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- Resources of South America
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.9
- In this lesson for grade six, students will research the resources of a South American country and will create a map illustrating those resources.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Shea Calloway and Joann Via.
- Mix and match ecology: Human impact
- This high-school biology lesson uses a group activity to teach students about the impact of human actions on natural resources.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By MaryBeth Knight Greene.
- Blue Ridge Parkway
- Contains information about various cultural, natural, and recreational resources located along this beautiful and historical roadway.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium
- The museum provides an opportunity for visitors to learn about the natural resources of North Carolina and its Piedmont region.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The road taken
- This lesson will introduce and reinforce main transportation routes for people and goods in North Carolina. Students will enhance map skills including using cardinal and intermediate directions, using a mileage chart, and planning transportation routes. Students will reinforce their knowledge of resources found in North Carolina as well as name and identify the three regions of North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Margaretc Bryant.
- Columbia Theater Cultural Resources Center
- Part of the non-profit Partnership for the Sounds organization, the center provides information on environmental stewardship for coastal North Carolina.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
- Resources for learning about natural North Carolina including animals, snakes, insects and ecosystems.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center
- Learn about the heritage of the "down east" people and explore the cultural and natural resources of the Core Sound region of North Carolina.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Woodworms: A study of natural selection
- A study of natural selection and the evolutionary process through the use of a fictitious species, toothus pickii.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By B. Carl Rush.
- The unique beauty of the Roan Highlands
- In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 1
- The natural beauty of the Roan Mountain Highlands has been recognized since they were first visited by Europeans in the eighteenth century. The first naturalist to report on this site was John Fraser (for whom the Fraser fir is named) in 1787. Other reports...
- By Dirk Frankenberg and Jennifer Godwin-Wyer.
- Discovering how to take care of our natural resources
- This lesson focuses on our natural resources and the effects our actions have on them. Students explore this concept through discussion, matching, literature, and writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Social Studies)
- By Jennifer Hicks and Alison Short.
- Blue Ridge Parkway and Museum of North Carolina Minerals
- Students from a five county region actively attend this Museum for experiential learning and are introduced to the wealth of cultural and natural resources of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Economic resources using thinking maps
- This lesson uses several literature selections in order to identify and classify natural, human, and capital resources. Students will work together in small groups to gather information and individually complete a Thinking Map. The assessment includes completing a Tree Map individually and sharing group information with the rest of the class. This lesson will take two days.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Robin Campbell.
- Soil and Composting
- Soil is an important natural resource. These resources explain the types of soils, its importance to the growth of plants, and how we can create rich soil from leaves, grass clippings, and vegetable scraps.
- Format: bibliography/help
- The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History
- This regional museum strives to collect, preserve, and interpret the natural, historic and artistic heritage of this "back country region at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains."
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Alphabet hunt
- Students will find images in our environment which contain letters of the alphabet (either man made or natural) and photograph them so that they appear as the focal point.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Visual Arts Education)
- By Lee Anne Kitzmiller.
- Northampton County Museum
- Exhibits focus on the history of the Northampton County area from the prehistoric to the present.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Night of the Twisters
- Reading strategies are used to introduce a literary work.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts)
- By Authurice Mitchell.
- Cause and effect writing: What it looks like and who reads it
- Students examine the causes and effects presented in a brochure called “Ozone: The Good and the Bad.” They also examine the language of the brochure with regard to audience appropriateness. Students then write their own brochures examine their classmates' brochures for cause and effect and for audience appropriateness.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Michelle Roberts.
- 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
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