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- Carpentry skills
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 18
- Carpenters in highland villages generally work with hand tools, using no electricity. Metal parts, generally now imported from the cities, are either forged in the village or bought pre-made from blacksmiths in larger towns. The man shown here is using a large...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Highland man sawing board with hand tools outside house in Mai Chau
- A highland man wearing just shorts uses a large frame saw to cut a board outside an elevated wood house in Mai Chau. The man braces the board with one foot against the top of his handmade work bench. A hammer rests on the bench in the foreground. Wooden stairs...
- Format: image/photograph
- Utility workers: Working with the Pythagorean theorem
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.7
- In this lesson plan, students use the Pythagorean theorem to solve a problem relevant to the careers of utility workers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam
- Photographs and text tell the story of rice and rural life in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the highlanders, or Montagnards.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- The African American State Fair
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 1.10
- For several years in the late nineteenth century, African American farmers held their own state fair in Raleigh to showcase improvements in agriculture.
- Format: article
- By Jim L. Sumner.
- The growth of slavery in North Carolina
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 2.6
- Slavery came to North Carolina with the first European settlement, though it grew slowly at first. The institution developed in a unique way in North Carolina, and by the early national period it was fully integrated into the state's society and economy.
- Format: article
- Personal trainers: Working with slope
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.2
- In this lesson, students make calculations based on slope and answer questions about slope (rate of change).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- 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
- "Land and Work in Carolina" teaching strategies
- These suggested teaching strategies, designed to accompany the article “Land and Work in Carolina,” will enable students to understand the concept of feudalism and its impact on the systems of labor and land ownership in colonial North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The cost of Tryon Palace
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.8
- Table detailing the expenses of building Tryon Palace, the residence of the colonial governor at New Bern, North Carolina, in 1770. Includes historical commentary about why these expenses infuriated many colonists.
- Format: document
- Land and work in Carolina
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 1.10
- This article explains the key elements of feudalism, including its hierarchy of personal relationships and system of landholding, and how those elements evolved into the systems of labor and land ownership seen in colonial North Carolina.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
