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Practicum in Online Teaching - Carolina Online Teacher Program: Teach your online course with a pilot group of students or teachers. An experienced online-learning mentor will guide you through typical problem areas. The Practicum in Online Teaching may be done in conjunction with your school or county, and even as part of your normal teaching load.; Take this course: Begins January 5.

Name that point!: In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.4; In their study of projectile points (i.e., spear points or “arrowheads”) dating to the Archaic period in North Carolina, students use activity sheets to compare projectile point attributes and to identify and classify points based on clearly defined variables. They will also match projectile points to a chronology and determine when the points were made and why the information is important to archaeologists.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)

Archaeological sites open to the public: A listing of field trip opportunities focusing on Native Americans as well as colonial times in North Carolina. Organized by county.; Format: article

The pathfinders: In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.2; An essay covering the pathfinders of the Paleoindian Period. Learn about the trek across Beringia and the lifeways of these early American Indians.

E. Whitley feeding pigs: E. Whitley, a farmer of Stanly County, North Carolina is seen in this Depression era black and white photograph feeding his pigs. He is standing in his farmyard next to a trough from which his sow and her 11 piglets are eating. Wearing a long sleeved shirt...; Format: image/photograph

Children and families in North Carolina: In this lesson plan, elementary students will analyze photographs of children from North Carolina provided by the Green ‘N’ Growing collection from the Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University. They will investigate how individuals and families are similar and different, and to begin to acquire an understanding of change over time.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

4-H club members participating in family recreation on the Stanly County Farm and Home Tour: In this black and white photograph, two children are crouching in the dirt, playing. The little girl in a gingham dress is shooting marbles into a circle that's been drawn out. The boy, who is wearing overalls is leaning back against a tree looking at something...; Format: image/photograph

4-H Club meeting: This black and white photograph shows 4-H club members attending a club meeting in Millingport, Stanly County, North Carolina. The girls and boys are sitting in rows of wooden chairs on a playground next to a brick school building. A make-shift basketball...; Format: image/article

Shadows of a people: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.3; Archaeologists divide North Carolina's prehistory -- the time before contact with Europeans -- into four periods: Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian.; Format: article

Stanly County Historic Preservation Commission Museum: Stanly County created this museum to preserve the heritage resources of the area for generations to come. The exhibits cover the history of Stanly County from ancient times to the present.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Morrow Mountain State Park: Students will learn about the geological processes which formed the Uwharrie Mountains when they visit Morrow Mountain State Park.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Freeman-Marks House and Isaiah W. Snuggs House: Both listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the I.W. Snuggs House and the Freeman-Marks House are important reminders of the heritage and culture of Stanly County.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Fog at sunset on a pond in Stanly County, NC: This is fog rising off a pond at sunset in Stanly County, North Carolina.; Format: image/photograph

Farm and haybales in Stanly County, NC: This is a field full of hay bales in a farm in Stanly County, North Carolina. Most of Stanly County is rural countryside.; Format: image/photograph

Lake Tillery in Stanly County, NC: This is Lake Tillery in Stanly County, North Carolina.; Format: image/photograph

View from Morrow Mountain in Stanly County, NC: This is the view from Morrow Mountain in Stanly County, North Carolina. Though Morrow Mountain stands at only 936 feet, it towers above its surroundings and offers spectacular panoramas of the surrounding area.; Format: image/photograph

A mushroom in the Uwharrie Mountains: This is a mushroom in the Uwharrie Mountains in Montgomery County, North Carolina. The Uwharries cut through Randolph, Montgomery, Stanly, and Davidson Counties, and their foothills lie in Cabarrus, Anson, and Union Counties. They are now protected as a National...; Format: image/photograph

Great White Egret in Stanly County, NC: This is a Great White Egret in Stanly County, North Carolina. This water bird is also known as a Great Egret, a White Heron, or simply a Common Egret.; Format: image/photograph

The North Carolina Gold Rush: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 6.1; Gold was discovered in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, in 1799, and within a few years, the North Carolina Gold Rush was on. Men arrived in the Piedmont to work in the mines, many of them from Cornwall in England.; Format: article; By Rebecca Lewis.

Cotton clouds: A cotton field in Stanly County, North Carolina.; Format: image/photograph