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Reading, Writing and Research: Integrating Literacy across the Curriculum
Turn your students into savvy consumers of information. Explore reading and writing instruction and information literacy concepts, and learn to effectively integrate these literacy skills into your teaching, regardless of the subject or grade level.
Take this course: Begins May 4.

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Dutchman's Creek
Turning to the western shore, we have one more stop to make before we reach the sea. This photo shows Dutchman's Creek and a series of smaller tidal creeks. Just behind the serpentine creeks is a canal cutting clear across the photo. This canal originates...
By Steve Keith.
Harris Energy and Environmental Center
Progress Energy's Harris Nuclear Power Plant offers tours of its resource center to educators, organizations, and the general public.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
The imperial dragon
In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 13
The design of the large-eyed, scaly dragon is similar to those found in Chinese art. Throughout East and part of Southeast Asia, dragon images represent power and protection.
By Lorraine Aragon.
Fontana Dam
Learn about the history of the Tennessee Valley Authority and hydroelectric power at Fontana Dam.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Ohm's Law made easy with a spreadsheet
In this lesson, students will use math word problems to help them input information into a spreadsheet that will use Ohm's law to calculate current and resistance using common household appliance wattages.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Computer/Technology Skills, Mathematics, and Science)
By Hilda Hamilton.
Powers of monomials
This lesson is a PowerPoint presentation of the Powers of Monomials. It speaks on the following rules: Product of Powers, Power of a Power.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
By Clarissa Kelly.
Women working
In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 21
The bright green rice plants in the field are still young and unripe. Note, again, the power lines running in the background.
By Lorraine Aragon.
The 1868 constitution
In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.11
In accordance with the Reconstruction Acts, North Carolina wrote a new constitution in 1868. In addition to abolishing slavery, the new constitution gave more power to the people and to the governor, and called for free public schools, state prisons, and charitable institutions.
Format: article
By David Walbert.
Electricity
Electricity
Electricity moves through these lines and power poles across the area of Urfa, Turkey. There are dozens and dozens of the lines and distributors. They look like a jungle gym of poles and cords and wires just waiting to be played on. There is a road in the...
Format: image/photograph
Fort 47 BC
Fort 47 BC
The main subject of this photo is a large mountain that has several damaged brick structures on its top. Now there are power lines on the top of that mountain. Below the mountain there is a parking lot and a couple of buildings, as well as more power lines...
Format: image/photograph
Two men climb high pole to work on electric lines
Two men climb high pole to work on electric lines
Two utilities workers climb a high wooden pole to work on electric power lines. The working men's profiles are silhouetted on a blue sky with coconut tree tops visible along the horizon below them. For the tall funeral tower trasnporting the Brahman's corpse...
Format: image/photograph
The Regulation in Anson County
Rules and Resolves entered into by the Anson Mob. Vizt Whereas the Tax for the present year is very high part of which, unseen seem to many unlawful and unnecessary, that together with the great scarcity of Money that have put it out of our power...
Format: letter
Idol’s Dam and Power Plant on the Yadkin River
Idol’s Dam and Power Plant on the Yadkin River
Idol's Dam and Power Plant on the Yadkin River. Photo was taken around the time the plant was new, circa 1898.
Format: image/photograph
Two electricians climb on cement building to fix network of power cables in Hanoi
Two electricians climb on cement building to fix network of power cables in Hanoi
Two electricians climb on the front of a cement building to fix a tangled network of power cables in Hanoi. The young man seen on the lower level is wearing a tan uniform. The other man above wears grey pants and a light shirt.
Format: image/photograph
Power line hook-up over blue sky and clouds between Dalat and Ho Chi Minh City
Power line hook-up over blue sky and clouds between Dalat and Ho Chi Minh City
A power line hook-up between Dalat and Ho Chi Minh City is seen with blue sky and clouds in the background. Vietnam's major cities, towns, and connecting roadways are electrified.
Format: image/photograph
The Missing Revolution: K–12 Education should unleash the genius of the web. Why hasn’t it?
James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke University Law School, and founding board member of Creative Commons, spoke at LEARN NC's Tenth Anniversary Conference in October 2006...
Format: video
Rural electrification: A lineman at work
Rural electrification: A lineman at work
Original caption: "Portrait of America. No. 36. Rural electrification in the U.S. Far out on the western plains of America a lineman adjusts the top wire of a rural electrification project which will bring power and light to remote U.S. farms and communities...
Format: image/photograph
The transformer room
In A technological tour of the Biltmore Estate, page 11
Interpreting the transformer room Wires come through the wall from the Generator Room which originally carried the power from the Dynamo Room to the Transformer Room. This room first was used to house a series of large Gould storage batteries,...
By Sue Clark McKendree.
Plans for democracy
In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.12
Instructions to delegates from Orange County, North Carolina, to the Provinicial Congress in November 1776, about what sort of state constitution they should support. Includes historical commentary.
Format: document
Alternatives to the President Report
In Rethinking Reports, page 1.1
The "President Report" is a common assignment in social studies classes from second grade, where biography is first introduced, through high school U.S. History. You know what we mean: students are asked to pick a U.S. president and write a biographical...
By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.