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Native American Leaders
Posted on April 7, 2011 | No CommentsThis two week third grade integrated unit will emphasize important Native American leaders past and present with in emphasis on Cherokee leaders. The unit includes literature about famous Native Americans. Students will develop an understand of how these people's lives have an impact on the current roles of Native Americans today. -
Logging Communities of Swain County
Posted on April 7, 2011 | No CommentsThe project covers three main themes: a) logging communities b) resources of the region and c) environmental impacts of logging on the region. -
Life in Swain County at Proctor and Hazel Creek
Posted on April 7, 2011 | No CommentsThe content area of study will encompass the disciplines of social studies, reading, math, and computer technology. The scope of the unit is to acquaint the students with their cultural heritage by comparing and contrasting pioneer life in Swain County to the changes that have occurred over a period of time. The concepts will be taught in the third grade from the N.C. Standard Course of Study. -
Gem Mining
Posted on April 7, 2011 | No CommentsCowee Valley, located in Northern Macon County, in Franklin, North Carolina is an area rich with gem mines. Gem mining is a hobby and tourist attraction. Students will learn about the history of gem mining in Cowee Valley. Students will explore types of soil, rocks, map skills, cultural traditions, community interaction, and economic resources of this community in relationship to gem mining in our area. -
A Look into the Past of Jackson County
Posted on April 7, 2011 | No CommentsThis unit is designed to correlate with the 3rd grade North Carolina Standard Course of Study. -
Haywood County, NC, Career Choices
Posted on April 5, 2011 | No CommentsThis unit is designed to direct students on the path of a career choice for a promising future in the job world. To help students identify and search for their ideal career. To show them what type of jobs are a good match for them and what types of jobs they should avoid. To help them discover their strenghts, weaknesses, interests and capabilities. To give them insight and clarity into the fundamental nature of the careers that will work well for them. We will take them on an exciting journey through the past to the future to discover how their ancestors made their living. This journey will include past history and the present future of jobs and trades in Haywood County. This project was designed to work with grades second through twelfth grades. -
One Room Schools in Haywood County
Posted on April 5, 2011 | No CommentsThis is a grade 1-8 unit on one-room schools in Haywood County. It will include the first school to the present. This unit takes eleven days and covers computer skills, language arts skills, and social studies skills. It includes some art, music, and cooking activities. Students will learn what one-room schools were like, and compare them with schools of today. -
A Day in the Life of a Pioneer
Posted on April 5, 2011 | No CommentsMany pioneers did not know how to read or write. Nevertheless, they had to know many skills that the average person today does not know. Visit our pages and see some skills a pioneer had to know to survive. -
Agricultural Pride in Macon County
Posted on April 5, 2011 | No CommentsAgricultural Pride in Macon County is designed to help students recognize the impact that agriculture has on the community in which they live. Students will learn that changes from the past to the present have had a major effect on the agriculture. Student will explore what their community has to offer for their families in crops, livestock and handicrafts. Through this learning experience, each student will ask themselves, What can we do to keep that Pride alive? -
The Hooper Bald Project
Posted on April 5, 2011 | No CommentsNo bald in the Southern Appalachians has a more improbable history than Hooper. In the more than 130 years of white-man history it has been reachable only by foot horse wagon, or jeep. Yet it had the first bathtubs in Graham County. The first Angus cattle in Western North Carolina fattened on its wild grass. Fourteen Russian wild boars arrived there in 1912 and the problems and pleasures caused by their progeny will make Hooper Bald remembered for generations. -
The Evolution of the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad
Posted on April 5, 2011 | No CommentsThis unit will investigate the birth of a railroad through Western North Carolina once known as the Murphy Branch. We will discuss how the operation and purpose for the train has changed over time. The Murphy Branch portion was completed in 1891 using convict labor for most of the construction. This line began in Asheville and continued on to Murphy. Now over a hundred years later, the train still rides the rails. Upon completion of this unit, children will experience a ride on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. -
Quilting
Posted on April 5, 2011 | No CommentsChildren will use books, magazines, Internet, people from our county and any other resources to gain background knowledge of quilt history, and the stories quilts tell. As a culminating activity, students will write a story about a special memory and design a quilt block to illustrate their story. -
Pioneers of Western North Carolina
Posted on April 5, 2011 | No CommentsStudents in a home school setting compare the pioneer period and the present; therefore, there is greater opportunity for students to go on field trips and explore hands-on activities. The focus is on Franklin, North Carolina, but the information can be used to study other areas in Western North Carolina. A PIONEER SAMPLER will be used as the primary textbook. -
History of Government in Cherokee County
Posted on April 5, 2011 | No CommentsIn this unit children explore the history of their local community through maps, primary documents, such as journals and newspaper articles, and secondary source materials such as publications by local historical societies. The children concentrate on the history of their own local community through the creation of timelines and historical narratives and the analysis of primary and secondary sources. -
Haywood County Communities
Posted on April 5, 2011 | No CommentsWhere have we been? Where are we now? Where are we going? Major changes have taken place over the last one hundred years. Some communities have grow, some have stayed the same, and some are no longer. This unit will focus on these changes and the impact that they have had in the lives of our families and friends.