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Live-at-Home in North Carolina
In this lesson students will examine pictures and documents relating to the Live at Home program started in North Carolina by Governor O. Max Gardner to help North Carolina farmers refocus on food crops rather than cash crops during the Depression. These photographs, from the Green 'N' Growing collection at the North Carolina State University, will help students draw conclusions about the culture of North Carolina in the early 1930s and understand how they overcame the hardships of the Depression.
Format: article (grade 8 Social Studies)
By Loretta Wilson.
Reading comprehension: What works?
Teach reading comprehension in the elementary grades with flexible strategies that connect reading to the real world, promote independence, and keep students engaged.
By Mary Rogers Rose.
The secret cultural institution in your school: The school library
A variety of best practices and imaginative ideas that the school librarian can use to create an environment where students fuse together required learning with learning that is driven by individual interest.
By Kim Campbell.
When you don't have all the answers
Linda Dow suggests freeing yourself from the necessity to be the eternal expert and descibes techniques for sharing the responsibility for learning and teaching alongside your students.
By Linda Dow.
“Getting to know you” questionnaire
Title: Getting to Know You Binder Section: Daily Work Date:   Name:   Subject:...
By Kristi Johnson Smith.
Grooming in 1930s North Carolina
Using primary source materials, this lesson plan provides a glimpse into the lives of girls and women from the 1930s and will give students the opportunity to study what was considered attractive for the time, how the Depression affected grooming practices, and the universal concept of healthful living.
Format: article (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
By Pauline S. Johnson.
4-H and Home Demonstration during the Great Depression
During the first few years of the Great Depression, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service agents focused on emergency relief for adult farmers rather than the 4-H program. By 1933 club enrollment fell to its lowest levels since 1925, and the summer...
Format: article
By Amy Manor.
Stone stele at Prambanan Temple shows Rama walking with monkey allies
Stone stele at Prambanan Temple shows Rama walking with monkey allies
A stone stele at Prambanan Temple shows Rama walking with monkey allies. Realistically portrayed, the monkeys and people in this carved bas relief walk together in line to the right of the image. Wearing tall Javanese-style crowns and waistcloths, the monkey...
Format: image/photograph
Thai rock band, Chiang Mai
Though the music and the sound might make you think that you are in a club in the United States, this band was recorded in a club in Thailand. Western music (like rock, pop, and rap) is enjoyed all over the world. A traveler can hear it on the radio coming...
Format: audio
Feeding a Hog
Feeding a Hog
This black and white photograph shows two little boys, Dallas and David Proctor, standing next to a huge black and white hog. The younger child is standing on the hog's right side and is holding a dried ear of corn. The older child is standing on the other...
Format: image/photograph
4-H Club girl showing off Canned Goods
4-H Club girl showing off Canned Goods
This black and white photograph shows a 4-H club girl standing in front of an open floor-to-ceiling cupboard that has six shelves filled with canned goods. The girl holds two canning jars in the crook of her left arm and is reaching for another jar with her...
Format: image/photograph
Instructor teaching boys about plumbing
Instructor teaching boys about plumbing
An instructor is shown teaching a group of boys about plumbing at North Carolina State 4-H Short Course in 1932. The black and white photograph was taken in the basement of a brick building. The instructor, wearing a tie, is pumping water at one of the two...
Format: image/photograph
Children and families in North Carolina
In this lesson plan, elementary students will analyze photographs of children from North Carolina provided by the Green ā€˜N’ Growing collection from the Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University. They will investigate how individuals and families are similar and different, and to begin to acquire an understanding of change over time.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Social Studies)
By Pauline S. Johnson.
4-H on the home front
In this lesson plan, secondary students will analyze a variety of primary source textual materials to investigate how young rural people were encouraged to support the war effort during World War II.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11–12 Social Studies)
By Pauline S. Johnson.
Effects of civil action
In this lesson, secondary students will analyze primary source materials to investigate how 4-H clubs made an impact on the home front in completing projects that supported the war effort during World War II. This lesson should be taught at the end of a World War II unit.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
By Pauline S. Johnson.
How do I look to you?
In this lesson, students will evaluate public service posters and a grooming pamphlet to determine if and how propaganda was used to improve the health of children, and define acceptable appearances for young women in the 1930s.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5–8 English Language Arts)
By Loretta Wilson.
The needs of animals
In this lesson plan first grade students will examine photographs of 4-H club members with animals from North Carolina. They will make observations from the visual material to build an understanding of the needs of animals. They will begin to learn that these needs have remained the same in different times.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science)
By Pauline S. Johnson.
World War II at home: Victory Gardens
Students will learn about home front activities during World War II. Using primary source documents and photographs, students will discover how children their own age participated by growing Victory Gardens. They will design their own gardens and propaganda posters.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)
By Linda Mazzei.
Feed a fighter
In this lesson students will examine “Additional Helps for the 4-H Mobilization for Victory Program,” a Cooperative Extension Work document from the Green 'N' Growing collection at Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University Libraries. The document will help students understand the efforts civilians underwent to support military efforts in World War II.
Format: lesson plan (grade 10–12 Social Studies)
By Lisa Stamey.
Canning for country and community
In this lesson plan, students will use primary source documents to evaluate the technological challenges of food preservation in the 30s and 40s, compare food preservation in the first half of the twentieth century with today, and consider the political role of food in the community.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
By Melissa Thibault.