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- The Equinox at Chichén Itzá
- In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 4.1
- Slideshow View a slideshow of photographs of the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá. ...
- Format: article
- Angkor Wat
- In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 8
- Angkor was the royal capital of the Khmer empire from 802–1431 CE. Angkor's long-lasting prosperity was based on the local abundance of three resources: water, fish, and the rice crops grown on soil nourished by...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Two paths to knowledge
- For students who who always finish their class work early or want more information than you have time to give, try curriculum compacting.
- By Waverly Harrell.
- When you don't have all the answers
- Linda Dow suggests freeing yourself from the necessity to be the eternal expert and descibes techniques for sharing the responsibility for learning and teaching alongside your students.
- By Linda Dow.
- Works available for use
- In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 3.4
- Many works, copyrighted or not, are available to the public for various kinds of use, including republication and distribution. The public domain The public domain comprises works...
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Moat, guardian lion statue, and causeway into temple buildings at Angkor Wat
- A carved stone lion statue stands on guard near a causeway over the huge water reservoir and moat surrounding Angkor Wat, the largest temple complex at the ancient city of Angkor. Angkor Wat, like many Hindu and Buddhist Southeast Asian temples, was designed...
- Format: image/photograph
- University of Guanajuato
- White walls of a large building emerge out of a crowded city center. Mountains loom behind the city buildings. The University of Guanajuato was founded in the seventeenth century as a private college and became a public institution after the signing of Mexico's...
- Format: image/photograph
- 4-H on the home front
- In this lesson plan, secondary students will analyze a variety of primary source textual materials to investigate how young rural people were encouraged to support the war effort during World War II.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Effects of civil action
- In this lesson, secondary students will analyze primary source materials to investigate how 4-H clubs made an impact on the home front in completing projects that supported the war effort during World War II. This lesson should be taught at the end of a World War II unit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Stay still
- In this lesson students will learn about stability. They will design and build an earthquake-proof house that takes into account the forces acting upon it and the materials with which it will be built. The house will be tested in a “shake table.” Students will be assessed by the product itself as well as their analysis of the results of the test.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- By Erin Denniston.
- Float, sink, flink!
- In this lesson, students will learn to make things flink, meaning they neither float to the top nor sink to the bottom of a fluid. They will discover that whether an object floats or sinks depends not only on the properties of the object itself, but also on the properties of the fluid (either gas or liquid) in which it is situated.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)
- By Erin Denniston.
- Bunker Hill Covered Bridge
- One of the last two remaining covered bridges in North Carolina, the Bunker Hill Covered Bridge has been named a National Civil Engineering Landmark.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
- Located in Camden County on scenic U. S. Highway 17, the original Ocean Highway, just three miles south of the VA/NC border, the Great Dismal Swamp Center sits on the banks of the Dismal Swamp Canal, part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
- North Carolina's most famous lighthouse is open for tours. Learn about this history of this guardian of the “graveyard of the Atlantic”.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- North Carolina State University Gallery of Art and Design
- Guided tours of the NCSU Gallery of Art and Design's collections and exhibitions are available for school groups.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University
- Visit the Nuclear Engineering Department at NC State University and learn about the field of nuclear engineering and industrial applications.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The Science House
- Through school demonstration programs, student science camps, teacher workshops and innovative laboratory training, and support projects, the NCSU Science House partners with K-12 teachers to emphasize the use of hands-on learning activities in mathematics and science.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Expansion and empire, 1867–1914
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 6.1
- The United States expanded its economic influence and added overseas territory in the last decades of the nineteenth century, but the drive for empire was tempered by a strong anti-imperialist strain in American politics.
- Format: article
- African American history
- A guide to lesson plans, articles, and websites to help bring African American history alive in your classroom.
- Format: bibliography/help
- That was then, this is now
- Students will explore various career topics and study technological changes over last 30 years.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Guidance)
- By Cary Lane Cockrell.
