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- Blacksmiths' tools
- Photograph of eighteenth-century-style blacksmiths' tools in a wooden rack. Blacksmith tools include hammers, punches, and tongs. An anvil and hammer sit on a tree stump nearby.
- Format: image/photograph
- Agricultural implements from Jamestown settlement
- Farm tools used by an early settler for cultivating his newly cleared land. The tools were found by archaeologists working near Jamestown, Virginia, in the mid-1900s.
- Format: image/photograph
- Art detectives
- Students will look at a variety of artworks and explain what tool or medium was used to create them.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–3 Visual Arts Education)
- By Kathy Greene.
- Fireplace tools at Allen House
- Fireplace tools hanging in the fireplace of the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C., where John and Rachel Allen lived with their family in the late 1700s. The tools hang from a wooden beam on the stone wall of the fireplace.
- Format: image/photograph
- Pitchfork
- Video showing construction of a pitchfork or hayfork and describing its use in early farming.
- Format: video/video
- Fireplace and cooking tools at Allen House
- Fireplace and cooking tools hanging in the fireplace of the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C., where John and Rachel Allen lived with their family in the late 1700s. The tools hanging from a wooden beam on the stone wall of the fireplace include a trivet...
- Format: image/photograph
- Old Fort Railroad Museum
- Old Fort, North Carolina has been undergoing a great renovation and the Depot is no exception. The Railroad Depot houses the Railroad Museum and contains memorabilia, tools, and furniture from the early railroad period.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Bar iron and smith's tools
- The artifacts in this photograph were found in an excavation at the site of colonial Jamestown in Virginia. The photo was originially published in the National Park Service publication New Discoveries at Jamestown: Site of the First...
- Format: image/photograph
- Am I a square?
- Students should discover how their height is related to their arm span. They will learn how to do spatial and visual estimation, use measuring tools, recognize factional parts of an inch, gather data, and organize and create a graph based on their findings.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)
- By Priscilla Hege.
- Metal mortar and pestle
- Metal mortar and pestle. A mortar and pestle is a set of tools used to crush or grind ingredients for food or medicine. The pestle is the club-shaped instrument and the mortar is the bowl-shaped receptacle that holds the items being ground.
- Format: image/photograph
- Colonial candle-making tools
- This photograph, taken at a recreation of colonial life at Alamance Battleground, N.C., shows some of the tools that were used to make candles in the colonial era.
- Format: image/photograph
- Concept maps: an introduction
- Using concept maps can help students make connections among subject areas. This article explains how teachers can use concept maps effectively and provides links to tools for creating them online.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Paint tools & geometric figures
- This lesson is meant to teach or review for third grade students the use of Paint tools. These tools are generic to many multimedia tools such as HyperStudio and Kid Pix. For the student who is unfamiliar with "Paint," it provides another tool of expression and illustration.
This lesson is also designed to reinforce geometry math skills. This ability to illustrate a three dimensional object on a flat one dimensional surface is important to enable the student to visualize geometry math problems. - Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills and Mathematics)
- By Barbara Waters.
- 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.
- Running records and you
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.1
- If you teach in North Carolina, you are already "doing" running records. Your school mandates them as a means of assessing student reading. Hopefully you received some training for these assessments, but if your experience was like that of many teachers, you...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- Tools of the trade for information seekers
- A guide to understanding and using search engines, directories, and the invisible web.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Frosty friends
- Students will draw snowmen using various tools in the illustration component of their program. Our students use KidWorks2 by Davidson but others may be used instead. They will then write original stories to accompany their illustrations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Linda Baker.
- Coastal Plain cultures graphic organizer
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.5
- As students read the article "Peoples of the Coastal Plain," this graphic organizer will help them develop an understanding of the cultures that existed in North Carolina's Coastal Plain hundreds of years ago.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Ongoing assessment for reading
- Ongoing, informal assessment is crucial to teaching reading. Using audio and visual examples, this edition explains the use of running records and miscue analysis, tools that help a teacher to identify patterns in student reading behaviors and the strategies a reader uses to make sense of text.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Discuss it with discussion boards and forums
- This "Teacher Time Saver" looks at free tools for creating Web-based discussions.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
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