For Teachers
Dear Teacher,
Welcome to "The History Beneath Our Feet", a website that offers stories and photographs about many important persons who helped shape our city of Durham.
How can you help your students to connect with the history of Durham? Begin with what they already know---the streets or schools that were named after famous Durhamites, such as
Watts,
Spaulding, and
Mangum.
Using this website, you and your students can click on a familiar name and find information
about the person's contributions to our history.
This website also meets many of the goals set forth in the
NC Standard Course of Study,
including ones connected with Third Grade Citizenship,
Fourth Grade North Carolina Geography
and History,
Fifth Grade United States History, and
Eighth Grade North Carolina: Creation and Development of the State.
Also, you can click on the links below to download sample lesson plans,
a good starting point as you become more familiar with this new resource.
Before you get involved in specific goals, just give this a try. Click on Watts, and you'll find a story just waiting to be told to your students!