Social Studies Lesson Plans
for Grade 8

	Objective	Lesson Plans
	Sci_2.02 Sci_5.05 SS_8.01	Monitoring Urban Sprawl
	SS_1.05	The Colonies of Roanoke
	SS_2.01	"Give me Liberty or give me death" - Causes of the Revolutionary War
	SS_2.01	Causal Factors of the Revolutionary War
	SS_2.01	Road to War: American Revolution
	SS_2.01	Top Ten Causes of the American Revolution!
	SS_2.02	Hurrah for Those Revolutionary Women
	SS_2.02	Who's Who in the Revolutionary War?
	SS_2.04	Exploring North Carolina
	SS_2.04	The Road to Revolution
	SS_2.05	Create Your Own Bill of Rights
	SS_2.05	The Declaration of Independence: An Important Document in our Nation's History
	SS_3.01	Causes of The War of 1812
	SS_3.04	Antebellum Slavery (Everyday Life of a Slave)
	SS_4.01	Events Leading to Civil War
	SS_4.01	The Election of 1860
	SS_4.01	The Road to War
	SS_4.02	The Civil War
	SS_4.04 SS_4.01	Historical Figures of the Civil War
	SS_4.05	Reconstructing the Economy
	SS_5.06 SS_6.01	Boom to Bust - Comparing Life of the 1920s to the 1930s
	SS_6.02	World War II
	SS_7.02	Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1956
	SS_7.05 SS_9.01 SS_9.03	The Children's March: Civil Rights in America

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Grade 8 Social Studies Lessons from LearnNC
 

Goal 1		The learner will analyze important geographic, political, economic, and social aspects of life in the region prior to the Revolutionary Period.
Goal 2		The learner will trace the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War, and assess the impact of major events, problems, and personalities during the Constitutional Period in North Carolina and the new nation.
Goal 3		The learner will identify key events and evaluate the impact of reform and expansion in North Carolina during the first half of the 19th century.
Goal 4		The learner will examine the causes, course, and character of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and their impact on North Carolina and the nation.
Goal 5		The learner will evaluate the impact of political, economic, social, and technological changes on life in North Carolina from 1870 to 1930.
Goal 6		The learner will analyze the immediate and long-term effects of the Great Depression and World War II on North Carolina.
Goal 7		The learner will analyze changes in North Carolina during the postwar period to the 1970's.
Goal 8		The learner will evaluate the impact of demographic, economic, technological, social, and political developments in North Carolina since the 1970's.
Goal 9		The learner will explore examples of and opportunities for active citizenship, past and present, at the local and state levels.