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The Mexican Day of the Dead: In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 1.1; Slideshow View a slideshow of photographs from Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico and the United States....; Format: article

Classroom Activity: Making an Altar for the Day of the Dead: In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 1.2; An altar created for the Day of the Dead. The best activity you can undertake for the Day of the Dead is to create the traditional altar, or ofrenda. As highlighted...; Format: activity

16 de Septiembre: Mexican Independence Day: In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 2.1; Slideshow View a slideshow of photographs from celebrations of Mexican Independence Day. Every...; Format: article

The Quinceañera Celebration: In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 3.1; Slideshow View a slideshow of photographs from quinceañera celebrations. One of the most important...; Format: article

The Equinox at Chichén Itzá: In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 4.1; Slideshow View a slideshow of photographs of the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá. ...; Format: article

Colonial restrictions on pottery: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 8; European colonists recognized clay as an important resource in developing their agricultural economy. Surprisingly, the king's governors restricted the manufacture of pottery because the British economic model for the empire (called mercantilism)...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

From clay to pot: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 12; The remainder of this field trip is devoted to showing what humans must do to convert the clays recovered from the ground as shown in the first two photographs into the objects shown in Figures 3 through 9. We need to begin by describing what happens to native...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Hurricane storm surges in North Carolina: In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 6; Figure 3 shows the bottom of the exhibit shown in Figure 2 and provides data on recent hurricanes in North Carolina. Those shown are four of the storms of the 1990s but do not include Dennis and Floyd in 1999, both of which occurred just weeks before the...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

How is coastal sand formed into barrier islands?: In Small sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 2; Coastal sand is organized into barrier islands when three conditions are met: There is a supply of sand sufficient to form islands; sea level is rising; and there are winds and waves with sufficient energy to move the sand around....; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Dunes nearer the ocean: In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 9; Figure 8 shows the Bear Island dunefield nearer the ocean than those shown in previous photographs and also closer to the inlet that separates Bear Island from Bogue Banks. Bogue Banks, our next stop on this field trip, is a developed barrier island, as you...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Fire and hardwoods: In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 7; Figure 6 shows the lethal effect of a recent growing season burn on the hardwoods that were invading this pine forest. The leaves are clearly dead, but the stems may still recover from the relatively cool fire that was allowed to run through this area. This...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

My Lai: In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 9; In 1968, U.S. forces considered the My Lai area to be a stronghold of Communist Vietnamese fighters (known as Vietcong) and their sympathizers. Repeated bombing of the region only increased the support of local civilians for the Communist fighters. After an...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Teaching with disturbing images: Photographs are especially powerful tools for explaining current and historical events — not least horrible or brutal events, such as war, genocide, famine, terrorism, slavery, and lynching. In fact, photographs are often used specifically to raise an...; By David Walbert.

Evaluating multimedia presentations: A PowerPoint presentation is just another form of communication, and the same rules apply to multimedia that apply to writing or verbal communication. This article offers guidelines for using and assigning multimedia presentations in the classroom and includes a rubric based on the Five Features of Effective Writing.; Format: article; By David Walbert.

An introduction to teacher research: Every day, teachers develop lesson plans, evaluate student work, and share outcomes with students, parents, and administrators. Teacher research is simply a more intentional and systematic version of what good teachers already do. This article explains the basic process of teacher research, including formulation of a research question, data collection and analysis, and writing up your findings.; By Amy Anderson.

Learning to look at art: Strategies for helping students develop visual literacy in looking at paintings and other forms of visual art.; By Melissa Thibault.

Reading images: an introduction to visual literacy: Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn.; By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.

Reading photographs: A picture is worth a thousand words — but which words? Questions can help students decode, interpret, and understand photographs thoughtfully and meaningfully.; Format: article; By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.

Resources for teaching with photographs: Websites, activities, books, and image collections for classroom use.; Format: article; By Melissa Thibault.

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.

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