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How the past events shaped North Carolina.
Grade:4

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4.H.1 Analyze the chronology of key historical events in North Carolina history.
4.H.2 Understand how notable structures, symbols and place names are significant to North Carolina.

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The North Carolina Museum of History allows teachers to rent a box called "Colonial North Carolina". This box would allow students to look at items from when settlers first came to North Carolina, explore how settlers changed the face of the places they settled, how geography shaped the settlement of people. Following viewing the history in a box, students could bring in their own cultural artifact and write an explanation of how this artifact would tell future generations about the people who lived here, the resources they had, and why they lived here.

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Bring the North Carolina Museum of History to you!

With "History-In-a-Box" Kits, educators can use a fresh approach to introduce topics in history! These multidisciplinary teaching tools provide you with background materials, reproduction artifacts, lessons, and activities that tie North Carolina history with language arts, science, math, and visual art.

All kits are available for loan for three weeks and while there is no rental fee, the user is responsible for paying return shipping (typically between $10-$15 per kit). Teachers in the Raleigh area can save shipping costs by picking up and returning kits to the museum. If you have any questions, please contact the Media Center at 919-807-7984 or through email.

Ordering a Kit

Due to the increasing popularity of our History-in-a-Box program, we are currently unable to send out kits to classes/groups (in public, private, or home-based schools) of fewer than 10 students. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause, but encourage you to take a look at our other Educator Resources.

All kits are prepared to be shipped or picked up on a Friday. Please choose your Friday ship/pick-up date below.

Please note that the date you request may not be available due to popularity, so be sure to check the confirmation you receive to verify the dates you were assigned will still work for you.

The HIBK program will not be sending kits the week of 9/8/17, 11/24/17, 12/22/17, 12/29/17, or 4/27/18. Please adjust your requests accordingly.

Only three kits will be sent out to a school at any given time. If there are other educators at your school who are seeking to use the HIBK program at the same time as you, we'll be happy to work with you to adjust the scheduling so that a reservation can work for multiple educators.

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Bring the North Carolina Museum of History to you! With "History-In-a-Box" Kits, educators can use a fresh approach to introduce topics in history! These multidisciplinary teaching tools provide you with background materials, reproduction artifacts, lessons, and activities that tie North Carolina history with language arts, science, math, and visual art.

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In pairs, students can choose a landmark near where they live to research and then build on Minecraft. When they present their minecraft version of the landmark, they should be able to show their peers where their landmark is on a map and why humans built this landmark.

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Guiding Ideas
What can we learn about a landmark by building it?
Introduce students to the challenge. Show examples of real-life and Minecraft landmarks. Pair students together for this project or let them choose a partner.

Student Activities

Have students research landmarks they may want to create. They could search for famous skyscrapers, wonders of the world, famous monuments, etc. Help them manage the scale and complexity of their choice based on Minecraft skill.

* Help them find and save images of their chosen landmark from multiple angles.

* If possible, allow students to print their images for easy reference

Prototype:

* Give students a few minutes of planning time with graph paper before going into

Minecraft. They should roughly sketch their structure from at least 2 angles. Note that for large

structures, they should probably NOT build to scale; that would take far too long!

Share:

Let students explore and see the progress of the other groups and

leave positive feedback signs.

Optional:

Students can share suggestions on feedback signs as well.

* Have students enter the game and find a space to build. Be sure no one goes too far away from start but that everyone still feels comfortable with their proximity to their neighbors. As they build, float around to offer support. Be sure students are titling and signing their work.

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Replicating Landmarks | Minecraft: Education Edition

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What can we learn about a landmark by building it? Introduce students to the challenge. Show examples of real-life and Minecraft landmarks. Pair students together for this project or let them choose a partner. Have students research landmarks they may want to create. They could search for famous skyscrapers, wonders of the world, famous monuments, etc.

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This activity has students choose a historical figure to research and eventually role play as that person. This activity can be adapted to allow students to choose a figure from NC history that help shape the state into what it is today. After researching their historical figure, students will then role play the person to explain their role in NC history.

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Youtube for schools allows teachers to sign up for educational appropriate material and curate their own videos. Taking a poll, teachers will ask students about what NC history topic they would like to learn more about, or give the students a chance to vote on preselected topics. Working in groups, students will research the cause of the event, key players, and the effect of the historical event. The class will then create a video together and upload it to youtube for schools to be shared with the other 4th grade classes in the school. The video can be made private and only be viewed by those who have been given the link. This allows students to learn about key historical events in our state and allows them to safely be a "youtube star". This resource could also be linked with the wax museum project, recording students acting as "wax figures" in their museum.

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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This resource allows students to look at maps of North Carolina from different time periods. This resource would mesh well with any of the other resources listed above. When students learn about a historical event, they can look at a map from that time period and compare it to a modern day map. Looking at the differences between the two maps can help reinforce the ideas that the historical events that took place helped shape and change the face of our state.

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North Carolina Maps: Resources for K-12 Teachers and Students

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An Introduction to North Carolina Maps This introductory presentation gives students a history of the mapping of North Carolina by highlighting significant milestones through selected maps from the collection.