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The Catawba County Museum of History in Newton, NC

This is the Catawba County Museum of History in Newton, North Carolina. It is housed in the former Catawba County Court House. Their collection includes agricultural tools and implements forged from hand-dug iron ore, hand-crafted household cupboards, wagon...

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Catawba County Museum of History

Visit the museum and see exhibits ranging from colonial times and the Revolutionary War to religion and education.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Some of the larger spinners in Catawba Cotton Mills, Newton, N.C.

Format: image/photograph

Handheld technology: the basics

A brief history of handheld computers and a look at how they work, including a look at operating systems and input and output devices.

Diary of a journey of Moravians

First-hand account of the journey of twelve Moravian brothers from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Bethabara, North Carolina in 1753.

Format: diary (multiple pages)

Old Mill Stream Nursery Nature Adventures

This 70 acre nursery and preserve provides nature adventure field trips for students in grades K through 5. Each adventure program correlates with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

A dicey stem and leaf plot

After being introduced to a stem and leaf plot, students will be able to create their own stem and leaf plots.

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)

By Debbie Newton.

Interview with W. L. Bost

In Antebellum North Carolina, page 3.7

Federal Writers Project interview with former slave W. L. Bost. Includes historical commentary. Note: This source contains explicit language or content that requires mature discussion.

Format: interview

Introduction to the Moravian diary

In Diary of a journey of Moravians, page 1

Introduction to the Moravian diary The Moravian seal, symbol of the Moravian church. The Moravians made their first settlement in America, in 1735, on the lower Savannah River, where...

Format: article

Life on the land: Voices

In North Carolina in the New South, page 1.4

Excerpts of oral history interviews with men and women who grew up on farms in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century North Carolina.

Format: interview

Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

Classification and attributes

In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.7

In their study of classification and attributes, students will use “doohickey kits” to classify objects based on their attributes, and explain that scientists and specifically archaeologists use classification to help answer research questions.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)

A perspective on inquiry

In this interview, Norman Budnitz, cofounder of the Center for Inquiry Based Learning, talks about inquiry and how to teach with it in a K–12 classroom.

Format: article/best practice

By Waverly Harrell.

A timeline of North Carolina colleges (1766–1861)

In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 5.12

Brief information about the more than thirty private colleges established in North Carolina before the Civil War.

Format: timeline

Shifting coastlines

In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.3

In their study of North Carolina's changing coastline during the Paleoindian and Archaic periods, students will determine the positions of the coastline at different times and decide what types of archaeological information has been lost due to rising sea levels.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Science and Social Studies)

Work in a textile mill

In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.1

Article describes the various kinds of work in a textile mill, the experiences of millhands in and out of the mills, and what various workers earned.

Format: article

By James Leloudis and Kathryn Walbert.

The 2004 presidential election in historical context

Historian William E. Leuchtenburg talks about past presidential elections and how the 2004 election fits or defies precedents.

By Kathryn Walbert.

Poor Richard's Almanack

In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.12

Excerpts from the alamanc published by Benjamin Franklin show what colonial Americans read and what topics interested them, including weather predictions, religion, history, astrology, and schedules of court dates. Includes both images of the original almanacs and transcriptions as well as historical commentary.

Format: magazine

Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood and David Walbert.

Resources on the web

Newton BBS

Ask a scientist a question or browse the answers to previously answered questions in categories such as astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, mathematics, and zoology. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: Argonne National Laboratory