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Checking comprehension: In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 2.4; Many assessments for students’ comprehension contain questions to be answered by the student. Miscue analysis makes retelling the performance of comprehension. When a student completes a reading, the teacher should facilitate both an unaided and aided retelling...; By Jeanne Gunther.

18th-century Indian trading camp: At a demonstration of eighteenth-century life on North Carolina's western frontier, this replica of an Indian trading camp shows items that were considered valuable commodities. They included powder horns, tobacco, shirts, blankets, rum, mirrors, beaded belts,...; Format: image/photograph

A family altar: In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 17; The merchant house shown here was built about 1790 at Hoi An. The style of the room decorations and the written characters on the pictures at top left indicate the ethnic Chinese background of this merchant family. Beginning hundreds of years ago, merchant...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Bartering - A system of exchange: By participating in a game called "Barter Bag" students will be introduced to the concept of trade. This introduces students to the concept of bartering.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies); By Carlene M. White.

Portal of sorrow: The view through the door of a slave holding pen on Gorée Island, Senegal, which was once a major West African slave trading outpost. Africans captured inland were marched to the coast and held in pens like these, from which they were taken to waiting ships.; Format: image/photograph

Mapping the Great Wagon Road: In Colonial North Carolina, page 5.2; The Great Wagon Road took eighteenth-century colonists from Philadelphia west into the Appalachian mountains and south into the North Carolina Piedmont. This article describes the route and its history and offers two detailed maps, one from 1751 and one from the present, for comparison.; Format: article; By David Walbert.

East Asian trading ships: Each student will work with a partner as an owner of an overseas shipping company with one cargo ship in East Asia. Students are given these instructions in the overview: In each Asian country that you travel to you will fill your cargo ship with items that you can buy from the list of exports. You will then try to sell these items when you travel to another country that is willing to import these commodities. The winner of the game is the company with the biggest profits at the end of the pretend 15 day time period. Good Luck!; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies); By Tami Kaiser Polge.

Powder horns: At a replica of an eighteenth-century Indian trading camp on North Carolina's western frontier, three powder horns hang from a post. Powder horns were hollowed-out cow or buffalo horns, used to hold gun powder for loading muskets and other firearms.; Format: image/photograph

Beaded belt: At a replica of an eighteenth-century trading camp on the North Carolina frontier, an American Indian-style belt hangs from a post. Beaded belts with this type of pattern were an important element of typical Southeastern Indian dress.; Format: image/photograph

Unloading packages at a bus stop: Several passengers disembark from a public bus while a man helps unload packages. Tena is one of the most important trading villages of the eastern part of Ecuador. The bustling town of 13,000 people presents a stark contrast to the vast tracts of surrounding...; Format: image/photograph

About the Archaeology Primer: In Excavating Occaneechi Town: An archaeology primer, page 1; The Occaneechi Indians were once prominent in the Virginia and Carolina Piedmont. As their numbers were reduced by clashes with European colonists, they retreated to a village on the Eno River. Their numbers further dwindled due to disease and warfare, and by 1730 the Occaneechi were all but gone. In 1983, archaeologists discovered a village site near Hillsborough, North Carolina. Through a series of digs, they confirmed that they had found Occaneechi Town.; Format: article

Great Wagon Road marker: A historical marker along the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road -- also referred to simply as the "Great Wagon Road." The plaque reads: 1753 Great Philadelphia Wagon Road The most heavily traveled in Colonial America passed near here, linking areas...; Format: image/photograph

PIZZA = "Fractions: Any Way You Slice It!": During this lesson, students will explore and investigate the relationships among fractions. Students will use paper pizzas divided into fractional parts to compare equivalent fractions. They will see part-whole fractions as fair shares and begin to understand that the parts must be equal.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills and Mathematics); By Alta Allen.

Donkeys resting along a mountain trail: In Nepal, donkeys walk along a mountain trail. Houses with slate roofs stand in the background, with patches of forests in front of them. On the horizon, a range of snow-capped mountains towers over a rugged range of lower mountains. Donkeys are the major...; Format: image/photograph

Red and white flag of Indonesia flies from flagpole: The red and white flag of Indonesia flies from a flagpole, as seen from below. The national flag of the Republic of Indonesia is half red, on top, and half white, on the bottom. It is flown prominantly at schools and government buildings. The flag sometimes...; Format: image/photograph

Sunset at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, AZ: Sunset at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on April 13, 1937. The monument protects a diverse section of the Sonoran Desert, 95% of which is designated wilderness. It...; Format: image/photograph

Saguaro cacti in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, AZ: Saguaro cacti in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on April 13, 1937. The monument protects a diverse section of the Sonoran Desert, 95% of which is designated wilderness....; Format: image/photograph

Saguaro cacti in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, AZ: Saguaro cacti in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on April 13, 1937. The monument protects a diverse section of the Sonoran Desert, 95% of which is designated wilderness....; Format: image/photograph

Saguaro cacti, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, AZ: Saguaro cacti in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on April 13, 1937. The monument protects a diverse section of the Sonoran Desert, 95% of which is designated wilderness....; Format: image/photograph

A saguaro cactus in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, AZ: A saguaro cactus on Ajo Mountain Drive in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on April 13, 1937. The monument protects a diverse section of the Sonoran Desert, 95% of which...; Format: image/photograph

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