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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

KidSenses Children's InterACTIVE Museum
The interactive exhibits at this children’s museum spark the imagination and kids have fun as they play and learn.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Port Discover
Students will enjoy visiting this new hands-on science and health center which is geared to the pre-k to fifth grade curriculum.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
About the Archaeology Primer
In Excavating Occaneechi Town: An archaeology primer, page 1
The Occaneechi Indians were once prominent in the Virginia and Carolina Piedmont. As their numbers were reduced by clashes with European colonists, they retreated to a village on the Eno River. Their numbers further dwindled due to disease and warfare, and by 1730 the Occaneechi were all but gone. In 1983, archaeologists discovered a village site near Hillsborough, North Carolina. Through a series of digs, they confirmed that they had found Occaneechi Town.
Format: article

Resources on the web

Virtual Body
Explore the human body including the brain, heart, digestive system and skeletal structure. Know it all? Test your knowledge using the Organize Your Organs and Build a Skeleton activities. (Learn more)
Format: website/activity
Provided by: MEDtropolis
Bear bones
This Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear about how hibernating bears avoid bone loss and why this may be relevant to human osteoporosis. (Learn more)
Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science