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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

Children's literature promotes understanding: Bibliotherapy and critical literacy are two ways to use books to help children better understand themselves, others, and the world around them. This article explains both strategies and provides resources for selecting appropriate books.; 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.

Global education as good pedagogy: A wide variety of teaching strategies and resources pass under the name of global education. This article provides strategies for evaluating global education and ensuring that it focuses on students' academic success.; By Suzanne Gulledge.

The growth of tourism: Warm Springs: In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.9; Advertisement for Warm Springs (now Hot Springs) in Madison County, North Carolina, from the late nineteenth century. Includes historical commentary about the region, tourism, and nineteenth-century medicine.; Format: pamphlet; Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

Reaching Latinos through social studies: In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 4.1; Teachers can help immigrant students feel more comfortable in the classroom by basing social studies lessons on students' own knowledge and backgrounds.; By Paul Fitchett.

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.

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.

Young men carry parade float showing an Indonesian revolutionary fighting Dutch man: About a dozen young Balinese men wearing jeans and white T-shirts carry a parade float with constructed figures of an Indonesian revolutionary victoriously fighting a Dutch man who is falling backwards to the ground. The Indonesian figure holds up a knife...; Format: image/photograph

4-H Corn Exhibit at the NC State Fair: “4-H Club Trains Farm Youth in the Art of Living” is written on a banner over a 4-H club corn exhibit in this black and white photograph taken at the North Carolina State Fair in 1938. In the forefront of the image, on a table, are wooden trays...; Format: image/photograph

Young people working in garden: This black and white image, taken in 1941, shows 9 boys and girls working in garden in Wilson County, North Carolina. The children, who are tending vegetables, range in age from youngsters to teenagers. The older children are wearing wide brimmed hats are...; Format: image/photograph

Food Preservation Demonstration: Posing behind a table of canned fruits and vegetables, a 4-H club girl is ready to perform a food preservation demonstration. This black and white photograph was taken outside near some buildings. The young girl is wearing a plain, white short-sleeved dress...; Format: image/photograph

Boy working during harvest time: In this 1932 black and white photograph, a boy is working in a field in Davidson County during harvest time. Dressed in overalls, he can be seen standing between two haystacks. In his hands, he holds a bundle of stalks of grain.; Format: image/photograph

Wilson County winners feeding pigs: On July 30, 1940, Levi Simmons, Minshew Club member in Wilson County was granted a second A and T College Club Scholarship for achievement in club work. His second project was raising 2 pigs. This black and white photograph shows Levi Simmons feeding his pigs...; Format: image/photograph

How to make ice cream demonstration: LaRue Whitley, wearing a frilly apron and 4-H cap, is seen in demonstrating how to make ice cream in a 4-H dairy foods demonstration in 1940. The black and white photograph shows Miss Whitley in a demonstration kitchen holding a long, striped, wooden pointer....; Format: image/photograph

Joe Brown: Joe Brown, a teenager from Watauga County, North Carolina, is shown with his cow and calf in this black and white photo taken in March 1938. He was participating in a 4-H “Baby Beef Project.” Wearing a hat, he is standing outside in front of a...; 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 ‘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.

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