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- Adaptation to frequent fires
- In Wetlands of the coastal plains, page 4
- In addition to fire-resistant bark, longleaf pines have a number of other adaptations to their frequent-fire habitat other than their fire resistant bark. For example, their seedlings have a growth cycle that helps them escape fires. After seeds are shed from...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Early-stage forest
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 8
- Figure 7 shows an earlier and more problematic stage of maritime forest development on Bear Island. Here we see a live oak on which all the seaward branches have been stunted by salt-laden wind off the ocean, leaving only those on the lee side of the trunk...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Plant power
- Students will plant their own seeds in potting soil and measure plant growth. Before the students' plants are visible above the soil, students will explore the parts and functions of classroom plants and compare growth between the classroom plants. Using the weather channel website, students will predict weather the day's weather conditions are excellent, good, or poor for plant growth.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics and Science)
- By Rhonda Hathcock.
- The growth of cities
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.4
- Cities grew rapidly after the Civil War, in North Carolina as across the United States. But the great majority of North Carolina's population remained rural. This article includes maps and tables of census data.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Amazing amaryllis activities
- Students will use an amaryllis started from a bulb to explore the growth of the plant, measure, record and compare the growth of the leaves and the flower. They will enter the data on a spreadsheet and convert it into a graph.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics and Science)
- By Mary Rizzo.
- Mature pine savanna
- In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 6
- Figure 5 shows a pine savanna that is more mature than those shown earlier. The area illustrated is being managed as habitat for one the signature species of the longleaf pine savanna, the red cockaded woodpecker. These small birds nest in old-growth longleaf,...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Careers in banking: Working with exponential growth
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.9
- In this lesson, students use exponential growth to solve problems related to careers in banking.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Algae
- In Jocassee Gorges: Temperate rain forests of the Blue Ridge, page 14
- The rocks closest to the base of the falls get the heaviest spray. These rocks remain wet at all times and therefore make excellent places for the growth of attached algae. The green patches on the rocks shown in Figure 11 are algae. There are most obvious...
- By Dirk Frankenberg and Stephanie Walters.
- Sawgrass fronts blackwater swamp forest (1)
- In A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect, page 15
- Figure 13 is a view of a tidal freshwater section of the river where freshwater marsh dominated by sawgrass fronts a typical blackwater swamp forest. This is about 12 miles from the sea and does not get salt water very often at all. The log in the foreground...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Migration into and out of North Carolina: Exploring census data
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 4.2
- Just how many people left North Carolina in the first half of the nineteenth century -- and where did they go? To answer questions like this, the best place to turn is census records. The census can't tell us why people moved, but a look at the numbers can give us a sense of the scale of the migration.
- Format: activity
- By David Walbert.
- Controlled burn
- In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 10
- Figure 9 shows a longer distance view of the same controlled burn shown in Figure 8. Note that visible fire can only be seen behind the mature tree in the center. Otherwise, the only indication of the fire is the smoke in the background....
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Personal trainers: Working with slope
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.2
- In this lesson, students make calculations based on slope and answer questions about slope (rate of change).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- Stockbrokers: Adding and subtracting integers
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.8
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will learn about the careers of stockbrokers, and will attempt to quickly solve the kinds of problems stockbrokers must solve every day.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Bear Island dunes (2)
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 5
- Figure 4 shows the crests of dunes on the landward side of Bear Island and the back-barrier salt marsh stretching toward the mainland. By estimating the distance from the dune crests to the salt marsh surface, we can see that the dunes are tall, and once again...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Bear Island dunes (1)
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 4
- We will begin our trip by visiting Bear Island, the undeveloped island of the pair of large sand volume barrier islands. Figure 3 shows the high volume sand dunes on Bear Island. These dunes are about 50 feet high and cover an area about 5 miles long and one-half...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Back-barrier salt marsh
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 6
- Figure 5 shows the back-barrier salt marsh with a dune crest visible on the right and an area of maritime forest in the left background. This will allow you to confirm your estimate of the height of the dunes and the role these high dunes have in protecting...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Beans and how they grow
- The students will incorporate computer skills, math, and literature with books such as: Miss Rumphius and The Reason for a Flower.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Science)
- By Betty Black.
- MaraLIMAthon
- Kindergarten students will work with an older grade buddy (we worked with 1st grade students) to make predictions, and then over a two-week period, see changes in lima bean growth, and be able to document the lima bean's progress. The buddies will work together to create an illustrated short story about lima bean characters that they create.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Kristi Waddle.
- Using percent of change to measure NC growth
- Students will work in small groups to use the internet to gather data on the population growth for each of the 100 counties in NC from 1992 to 1995. From this data students will find the percent of increase/decrease for the counties they have been assigned. As a follow-up, the students will enter their data into a computer spreadsheet and from that spreadsheet, produce graphs of the information.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Computer/Technology Skills, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
- By Wanda Washburn.
- Irrigating the fields
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 4
- Wet-rice farming requires that plants stand in water during early stages of their growth. The water then must be drained away before the rice fully ripens for harvesting. Bamboo wheels such as the one shown here aid this process of water management in places...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
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