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Fun with division: Students will learn division concepts through the use of The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins and a poem entitled "Dividing up Bugs." Students will be involved in hands on activities in order to gain an understanding of division. This lesson plan integrates communication skills, math, and technology.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Mathematics); By Grace Blythe.

82nd Airborne Division Museum: A visit to this museum will tell students the story of the 82nd Airborne Division from World War I to present.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Fruit Loops with fractions: This activity provides access to using visual and hands-on practice in solving problems with fractions. By using cereal, each individual student will be able to work individually and as a group in using different methods of working with fractions, and practice their skills in addition, multiplication, division and subtraction. A prior knowledge of the basic multiplication tables and common multiples will be very advantageous in working through this activity.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Deanne Davis.

A machine gunner: A machine gunner from the 115th Machine Gun Battalion, 30th Division takes aim as he sits next to another soldier on an earthen ledge of a trench. The 30th Division was named "Old Hickory Division" for President Andrew Jackson.; Format: image/photograph

Field Artillery: 1st Lt. Samuel Saunders of the 317th Field Artillery Regiment, 81st Division took this photograph of fellow World War I soldiers riding horses that are pulling caissons, or wagons, carrying cannons. The 81st Division was also known as the "Wildcat Division."; Format: image/photograph

Rough-leaf loosestrife: In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 15; Figure 14 shows another rare plant from the savanna/pocosin ecotone, the rough-leaf loosestrife. While not as spectacular as the Venus flytrap, the loosestrife is even more rare. Staff of the Environmental Management Division yell at each other (but not their...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

The Demilitarized Zone: In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 10; The Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ, was established when Vietnam was divided in 1954 into North and South. The DMZ was roughly a mile wide and more than 100 km (60 miles) long, from the western border with Laos to the ocean. The division...; By Lorraine Aragon.

"Card" Specialty: Students will make a greeting card for their pen pals or book buddies while studying specialization and division of labor in Social Studies.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies); By Pat Pennino.

g: A pendulum: Students will time the periods of pendulums to determine if length or mass affects them. Students can then use a pendulum to calculate the acceleration of gravity.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By Bill Sowell.

Norlina Train Museum: Go back in time and learn about the history of the town of Norlina at this museum which houses only local railroad memorabilia.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

M&M math: M&M Math provides students with hands-on activities. Students will be sorting objects, comparing whole numbers, writing fractions, performing addition, subtraction, and division problems with the use of manipulatives.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Angela Gillie.

Soldiers stand at attention in Dampierre, France: On October 25, 1918, in a street in Dampierre, France, soldiers of the 321st Infantry Regiment stand at attention with "eyes right." The 321st Infantry Regiment was part of the 81st Division, also known as the "Wildcat Division."; Format: image/photograph

A plane at the 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum at Fort Bragg: This is one of many antique planes and helicopters at the 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum at Fort Bragg in Cumberland County, North Carolina.; Format: image/photograph

Fire!: In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 9; Figure 8 shows what you have probably been wanting to see from the beginning: a fire in the longleaf pine savanna. This photograph was taken in the spring of 1999 when controlled burns during the growing season were carried out at many sites within Camp Lejeune....; By Dirk Frankenberg.

A Bill to Prevent All Persons from Teaching Slaves to Read or Write, the Use of Figures Excepted (1830): In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 5.9; Law enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly, 1830. Includes historical commentary.; Format: legislation; Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

General Taylor Storming Monterey: From the Library of Congress: On September 27, 1974, the Music Division of the Library of Congress recreated a typical concert of brass-band and vocal music from mid-nineteenth-century America. Recorded selections from that concert are presented...; Format: audio/music

Making equal shares: This activity is designed to connect literature and math. The students will use manipulatives and literature to reinforce the concept of equal sharing.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics); By Tara Almeida.

Inauguaration of Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861: Format: image/photograph

Town Creek Indian Mound (NC Historic Site): This site provided by the North Carolina Division of Archives and History contains information about visiting Town Creek, a section on Montgomery County and the vicinity, a Native American Cultural Synopsis, and a section on the Pee Dee Culture.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

David E. Johnston: Portrait of David E. Johnston, who enlisted in the Confederate Army and served four years in the Seventh Virginia Regiment of Infantry, Kemper’s brigade of Pickett’s division.; Format: image/photograph

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