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Christmas at Lake Norman, NC: This is a boat decorated for Christmas at Lake Norman in Iredell County, North Carolina. Boat owners around the area gather and deck out their decks with Christmas lights, animated snowmen, and more.; Format: image/photograph

"Twas the Night Before Christmas": Retelling through thinking maps: After reading and discussing “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” students will work together to create a Flow Map. Each student will then use the map they created individually to retell the story in his/her own words.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts); By Amy Rhyne, Paulette Keys, and Sarah Carson.

Using different versions of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas": This lesson allows the teacher to read different versions of this classic in accents indigenous to certain cultures and then provides a writing lesson for students to write their own version of "'Twas the Night" for their school!; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Dirk Robertson.

Home demonstration Christmas party, including Jane McKimmon, Virginia Wilson, and Ruth Current, Dec. 1947.: In the black and white photograph a group of women pose around a lace covered dining table. The table is set with a silver tea service, a plate of thin wafers, and a Christmas decoration. The women are all dressed up and some hold Christmas presents. The woman...; Format: image/photograph

1940s Ford Coupe in the Elizabethtown Christmas Parade: This is a Ford Coupe from the 1940s in the Elizabethtown Christmas Parade. Elizabethtown is the seat of Bladen County, North Carolina.; Format: image/photograph

Lit-up Christmas tree in the Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens: This is a lit-up Christmas tree decoration on a lawn in the Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens in Belmont, North Carolina. Every year, the garden has a holiday lighting event.; Format: image/photograph

A Christmas Carol chronology: Christmas Carol Chronology, based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, provides students with an opportunity to develop comprehension by listing plot developments and arranging them sequentially. This lesson begins with cooperative learning groups and ends with an individual manipulative activity of cutting and pasting strips of events in chronological order.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); By Judy Gibbs.

Graphing with food: Students will use a variety of foods to make graphs. Each food should be used for a separate lesson for a total of ten lessons.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics); By Bunnie R. Brewer.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!: Biltmore Dairy ice cream also played a leading role at estate gatherings — Cornelia’s birthday celebrations, Christmas parties, May Day festivities, and picnics. In fact, virtually every oral history interview or questionnaire containing childhood...; Format: article; By Sue Clark McKendree.

Special celebrations: Although the first Christmas parties for estate workers were held in the Banquet hall of Biltmore house, they later moved to the Dairy, most likely because of the ever-expanding numbers of employees required for the growing operations. Sarah Lanning surmised...; Format: article; By Sue Clark McKendree.

Reindeer boots: Children will use problem-solving techniques to answer the question, “How many boots will Santa need for his reindeer?”; Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics); By Vanette Hann.

Historic Yates Mill County Park: The centerpiece of this 574-acre historical and environmental park is Yates Mill - Wake County's last remaining gristmill.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Cooleemee's Textile Heritage Center: This historic center was built so that the people of the Carolina mill industry would not be forgotten. The center celebrates and strives to preserve their values and their way of life to share with future generations.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Word closet: Word Closets give students an additional classroom resource for “researching” the correct spelling of words to use in their daily writing. Word Closets are particularly focused toward concept words, season words, and favorite words that students like to use in their writing but may need help with spelling.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Soldiers preparing for Operation TOY DROP in Fort Bragg, NC: Paratroopers at Fort Bragg board a C-130 Hercules in preparation for Operation TOY DROP. TOY DROP works to collect over 1400 toys for deserving and needy families in the Fayetteville area.; Format: image/photograph

Mike's Farm and Country Store: Take a trip to the farm! Experience life on a farm today and in times gone by at this family-owned farm.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Newspaper basket: Students use measurement skills to create a basket and respond to questions involving fractions, decimals, and geometric measurements.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Susan Jennings.

A capital in the "wilderness": In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 1.4; In 1792, the North Carolina General Assembly voted to place a permanent state capital in Wake County. Joel Lane sold 1,000 acres of land to the state, and in the years that followed, the city of Raleigh was planned and built.; Format: article

Blue Ridge Parkway Folk Art Center: Students will enjoy visiting the folk art center and learning about the heritage of the southern Appalachian mountain people.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

The First Year: Essays on the author's experiences in her first year of teaching: the mistakes she made, what she learned from them, and how she used them to become a better teacher — and how other first-year teachers can, too.; Format: book (multiple pages)

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