culture. Students experience a virtual trek through the different regions of Nepal, conduct research about the ethnic groups living in each region, and maintain travel logs documenting what they've learned.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- The regions of North Carolina
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.2
- In this lesson, students analyze the differences between North Carolina's geographical regions: the Mountains, the Piedmont, and the Inner and Outer Coastal Plain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Researching the North Carolina coastal plain
- This lesson plan will provide students with a more in-depth knowledge of the animals, industry, and land geography of the coastal plain. Students will conduct research on the internet and in other resources to find information on the vital parts of the coastal plain. The lesson culminates with group presentations of their research and a Venn diagram developed individually comparing the outer and inner parts of the coastal plain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Development, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Ana Sanders and Heather Ennis.
- Rising tides: Climate change and the sea
- This lesson plan uses videos, NASA visualizations, and digital map projections to help students understand the connection between climate change and sea level rise. The lesson draws on the "Climate Refugees" story on the Powering a Nation website, and includes independent research and inquiry activities that allow students to explore sea level changes in North Carolina and around the world.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Linda Schmalbeck.
- The road taken
- This lesson will introduce and reinforce main transportation routes for people and goods in North Carolina. Students will enhance map skills including using cardinal and intermediate directions, using a mileage chart, and planning transportation routes. Students will reinforce their knowledge of resources found in North Carolina as well as name and identify the three regions of North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Social Studies)
- By Margaretc Bryant.
- Salt trading in Asia
- In this interdisciplinary lesson, students explore the mineral salt from a variety of perspectives — scientific, geographic, and cultural. The lesson incorporates images of salt production in Nepal and Vietnam. It may be used with grade 4 or grade 7.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 6–7 English Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Sea-level change and coastal dynamics
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.3
- This lesson is a part chapter one of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students learn about how the sea level has changed over several thousand years. They also look at sea level changes from the past century and infer what sort of affects these changes have — or will have — on the life of citizens in coastal areas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- Shifting coastlines
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.3
- In their study of North Carolina's changing coastline during the Paleoindian and Archaic periods, students will determine the positions of the coastline at different times and decide what types of archaeological information has been lost due to rising sea levels.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Science and Social Studies)
- Teaching suggestions: Graveyard of the Atlantic
- Suggested activities for use with the article "Graveyard of the Atlantic," which explains why the waters off North Carolina's coast have been unusually treacherous for shipping.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Theories of migration
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.1
- In this lesson, students will read about and evaluate differing theories about the migration of the first people to the Americas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Threads through South America: Weaving in Ecuador
- This lesson for grade six takes a look at the weaving and textiles created in the Andes of Ecuador in and near the town of Otavalo. In addition to learning about Ecuadorian weaving, students may also create their own woven artifact.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)
- By Eric Eaton.
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