Live at Home in North Carolina
In this lesson students will examine pictures and documents relating to the Live-at-Home program started in North Carolina by Governor O. Max Gardner to help North Carolina farmers refocus on food crops rather than cash crops during the Depression. These photographs, from the Green 'N' Growing collection at the North Carolina State University, will help students draw conclusions about the culture of North Carolina in the early 1930s and understand how they overcame the hardships of the Depression.
A lesson plan for Grade 8 Social Studies
Image from Green 'N' Growing at North Carolina State University's Special Collections Research Center.
Lesson contents
- Learning outcomes
- Teacher planning
- Pre-activities
- Activities
- Assessment
- North Carolina curriculum alignment
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- Green 'N' Growing Nearly 3,500 photographic images drawn from the 4-H and Home Demonstration archival holdings of the North Carolina State University's Special Collections Research Center.
- American Memory's American from the Great Depression to World War II Among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of United States government photographers, in the early years the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl.
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