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Facilitating Online Collaboration - Carolina Online Teacher Program: Develop the skills to facilitate good online communication, moderate online discussion, and promote better accomplishment of instructional goals within the virtual classroom. Communication is the lifeblood of online courses - learn how to make the most of it.; Take this course: Begins May 5.

How do I express what I believe? - Part 2: This is the second in a three-part lesson series seeking to examine belief systems and how they impact culture in the United States. This lesson, "How do I express what I believe?" requires 3 sessions at 40 minutes each to complete. The lesson series also seeks to let students examine their own personal belief system. In this lesson, the student will learn about the American tradition of the Face Jug/Pot and how it is used to express belief. The student will also create a Face Jug/Pot to express his/her belief, and this pot will be used in the third lesson entitled. "How do I present what I believe?"; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education); By Donna Pumphrey.

Facial studies through creation of a face jug: In this interdisciplanary lesson, students study the anatomy of the face and use what they have learned to create thumbnail sketches of expressive faces on jugs. The lesson incorporates elements of social studies, earth science, psychology, and artistic meaning.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies); By Lori Shepley, Melissa Thibault, and Nelle Hayes.

Church service in Phnom Penh: This is a recording of a Christian church service in Phnom Penh. Christianity, like all religions in Cambodia, was once prohibited from being practiced by Pol Pot and his genocidal regime. However, less than 20 years later, it is possible to find Christian...; Format: audio

Christian church service singing in Phnom Penh: This is a recording of a Christian church service in Phnom Penh. Christianity, like all religions in Cambodia, was once prohibited from being practiced by Pol Pot and his genocidal regime. However, less than 20 years later, it is possible to find Christian...; Format: audio

First Americans of North Carolina and the United States: This lesson will use shared reading, center time, hands-on projects, and journal writing to help learners discover facts about first Americans, particularly those in the region that is today North Carolina, while at the same time developing their English language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Development and Social Studies); By Adriane Moser.

Observing connections: North Carolina pottery and face jugs (Lesson 3): This is the third lesson in a series of three in which students are creating art based on their observations: Lesson 1 Observing connections—art, poetry and the environment; Lesson 2 Observing connections—changing landscapes; Lesson 3 Observing connections—North Carolina pottery and face jugs.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies); By Lisa Mitchell.

Observing connections: Art, poetry and the environment (Lesson 1): Students will explore the poem of Pat Lowery Collins, “I Am An Artist” and create their own poem from what they see and experience. They will then illustrate their poems with a visual design. This is the first lesson in a series of three in which students are creating art based on their observations: Observing Connections —Art, Poetry, and the Environment (Lesson 1); Observing Connections—Changing Landscapes (Lesson 2); Observing Connections—North Carolina Pottery and Face Jugs (Lesson 3); Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts); By Lisa Mitchell.

Observing connections: Changing landscapes (Lesson 2): The students will learn about the changing environment through study and observation. They will reflect on these changes in the environment and create their own landscape and habitat. This is the second lesson in “Observing connections,” a series of three in which students are creating art based on their observations.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Visual Arts Education); By Lisa Mitchell.

Midwives and herbal medicine: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 2.3; Excerpts from the medicine recipe book of Rachel Allen, who lived near Snow Camp, North Carolina, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, show how residents of the backcountry treated wounds, illness, and disease.; Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

Vietnam: Educator's guide: A guide for K–12 teachers to teaching about Vietnam using LEARN NC's slideshows, with a focus on the question Why should we care about Vietnam?; Format: article/teacher's guide (grade 6–12 Social Studies); By Steve Goldberg.

The life of a Civil War soldier: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 5.1; Article describes the food, equipment, camp life, drill, and discipline of soldiers in the U.S. Civil War. Includes video of a Civil War reenactment.; Format: article

Among the Tuscarora: The strange and mysterious death of John Lawson, gentleman, explorer, and writer: They've taken his clothes, picked the straight razor out of his pocket: one brave fingers it, touches the blade — bright blood springs from his thumb and he laughs. The pitch pine split by the women is ready, a clay pot full...; Format: article; By Marjorie Hudson.

The village farmers: In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.5; North Carolina sat on a crossroads by AD 1000. Cultural ideas from other places breezed through it and around it: how to decorate pottery, how to orient political and social life, how to honor the dead, how to structure towns.