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Water for drinking: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 16; This well, rimmed with a cement wall, is a community water source at Mai Chau. A red plastic pail suspended from a pole and washing basin are visible on the right. In the background, laundry is drying. Traditionally, Southeast Asian highlanders drew water...; By Lorraine Aragon.

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.

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.

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.

The tabasco water heater and hot water in Biltmore House: In A technological tour of the Biltmore Estate, page 7; Introduction to the boiler room Although this room is called the Boiler Room, a number of interesting features relating to various technologies can be seen here, including the elevator controller and modern DC generator. The platform and wire cage...; By Sue Clark McKendree.

Woman leading buffalo past a girl doing laundry in wet-rice field at Mai Chau: A highland woman walks a water buffalo along a dyke in a wet-rice field at Mai Chau. She passes a girl who is squatting to do washing in a water stream running by the field. The bright green rice plants in the field are still young and unripe.; Format: image/photograph

Village well providing community water at Mai Chau: A highland village well with a cement rim wall provides a community water source at Mai Chau. A red plastic pail suspended from a pole and washing basin are visible on the right. In the background, a young woman walks along a village path past a bamboo pole...; Format: image/photograph

Woman and girl with laundry on balcony in Ho Chi Minh City's Chinatown: A young woman and girl call down from an apartment balcony in Ho Chi Minh City's Chinatown. The young woman on the left holds clothing that she is hanging or removing from the laundry pole and hangers overhead. In many urban apartments throughout Southeast...; Format: image/photograph

Large ship filled with passengers and four small motorboats in Mekong at Mytho: A large ship at Mytho is filling with local passengers to travel along the Mekong River. Men deliver people or things to and from the ship in four small motorboats moving in the water below the ship. The ship has two indoor upper decks seen at the back, while...; Format: image/photograph

Rama and Sita bathing in waterfall (Thai Ramayana mural): A mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows Rama and Sita bathing in a waterfall. A waterfall flows down the side of a mountain into a lush garden landscape. The cascade of water falls first on the head of Rama, sitting on a higher ledge, and then upon...; Format: image/photograph

Mrs. Daisy Stamper: A large family, including several children, is pictured in front of a one-room house. A box of tobacco bags is visible in the photograph, as is the family laundry, drying on the line.; Format: image/photograph

Doing laundry in Coca, Ecuador: Several women are washing laundry at the bottom of stone steps on a river's edge. The photo was taken from the middle of the river. Coca is the capital of the province of Orellana in the eastern region of Ecuador. It has benefited greatly from both the discovery...; Format: image/photograph

Family members bathe and do laundry at stream embankment: Family members bathe and do laundry at a stream embankment. On the right, a mother, her hair wrapped in a towel, and child wash clothes in the running water. They use a concrete ledge as their work table. On the left, one girl helps wash another's hair. Other...; Format: image/photograph

Laundry draped over plants to sun dry: Light-colored shirts and brown patterned batik cloths used for sarong skirts are draped over plants to sun dry after being washed in a stream. In rural Southeast Asia, it is often convenient to do laundry before bathing in an outdoor stream. The tropical sunlight...; Format: image/photograph

Bathing party among boulders in stream as seen from above: A dozen women and children with brightly colored plastic pails bathe, dress, and do laundry among the boulders in a stream. The scene is viewed from above, probably from a bridge that passes over the waterway. In rural Bali, as in much of Southeast Asia, outdoor...; Format: image/photograph

Woman preparing to do laundry: A woman, preparing to do laundry, is seen pouring water in a wash tub in this black and white photograph taken during the Depression Era. Clad in a dress and apron, she is standing on her porch next to a low table on which two galvanized wash tubs are sitting....; Format: image/photograph

Roof life: On top of a collection of roofs there is one that has an assemblage of laundry hanging on lines to dry; there are a few rugs hanging off the side of the building as well.; Format: image/photograph

Town: The houses are built on a hillside in Trabzon, Turkey. Some have only two stories while others are four and five stories tall. Most of them are painted in an ocher color. Laundry hangs from the windows drying. The roofs are made of terra cotta tiles.; Format: image/photograph

Hosap village Kurd - washing clothes: A color photograph of a Kurd woman doing laundry. The woman is older and is looking at the camera. She is washing a t-shirt in a red bucket of soapy water on a downward slope. She is wearing a white head scarf and a skirt and long sleeve shirt with a vest....; Format: image/photograph

Reed and thatch house in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico: Laundry dries on lines outside a small hut made of reed and thatch. A fenced-in yard sits to the side of the hut. Puerto Vallarta is a port town on Mexico’s west coast. It is a popular port of call for cruise ships and has developed a vibrant tourism industry....; Format: image/photograph

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