Lesson Plans
SDG Achieved! Choose a Country. Create a Plan.
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8, 9-12By Ashley Grant from Greene County Middle School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: Working collaboratively, students will develop an action plan to solve a United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in one country by the year 2030. Students will research the targets for their SDG, focusing on national level strategies and solutions…
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Sea Ice Impacts on a Subsistence Lifestyle
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: 6-8, 9-12Students will be introduced to the subsistence lifestyle through the interconnected lenses of changing climate, food insecurity, and decreasing sea ice. Students will become familiar with the location of Savoonga, Alaska, home to a Siberian Yupik community, within the Arctic region as a whole, as well as be able to…
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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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Still Here: Listening to Native American Women’s Voices
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: 6-8, 9-12This lesson is an opportunity for students to recognize that Native American women’s stories offer valuable insights on their life experiences and American history. Students will learn about Native American women, listen to their stories, and recognize that these voices offer contributions to enrich their understanding of US history and…
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Sustainable Agriculture in North Carolina
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: 9-12This lesson is designed to engage students in an exploration of the history and practice of sustainable agriculture in North Carolina. The focus is on the development of agriculture by Indigenous peoples and the impact the cultural shift that occurred with the influx of European settlers and the onset of…
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Sustainable Communities
Year: 2021-2022 | Level: 9-12Students will explore the types of natural resources available and how these resources were used by American Indians in North Carolina during the past 1,000 years. They will compare and contrast past and contemporary sustainability to evaluate whether or not Indigenous natural resource management practices are still in use today….
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Sustainable Development and Balanced Art
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8By Patti Donohue from Johnson Street Global Studies OVERVIEW OF LESSON: In this lesson, students will be introduced to two photographers, Camille Seaman and Chris Jordan, whose work incorporates themes of climate change and mass consumerism (Sustainable Development Goals 12 and 13). Students will hear Camille Seaman reflect on the…
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Sustainable Tourism throughout the Spanish-Speaking World
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12By Jennifer Nichols from Cox Mill High School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: After identifying a country in the Spanish-speaking world and the environmental, cultural, and other important impacts caused by tourism, students will identify connections to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Students will explain the impacts of tourism, both…
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The Dirty Truth About Germs
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8By Kristen Cox from East Cary Magnet Middle School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: This lesson highlights how diseases spread. It gives students insight into places that do not have access to clean water and sanitation and how that impacts the people’s overall well being. This lesson connects Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)…
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