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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
Twelve rules for arranging your classroom
In The First Year, page 1.1
You'll want to set up your classroom as quickly as possible, but consider these factors before you start.
By Kristi Johnson Smith.
Longleaf pine savanna
In Wetlands of the coastal plains, page 3
We begin with the longleaf pine savanna. We start with this habitat not only because longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) is the official state tree, but also because these habitats are simply beautiful to behold. These communities evolved...
By Dirk Frankenberg.
Adaptation to frequent fires
In Wetlands of the coastal plains, page 4
In addition to fire-resistant bark, longleaf pines have a number of other adaptations to their frequent-fire habitat other than their fire resistant bark. For example, their seedlings have a growth cycle that helps them escape fires. After seeds are shed from...
By Dirk Frankenberg.
A café
In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 7
Three young men in long pants and T-shirts sit on red plastic stools at a streetside cafe in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. A woman wearing a headscarf stands nearby beside a rack of items for sale. She carries a plastic bag of goods and is either another...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Learning from a tree
Observation of a single tree throughout the year can be the starting point for explorations of nature, life science, and environmental science.
By Linda Dow.
Letting students ask the questions -- and answering them
For this high school science teacher, learning science means doing science. A look at an inquiry-based earth and environmental science classroom.
Format: article/best practice
By Amy Anderson.
One room, many uses
Patty Berge converts her eighth-grade science classroom to suit multiple instructional methods. A classroom profile.
By Kathleen Casson.
Advertising new products
In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.6
Advertisements from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries show new technologies, new tastes, and new ways of marketing goods to consumers.
Format: article
By David Walbert.
Designing your gym class
From classroom organization to warm-up procedures, one physical education teacher provides a blueprint for a structured physical education program.
By Bozena Mielczak and Kim Campbell.
The rise of Populism
In North Carolina in the New South, page 7.1
American farmers faced new economic difficulties after the Civil War. In response, they organized to promote cooperation and to defend their interests politically. In the 1890s, they joined with labor unions to create the People's (or Populist) Party.
Format: article
The village farmers
In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.5
North Carolina sat on a crossroads by AD 1000. Cultural ideas from other places breezed through it and around it: how to decorate pottery, how to orient political and social life, how to honor the dead, how to structure towns.
Two women sit talking outside a rope and mat shop in Hanoi
Two women sit talking outside a rope and mat shop in Hanoi
Two women sit talking outside a rope and mat shop in Hanoi. Behind them, colorful coils of rope and rolled mats are piled up to the shop's ceiling. The two women chatting, probably fellow shopkeepers, sit on low chairs in casual urban dress, including dark...
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Hanoi woman laughing with toothpick in her mouth
Hanoi woman laughing with toothpick in her mouth
A middle-aged Hanoi woman, standing in a storefront, is laughing with a toothpick in her mouth. Her hair is parted in the middle and tied back. She is wearing a dark, long-sleeved blouse with covered front buttons. The woman photographed is most likely a shopkeeper...
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Old Quarter Hanoi commercial street with pedestrian and motorcycle traffic
Old Quarter Hanoi commercial street with pedestrian and motorcycle traffic
Pedestrian and motorcycle traffic moves through a busy commercial street in Hanoi's Old Quarter. Stores advertise their wares on large signs mounted over the doors. Apartments, some with balconies, are built on the second floors. Often shopowners' families...
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Three men sitting at a streetside cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam
Three men sitting at a streetside cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam
Three young men in long pants and T-shirts sit on red plastic stools at a streetside cafe in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. A woman wearing a headscarf stands nearby beside a rack of items for sale. She carries a plastic bag of goods and is either another...
Format: image/photograph
Hanoi storefront displaying statues and other supplies for ancestral altars
Hanoi storefront displaying statues and other supplies for ancestral altars
This storefront in Hanoi displays a colorful variety of statues, dishes, paintings, and shrine boxes that Vietnamese families purchase to decorate their household's ancestral altars. China ruled what is now Vietnam for nearly a thousand years, heavily influencing...
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Woman selling noodles at outdoor market in Hanoi
Woman selling noodles at outdoor market in Hanoi
A woman sits at a stall selling piles of noodles from three large trays displayed at an outdoor market in Hanoi. The front pile is brown, the middle one is white, and the rear one is orange. The vendor wears a yellow-striped blouse and her hair is tied back....
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Conversation in an Asian medicine store
All over Asia, you will find market booths or stores filled with dried spices, dried animal parts, and flowers. These are used to create medicine and home remedies. At the beginning of this conversation, we are talking about a fish stomach. There are apparently...
Format: audio
Vietnamese woman selling
Many tourists in Vietnam take a tour through what was the DMZ, or demilitarized zone, during the Vietnam War. This one-day bus tour visits sights such as Khe San Air Force Base, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and the Vin Moc Tunnels. Where there are tourists,...
Format: audio