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- Greenville Museum of Art
- Permanent exhibits include 19th and 20th century art, North Carolina art and an impressive collection of Jugtown pottery.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- John C. Campbell Folk School
- The Folk School offers visitors a chance to experience a special blend of history, art, and natural beauty in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Blue Ridge Parkway Folk Art Center
- Students will enjoy visiting the folk art center and learning about the heritage of the southern Appalachian mountain people.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Ackland Art Museum
- Features online versions of art museum's exhibits and permanent collection, field trip guidelines and activities, lesson plans, and in-depth institutional background.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Gaston County Museum of Art and History
- Gaston County local history is brought to life at this museum in Dallas, NC. Learn about the North Carolina textile mill industry and see special exhibits.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The Mint Museum
- Access to digitized images from special exhibitions and the permanent collections of the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC, along with activities for kids.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- May Museum and Park
- The museum houses the collection of May family artifacts and artifacts pertaining to the history of the Farmville area.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- North Carolina Museum of Art
- Find information about taking your class to visit the museum or arranging a museum professional to visit your school. Take a virtual tour of the museum and manipulate some of the objects available in 3-D. Explore the amazing collections and take advantage of the online teacher resources and student activities.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Children at Work: Exposing child labor in the cotton mills of the Carolinas
- In this lesson, students will learn about the use of child labor in the cotton mills of the Carolinas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They will learn what life was like for a child worker and then write an investigative news report exposing the practice of child labor in the mills, using quotations from oral histories with former child mill workers and photographs of child laborers taken by social reform photographer Lewis Hine.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- A visit to colonial North Carolina
- This lesson plan extends student learning about the colonial period in North Carolina history by incorporating primary sources from the Documenting the American South collection. After reading first-hand accounts of travelers to colonial America, students will create their own travel brochure advertising North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- Looking back - An Art/English interdisciplinary unit
- This is an interdisciplinary unit that incorporates research of historical events of the past century. By students learning to recognize that society impacts the themes within art and literature, students then take this knowledge base and interview an individual to develop a biographical narrative, a collage, and oral presentation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By Julie Osmon.
- Cotton mills from differing perspectives: Critically analyzing primary documents
- In this lesson, students will read two primary source documents: a 1909 pamphlet exposing the use of child labor in the cotton mills of North Carolina, and a weekly newsletter published by the mill companies. Students will also listen to oral history excerpts from mill workers to gain a third perspective. In a critical analysis, students will identify the audiences for both documents, speculate on the motivations of their authors, and examine the historical importance of each document.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- Teaching with primary sources
- This collection of resources includes best practice articles, primary source process guides, lesson plans that model historical inquiry, and book-length materials that incorporate primary sources.
- Format: bibliography/help
Resources on the web
- Odyssey Online
- Explore the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and 19th - 20th century sub-Saharan Africa through museum objects in this comprehensive and informative site from the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and the Memorial Art... (Learn more)
- Format: website/lesson plan
- Provided by: Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- "Welcome to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists." This is a comprehensive website of women's art around the world and through timeperiods beginning in... (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: National Museum of Women in the Arts
- American Photography: A Century of Images
- Explores the the role of the camera and the images of the 20th century. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: PBS and Twin Cities Public Television
- Imperial War Museum Collections Online
- From war at sea to truth and propaganda in wartime, this site offers an in-depth look at 20th century war within a context that is supported by essays and other information that accompany the photographs and images of artifacts, primary source documents, and... (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: Imperial War Museum
- The State Hermitage Museum
- View the culture and art of the world from the Stone Age to the 20th century from the collection of Russia's premier art museum. View the spectacular artworks and virtually visit the five magnificent buildings that contain them. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: The Hermitage Museum
- Life on the Great Plains
- Students examine the concept of geographic region by exploring the history of the Great Plains. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Virtual Museum Canada
- Stories, artifacts and treasures that define Canada over the centuries presented in rich, interactive, multimedia virtual exhibits with an image gallery, a teachers' center, and a section of games. (Learn more)
- Format: website/lesson plan
- Provided by: Virtual Museum Canada
