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Commemorative landscapes: These lessons for elementary, middle, and high school were developed in collaboration with The University of North Carolina Library Commemorative Landscapes project to introduce and promote student understanding and writing of North Carolina’s history through commemorative sites, landscapes, and markers.; Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

Farmville's choice: In this lesson, students will learn about rural life in North Carolina at the turn of the century. Home demonstration and 4H clubs implemented many programs to help people learn better farming techniques, ways of preserving food, and taking care of the home. Several North Carolina leaders went to great lengths to ensure the success of these programs. In part of this activity, students help the town of Farmville dedicate a monument to one of those people.; Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

North Carolina women and the Progressive Movement: In this lesson, students read primary source documents from Documenting the American South specifically related to North Carolina women involved in reform movements characteristic of the Progressive era. For the most part, these documents detail women's work in education-related reform and describe the creation of schools for women in the state. They also demonstrate that, as was true in the rest of the nation, the progressive, female reformers of N.C. were segregated based on race and socio-economic status.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies); By Meghan Mcglinn.

Reading guide: Cherokee women: In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.7; These questions will help to guide students' reading of "Cherokee Women" and encourage them to think critically about the text. The questions focus primarily on the Cherokee matrilineal kinship system and on the cultural differences between the Cherokee and the Europeans who arrived in the early 1700s.; Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Representing historic women figures in North Carolina: In Commemorative landscapes, page 2.4; This lesson, developed using the Commemorative Landscapes collection, examines North Carolina’s commemoration of the contributions made by women and asks students to think about how the commemoration of women might affect our collective understanding of women’s contributions to North Carolina.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies); By Kate Allman.

Suffrage: The changing role of women: In this lesson, students use oral history excerpts and photographs to learn about the women's suffrage movement in the United States from a variety of perspectives.; Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

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 I and the changing face of gender roles: In this lesson, students analyze oral histories in order to learn more about Progressivism and the impact of World War I and World War II on the role of women in the United States.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies); By Lee Adcock.

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