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- Beyond the headlines: Kyrgyzstan
- In this lesson, students research the recent history of the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and explore its strategic significance for world powers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies)
- By Jacqueline Olich.
- The Bill of Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court
- In this lesson, students work in groups and individually to understand how the Constitution/Bill of Rights is a living document and how Supreme Court decisions protect the rights of all Americans.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 Social Studies)
- By Grace Wasserman.
- Black American leaders as responsible citizens: Their roles, their contributions, their diversity
- The focus of this lesson will be to help third grade students to clearly identify the need for having leaders arise from the citizenry of a given community. Students will review factual information to guide them in distinguishing the positive and negative qualities of leaders. Techniques will include guided reading of factual historical text during a Jigsaw, student note taking, student development of open-ended questions, and student engagement in a Socratic seminar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 and 5 Social Studies)
- By Debbie Rollins.
- Blackbeard: The most feared pirate of the Atlantic
- Students will acquire information about Blackbeard and apply their knowledge to create a newspaper article concerning his life.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Carol Holden and Tanya Klanert.
- The Blue Ridge Parkway and national parks today
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 2.1
- This is the first lesson in the Competing Routes unit. In this lesson, students are introduced to the role of national parks in the United States with a special focus on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- The Blue Ridge Parkway and North Carolina
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 2.3
- This is the third lesson in the Competing Routes unit. In this lesson, students look more closely at the relationship between North Carolina and the Blue Ridge Parkway and determine areas of interest in this broad topic. The first two lessons were aimed at putting students on equal footing in terms of prior knowledge and primary source analysis skills to start their research. This lesson allows them to pursue areas of their own interest, locate resources independently, and create new knowledge with those resources. Students will continue to use primary sources and practice their historical analysis skills.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- Blue Ridge Parkway communities today
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 2.7
- This is the seventh lesson in the Competing Routes unit. This lesson allows students to look critically at the state of the communities which exist along the Blue Ridge Parkway today and contrast them against their historical counterparts, helping students to explore the effects of the Parkway on surrounding communities.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- Blue Ridge Parkway communities: Before the Parkway
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 2.5
- This is the fifth lesson in the Competing Routes unit. It is part of a series of three lessons intended to help students think critically about the effects of the Blue Ridge Parkway on the environment, economy, and lifestyle of its surrounding communities. This lesson focuses on Blue Ridge Parkway communities before the arrival of the Parkway.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- Blue Ridge Parkway construction: Effect on communities
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 2.6
- This is the sixth lesson in the Competing Routes unit. This lesson is designed to get students thinking critically about the reactions of members of communities affected by the routing of the Blue Ridge Parkway and the reasons behind those perspectives. Students will analyze a variety of viewpoints, photographs, and documents to gain an understanding of the impact of the Parkway routing for different members of these communities. Then they will select one community member (real or imagined) and write a newspaper editorial from their point of view about the Parkway's routing.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- Blue Ridge Parkway primary source analysis
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 2.4
- This is the fourth lesson in the Competing Routes unit. This activity is intended to help students refine their understanding of the rich information available in primary sources and see all sides of using primary source documents while studying history. Students extend their own thinking by reflecting on the work of their classmates, and identify and understand biases apparent in primary sources.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Katy Vance.
- British migration to Roanoke: Push and pull factors
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 4.1
- In this lesson, students will examine the push/pull factors that led settlers to attempt to settle Roanoke Island in the 1580s.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Brown versus Board of Education: Rhetoric and realities
- In this lesson, students will listen to three oral histories that shed light on political and personal reactions toward the 1954 Supreme Court ruling Brown versus Board of Education. Includes a teacher's guide as well as the oral history audio excerpts and transcripts.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Buffalo Soldiers
- In this lesson, students will learn about Buffalo Soldiers using the Blacks in the West Mini Page. Students will compare what they learn from the Mini Page with Bob Marley’s song "Buffalo Soldiers." Then students will choose another group of people or a social movement to compare the Buffalo Soldiers to, similar to the way Marley compared them to Rastafarians, and they will write their own song lyrics to demonstrate the connection. This lesson allows students to make connections between different groups across history.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Summer Pennell.
- Building the Blue Ridge Parkway
- In Driving through time: The digital Blue Ridge Parkway, page 4.2
- In this lesson, students will learn about various ways in which the land was modified in order to build the Blue Ridge Parkway. They will analyze different types of resources for details and use those details to make generalizations about the work required to build the Blue Ridge Parkway.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Social Studies)
- By Melissa Harden.
- Canning for country and community
- In this lesson plan, students will use primary source documents to evaluate the technological challenges of food preservation in the 30s and 40s, compare food preservation in the first half of the twentieth century with today, and consider the political role of food in the community.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Careers in medicine and the ancient Greeks
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.4
- In this lesson for grade six, students will learn about ancient Greek medicine and the Hippocratic Oath and will research contemporary medical careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Mandy Matlock.
- The Carolina colony: Comparing three perspectives
- In this lesson, students compare three different primary sources written by early colonists and consider the reasons the colonists had for moving to Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Change in a democratic society (Lesson 1 of 3)
- This lesson will demonstrate how art can imitate society. Students will learn about democracy in America through an examination of and a Paideia seminar on "The Sword of Damocles," an oil painting by British painter Richard Westall. This lesson should be used after a study of colonial times in America and through the American Revolution.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Sharyn West.
- Changes in a democratic society (Lesson 2 of 3)
- This lesson is the post-seminar activity to follow Changes in a Democratic Society, Lesson 1. Students will participate in tiered assignments reflecting on the Westall painting, "The Sword of Damocles," and the prior day's Paideia seminar on that painting.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Sharyn West.
- Changes in a democratic society (Lesson 3 of 3)
- This lesson is a follow-up to Changes in a Democratic Society, Lessons 1 and 2. Students will reflect upon and respond to a sculpture by Auguste Rodin, "Monument for the Defense of Paris." Permission has been granted by Ackland Art Museum to use the following sculptures: "Monument for the Defense of Paris" (Auguste Rodin) and "Wisdom Supporting Liberty" (Aime-Jules Dalou).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Karen Wagoner.
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