This unit combines nonfiction reading, biographies, Henry Ford, and Michigan history into one unit. It covers many informational reading standards and Michigan social studies standards all together.
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.
This site providedes a brief synopsis of each of the forty-four presidents of the United States, from President George Washington to President Barack H. Obama. By clicking on their photograph at the top of the page, students will access their biography. In addition, their major accomplishments are described and various objects related to them are depicted.
This resource reviews varied information about United States presidents from the founding fathers to President Obama. Essays about the presidents are provided, facts about their families, key events, and speeches. A view of their impact on the nation is also provided.
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 can learn about Herbert Brimley who was the first curator of the North Carolina Museum of . He was also a scientist who contributed a great deal to the state.
Students can learn about Carrie Broughton. She was the first women to head an agency in the State of North Carolina and she helped to organize the State Library system and successfully categorize the records so people could easily search them.
In this activity, students will take a close look at a comic book from the 1950s and 60s about nonviolence in the civil rights movement and think about ways those tips could help you today. Included in an OurStory module from Smithsonian's National Museum of American History entitled Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nonviolence, this activity is designed to help children and adults enjoy exploring history together through the use of children's literature, everyday objects, and hands-on activities.
Students will learn about the methods and tools needed to conduct a genealogical interview. It is included in an OurStory module entitled Great Women of Our Pasts.
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 will practice using primary sources by to learn about slavery and the Underground Railroad by analyzing newspaper advertisements regarding runaway slaves from the Charleston Mercury
Discover how transportation changes have influenced the way we get what we eat. This site depicts the evolution of transportation beginning in 1876 and the impact on food delivery. Different forms of transportation are shown with guiding questions to promote critical thinking and discussion.
In this lesson, students practice using language related to chronology. They work with the histories of their own lives as well as the history of their school. They begin to learn about different sources of information.
The lesson addresses how the community is impacted by innovators like George Washington Carver. Students examine the life of George Washington Carver and other innovators including those in the local community to learn about and use problem-solving skills and imagine themselves as problem-solvers and innovators.
Students explore the characteristics of the physical environment of communities, including their own community, in order to describe and explain variations in the physical environment, including climate, landforms, natural resources, and natural hazards. They also explore these characteristics to identify and compare how people in different communities adapt to the physical environment in which they live. Students also look at excerpts from the journals of Christopher Columbus, whose journeys “opened”the New World to further exploration and settlement, to see how he described the physical environment of the islands where he landed.
In this lesson, students practice using map elements to study location, distance, and directions and create maps of the local community, comparing differences in human characteristics in rural and urban communities.
In this lesson, students learn about historical and contemporary figures who contribute to a community's culture by introducing ideas that change, expand, or shape communities. Students learn through historical figures who exemplify good citizenship the importance of the characteristics of good citizenship and acts of civic responsibility.
In this lesson, students consider heroes and deeds based on the criteria of a good citizen. Students learn about heroes in the past and consider their efforts on the present. Using vocabulary, past, present, and future, students place heroes into a timeline and tell about their deeds.
With this lesson, student look closely at historical people who were first to make discoveries or create inventions or innovations that changed communities at that time, now, and in the future, focusing also on local heroes who are good citizens and first responders. Students make use of technology as a resource for research, to summarize and write what is learned, and place information into a timeline format.