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- The Jordan Lake Visitor Assistance Center
- Students will learn about water safety, water quality, habitat and wildlife and much more at the Jordan Lake Visitor Assistance Center.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Jordan Lake State Recreation Area
- When visiting this park, students will learn about wildlife, habitats, and the food chain.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Jordan Lake Educational State Forest
- Students will learn about the ecosystems which make up a forest and the animals that inhabit it.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Swans on Jordan Lake in Chatham County, North Carolina
- Swans swim across waters lit vibrantly by the sunset on Jordan Lake in Chatham County, North Carolina.
- Format: image/photograph
- Sun beams over Lake Jordan in Chatham County, NC
- Sun beams slant over the waters of Lake Jordan in Chatham County, North Carolina.
- Format: image/photograph
- Transylvania Heritage Museum
- Students will learn the importance of heritage when they visit this museum in the mountains of Transylvania County. Its exhibits celebrate the history of the area and and take visitors back in time.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- I'm Gwine Home on de Mornin' Train
- I'm Gwine Home on de Mornin' Train is part of the John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip collection at the Library of Congress. John Lomax was a folklorist and musicologist who...
- Format: audio/music
- Strategy lesson: KWL
- This lesson activates students' prior knowledge about famous North Carolinians and helps them organize thoughts and questions before they read biographies.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Alisa McAlister, Sherry French, and Harnetha Hudgins.
- Reading primary sources: Slave narratives
- This interactive guide to reading a slave narrative steps through layers of questions, guiding the reader through the process of historical inquiry. This edition is one in a series of guides on reading historical primary sources.
- Format: interview (multiple pages)
- Malcolm Blue Farm and Museum
- "More fun than a schoolhouse", students will feel like they are traveling back in time when they experience the past at this 1820's farmstead.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- How does your flower grow?
- Students will develop science process skills by observing plants in various conditions and recording their observation over a period of time
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science)
- By Bobbie Toler.
- What key am I in anyway?
- Students will acquire the steps necessary to determine the names of major key signatures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Music Education)
- By David Jordan.
- At home in the tropical rainforest
- Students will choose one rainforest animal to research using print and electronic resources. They will work cooperatively with a partner to create a Hyperstudio card with the following information: photograph of the animal, the layer of the rainforest it inhabits, sound the animal makes, and an interesting fact about the animal.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Sally Eller.
- Rocks and Minerals
- Teach your students to be rock hounds with these wonderful rock and mineral resources.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Into the wilderness: Circuit riders take religion to the people
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 3.2
- In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, "circuit riders" preached to residents of the backcountry who were too scattered to be served by established churches.
- Format: article
- By N. Fred Jordan Jr. .
- Jonathan Edwards and the art of persuasion
- In this lesson, students will study the elements of persuasive writing in Jonathan Edward's “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” according to the following criteria: speaker, audience, occasion, and means of persuasion, and then analyze a contemporary piece of writing, such as an advertisement, for similar elements.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- By Dave Guiley.
- Slaves escape to Union lines
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 6.3
- Federal Writers' Project interview with former slave Mary Barbour. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: interview
- 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.
Resources on the web
- Linear Algebra Toolkit
- Modules that cover systems of linear equations and matrices, determinants, vector spaces, and linear transformations. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: Old Dominion University
- How sedimentary rocks are formed
- This Science NetLinks lesson briefly reviews the rock cycle in general and then focuses on sedimentary rocks. Students do a hands-on activity using mixed nuts to illustrate the layering of sedimentary rocks. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
