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- What makes an estuary?
- In Cape Fear estuaries: From river to sea, page 2
- Estuaries are defined as semi-enclosed bodies of water with intermediate salinities caused by the mixture of fresh and salt waters. That sounds simple enough, but the true qualities of estuaries are found in the interaction between the river and ocean inputs...
- By Steve Keith.
- Bogue Inlet
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 10
- Figure 9 shows the Bear Island beach near Bogue Inlet. This area appears as a white band in the right middle distance in Figure 8. Note the almost continuous maritime grassland in the foreground and bare sand stretching back into the salt marsh on the shore...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Estuaries in North Carolina: A primer
- Estuaries are places near the coast where freshwater and saltwater mix. Influenced by ocean forces yet partly sheltered from them, estuaries have unique and fascinating ecologies. This article explains what estuaries are, their geology and role in the larger...
- By Waverly Harrell and Jennifer Godwin-Wyer.
- Teaching with disturbing images
- Photographs are especially powerful tools for explaining current and historical events — not least horrible or brutal events, such as war, genocide, famine, terrorism, slavery, and lynching. In fact, photographs are often used specifically to raise an...
- By David Walbert.
- Meeting North Carolina's mammals
- Coyotes, deer, rabbits, and raccoons range nearly everywhere in North Carolina. By looking for signs and tracks around your school campus, students can learn all about them.
- By Linda Dow.
- Debates in the middle school classroom
- In Arts of persuasion, page 2
- A plan for staging a debate, including choosing a topic, "debate do's," and assessment.
- By Pamela Myrick and Sharon Pearson.
- Transit of Venus
- On June 8, 2004, a transit of Venus will occur, the first in 122 years. This article explains what a transit is, why it matters, and when and how you can safely view it.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The growth of tourism: Warm Springs
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.9
- Advertisement for Warm Springs (now Hot Springs) in Madison County, North Carolina, from the late nineteenth century. Includes historical commentary about the region, tourism, and nineteenth-century medicine.
- Format: pamphlet
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Funds of knowledge
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 2.1
- Teachers can use "funds of knowledge," the knowledge students gain from their family and cultural backgrounds, to make their classrooms more inclusive.
- By Janet Kier Lopez.
- Shadows of North Carolina's past
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.2
- Students will infer past Native American lifeways based on observation, construct a timeline of four major culture periods in Native American history, and compare these lifeways and discuss how they are different and alike.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- Language families
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.7
- Students will identify and locate the three language families of contact period North Carolina and calculate the physical area covered by each language family.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Mathematics and Social Studies)
- A guided journey into the past
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.7
- In their study of archaeological resource conservation, students will use guided imagery to discover and judge an alternative way to enjoy artifacts without removing them from archaeological sites.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)
- Ravana tempts Sita
- In The Ramayana, page 2.13
- The demon king Ravana visits the captured Princess Sita in a wooden puppet theater performance at Yogyakarta in July 1986. The Ravana puppet, here painted with red skin unlike his green-skinned counterpart in Thai mural art, waves a powerful sword at Princess...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- The monkey god Hanuman
- In The Ramayana, page 3.1
- This image of the monkey god Hanuman on a mural painted at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows him perched on one knee wearing golden royal Thai clothes. Hanuman's mouth is open and his larger-than-human teeth are visible. Hanuman has made himself gigantic and...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Hanuman attacks Ravana's palace
- In The Ramayana, page 3.7
- In this detail image from an Emerald Buddha Temple mural, Hanuman in royal garb clambers over the head of an elephant outside a white wall of Ravana's palace. The bodies of two fallen demon guards are seen at each side of the frame. After locating Sita and...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Hanuman and the demon king
- In The Ramayana, page 3.9
- Hanuman and Ravana puppets face each other in battle at a July 1986 performance in Yogyakarta. The white Hanuman puppet on the left wears a royal Yogyakarta-style batik sarong while the Ravana puppet, with a moustache and red skin, is dressed in red. The faces...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Ravana seems invincible
- In The Ramayana, page 6.3
- An Indian painting shows Rama shooting arrows in battle with Ravana's demons. On a bright yellow background, the painting shows Rama with dark blue skin stepping forward and shooting a volley of arrows with a drawn bow. He is wearing only a tunic skirt and...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Sita agrees to return
- In The Ramayana, page 7.13
- Rama and Hanuman go into the forest to meet Sita, as shown at a wood puppet performance in Yogyakarta during July 1986. The white Hanuman puppet on the right wears a royal Yogyakarta-style batik sarong while the Rama and Sita puppets are dressed in similar...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- The pottery makers
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.4
- Archaeologists do a bit of shrugging when asked about the Woodland—that time and lifeway tucked between 1000 BC and AD 1000. Some things they readily understand, but others leave them wondering.
- The village farmers
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.5
- North Carolina sat on a crossroads by AD 1000. Cultural ideas from other places breezed through it and around it: how to decorate pottery, how to orient political and social life, how to honor the dead, how to structure towns.
