Curriculum Level: 9-12
Annotated Bibliography
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12By Angela Love Moser from Innovation Early College High School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: Students will conduct research on a problem in the world today and connect this problem to at least three of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Then, students will identify six to eight sources and use the…
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Clean Water for All
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8, 9-12By Kate Wernersbach from Wake Early College of Health and Science OVERVIEW OF LESSON: This lesson is designed to create awareness about UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: Clean Water and Sanitation. Students will conduct research about each of the eight SDG 6 Targets (listed below) and then apply their…
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Decoding History Through Indigenous Art
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: 9-12In this lesson students will explore pictographs and petroglyphs, created by Indigenous peoples, to understand how the geographic location and physical environment can impact the medium that is used to document human experiences. They will then create a visual of their own, sharing their life in images. Through small and…
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Does Modern Mean Better? Comparing “Modern” and “Traditional” Economic Models Through the Lens of Long-Term Sustainability
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: 9-12The lesson will be designed to compare the prevailing “Western” free market economic development model, based on competition, consumerism, and resource depletion, to various examples of traditional-Indigenous economic development models which are based on principals of balance, reciprocity, conservation, and resource sustainability. Students will compare examples of Indigenous economies with…
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Empowering Poetry: Educating Women, Improving the World
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12By Kate Wernersbach from Wake Early College of Health and Sciences OVERVIEW OF LESSON: This lesson is designed to create awareness about UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4): Quality Education and Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5): Gender Equality through literature and nonfiction texts. For an entire unit, students…
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Environmental Racism and the Tragedy of the Commons
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: 9-12This lesson is designed to engage students with critical thinking regarding the environment, sustainability, and environmental racism and justice. The lesson focuses on an in-depth comparison between the widely accepted Western idea of the Tragedy of the Commons, championed by Garrett Hardin, and the experiences and knowledge of Indigenous peoples….
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Exploring Indigenous Cultures of North Carolina: Part I, THE PAST
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: 6-8, 9-12, Community College, K-5This brief slide deck and associated text provides background information for teachers using any of the lesson plans developed as part of the 2021-2022 UNC World View Fellows Program, Exploring Indigenous Cultures: Ancient North Carolinians, Past and Present. Educators are welcome to use these slides to introduce or enhance any of the lessons…
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Exploring Indigenous Cultures of North Carolina: Part II, THE PRESENT
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: 6-8, 9-12, Community College, K-5This brief slide deck and associated text provides background information for teachers using any of the lesson plans developed as part of the 2021-2022 UNC World View Fellows Program, Exploring Indigenous Cultures: Ancient North Carolinians, Past and Present. Educators are welcome to use these slides to introduce or enhance any of the lessons…
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From Artifact to Art
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: 6-8, 9-123D printing is the perfect connection between science and art. Seeing artifacts in a museum is one thing, but holding an artifact in your hand is quite another. In this lesson, students will examine scans of archaeological artifacts, and will learn how to translate 3D scans into printable files. After…
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From Shakespeare to Siouan: An Investigation of European and American Indian Cultures
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: 9-12In this lesson students will explore American Indian lifeways during Shakespeare’s lifetime, AD 1564-1616. They will compare American Indian culture during that general time period in North Carolina to that of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan England and consider what may have caused conflicts between the two groups following European settlement and colonization….
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