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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

Plant and animal species in Nags Head Woods

In Natural and human impacts on the northern Outer Banks, page 3

A short walk along the trails of the Nature Conservancy gives a spectacular glimpse of the great diversity of this barrier island maritime forest. Nags Head Woods is home to more than 300 species of plants, including eleven species of oak, ten ferns, three...

By Blair Tormey and Dirk Frankenberg.

Sturgeon City

What was once a wastewater treatment plant now offers educational opportunities to students and a home to the native sturgeon species which once spawned in the waters of Wilson Bay.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

The Walter L. Stasavich Science and Nature Center at River Park North

This park with its new nature center is a fun place for students to go and learn about the indigenous species of eastern North Carolina.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Horizons Unlimited

This wonderful education center and museum provides hands-on programs for students in the areas of history and the physical and biological sciences.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Plant and Animal Interdependence

Plants and animals depend upon each other for survival. These model resources explain the importance of this delicate chain of life.

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Estuaries in North Carolina: A primer

Estuaries are places near the coast where freshwater and saltwater mix. Influenced by ocean forces yet partly sheltered from them, estuaries have unique and fascinating ecologies. This article explains what estuaries are, their geology and role in the larger...

By Waverly Harrell and Jennifer Godwin-Wyer.

Camp Don Lee

Check out the programs available to classroom students at this beautiful camp located near Arapahoe, North Carolina.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Peoples of the Coastal Plain

In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.6

When Europeans arrived in the late 1500s, North Carolina’s northern Coastal Plain was home to two different cultures. Speakers of Algonkian languages lived closest to the Atlantic edge, in the Outer Coastal Plain or Tidewater. Iroquoian speakers lived more inland, on the Inner Coastal Plain. Based on the distinctive items each group left, archaeologists call the Algonkian speakers Colington and the Iroquoian speakers Cashie.

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The pottery makers

In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.4

Archaeologists do a bit of shrugging when asked about the Woodland—that time and lifeway tucked between 1000 BC and AD 1000. Some things they readily understand, but others leave them wondering.

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.

The forest people

In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.3

Paleoindian culture died out across North America by 8000 BC. Archaeologists say this was bound to happen. The Ice Age had ended, the megafauna were extinct, and the boreal forests faded as deciduous ones spread across the East in the warmer climate. Faced with significant environmental changes, the Native Americans adapted. Archaeologists call their way of life and the time in which they lived Archaic.

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North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission - Wildlife Species and Habitat Information

This site has comprehensive information on the wildlife species of North Carolina. See the Species Fact Sheets for wildlife profiles with two- to three-page fact sheets that profile an animal's history, status, habitat and behavior. Each profile includes... (Learn more)

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Provided by: NC Wildlife Resources Commission