Containing more than 50 articles from the award-winning Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine and over 40 lesson plans, this multidisciplinary Educator Notebook will enrich your exploration of North Carolina and American history with diverse perspectives. This resource's link takes you to a very short form that gives you free downloadable access to the complete PDF book.

Students can learn about African-Americans and how they have been represented on stamps over the history of the United States. This is a resource from the Smithsonian Postal Museum and it addresses the culture of the United States.

Students will learn about life on the coast of North Carolina and the various aspects of the culture of the people who grew up there.

In this resource, students can view a webinar about Christmas traditions in North Carolina during the colonial era.

Students learn about community celebrations and their importance to a community's culture heritage. Students compare different celebrations, including place, time, purpose, history, food and drinks, activities, and other important ideas associated with culture.

Enrich your lessons of North Carolina history and culture by connecting the past to crafts that are easy and fun to make in your classroom. Supply lists and instructions are provided on each page! Make copies as needed for your students and share accompanying histories to add meaning to the activities. This resource's link takes you to a very short form that gives you free downloadable access to the complete PDF book.

Students focus on cultural characteristics, cultural events, and celebrations of the community. Students gather information on the local community.

Higher-level students will collaboratively construct a classroom newspaper, “Diversity Matters” or “Diverse Times” etc.  Students will learn about different cultures within their community and region via the internet, videos, books, and local newspaper articles about local and regional cultural festivals.  Then students will compare and contrast the cultures (traditions, celebrations, dress, food, language, etc.).  Students will work together to make analogies and metaphors to compare/contrast different cultures.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students will learn the characteristics of tall tales, reflect on a historical moment, and discover why David Crockett and others like him became important figures in American frontier history.

Students can explore the story behind one of America's pioneers of jazz music, Duke Ellington, through children's literature, museum collections, and hands-on activities.

Students will listen to some freedom songs on the Internet, and then make their own version of one of the songs.

In these units, students can discover the Spanish and Mexican roots of American cowboy culture in this set of four lessons, divided into grades K–2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12. The youngest students look for the Spanish origins of cowboy words (lasso from lazo, for example). Older students do a bit of translation work: they compose a rhyming cowboy ballad based on a Mexican corrido.

In this lesson, students will identify differences and similarities between their own lives and the lives of other children living in a different country. Students will be able to value the differences that may seem strange to them by allowing themselves to walk in the shoes of other children, and to think about similarities as well as differences.

Students can use their senses to see, smell, and feel what it would have been like to live on the prairie long ago.

In this lesson, students learn about community celebrations and their importance to a community’s cultural heritage. Students compare different celebrations including place, time, purpose, history, food and drinks, activities, and other important ideas associated with culture.

In this lesson, students focus on cultural characteristics, cultural events, and celebrations of the community. Students gather information on the local community.

In this lesson, students learn about the contributions of the African American community.

In this lesson, students create a comic strip that tells a fictional story about a slave's life and how they overcome obstacles using descriptive language.

In this lesson, students learn about Hunter in his journey from slave to business owner.

In these videos, artifacts from the Vance Birthplace State Historic Site collection are featured with clues about their purpose. Students try to solve the History Mystery before the answer is revealed.