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- Barrier islands
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.8
- This lesson is part of chapter one of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students examine the difference between simple overwash barrier islands and complex barrier islands. They also learn more about the island-building process and the effect this process can have on daily life on barrier islands.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- The coastal dilemma
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.15
- This lesson is part of chapter one of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks. Students look at examples of shoreline erosion. They reflect on the impact this erosion can have on human life on the Outer Banks.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks
- The lessons in this unit allow students to explore the processes affecting North Carolina's Outer Banks and the impact these processes have on daily life there.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Estuarine shorelines behind simple overwash barrier islands
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.13
- This lesson is part of chapter one in the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students take another look at simple overwash and complex barrier islands. They examine more closely how overwash and inlet processes are crucial to the long-term maintenance of barrier islands and how these processes can affect human life.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- Human responses to eroding shorelines
- In Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks, page 1.16
- This lesson is part of chapter one of the unit "Coastal processes and conflicts: North Carolina's Outer Banks." Students look at efforts that are taken to prevent shoreline erosion. These include building hardened structures along shorelines. Students examine the effects these efforts have on barrier islands.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science and Social Studies)
- By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea Ames, and Karen Dawkins.
- Navigating the inlets and havens
- In this lesson plan, students read and analyze a primary source document written in the early 1700s that describes the inlets of the North Carolina coast. The students adopt the perspective of a contemporary ship's captain and discuss the importance of the information in the document.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The regions of North Carolina
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.2
- In this lesson, students analyze the differences between North Carolina's geographical regions: the Mountains, the Piedmont, and the Inner and Outer Coastal Plain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Shifting coastlines
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.3
- In their study of North Carolina's changing coastline during the Paleoindian and Archaic periods, students will determine the positions of the coastline at different times and decide what types of archaeological information has been lost due to rising sea levels.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Science and Social Studies)
