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The growth of cities: In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.4; Cities grew rapidly after the Civil War, in North Carolina as across the United States. But the great majority of North Carolina's population remained rural. This article includes maps and tables of census data.; Format: article; By David Walbert.

Electrification: In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 6; Vietnam's major cities, towns, and connecting roadways are electrified.; By Lorraine Aragon.

Cities and public architecture: In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.7; In this activity, students compare photographs of public buildings in Charlotte before and after industrialization and the growth of the city in the late nineteenth century to learn about industrial wealth and the culture of the Gilded Age.; Format: article

North Carolina cities, 1860: Map shows locations and sizes of North Carolina towns and cities with populations greater than 2,500 in 1860.; Format: image/map

North Carolina cities, 1880: Map shows locations and sizes of North Carolina towns and cities with populations greater than 2,500 in 1880.; Format: image/map

North Carolina cities, 1910: Map shows locations and sizes of North Carolina towns and cities with populations greater than 2,500 in 1910.; Format: image/map

East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam: Photographs and text tell the story of the Cham and Khmer cultures of southern Vietnam and Cambodia, including a look at Angkor Wat and other great temples and cities.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Temperature graphs: In the following lesson students will locate and record daily high temperatures for several major cities. This data will then be displayed on line graphs. Students will choose one city, and based on its high temperatures, write a paragraph describing appropriate clothing and activities for that location. They will draw a picture of themselves dressed in the clothing and participating in an activity they described.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Kaye Clark.

Weather conditions database: Students will search and sort various fields of a given database file.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 ); By DPI Integration Strategies.

Language change in North Carolina's cities: In this activity, students view a video about the changing dialects of North Carolina's urban areas and then respond to a series of questions.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Hannah Askin.

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.

North Carolina's first newspaper: In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.11; Without the large port cities of other colonies, North Carolina did not get its first newspaper until 1751. In the second half of the eighteenth century, newspapers were founded in several cities across the coastal plain and Piedmont.; Format: article

Fare collector on bus in Thailand: Unlike American buses, most buses in other parts of the world, especially those outside very large cities, (like Bangkok) have at least two employees. One employee drives the bus, the other takes the bus fare from the passengers. Sometimes the fare is the...; Format: audio

Australia: Learn more about the history, cultures, and geography of the “land down under” with this sampling of great educational resources found on LEARN NC.; Format: bibliography/help

Using Venn diagrams to compare and contrast: In order to be able to compare and contrast weather in other places around the country and the world, the students will learn how to use a graphic organizer (Venn diagram) to visualize likeness and differences between two things.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Science); By Kelly Sharpe, Kathleen Hughes, Ruffin Priest, Sondra Walker, and Sandra McKee.

Mapping life in a colonial town: In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.14; From a detailed map of colonial Edenton, North Carolina, we can learn a great deal about daily life and community life on the eve of the Revolution.; Format: activity; By L. Maren Wood.

Altar store: In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 16; China ruled what is now Vietnam for nearly a thousand years, heavily influencing religious and kinship practices among the Vietnamese majority group. There are also large ethnic Chinese populations within major Vietnamese cities. As a result, Vietnamese people...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Effects of bombing on Japanese principal cities, 1945: Format: image/map

A new language: In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 4; Once it became a French “protectorate” with puppet emperors, Vietnamese upper class leaders fiercely debated the relative merits of Chinese Confucian versus Western European knowledge and power. By the 1920s, though, they decided to adopt; By Lorraine Aragon.

Understanding the Columbian Exchange: In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 5.1; This lesson will help students think about the effects of the Columbian Exchange, particularly the exchange of disease as it affected the psychology of the Europeans and Native populations in the early settlement of the Americas.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

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