• “Life On a North Carolina Military Base in Wartime,” a lesson plan for Grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies students, explores the daily lives of soldiers and civilians at the Basic Training Camp in Greensboro during World War II using the digitized copies of the base newspaper, which are held by the Greensboro Historical Museum.*
• “This Day in Headlines,” also for 8th graders, introduces students to primary source research by looking at the @ncdhc Twitter feed, which features a different historic headline from the North Carolina Newspapers collection every day.

LEARN NC, based at the School of Education at UNC-Chapel Hill, is a terrific resource for K-12 teachers and students, providing a wealth of free, online lesson plans, learning materials, and other resources.  Look for more lesson plans (and podcasts!) from LEARN NC featuring NC Digital Heritage Center materials coming this summer and fall.