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Social Studies Instructional Activity 2

__Objective 8.01__

Creative Statement #1- As minority population builds in NC, so does the state’s social and cultural development

For this lesson, I would want students to look into the changing ethnic population of North Carolina, and what effects the change has had and will continue to have on the state from a cultural, social, and political standpoint. Just over the last 30 years, North Carolina has become one of the nation’s most diversified states, and with the fifth highest Native American population to build off of, the state continues to undergo significant progress as it moves further into the 21st century. In the activity, students would need to learn about the population changes of the state and what connections can be made from these important patterns. Is the state becoming more technological? More beneficial to all cultures? Questions like these would have to be asked, and through concerted thinking and researching, answers could be found and presented to the rest of the class. In the end, the goal for students would be for them to be more culturally aware of their changing state, and what it means for them as future citizens of an ethnically rich country.

To complete the assignment, students would be broken up into three separate but equally important groups; one group would look at the cultural effects, another social, and the last political. In their groups, students would ask questions about their given topic, and then do corresponding research on it. The content would be learned through making appropriate inferences about their topic, and then doing the necessary research on it. The end product would be the three different groups presenting what they had found to the rest of the class, in no more than five minute shows. Their final grade would be determined based on the info presented in the presentation, and the accuracy of it.