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- 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.
- Image Analysis of the Bijou Theatre in the early 1900s
- In this lesson, students will use postcards and photographs from the Going to the Show digital collection that highlight the moviegoing experience in the early 1900s to expand their critical thinking and visual literacy skills, gain experience analyzing comparable visual images of the same subject, and consider motivations for different visual image constructs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Lisa Speaker.
- 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.
- Impressed with embargo
- Students will learn about the causes of the War of 1812 and make connections to current world events.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Andrea McGuire.
- In the spirit of... (museum pre-visit)
- This is an integrated unit that focuses on masks in cultures as reflections of individual spirits. In this pre-visit lesson, students will explore the cultures of the Western Hemisphere.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- By Shannon Kelly.
- India's path to independence
- This interdisciplinary plan includes the study of the effects of imperialism and India's struggle for independence through history texts, literary works, and online resources. Activities include a seminar, research, and a news broadcast. Although this unit is designed for integrated English II and World Civilizations, lessons can be adapted to other class structures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Marian 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)
- Inside and outside: Paradox of the box
- This lesson serves to introduce students to symbolism (the box), to the literary element paradox, and to the abstract notion of ambiguity (freedom vs. confinement). It is designed for 2nd and 3rd graders, but may be adapted for use with upper elementary or early middle school grades.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–6 English Language Arts)
- By Edie McDowell.
- 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.
- Interracial "harmony" and the Great Awakening
- The students will be introduced to two episodes in 19th-century American history, around the time of the Great Awakening, that show glimpses of some positive and negative consequences of interracial interaction in a religious context. The students will examine primary sources from the Documenting the American South collection to then be able to write a "sermon" from the perspective of a southern itinerant preacher during the Great Awakening arguing for or against religion as a cure for the social ill of racism and slavery.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Jamie Lathan.
- 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 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.
- Introduction to colonial times
- In Colonial and state records of North Carolina, page 1
- In this lesson, students are introduced to different types of sources while also learning about the colonial time period.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Lara Willox.
- An introduction to slave narratives: Harriet Jacobs' Life of a Slave Girl
- In this lesson, students will learn about the life experiences of slaves in the United States during the 1800s by reading the story of a North Carolina slave woman who eventually escaped.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Joe Hooten.
- It's in the garbage
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.9
- In studying archaeological concepts, students will analyze garbage from different places demonstrate competence in applying the concepts of culture, context, classification, observation and inference, chronology and scientific inquiry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Jackie Robinson taught us more than baseball
- After determining student knowledge about Jackie Robinson, the teacher/counselor reads "Teammates" by Peter Golenbock to fifth graders. The teacher/counselor then divides students into four groups to work cooperatively on questions. Groups select leaders and recorders and each group leader presents answers to the whole class. The teacher/counselor ends the activity with a question that individual students will respond to in writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 English Language Arts, Guidance, and Social Studies)
- By Jan Huggins.
- Jim Crow and segregation
- This is an integrated lesson plan that incorporates both eighth grade language arts and history. Using Internet research, literary analysis, and persuasive technique, students will practice reading and writing skills while analyzing the impact of Jim Crow Segregation on African Americans living in North Carolina and elsewhere.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Burnetta Barton.
- 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.
- 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.
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