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- The Craft Revival and economic change
- In this lesson plan, originally published on the Craft Revival website, students will interpret photographs and artifacts as representations of western North Carolina’s economy at the turn of the century. They will also analyze historical census data and produce a visual web that will represent the changing nature of the economy of western North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Patrick Velde.
- Dynamic dialect: Horace Kephart and Our Southern Highlanders
- Students will read an excerpt from Horace Kephart's Our Southern Highlanders and explore how language and dialect have changed over the years.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 English Language Arts)
- By Billie Clemens.
- Industrialization and Progressive Reform in the Craft Revival
- In this lesson plan, originally published on the Craft Revival website, students will analyze the process of making a hobby into a job. They will explore Craft Revival work environments, representations of industrial work environments, and data regarding Craft Revival work. To close the activity, students write a journal entry comparing Craft Revival and industrial work experiences.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 Social Studies)
- By Patrick Velde.
- Mountain cultures graphic organizer
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.4
- As students read the article "Peoples of the Mountains," this graphic organizer will help them develop an understanding of the cultures that existed in North Carolina's mountains hundreds of years ago.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The regions of North Carolina
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.2
- In this lesson, students analyze the differences between North Carolina's geographical regions: the Mountains, the Piedmont, and the Inner and Outer Coastal Plain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
