Curriculum Level: K-5
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices Through Storytelling
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: K-5Students will learn how Indigenous people address healthy lifestyle choices through storytelling by focusing on characters, themes, and personification. Students will use the YouTube version of the Eagle Book Series written by Georgia Perez. The Eagle Book Series allows young readers to see healthy lifestyle choices. The author developed these…
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Malala: Gender Rights Leader and Refugee
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: K-5By Holly Kolarova from Clear Creek Elementary OVERVIEW OF LESSON: Students will review a picture book and an informational text about Malala Yousafzai and identify what factors forced Malala’s family to become refugees. Students will identify UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are relevant to Malala’s situation, including quality education…
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Migration is a Universal Human Experience
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: K-5By Holly Kolarova from Clear Creek Elementary OVERVIEW OF LESSON: Students will read two historical fiction picture books based on real people that experienced the act of migration in their lives. Students will understand what a migrant is, the push and pull reasons for migration, the hardships migrants face, and…
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Name that Artifact!
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: K-5In groups of 3-5, students will analyze models of 3-D artifacts using the UNC Research Laboratories of Archaeology’s Ancient North Carolinians website. During analysis, students will make observations of their artifact–describing its characteristics, and using those descriptions to make predictions about what the artifact may have been used for. Students will…
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NC Lumbee Tribe Homecoming: A Comparison of Celebrations and Culture
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: K-5Through discussion, students will see that celebrations are a way for communities to share their culture with not only the next generation but with others not of their culture. Students will begin by explaining their personal Fourth of July celebrations and the reasons or purpose behind celebrating this day. Students…
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Preserving Indigenous Hawaiian Culture Through Aloha
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: K-5As fifth-grade students begin to learn about the life of North America’s first peoples, the Age of Exploration, and colonization, they will be asked to analyze the effects that European exploration had on Native Hawaiian Peoples. Students will begin this lesson learning about Hawaiian history. Then they will explore Native…
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Product Design, SDG 12, & Lifestyles in Harmony with Nature
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: K-5By Patti Donohue from Johnson Street Global Studies OVERVIEW OF LESSON: After reviewing innovative designs, students will engage in the design process, reflecting on how the design process differs from fine art. They will learn about sustainable design and manufacturing, and about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and…
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Site Excavation
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: K-5Through the Excavating Occaneechi Town online module on the Ancient North Carolinians website, students will learn the five-step procedure archaeologists follow during site excavation. Students will then conduct their own excavation process of a fictional site, plotting artifacts on a grid, and drawing conclusions about the lifeways of the people that lived there.
Songwriting as Story Telling: Celebrating Indigenous Cultures Through Poetry and Music
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: K-5Students will demonstrate their understanding of what it means to be Indigenous and Native Peoples and that many of these cultures and First Nations continue to be vibrant and thriving communities to this day. They will be able to identify a variety of First Nations around the world by describing…
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Themes in Indigenous Stories
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: K-5Students will hear stories about Indigenous People and their connections to the earth and its resources. They will see how the areas lived in drive the stories that we are listening to by comparing and contrasting elements of folktales. Students will look at the central message, setting, character, and themes…
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