Lesson Plans
Below is a collection of lesson plans about cultural heritage and archaeology.
Organization: University of North Carolina
Description: Intrigue of the Past: North Carolina's First Peoples (Chapter 3) results from a marriage of the Bureau of Land Management's Project Archaeology and the University of North Carolina's Research Laboratories of Archaeology's commitment to provide a program designed to share with and teach North Carolina students about our state's rich and fascinating past. Equally important, the program emphasizes that the archaeological evidence of that past is fragile and threatened, and we all have a responsibility to see to its wise use.
Age group or class level: Grades 4-8
The Pathfinders (PDF)
The Forest People (PDF)
The Pottery Makers (PDF)
The Village Farmers (PDF)
Organization: University of North Carolina
Description: Intrigue of the Past: North Carolina's First Peoples (Chapter 4) results from a marriage of the Bureau of Land Management's Project Archaeology and the University of North Carolina's Research Laboratories of Archaeology's commitment to provide a program designed to share with and teach North Carolina students about our state's rich and fascinating past. Equally important, the program emphasizes that the archaeological evidence of that past is fragile and threatened, and we all have a responsibility to see to its wise use.
Age group or class level: Grades 4-8
Shadows of North Carolina’s Past (PDF)
Shifting Coastlines (PDF)
Name That Point (PDF)
Pottery Traditions (PDF)
A Siouan Village (PDF)
Language Families (PDF)
Organization: University of North Carolina
Description: Intrigue of the Past: North Carolina's First Peoples (Chapter 5) results from a marriage of the Bureau of Land Management's Project Archaeology and the University of North Carolina's Research Laboratories of Archaeology's commitment to provide a program designed to share with and teach North Carolina students about our state's rich and fascinating past. Equally important, the program emphasizes that the archaeological evidence of that past is fragile and threatened, and we all have a responsibility to see to its wise use.
Age group or class level: Grades 4-8
Archaeology As A Career (PDF)
Rock Art (PDF)
Creating Your Own Rock Art (PDF)
Site Robbers (PDF)
Organization: Viking Learning Center
Description: Through a blend of history, art and literature, archeology, life, earth and environmental sciences, the exhibition explores the Vikings' cultures and their times as well as their influences in history and on other cultures. The exhibit shows they were not only plunderers and pillagers but they were also farmers & fishermen, extraordinary sailors and shipbuilders, highly skilled and inspired artists and craftsmen, long distance traders, planners and builders of towns, renowned poets and tellers of heroic tales
Age group or class level: Grade 4 on up
Organization: Whitman Mission National Historic Site
Description: The Explorers of the Northwest is a 148-page education resource guide on the topic of explorers who blazed the trails to the Pacific Northwest. It includes background history, classroom discussion activities, site-visit activities, worksheets, coloring sheets and references.
Age group or class level: 4th Grade students
Explorers of the Pacific Northwest: An Education Resource Guide (PDF)