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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

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

Museum of the Albemarle: Students can explore the lives of inhabitants, the development of industries, and the Albemarle area's social and cultural background at this museum.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Raleigh: A Capital City: An itinerary for a tour of the capital of the Old North State. The site provides information and photographs for Raleigh's historic districts, architecture, parks and recreational areas, and more.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

May Museum and Park: The museum houses the collection of May family artifacts and artifacts pertaining to the history of the Farmville area.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Davidson County Historical Museum: Located in the Old Davidson County Courthouse (ca. 1858), the Museum is the centerpiece of Uptown Lexington's National Register Historic District. Visit the Museum to learn more about local and regional history while exploring the grandest of North Carolina's antebellum courthouses.; 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

Southern Appalachian Center - Rural Life Museum: Through its exhibits and programs, the Rural Life Museum helps students to learn about their rich rural heritage.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

North Carolina Maritime Museum: Students will learn about the rich maritime history of the North Carolina coast as well as the coastal environment and barrier island ecology.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Slavery across North Carolina: In this lesson for grade 8, students read excerpts from slave narratives to gain an understanding of how slavery developed in each region of North Carolina, and how regional differences created a variety of slave experiences.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.

Greenville Museum of Art: Permanent exhibits include 19th and 20th century art, North Carolina art and an impressive collection of Jugtown pottery.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

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.

Fort Branch - Confederate Earthen Fort: Recognized by the state of North Carolina as a regional historic site, Fort Branch at Rainbow Banks was the cornerstone of the entire Roanoke Valley's defense during the Civil War.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

North Carolina Museum of History: Get a sneak preview of the Museum before you visit! You can search for artifacts, preview the exhibitions, and read about important events in North Carolina history. The Museum offers teachers a variety of resources--many are online! Find lesson plans, information on history in a box kits, professional development workshops, and more!; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Mountain dialect: Reading between the spoken lines: This lesson plan uses Chapter 13 of Our Southern Highlanders as a jumping-off point to help students achieve social studies and English language arts objectives while developing an appreciation of the uniqueness of regional speech patterns, the complexities of ethnographic encounter, and the need to interrogate primary sources carefully to identify potential biases and misinformation in them. Historical content includes American slavery, the turn-of-the-century, and the Great Depression.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Kathryn Walbert.

Creating your own rock art: In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.4; Students will use regional rock art symbols or their own symbols to cooperatively create a rock art panel. They will also use a replica of a vandalized rock art panel to examine their feelings about rock art vandalism and discuss ways to protect rock art and other archaeological sites.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

Historic Hope Plantation: Located near Windsor, NC, the plantation complex offers unique insights into the late 18th- and 19th-century rural life in eastern North Carolina and the South.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

North Carolina: “Tarheels”, “the Old North State”, “the Land of the Longleaf Pine”, all mean North Carolina. Here you will find a sampling of instructional resources to teach your students about the history, people and places, government, and economy of the state you live in - North Carolina!; Format: bibliography/help

Language families: In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.7; Students will identify and locate the three language families of contact period North Carolina and calculate the physical area covered by each language family.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Mathematics and Social Studies)

Outer Banks English: In this lesson plan, students view a video about the dialect of North Carolina's Outer Banks and develop an understanding of linguistic patterns.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Hannah Askin.

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