North Carolina State University / D.H. Hill Library, Special Collections
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The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at North Carolina State University collects rare and unique materials to support the university’s research and teaching.
The SCRC has partnered with LEARN NC to develop lesson plans that explore various aspects of North Carolina’s history through 4-H and Home Demonstration materials. The lessons use photographs, audio, and other materials from the library’s collection “Green ‘N’ Growing: The History of Home Demonstration and 4-H Youth Development in North Carolina.”
Resources provided by North Carolina State University / D.H. Hill Library, Special Collections
Records 1–13 of 13 displayed
- 4-H on the home front
- In this lesson plan, secondary students will analyze a variety of primary source textual materials to investigate how young rural people were encouraged to support the war effort during World War II.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Bird's-eye view of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
- A drawing of the campus of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University), 1897.
- Format: image/illustration
- Canning for country and community
- In this lesson plan, students will use primary source documents to evaluate the technological challenges of food preservation in the 30s and 40s, compare food preservation in the first half of the twentieth century with today, and consider the political role of food in the community.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Children and families in North Carolina
- In this lesson plan, elementary students will analyze photographs of children from North Carolina provided by the Green ‘N’ Growing collection from the Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University. They will investigate how individuals and families are similar and different, and to begin to acquire an understanding of change over time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Effects of civil action
- In this lesson, secondary students will analyze primary source materials to investigate how 4-H clubs made an impact on the home front in completing projects that supported the war effort during World War II. This lesson should be taught at the end of a World War II unit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Feed a fighter
- In this lesson students will examine “Additional Helps for the 4-H Mobilization for Victory Program,” a Cooperative Extension Work document from the Green 'N' Growing collection at Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University Libraries. The document will help students understand the efforts civilians underwent to support military efforts in World War II.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10–12 Social Studies)
- By Lisa Stamey.
- Grooming in 1930s North Carolina
- Using primary source materials, this lesson plan provides a glimpse into the lives of girls and women from the 1930s and will give students the opportunity to study what was considered attractive for the time, how the Depression affected grooming practices, and the universal concept of healthful living.
- Format: article (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- How do I look to you?
- In this lesson, students will evaluate public service posters and a grooming pamphlet to determine if and how propaganda was used to improve the health of children, and define acceptable appearances for young women in the 1930s.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–8 and 11 English Language Arts)
- By Loretta Wilson.
- Leonidas Polk
- Leonidas Lafayette Polk (L. L. Polk) was a North Carolina farmer, journalist, and political figure. He founded the Progressive Farmer magazine in 1886 and led the national Farmers' Alliance, which spawned the Populist Party in the 1890s.
- Format: image/photograph
- 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.
- Format: article (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Loretta Wilson.
- The needs of animals
- In this lesson plan first grade students will examine photographs of 4-H club members with animals from North Carolina. They will make observations from the visual material to build an understanding of the needs of animals. They will begin to learn that these needs have remained the same in different times.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Women, then and now
- In this lesson, students will analyze images and a home demonstration pamphlet, a Cooperative Extension Work document from the Green 'N' Growing collection at Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University Libraries. The primary sources will help students assess the roles, opportunities, and achievements of women beginning in 1950.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Lisa Stamey.
- World War II at home: Victory Gardens
- Students will learn about home front activities during World War II. Using primary source documents and photographs, students will discover how children their own age participated by growing Victory Gardens. They will design their own gardens and propaganda posters.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)
- By Linda Mazzei.
