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- John C. Campbell Folk School
- The Folk School offers visitors a chance to experience a special blend of history, art, and natural beauty in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- St. James Place Museum
- This is a private folk art museum housed in the restored old Robersonville Primitive Baptist Church. It features pieces from the personal collection of Dr. Everette James, Jr., a native of Robersonville and former chair of Radiology at Vanderbilt University.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Dem "Dry Bones" take form
- This lesson introduces musical form (ABC) by using the song "Dry Bones."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Music Education)
- By Melissa Vincent.
- Blue Ridge Parkway Folk Art Center
- Students will enjoy visiting the folk art center and learning about the heritage of the southern Appalachian mountain people.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Hickory Museum of Art
- Hickory was the first city in the Southeast to establish a museum of American art. The collections include contemporary folk art, American paintings and prints, studio glass, pottery, and more.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Hiddenite Center
- See gemstones and minerals, a restored historic home, a gallery of art work and folk art, and a doll museum at Hiddenite Center.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Homegrown Handmade
- Culture and agriculture come together on these unique “agri-cultural” trails which can be found in 72 North Carolina counties.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The Frog Prince: Compare and contrast
- This lesson can be used with numerous pieces of literature, videos or cassette material to develop viewing and listening skills and the students ability to compare and contrast. One of the richest sources is in the area of fairy tales and folktales. This an especially good source if you can find a modernized version in video or cassette form to contrast with the more traditional written form. I have used the "Frog Prince" because of this factor and because it was part of the 4th grade language arts reading unit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Barbara Waters.
- Modern folk tales: Playwriting
- Working in teams, students will rewrite short folk tale or fable plays, modernizing them. Then, they will present the old and new versions of the play.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By Dayle Payne.
- Mountain Gateway Museum
- A trip to the Mountain Gateway Museum in Old Fort gives students a look into the past and helps them understand the importance of preserving local and regional history.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Louisburg College Elizabeth Thiel Faulkner Gallery
- In addition to the eclectic variety of exhibits at the art gallery, at the end of each semester, Louisburg College highlights the art work of its students.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Bulletin board of story elements
- This lesson will introduce young children to the elements of stories starting with characters. Children will be involved with interactive writing as they respond to shared reading lessons. Students will illustrate a caption of a character to be displayed on a bulletin board.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- North Carolina State University Gallery of Art and Design
- Guided tours of the NCSU Gallery of Art and Design's collections and exhibitions are available for school groups.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Afro-American Cultural Center
- This cultural center was created to preserve the visual and performing arts heritages of African-Americans and other minorities. The Center has an art gallery with “over 100 works of art from renowned artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, John Biggers.” It also offers art classes to all age groups.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Asheville Art Museum
- Through works of art in permanent and special exhibition, students will learn about the rich history of visual arts in North Carolina.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Moses Cone Memorial Park and Flat Top Manor
- This historic mansion houses one of five shops of the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild. The crafts which include jewelry, pottery, glass figurines, and framed and unframed artwork are handmade by over 300 regional artists. Visitors can hear how the artists have come to make these wonderful crafts.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- One Grain of Rice
- One Grain of Rice is a mathematical folktale from India that covers the concept of doubling.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Katherine Williamson.
- Getting in order: "Jack and the Beanstalk"
- The students will read "Jack and the Beanstalk" as a group and create flip books to illustrate and sequence the main events.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- By Leslie Robinson1.
- Bea Hensley, Blacksmith
- A National Heritage Fellowship Award winner, Bea Hensley has been blacksmithing since he was a young man. Today, he and his son give demonstrations of traditional techniques to create fine ornamental ironwork.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Students will examine language in three different versions of the traditional "Gruff" tale. These will be compared and contrasted through Venn diagrams. Each text will be introduced, examined, and contrasted in a different lesson.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Sandra Doyle.
