Tag Archives: textiles

2015 Vol 7: Africa: Moving Beyond Popular Culture

Africa in the Global Fashion Industry: Beyond masks, safari coats, and romance

February 3, 2016 – 1:20 pm

Wendy Potter, Family/Consumer Science, David Butler High School

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags Africa, Colonialism, fashion design, globalization, High School, textiles | Permalink | Comments Off

2014 Features Vol 4: Intersections of Science, Technology and Culture

Our Community: Charlotte — History Channels Who We Are Today!

August 7, 2015 – 5:23 pm

Rosa Bockian, Third Grade, Collinswood Language Academy

Final Unit (PDF) Implementing Common Core Standards (PDF)

Tags banking, Catawba Indians, cotton, gold rush, Great Depression, Hornets Nest, hydroelectric power, new south, prosperity, textiles, trading post | Permalink | Comments Off

2014 Curriculum Units Vol 7: Visual Storytelling in Children's and Young Adult literature

Visualizing the Story Through “Text”iles: Visual Storytelling

February 16, 2015 – 9:37 pm

Barbara Wesselman, Apparel & Design, Northwest School of the Arts

Final Unit (PDF) Implementing Common Core Standards (PDF)

Tags American History, Apparel, cloth, Design, fabric, fiber, iconic, literacy, symbolic, textiles, Visual Storytelling | Permalink | Comments Off

2013 Curriculum Units Vol 1: Charlotte as a New South City: Using the Collections of the Levine Museum of the New South

Fabric of the New South City: Cotton, Textiles and the Threads that Bind Us

February 21, 2014 – 5:18 pm

Barbara Wesselman, Apparel and Design, Northwest School of the Arts

Final Unit (PDF) Implementing Common Core Standards (PDF)

Tags child labor, civil war, cotton, D.A. Tompkins, eli whitney, ella may wiggins, levine museum of the new south, loray mill strike, new south, slavery, Textile Mills, textiles | Permalink | Comments Off

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