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- Acidic cove forest on a mountain creek
- In Jocassee Gorges: Temperate rain forests of the Blue Ridge, page 11
- The water that runs off the high slopes and off the Highlands Plateau is quickly organized into creeks and begins its descent towards the sea. The upper reaches of these creeks are too small to have great erosive power, but they can still carry sediments downstream...
- By Dirk Frankenberg and Stephanie Walters.
- Dutchman's Creek
- Turning to the western shore, we have one more stop to make before we reach the sea. This photo shows Dutchman's Creek and a series of smaller tidal creeks. Just behind the serpentine creeks is a canal cutting clear across the photo. This canal originates...
- By Steve Keith.
- Roan Mountain Highlands
- This Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations “virtual field trip” explores the natural beauty and geological and ecological diversity of the Roan Mountain Highlands that straddle the border between North Carolina and Tennesee.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- The Intracoastal Waterway
- In Cape Fear estuaries: From river to sea, page 14
- We have reached the sea and the end of the Cape Fear River estuary. Looking south, we can see the curve of the southernmost cusp of the North Carolina coast. The inlet in the distance is the Lockwood Folly River. The Intracoastal Waterway follows the coastline,...
- By Steve Keith.
- Map of North Carolina river basins
- A river basin encompasses all the land surface drained by many finger-like streams and creeks flowing downhill into one another and eventually into one river, which forms its artery and backbone. As a bathtub catches all the water that falls within its sides...
- Format: image/map
- Salt marsh cord grass & black needle rush plants (1)
- In A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect, page 9
- Figure 7 shows us where the salt marshes are located in this high-salinity section of the White Oak estuary. Marshes develop mostly along the banks of tributary creeks. Here, you see the creek's mouth facing into the main portion of the estuary and the marshes...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Diverse species
- In Jocassee Gorges: Temperate rain forests of the Blue Ridge, page 10
- The forests of the high slopes are mixed mesophytic forests found on creek and river slopes. Those found below 2,500 feet in open areas are characterized by a greater richness of species than is found in any other vegetation type in the region. This richness...
- By Dirk Frankenberg and Stephanie Walters.
- Fort Fisher State Recreation Area
- The Fort Fisher program introduces students to the habitat and life history of "colonial-nesting coastal birds." The program also focuses on endangered, threatened and special-concern bird species.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Routes of Indian Removal
- Map showing land and water routes taken by Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians during removal to Oklahoma, 1838–1839.
- Format: image/map
- Waterfalls in Yancey County, NC
- These are waterfalls in Yancey County, North Carolina. They are located on a stream at North Fork, between Barnardsville and Burnsville.
- Format: image/photograph
- Lake Crabtree County Park
- This park includes wetland areas, a floodplain forest, and various creeks. Environmental programs for school groups are available.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Howell Woods Learning Center
- A visit to the learning center teaches students about the importance of protecting the environment for the plants, animals, and us.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- A gun at the Moores Creek National Battlefield in Pender County, North Carolina
- This is a gun at the Moores Creek National Battlefield in Pender County, North Carolina.
- Format: image/photograph
- Where do the Lumbee live?
- In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 3.6
- Introduction Knowing the location of a community, city, state or nation is important. More important, however, is understanding of the personality of the location. Robeson County, home of the Lumbee Tribe, is more than a North Carolina county that...
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Gazelia Carter.
- Australia
- Learn more about the history, cultures, and geography of the “land down under” with this sampling of great educational resources found on LEARN NC.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Mapping life in a colonial town
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.14
- From a detailed map of colonial Edenton, North Carolina, we can learn a great deal about daily life and community life on the eve of the Revolution.
- Format: activity
- By L. Maren Wood.
- Eastern 4-H Environmental Education Center
- Located a few miles outside Columbia, North Carolina, the center provides programming dealing with ecology, ecosystems, and animals and their habitats to area school groups.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Cliffs near Lower Calf Creek Falls in Escalante, Utah
- This is a valley on the trail following Lower Calf Creek in Escalante, Utah. The rock cliffs on either side are composed of pink and tan Navajo sandstone, which over time is eroding into the valley below. Brushy vegetation grows on either side of the trail...
- Format: image/photograph
- Swiftcurrent Creek, Glacier National Park, MT
- Swiftcurrent Creek in Glacier National Park, Montana. An evergreen forest grows on either side of the creek. In the background, snow fills the craggy ridges of a rocky peak. The park protects over one million acres of land in the Northern Rocky Mountains,...
- Format: image/photograph
- October 28 - November 1, 1753
- In Diary of a journey of Moravians, page 6
- Oct. 28. This historical marker stands along the route of the Great Wagon Road. We rose early to continue our journey. One of our horses was sick. After a mile and a half we bought...
- Format: diary/primary source
