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- Comparing and contrasting colonial rice and tobacco agriculture
- This graphic organizer will help students understand the processes of growing rice and tobacco in colonial North Carolina after reading two related articles from the North Carolina digital history textbook — "The...
- Format: document/worksheet
- Primary source letters lesson plan
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity two, page 1
- This is one of a series of activities that will help educators use the Tobacco Bag Stringing project materials in their classrooms. Throughout the series students will learn about tobacco stringing, study primary source...
- Format: lesson plan
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity four
- In this activity for grades 3–5, students will read and evaluate a primary source letter from the Tobacco Bag Stringing collection. This should be done after Activity one, which is the introductory activity about tobacco bag stringing. Students will investigate the influence of technology, and its lack, on the tobacco bag stringers. They will do a role play/debate in which they will assume the roles of owners of companies and other people that were involved in the issue.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity one
- This activity for grades 3–6 will help students understand what tobacco bag stringing was and why it was important to communities in North Carolina and Virginia. Students will read and analyze an adapted introductory article about tobacco bag stringing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity three
- In this activity for grades 3–6, students will read and evaluate primary source letters from the Tobacco Bag Stringing collection. This should be done after Activity one, which is the introductory activity about tobacco bag stringing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity two
- This activity for grades 3–6 will teach students how examining photographs can help them to better understand the past. This activity can be used as an introduction to looking at primary source photographs.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity five
- In this activity for grades 7–12, students will evaluate primary source photographs from the tobacco bag stringing collection and some of Lewis Hine's photographs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity four
- In this activity for grades 7–12, students will examine primary source photographs and biographical information that were collected for the Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation to set up a data record.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity one
- This activity for grades 7–12 will help students understand what tobacco bag stringing was and why it was important to communities in North Carolina and Virginia. Students will read and analyze an introductory article about tobacco bag stringing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity seven
- In this activity for grades 7–12, students take on the role of legislators who must make a decision concerning the passage of an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Students will evaluate the impact of emotional appeal in persuasion. This activity builds on information learned in activities one through six.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity six
- In this activity for grades 7–12, students will read and evaluate primary source stories from the Federal Writer’s Project.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity two
- In this lesson, students will read and evaluate primary source letters from the Great Depression about the effects of the Fair Labor Standards Act on North Carolina's tobacco bag stringers.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

