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Educator's Guides: North Carolina Digital History

Best practices, process guides, worksheets, and other resources for teaching with LEARN NC's digital textbook of North Carolina history.

Format: (multiple pages)

Fact-Question-Response worksheet

This worksheet provides a three-column chart for students to keep track of their thoughts as they read an article or primary source. The first column is for facts, the second for questions, and the third for their own responses to the reading or to those facts...

Format: document/worksheet

From documents to digitization

To design a research project using primary sources from the Web, you'll need to know what's out there and how to find it. This article explains what's available, why, and where.

Format: article

By David Walbert.

Map skills and higher-order thinking

This series of articles looks at map skills as a kind of visual literacy, considering what maps are, how they're made, and the higher-order thinking skills students need to move from simply decoding maps to fully comprehending them.

Format: series (multiple pages)

The not-so-famous person report

In Rethinking Reports, page 3.2

Instead of teaching the history of the famous, use research in primary sources to teach students that the past and present were made by people like them.

Format: article

By David Walbert.

A picture is worth a thousand words

An example of how a single image can provoke discussions at all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D. and David Walbert.

Rethinking Reports

Creative research-based assignments provide alternatives to the President Report, Animal Report, and Famous Person Report that ask students to think about old topics in new ways, work collaboratively, and develop products that support a variety of learning styles.

Format: series (multiple pages)

Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide

LEARN NC works collaboratively with educators and other individuals from a variety of backgrounds to develop web-based resources for teachers and students. This manual guides educators through the process of developing content for publication on the web, including writing, design, technical guidelines, and copyright.

Format: book (multiple pages)

Resources on the web

Docs Teach

The National Archives and Records Administration has created Docs Teach to bring history to life for your students! Thousands of primary source documents are at your fingertips to create your own interactive activities. Or, use the ready-to-use activities... (Learn more)

Format: website

Provided by: National Archives and Records Administration

Primary Documents in American History

Digitized primary source materials with annotations from the years 1763 to 1877. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: Library of Congress

Using Primary Documents in the Classroom

Bring history alive with these suggestions for using primary source documents in the classroom. (Learn more)

Format: website/activity

Provided by: Library of Congress