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 how Native Americans 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 illustrate how the use, conservation or depletion of natural resources affects an area. They will also show how people "return to nature" hoping to find inspiration that will help them cope with the stresses of their everyday lives.

Students can learn about how people with a Hispanic background 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.

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.

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 analyze the impact/contributions of Hunter in his local community and regions over time. Students will create a brief digital presentation to demonstrate their understanding of Hunter’s contributions followed by examples of how we can contribute to our communities today.

Students will take a trip to explore the architecture in their communities, hunting for specific features from the Field Guide and using the suggested discussion questions.

This is a chart used to record the elements of culture found within the various versions of Cinderella, or any other text.  I used this for my second grade students during our Culture Unit/How We Express Ourselves PYP Unit.  

This is a Bubble Map used to record the elements of culture found within different texts/ media. Credit to: Amity Davis