Birthdays are a way to make a personal connection.  This enhances focus and engagement that helps students make positive connections culturally to other lives.  It uses Social Studies goals of learning about lifestyles, beliefs, ideas, and the influence that these have had on our world.  The EXCEL document has a list of 12 months of birthdays of African Americans.  This will give them access to any day of the year and a birthday to choose and look up to read about.  

In this resource, students learn to review primary sources about African Americans in aviation during the 1940s. They use their primary source study to answer two research questions: What obstacles to full participation in aviation did African Americans face? What strategies did they use to overcome these obstacles?

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 work as archivists at the National Archives to place historical artifacts into appropriate collections. Student will study primary sources related to our shared American heritage, analyze a variety of primary sources including visuals, text, and audio archives, and create a display showcasing one artifact and how it helps to unite us as Americans.

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 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.

In this classroom activity, students will research to gather information in order to create a radio broadcast about the five court cases that made up Brown v. Board of Education, and tell the stories of the African Americans from different walks of like who demanded better educational opportunities for their children. This lesson is part of the online exhibition entitled Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education.

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.

This article reviews how the art form of dance reflects various beliefs of the different ethnic minorities from China. China has 56 ethnic minorities, each of which has a culture that is characterized by, among other features, a set of unique folk dances. Since each ethnic group's folk dances reflect the peculiarities of that group's religious, cultural and historical narrative, the dances ? their choreography and their colorful costumes ? naturally reflect this ethnic narrative. Many of the dances of ethnic minority groups share common themes such as rivalry, jealously and love ? but also forgiveness ? as well as matrimonial bliss and the communal bond.

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

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 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.

In this lesson, students will examine the various cultural aspects of those enslaved, such as the important roles played by family names, food and religion, in shaping their identities.  Students will also explore how those same aspects continue to shape our own cultures today.

In this lesson, students will closely examine a copy of the Gettysburg Address written in Lincoln's hand and will be encouraged to think critically about the meanings and context of one of America's most famous speeches.

Students will learn abouth te Freemen's Colony which was established by Union soldiers during the American Civil War.

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

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.

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 the political, economic, and geographic regional differences that led to conflict in the United States through map sketches, primary sources, problem-solving and points of view.