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- British migration to Roanoke: Push and pull factors
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 4.1
- In this lesson, students will examine the push/pull factors that led settlers to attempt to settle Roanoke Island in the 1580s.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Cotton mills from differing perspectives: Critically analyzing primary documents
- In this lesson, students will read two primary source documents: a 1909 pamphlet exposing the use of child labor in the cotton mills of North Carolina, and a weekly newsletter published by the mill companies. Students will also listen to oral history excerpts from mill workers to gain a third perspective. In a critical analysis, students will identify the audiences for both documents, speculate on the motivations of their authors, and examine the historical importance of each document.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- "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 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- The Great Depression: Impact over time
- In this lesson students listen to oral history excerpts from Stan Hyatt from Madison County and evaluate how the Great Depression affected one North Carolina family over time.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- 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.
- 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: 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)
