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- Cape Fear estuaries: From river to sea
- A “virtual field trip” down the estuaries of the Cape Fear River from zero salinity to the ocean, with discussion of how local ecology changes along the way.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect
- A “virtual field trip” up the White Oak River in southeastern North Carolina, with discussion of how local ecology changes along the way due to decreasing salinity.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- YMCA Camp Thunderbird
- Provides environmental education programs to North and South Carolina K-12 students in bird study, fish dissection, orienteering and forest ecology.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- More Than Skin Deep: A Teacher's Guide to Caves
- Designed to provide teachers with the resources to educate students about caves, their formation, related life science, and about cave safety.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Ecology Center at Herring Ridge
- This new environmental education center for 4th- 12th grade students has hands-on programs which promote a life-long interest in science and stewardship to the Earth.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Masonboro Island
- One of the four sites of the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve. Interpreter led field trips must be reserved two seasons ahead. This is a favorite field trip for many teachers.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Blue Ridge Parkway
- Contains information about various cultural, natural, and recreational resources located along this beautiful and historical roadway.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- 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
- Piedmont Environmental Center
- The Center provides programs and a place for people to learn, conserve, and enjoy the natural world through hands-on experiences.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- A comparison of the plant ecology of two fields
- Students will apply random sampling techniques to do a plant population/community/ecosystem study to model how these things are interrelated.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Linda Sutton.
- YMCA Camp Hanes
- Offers hands-on classes in environmental education which "encourages cooperation, teamwork, and understanding of ones own abilities and potential."
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Screech Owl Farm School
- Students will learn about farm ecology when they participate in one of the tailor-made field trips at one of the local partner farms.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Zeke's Island North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve
- Part of the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve, Zeke's Island has interpreter led field trips which focus on the importance of estuaries to the North Carolina coast.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Red cedar marsh invasion
- In A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect, page 11
- Figure 9 is a view of another tributary creek to the White Oak. Here, about 7 miles from the sea, we find that most of the marsh is dominated by black needle rush, with salt marsh cord grass occurring only in a few light-green patches along the water's edge....
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- The White Oak River: Introduction
- In A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect, page 1
- One of the interesting things to do during field study of natural areas is to follow an environmental gradient across the landscape. This is particularly rewarding if your gradient extends up a river, as the exploration takes on the aura of a classic “search...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Nine ducks swim in newly transplanted wet-rice field
- Nine ducks swim together in a newly transplanted wet-rice field. Four are white and two have mottled brown feathers. They swim in the blue-tinted water feeding on algae and insects among the young green rice seedlings. Once rice seedlings are transplated into...
- Format: image/photograph
- Mouth of the White Oak River
- In A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect, page 3
- Figure 1 shows the mouth of the White Oak from Bear Island in Hammocks Beach State Park. The island on the far side of the inlet is Bogue Banks, and the buildings on the horizon at in the town of Emerald Isle. (These two islands are visited in the Large Sand...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Highlands Biological Station and Nature Center
- A year-round biological field station located on a high plateau in the southern Appalachian Mountains of southwestern North Carolina providing learning opportunities for teachers and students.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Clemmons Educational State Forest
- Take students to a ranger conducted program and learn about the plants and animals that can be found in this state educational forest.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Cape Fear Museum of History and Science
- The estimated 40,000+ artifacts in the collection of the Cape Fear Museum of History and Science relate to the history, science and cultures of the Lower Cape Fear.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
