Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Class Alphabet Book

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students are introduced to the Kid Pix software program and its templates. With a partner, they use the internet find a picture that starts with each letter of the alphabet. They practice saying and reading the words to their partner for...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Once In a Blue Moon

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students review the characteristics of the planets and their moons. Using the internet, they research the relationship between the Earth and its moons. They take a template of the moon and draw craters of different colors to present to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Moon WebQuest

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research basic information about the moon and identify the phases and order of the phases of the moon. They conduct Internet research, complete a moon WebQuest, and write a magazine article about the moon using their...
eBook
University of North Carolina

Unc Libraries: "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington

For Students 9th - 10th
A very detailed version of Booker T. Washington's life as a slave and as an educator. This autobiography is the outgrowth of a series of articles he had published in the Outlook magazine. The simple story of an extraordinary man.
Primary
University of North Carolina

Unc: Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, read Harriet Jacobs' (1802-1880 CE) "Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl" and learn biographical information about Jacobs. Also provided at this website are several reports by Jacobs on the conditions of slaves and freedmen and...
Handout
University of North Carolina

Unc: History of the Negro Church: Electronic Edition

For Students 9th - 10th
This website is quite unique, in that it compiles historical data in a segmented form of the birth and evolution of Black Christianity in America. Carter G. Woodson, one of the most respected names relative to the anthology of the Negro,...
Primary
University of North Carolina

Unc: Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the full text of "Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry (1736-1799)," written by William Wirt (1772-1834). 140 pages long, this book contains an in-depth biography of the man.