Subject Area: Social Studies
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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Origin Stories of Land Use
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: 9-12This lesson explores the meaning of land both environmentally and culturally, incorporating viewpoints of land from indigenous stakeholders, ecologists, government entities, historians and economists. How we ascribe value to land definitely impacts how that land is transformed or restored. Who has a voice in this process and why? Do all…
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Peace, Justice, and the League of Nations
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12By Denise-Marie Copeland from The Center of Applied Sciences and Technology (The COAST) OVERVIEW OF LESSON: This lesson will guide students to analyze the League of Nations in order to make a claim about whether or not it was an effective peace and justice institution. Students will compare text excerpts…
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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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Researching Methods: Indigenous Genocide using the “Ten Stages of Genocide”
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: 9-12This lesson will provide students with an overview of the Ten Stages of Genocide, authored by Dr. George Stanton of Genocide Watch to determine how government policies have been utilized to eradicate communities throughout world history. Students will be assigned or select an Indigenous community to research and evaluate, using…
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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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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.