Students will choose a famous African American from history by researching grade-level articles, resources, and biographies. They will explore the life and legacy of their person and create a biography tab book documenting their important events.
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.
In this lesson, students will work interactively through the Hyperdoc using the story Birth of an Anthem in their Wonders Literature Anthology. The lesson will begin with discussion about what an anthem is and how it could represent a country, place, etc while providing students with background knowledge of the Star Spangled Banner by watching the youtube link below. As students complete both readings of Birth of an Anthem, students will work through a hyperdoc focusing on various reading skills; identifying key ideas and details, summarizing, analyzing text structure (cause and effect).
Using Wonders text and their Reading/Writing Companion, students will learn about the importance of landmarks and monuments to determine how they help us understand our country’s story. After being provided with a list of monuments,landmarks and national parks, students will select one national park or monument to conduct guided research (students will be provided with an interactive Google Slide to assist in each step). After conducting guided research, using a rubric students will create a virtual postcard using the Canva platform. *The formative assessment will include students making a virtual postcard using Canva. Students may not know what a postcard is. To help students connect, it would be a great idea to provide students with a postcard and allow them to mail it to a family member, or to another 3rd grade classroom.
You have learned that there are different areas of social studies. You have learned about geography. You have also learned about economics. In this chapter you will learn about history. You will discover that history is what happened in the past.
The NC Kids' Exploration Journals are a fun educational tool to help youth explore their communities and natural surroundings! Each journal contains: 18 multidisciplinary activities with guided prompts, 6 lined journal pages for recording observations and reflections, and 4 blank pages for individual creativity.
The digital versions of the journal are designed to be printed out for students either as individual activities or in its entirety so that they can explore their school yard, local park, or own backyard. Though designed for 1st - 5th-graders, older audiences may enjoy them too! They are also available in both English and Spanish languages.
While supplies last, hard copies of the journals are currently available for free to teachers by contacting karen.ipock@ncdcr.gov.
The teacher will introduce students to the two web articles with perspectives about slavery (one from the perspective of a slave and one from the perspective of slave owners). Then the higher level will have a discussion about the two perspectives. Higher-level students will write a R.A.F.T, assuming a ROLE and using the R.A.F.T and the rubric to guide their writing. 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.
Remixed from: Let Freedom RIng: The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jrby: EDSITEmentshttps://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/let-freedom-ring-life-legacy-martin-luther-king-jr Guided Questions: How did Martin Luther King Jr. become a famous leader in the civil rights movement?Why do we still celebrate the words of King's "I Have a Dream" speech?To what extent has Dr. King's dream been realized?
The best way to learn something is to repeat, retell and teach something to others. Students will learn about events in history. They can be scientific or historical events. Students may read about them in a history book or even in a book of historical fiction.
In this unit students use primary and secondary sources of information to explore the early history of Michigan. They begin by examining the work of historians and the types of questions they ask. Then, they apply historical thinking skills to a study of American Indians in Michigan, exploration and early settlement. The unit provides a strong link to geography as students analyze ways in which both American Indians and settlers used, adapted to, and modified the environment. Through stories and informational text, students examine Michigan's past. Civics is naturally integrated as students explore how Michigan became a state. Throughout the unit, emphasis is placed on major historical concepts such as chronology, cause and effect, and point of view.