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- Chronology: The time of my life
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.6
- In their study of chronology the students will use personal timelines and an activity sheet to demonstrate the importance of intact information to achieve accuracy, and compare and contrast their timelines with the chronological information contained in a stratified archaeological site.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Culture everywhere
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.3
- In their study of culture, students will use a chart to show the different ways that cultures meet basic human needs and recognize that archaeologists study how people from past cultures met basic needs by analyzing and interpreting the artifacts and sites that they left behind.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Desegregating public schools: Integrated vs. neighborhood schools
- In this high school lesson plan, students will learn about the history of the "separate but equal" U.S. school system and the 1971 Swann case which forced Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to integrate. Students will examine the pros and cons of integration achieved through busing, and will write an argumentative essay drawing on information from oral histories.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- A guided journey into the past
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.7
- In their study of archaeological resource conservation, students will use guided imagery to discover and judge an alternative way to enjoy artifacts without removing them from archaeological sites.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)
- How do I look to you?
- In this lesson, students will evaluate public service posters and a grooming pamphlet to determine if and how propaganda was used to improve the health of children, and define acceptable appearances for young women in the 1930s.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–8 English Language Arts)
- By Loretta Wilson.
- 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 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Looking at an object
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.10
- Students will analyze unfamiliar objects in order to observe the attributes of an object, infer the uses of objects; and discover how archaeologists use objects to learn about the past.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Pottery traditions
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.5
- Students will learn how Indian people of North Carolina made and used coiled pottery, summarize why archaeologists study pottery, and make and decorate a replica of a North Carolina coiled pot.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- Scientific inquiry
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.8
- In their study of scientific inquiry, students will use an activity sheet to make inferences about what activities go on at different places in school (desk, locker, etc.) and form an hypothesis about how space is used. They will also simulate how archaeologists learn about past people by designing and conducting a research project.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–9 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Site robbers
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.6
- Students will use an interview with a Native American to write a newspaper article or letter that expresses concern about robbing archaeological sites.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Take action, save the past
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.8
- In their study of archaeological resource conservation, students will use a problem-solving model to identify a problem and solve it creatively.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Two perspectives on slavery: A comparison of personal narratives
- This activity for grade 11 will help students evaluate and critique authors' perspectives. Students will read two first-person narratives and analyze how each text is influenced by its author's cultural background.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
