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- How do hurricanes form?
- In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 2
- Hurricanes begin when areas of low atmospheric pressure move off Africa and into the Atlantic, where they grow and intensify in the moisture-laden air above the warm tropical ocean. Air moves toward these atmospheric lows from all directions and curves to...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- A land of many wetlands
- In Wetlands of the coastal plains, page 1
- Eastern North Carolina is a land of many wetlands. More than forty different types have been identified by botanists with the state's Natural Heritage Program. Geographically, this wetland heritage was achieved in the most straightforward way: all of the land...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Why does North Carolina have so many, and so many kinds of, monadnocks?
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 2
- North Carolina has more than a dozen monadnocks scattered among its Blue Ridge mountains, and another ten or more on its Piedmont Plateau. These monadnocks formed during dramatic and diverse events that occurred as the state's crust formed. Most of these geologic...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Incorporating oral history into the K–12 curriculum
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 3
- Oral history techniques for use with students at all levels, from kindergarten through high school.
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Real-world learning in a virtual environment
- Want to try project-based learning to get your students involved in real-world issues? A former North Carolina Technology & Learning Teacher of the Year talks about how she worked with the North Carolina Zoo to get students excited about learning.
- By David Walbert.
- Hands-on biology
- Hands-on science exploration clarifies difficult concepts and engages learners who have difficulty in more traditional classrooms. This article looks at an inquiry-based classroom that meets the needs of all of its students.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Waverly Harrell.
- What causes the great biological diversity of the Blue Ridge?
- In Elevations and forest types along the Blue Ridge Parkway, page 2
- Although the distribution of forest types in the Blue Ridge is best explained by the relationship between elevation and temperature, the great diversity of these forests is not. To understand the underlying causes of this diversity requires some knowledge...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Letter from an African American citizen of Wilmington to the President
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 8.5
- Letter to President William McKinley, describing the Wilmington Race Riot and asking him to intervene and "send relief." Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- The forest people
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.3
- Paleoindian culture died out across North America by 8000 BC. Archaeologists say this was bound to happen. The Ice Age had ended, the megafauna were extinct, and the boreal forests faded as deciduous ones spread across the East in the warmer climate. Faced with significant environmental changes, the Native Americans adapted. Archaeologists call their way of life and the time in which they lived Archaic.
- Statue in Cartagena, Colombia
- A statue of a man holding a long stick sits atop a stone pedestal. This statue may represent an African slave brought to Latin America. Cartagena was one of the largest ports for the arrival of slaves brought from Africa during the colonial period. While Brazil...
- Format: image/photograph
- Guinea corn
- "Guinea corn" is a name for durra, a grain traditionally grown in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and southern Europe. It was typically ground into meal and made into bread. It is also known as Indian millet, African millet, or pearl millet. Guinea,...
- Format: image/photograph
- The value of money in colonial America
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.5
- This article explains the many kinds of money that circulated in colonial America and why it is nearly impossible to say what they were worth "in today's money."
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The Lords Proprietors
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 1.5
- Brief biographies of the eight men named Lords Proprietors of the province of Carolina by Charles II in 1663.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The natural history of North Carolina
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 1.2
- If the five billion years of the earth's history were condensed into a single day, humans would have arrived in North Carolina just two tenths of a second before midnight! This article summarizes the major biological and geological events in North Carolina's history and explains how the land and environment of today came to be.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Spain and America: From Reconquest to Conquest
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.1
- In 1491, no European knew that North and South America existed. By 1550, Spain -- a small kingdom that had not even existed a century earlier -- controlled the better part of two continents and had become the most powerful nation in Europe. In half a century of brave exploration and brutal conquest, both Europe and America were changed forever.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Where am I? Mapping a New World
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.2
- Early European travelers to the Americas reported bits and pieces of information back to Europe. Over the centuries, mapmakers assembled these reports into maps. As time went by, explorers and mapmakers compiled an increasingly accurate understanding of the Americas and of the world. To do so, they had to invent new tools for mapmaking, embrace radical new ideas about the shape of the world, and discard cherished beliefs.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- 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.
- Smallpox
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 5.4
- Smallpox is a serious, contagious, and sometimes fatal infectious disease caused by the variola virus. Historically, smallpox had a mortality rate of as much as 30 percent. In the Americas, it killed as much as 90 percent of the indigenous population after contact with Europeans introduced the disease. Smallpox is now eradicated after a successful worldwide vaccination program.
- Format: article
- Fiddler crab
- This close-up photograph of a male fiddler crab gives a clear view of its asymmetrical claws. Fiddler crabs are small crabs, reaching body sizes of only one to two inches. There are nearly 100 species of fiddler crab, found in marine environments in west Africa,...
- Format: image/photograph
- A brief history of Blackbeard & Queen Anne's Revenge
- The French slave ship La Concorde was captured by the pirate Blackbeard after a treacherous crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 1717. The ship was renamed Queen Anne's Revenge, and it became the vessel in which Blackbeard carried out the notorious acts of his piratical career. By examining a variety of primary and secondary French documents, researchers have pieced together a limited history of the ship.
- Format: article
