Kathryn Walbert
Kathryn Walbert holds a Ph.D. in United States History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She directs LEARN NC’s efforts to develop instructor-led and self-guided materials for professional development in a range of topics in United States and North Carolina history. She has developed and taught online courses on “The Civil Rights Movement in Context” and “North Carolina American Indians.” She is also the author of several articles for LEARN NC, including a series on using oral history in the K-12 classroom and “Beyond Black History Month.”
A long-time associate of the Southern Oral History Program, Walbert has been using oral history in her own research and training others in the craft for over ten years. Her doctoral research focused on Southern women, both black and white, who became teachers after the Civil War, and the role of teaching in shaping their identities. From 2001 to 2003, she was an academic skills instructor at Duke University. She now serves as a consultant on U.S. history, oral history, and academic skills to LEARN NC and other organizations.
Resources created by Kathryn Walbert
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- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Egg, day 7
- On the seventh day after the egg is laid, the butterfly larva is visible inside the egg.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Emerging from chrysalis
- The butterfly, just emerged from its chrysalis, must wait for its wings to dry before it can fly.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: First larval instar
- The first larval instar (first stage of the caterpillar) is shown here a day after hatching.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Forming a chrysalis
- The larva attaches itself by a pair of threads to the underside of a stick, branch, or leaf, and assumes a C-shape as it prepares to form a chrysalis.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Larva emerging from egg, day 7
- The butterfly larva (caterpillar) emerges from the egg about seven days after the egg was laid.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Larva, first instar, day 1 after hatching
- The first larval instar, or stage of the caterpillar, looks nothing like the later stages.
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- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Second larval instar
- The second larval instar, or stage of the caterpillar, develops the familiar stripes and markings. This larva is seven days out of the egg.
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- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Second larval instar
- The larva clings to the stem of a parsley plant. Although butterfly and moth caterpillars appear to have many legs, as insects, they have only six true legs -- visible here just behind the larva's head.
- Format: image
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Third larval instage
- Here, the larva's maturing structure is visible. The larva is now 10 days out of the egg.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Third larval instage
- As it grows, the larva is able to move easily from plant to plant in search of more food, as it does here.
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- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Third larval instage
- Fourteen days out of the egg, the larva leaves its food source in search of a place to pupate (become a chrysalis).
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Third larval instar
- In its third instar (growth stage), the eastern black swallowtail caterpillar takes on its familiar black and green stripes and yellow eye spots.
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- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Third larval instar
- The larva on a flowering parsley plant.
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- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Third larval instar
- Closeup of the head of the eastern black swallowtail larva, a day before entering its pupal stage. As a defense mechanism, the red markings and yellow "horns" on its head become more prominent when the larva is threatened.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Third larval instar
- Thirteen days out of the egg, the larva is growing rapidly.
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- Eastern gray squirrel
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- "A female raid" in 1863: Using newspaper coverage to learn about North Carolina's Civil War homefront
- In this lesson plan, students will use original newspaper coverage to learn about a raid on local stores by Confederate soldier's wives in March 1863 in Salisbury, North Carolina, and use that historical moment to explore conscription, life on the homefront, economic issues facing North Carolina merchants, the challenges of wartime politics, and the role of newspaper editors in shaping public opinion.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11 Social Studies)
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- "For What Is a Mother Responsible?"
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 5.5
- 1845 newspaper editorial about a mother's responsibilities for her children's education and character. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: article
- Commentary and sidebar notes by Kathryn Walbert.
- "For What Is a Mother Responsible?" -- Idealized motherhood vs. the realities of motherhood in antebellum North Carolina
- In this lesson for grade 8, students analyze a newspaper article about motherhood from a North Carolina newspaper in 1845 and compare it to descriptions of motherhood from other contemporary sources. Students will also compare these antebellum descriptions to the modern debates over mothers' roles in American society.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Incorporating oral history into the K–12 curriculum
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 3
- Oral history techniques for use with students at all levels, from kindergarten through high school.
- By Kathryn Walbert.
