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4-H Club girl showing off Canned Goods: This black and white photograph shows a 4-H club girl standing in front of an open floor-to-ceiling cupboard that has six shelves filled with canned goods. The girl holds two canning jars in the crook of her left arm and is reaching for another jar with her...; Format: image/photograph

CareerStart lessons: Grade six: This collection of lessons aligns the sixth grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.; Format: (multiple pages)

Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use: A “virtual field trip” through the North Carolina Piedmont and thousands of years of history explains the origin of Piedmont clays and how clay is made into pottery. With high-resolution photographs.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Economics: Market surveys: This lesson plan is for an accelerated, academically gifted 4/5th grade combination class. The unit of study is economics (social studies). The SCoS goals and objectives cross grade levels and curriculum areas because of the nature of the children for whom this lesson was designed. This lesson was designed as a supplemental lesson for a unit I taught called Mini-Society (supported by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership). I taught this unit for the first time this year after attending a workshop at Chapel Hill, NC. This lesson enhances the Mini-Society unit in which children create their own businesses.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Social Studies); By Denise Delp.

North Carolina in the New South: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the decades after the Civil War (1870–1900). Topics include changes in agriculture, the growth of cities and industry, the experiences of farmers and mill workers, education, cultural changes, politics and political activism, and the Wilmington Race Riot.; Format: book (multiple pages)

How much is that cupcake really worth?!: Use this as an introductory lesson to supply & demand for Economic, Legal and Political Systems students.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies); By Joy Walker.

"Kids as Decision Makers" -- Distinguishing between Needs and Wants: The students will have hands-on experiences with sorting pictures into groups according to the social studies objective: The learner will apply basic economic concepts to home and school. This lesson will focus on distinguishing between wants and needs.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Social Studies); By Tonya Kales.

4-H club girl posing in kitchen with jars of preserved foods: A 4-H club member looks at a jar of carrots she is holding in her hands in this black and white photograph from the 1940s. She is standing in a kitchen and on the counter next to her are 5 canned jars of vegetables. A refrigerator door is just visible on the...; Format: image/article

The Great Depression: Impact over time: In this lesson students listen to oral history excerpts from Stan Hyatt from Madison County and evaluate how the Great Depression affected one North Carolina family over time.; Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

State Home Demonstration leader Ruth Current (left), with assistant leader Estelle T. Smith: In this black and white photograph, Ruth Current and Estelle Smith sit at a desk examining a thin book. Smith is taking notes. The surface of the wooden desk is protected by a pad and, in addition to several books and papers, there is a quill pen in a holder,...; Format: image/photograph

4-H club girl and leader examining jars: This black and white photographs shows a 4-H club girl and her leader examining jars used for canning as part of a 4-H food preservation program. They are standing in a room in front of a fireplace. A hurricane lamp and clock can be seen on the mantle. The...; Format: image/article

Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity one: This activity for grades 3–6 will help students understand what tobacco bag stringing was and why it was important to communities in North Carolina and Virginia. Students will read and analyze an adapted introductory article about tobacco bag stringing.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

The four factors of production: Students will learn to identify and explain the four factors of production: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies); By penn pace.

CareerStart lessons: Grade seven: This collection of lessons aligns the seventh grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.; Format: (multiple pages)

Colonial restrictions on pottery: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 8; European colonists recognized clay as an important resource in developing their agricultural economy. Surprisingly, the king's governors restricted the manufacture of pottery because the British economic model for the empire (called mercantilism)...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

M&M math: M&M Math provides students with hands-on activities. Students will be sorting objects, comparing whole numbers, writing fractions, performing addition, subtraction, and division problems with the use of manipulatives.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Angela Gillie.

Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity four: In this activity for grades 3–6, students will read and evaluate a primary source letter from the Tobacco Bag Stringing collection. This should be done after Activity one, which is the introductory activity about tobacco bag stringing. Students will investigate the influence of technology, and its lack, on the tobacco bag stringers. They will do a role play/debate in which they will assume the roles of owners of companies and other people that were involved in the issue.; Format: article (grade 3–5 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Is ATP worth the investment?: In this lesson plan, students learn about ATP using an economic analogy. Students use simple financial tables to explore the concepts of cost, revenue, and return on an investment as it applies to ATP in aerobic and anaerobic respiration.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By MaryBeth Knight Greene.

GNP simulation using foods in the Americas: Students are treated to “lunch” based on food supply and GNP distribution in Latin America.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies); By Ken Stewart.

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