North Carolina Place Names

Students choose three activities that demonstrate their knowledge of North Carolina history. In this North Carolina history lesson, students choose three activities from a tic-tac-toe sheet to complete. They research information, write a...

In this lesson, North Carolina Salt Dough Map, 4th graders create a salt dough map of North Carolina, Students use dough to form the shape of the state of North Carolina. Students label the three regions of North Carolina and all of...

Young scholars examine the soil of the Inner Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Using the internet, they discover why tobacco was a major crop of the area and locate on a map tobacco farms. They show how tobacco was grown before modern...

Providing a creative way to review information, this lesson has learners create a diamante poem to share what they have learned. In this case, the topic of the poem is North Carolina, but a teacher could use this technique with any topic.

Fourth graders investigate the three regions of North Carolina using works of art.

Through an exploration of North Carolina lighthouses, pupils create a series of graphs displaying key information. The lesson begins with a video on lighthouses, continues with an activity involving inputting data into an Excel sheet,...

Summarazation skills are the focus of this interesting lesson on cultural diversity in North Carolina. After viewing a PowerPoint on the steps used to summarize, pupils collect important details from the book, The Writer and compose a...

Fourth graders become familiar with aspects of county government in North Carolina. They name at least three ways that county government helps people utilize resources to answer questions about county government.

Fourth graders participate in center activities to explore the concept of absolute and relative location. They locate places in North Carolina using absolute and relative location on a map. They complete the studying frame as a summary...

Fourth graders research one person famous in North Carolina's history. They view a PowerPoint presentation to read about their assigned person in order to gather facts telling about the impact the North Carolinian made to the state. ...