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- The importance of recess
- How classroom elementary teachers can promote physical education.
- By Timothy Meyler and Sarah Banks.
- Court House, Charlotte, 1888
- The "old court house" in Charlotte, 1888.
- Format: image/photograph
- Court house, Charlotte, 1899
- The "new court house" in Charlotte, 1898.
- Format: image/photograph
- Railway station, Charlotte, 1898
- A small railway station in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1898.
- Format: image/photograph
- Railway station, Charlotte, 1898
- The new railway station in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1898.
- Format: image
- Cities and public architecture
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.7
- In this activity, students compare photographs of public buildings in Charlotte before and after industrialization and the growth of the city in the late nineteenth century to learn about industrial wealth and the culture of the Gilded Age.
- Format: article
- Mill villages
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.4
- Excerpt from D. A. Tompkins' 1899 textbook for cotton mill owners, explaining rationale and design for millworkers' housing. Includes photographs, plans, and historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Plan for a two-room mill house
- Format: image/diagram
- Arranging for independence
- Erin Espinoza's kindergarten classroom encourages children to learn on their own. A classroom profile.
- By Sydney Brown.
- From documents to digitization
- To design a research project using primary sources from the Web, you'll need to know what's out there and how to find it. This article explains what's available, why, and where.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Communication: The key to successful mentoring
- Building support systems begins with asking for help — and giving it.
- By Diane Gore.
- Science Family Fun Night
- One night a month Vivian Smith opens her classroom to families where they work together to solve logic problems and conduct experiments. Learn how this science teacher increases family involvement in her students' education and find ideas for science experiments, webquests, projects, and construction contests.
- By Waverly Harrell.
- From rural Mexico to North Carolina
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 1.2
- Most immigrants to North Carolina from Mexico come from rural areas, and it is valuable for teachers to understand these students' cultural backgrounds.
- By Regina Cortina.
- Shifting coastlines
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.3
- In their study of North Carolina's changing coastline during the Paleoindian and Archaic periods, students will determine the positions of the coastline at different times and decide what types of archaeological information has been lost due to rising sea levels.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Science and Social Studies)
- A female raid
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 6.7
- Newspaper coverage of a raid on local stores by Confederate soldier's wives in Salisbury, North Carolina on March 18, 1863. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Arthur Griffin on desegregation
- Arthur Griffin is an African American man who attended segregated schools in the 1950s and 1960s. He graduated from Second Ward High School, an African-American high school in Charlotte, North Carolina which closed in 1969. He later became involved in school...
- Format: audio/interview
- Ned Irons on desegregation
- Ned Irons is a white student who attended West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, North Carolina during the late 1990s, many years after the Swann ruling had forced the school to integrate in the early 1970s but before busing ended in 2001. West Charlotte...
- Format: audio/interview
- Latrelle MacAllister on desegregation
- Latrelle MacAllister is an African-American woman who attended West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1973 until 1976, during the first years of integration. She speaks about her experiences of both segregated and integrated schools during...
- Format: audio/interview
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U.S. 1 (1971) was an important United States Supreme Court case dealing with the busing of students to promote integration in public schools.
- Format: court decision/primary source
- Juan Pardo, the Indians of Guatari, and first contact
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.4
- The Guatari Indians lived in an influential settlement near Trading Ford and were led by a female chief. In 1567, they encountered Spanish explorers led by Captain Juan Pardo who came through the North Carolina Piedmont with grand hopes of creating a powerful empire.
- Format: article
