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Webquest: The journeys and journals of John Lederer

In this eleventh grade language arts lesson, students study maps in relation to primary source texts to glean insights into the discovery of Western North Carolina. Students explore map features and how they increase understanding of the documents. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)

Provided by: UNC Libraries

What happens in the White House?

In this lesson, part of the EDSITEment curriculum unit titled “What Happens in the White House,” students view images of former Presidents living and working within the White House. They discuss the different functions that the White House serves.... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)

Provided by: EDSITEment

What has happened in the White House?

In this lesson, the second in the EDSITEment curriculum unit titled “What Happens in the White House?” students explore historic events that have occurred at or directly affected the White House. This lesson incorporates primary source material... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)

Provided by: EDSITEment

What is history? Timelines and oral histories

This lesson from EDSITEment aims to help students understand history and recognize that the past is different depending on who is remembering and retelling it. There are four activities, in which students construct a timeline based on events from their... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

Provided by: EDSITEment

What makes a hero?

A common lament one hears today is that young people lack heroes to emulate. Is that true? Do your students have heroes? Who are they? What qualities of a hero do they represent? Which historical figures would students recognize to be heroes? Are there... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

Provided by: EDSITEment

What masks reveal

In this lesson, students explore the cultural significance of masks by investigating the role they play in ceremonies and on special occasions in societies from widely separated regions of the world. They then reflect on masking behavior in American society,... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

Provided by: EDSITEment

What portraits reveal

This lesson is designed to help students recognize that portraits, whether paintings or photographs, can tell us more about people of the past than just what they looked like. Students first compare portraits of three Presidents of the United States... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education and Information Skills)

Provided by: EDSITEment

What was Columbus thinking?

In this lesson, students read excerpts from Columbus's letters and journals, as well as recent considerations of his achievements. Students reflect on the motivations behind Columbus's explorations, his reactions to what he found and the consequences, intended... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)

Provided by: EDSITEment

Where I come from

Students take research into their heritage a step beyond the construction of a family tree, traveling through cyberspace to find out what's happening in their ancestral homelands today and explore their sense of connection to these places in their past. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

Provided by: EDSITEment

Where in North Carolina is . . . ? Teaching latitude and longitude

In this lesson for fourth and fifth grade social studies, students locate the birthplaces of famous North Carolinians on historic maps of North Carolina and describe their locations using latitude and longitude. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Social Studies)

Provided by: UNC Libraries

Why do we remember Revere? Paul Revere's ride in history and literature

This EDSITEment lesson contains four activities for students to examine how the historical Paul Revere's ride differs from the account in Longfellow's poem, then reflect on why this event is so significant in American cultural history. The activities involve... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

Provided by: EDSITEment

Would you have helped out?

In this lesson from Xpeditions, students will investigate the dangers faced by escaping slaves and their helpers on the Underground Railroad. Pretending to live back in the time of slavery, students consider whether they would have helped the escaping slaves.... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)

Provided by: Xpeditions