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 will learn about influential members of society that have been voices of change using their Wonders text from Unit 4 weeks 1 and 2. As students learn about these important figures, they will choose a social issue that they would like to change in order to help society as a whole. Students will use a google slide graphic organizer to plan the steps that they will take to create the change that they would like to see. After completing the graphic organizer, students will share their ideas using Voki avatars or some type of recording program.

In this lesson, students will listen to a read aloud book called Coming to America by Betsy Maestro. The class will discuss why the people in the story decided to immigrate to the United States and how they acclimated themselves within the culture. In groups of four, students will take a virtual field trip to Ellis Island. They will compare and contrast immigration from a long time ago to the present. The teacher will assess student achievement by having students fill in the last portion of the Know, Want to Know, and Learned chart (see attachment). In addition, the students will write a summative paper that includes a reflection on what the students learned throughout the unit using a “Summative Reflection Rubric” (see attachment). This lesson was developed by Cheryl Riffe as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

This lesson is an introduction to the term of poverty. The students will begin with creating a Think Tank on poverty. After the creation of their Think Tank, we will share the vocabulary that was developed. Using the most often shared vocabulary, we will use these words to build a meaning and understanding of poverty. This lesson is based on poverty and music with a direct connection to math, science, technology, engineering, arts, and multiple media skills. The teacher will present a self-assessment for the students to monitor their progress at the conclusion of each lesson. *If instructor will need to purchase and watch the entire Landfill Harmonic video personally in order to complete the entirety of this unit. Ths lesson will conclude with a clip from the movie, "landfill harmonic". This lesson was developed by Christine Sisco as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

This lesson strand is two in a series of two lessons that go through the steps of the Engineering and Design Process as needed for the construction of a prototype. The prototype is a musical instrument created through recycling landfill items. Based on the Landfill Harmonic from Paraguay, the motivation for the unit is GEDB: Music and Poverty- The Landfill Harmonic. The students in Paraguay (Latin America) live in a landfill and use the items to develop an orchestra. The unit clearly defines poverty and the resourcefulness that one must meet when living in a poverty culture. This prototype is the final product of a cross curricular, multicultural unit based on poverty and music with a direct connection to math, science, technology, engineering, arts, and multiple media skills. The links attached are created addressing the Landfill Harmonic. This lesson was developed by Christine Sisco as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

This project is done with research and using Minecraft: Education Edition. Students will be working as a group of settlers that have landed on the coast of Virginia, survive while building the Jamestown Colony. Some research will be done pre-building in order for the students to get an idea for the purpose of the settlers coming to Jamestown. After the project is completed students will reflect on working in a hostile environment while working virtual strangers to survive and thrive in a new land. The lesson aligns with 5th grade Social Studies but could be used by other grade levels with minimal remixing. It will require all students to have access to the game and computers capable of running the game.

Fifth grade students in Michigan begin their study of American history with American Indian peoples before the arrival of European explorers and conclude with the adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791.