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Macon County Cherokee Heritage

Macon County Cherokee Heritage

3-5, Art, English/Language Arts, Healthful Living, Information Skills, Social Studies

This unit focuses on the presence of a large ancient Cherokee Indian village which was located in Cowee Valley, a community in Franklin, North Carolina. The lesson is integrated into Language Arts, Social Studies, Physical Education and Art. Narrative writing is also part of the plan as an important focus in Fourth Grade.

Cross-Curriculum Scrapbook

Cross-Curriculum Scrapbook

3-5, Art, Computer and Technology Skills, English/Language Arts, Information Skills, Music, Social Studies, Technical-Vocational

During this project, each fourth-grade student creates a scrapbook based on historic figures, places, and events in the history of Western North Carolina. […]

Quilting in the Peachtree Community

Quilting in the Peachtree Community

3-5, Art, Math, Science, Social Studies

This is a fourth grade unit plan using the tradition of quilting to teach NC Standard Course of Study in Math, Reading, Writing, Social Studies, and Art.

The Hooper Bald Project

Art, Computer and Technology Skills, English/Language Arts, Information Skills, K-2, Math, Science

No 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. […]

Families in Western North Carolina

Art, English/Language Arts, Information Skills, K-2, Social Studies

This is a Second Grade Lesson Plan. This unit integrates Communication Skills Lang Arts Social Studies History Art Technology and Information skills in an interesting and informative way. […]

The Art of Hat Making in Macon County

Art, English/Language Arts, Information Skills, K-2, Math, Science, Social Studies

Students will use books, Internet, and people to gain background knowledge of hat making and hat fashions. In a culminating activity, students will design a hat that represents their personality and special interest. […]

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About The Digital Heritage Project

DigitalHeritage.org includes essays, video interviews, and other materials created by the students of Western Carolina University. It also includes regional lesson plans created by teachers participating in the Adventure of the American Mind project sponsored by the Library of Congress. Radio spots created by WCU faculty and students may be heard on stations WKSF-FM, WMXF-AM, WPEK-AM, WWCU-FM, and WWNC-AM. A print version is available each month in the Laurel of Asheville.

Tonya Carroll (B.A., 2007 M.A., 2009) with Bruce Frazier (Carol Grotnes Belk Endowed Professor in Commercial & Electronic Music) in the recording studio.

Tonya Carroll (B.A., 2007 M.A., 2009) with Bruce Frazier (Carol Grotnes Belk Endowed Professor in Commercial & Electronic Music) in the recording studio.

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