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The way Germans did it / The way North Carolinians do it

A pair of cartoons from the State Health Bulletin in October 1919 warns North Carolinians of how influenza is spread. The first, showing a man gunning down a soldier with a machine gun, is captioned "The way the Germans did it at Chateau-Thierry: During the...

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State Library of North Carolina

Find information about the library and its many services and resources. Conduct genealogical research, investigate higher education institutions, find NC statistics, and more. Contains a digital project featuring African-American schools in the post-Civil War era.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

The Columbian Exchange at a glance

In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 5.2

Countless animals, plants, and microorganisms crossed the Atlantic Ocean with European explorers and colonists in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This chart lists some of the organisms that had the greatest impact on human society worldwide.

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Diseases: A brief guide to causes, symptoms, history, and treatment

Since the beginning of human existence on the planet, diseases have played a significant role in the events of every era. This brief listing of some of the most notorious diseases explains their causes, symptoms, history, prevention, and treatment, and provides links to further information.

Format: article

By Emily Jack.

Disease and catastrophe

In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 5.3

Of all the kinds of life exchanged when the Old and New Worlds met, lowly germs had the greatest impact. Europeans and later Africans brought smallpox and a host of other diseases with them to America, where those diseases killed as much as 90 percent of the native population of two continents. Europeans came away lucky -- with only a few tropical diseases from Africa and, probably, syphilis from the New World. In America, disease destoyed civilizations.

Format: article

By David Walbert.

Good medicine

Students will examine changes in technology, medicine, and health that took place in North Carolina between 1870 and 1930 and construct products and ideas which demonstrate understanding of how these changes impacted people living in North Carolina at that time. To achieve these goals, students will employ the eight intelligences of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies)

By Leslie Ramsey.

Microbiology: Bacteria in our environment

In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 5.5

In this lesson, students will learn about bacterial cells and will participate in a lab measuring the growth of bacterial colonies.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)

By Tammy Johnson and Martha Tedrow.

Edith Vanderbilt's relationship with estate families

George Vanderbilt’s marriage to Edith Stuyvesant Dresser in June 1898 precipitated a special celebration when the Agricultural Department won a tug-of-war competition with nursery workers, foresters, and Biltmore House employees and received a “handsome...

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By Sue Clark McKendree.

The Columbian Exchange

In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 5.1

When Christopher Columbus and his crew arrived in the New World, two biologically distinct worlds were brought into contact. The animal, plant, and bacterial life of these two worlds began to mix in a process called the Columbian Exchange. The results of this exchange recast the biology of both regions and altered the history of the world.

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By J.R. McNeill.

Resources on the web

Germy surfaces

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear Dr. Don Goldmann, an infectious disease specialist at Children's Hospital in Boston, discuss the transmission of cold and flu viruses. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 4 )

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science