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Skeletons on Parade: A Parade of Skeletons dressed up marches down the street.; Format: image/photograph

Skeleton Shrine for Day of the Dead: A shine with lots of skeletons, whose creators focused on the colors red and black; Format: image/photograph

Skeleton band: Three carved wooden skeletons wearing sombreros play a fiddle, guitar, and string bass for a Day of the Dead celebration.; Format: image/photograph

Day of The Dead: Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico includes paper cut outs and skeletons.; Format: image/photograph

Drawing sea turtles: This lesson plan takes students step by step through drawing a sea turtle, using the process to discuss the animal's anatomy.; Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

Day of the Dead Shrine: Close up of a shrine for Day of the Dead; Format: image/photograph

Giant Ground Sloth skeleton at Cape Fear Museum of History and Science: At Cape Fear Museum of History and Science in Wilmington, North Carolina, the skeleton of a Giant Ground Sloth towers menacingly. The Giant Ground Sloth was a mammal that lived in North America during the Pleistocene Epoch.; Format: image/photograph

Giant sloth skeleton peeking through a window at the Cape Fear Museum: A giant sloth skeleton peers out of a window, greeting visitors to the Cape Fear Museum of History and Science in Wilmington, North Carolina. Originally created by the Daughters of the Confederacy as a “creditable museum of Confederate relics”, the Cape...; Format: image/photograph

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

Higher order thinking with Venn diagrams: Graphic organizers are powerful ways to help students understand complex ideas. By adapting and building on basic Venn diagrams, you can move beyond comparison and diagram classification systems that encourage students to recognize complex relationships.; Format: article/best practice; By David Walbert.

Learning about rocks: In this lesson, students will be engaged in hands-on experiences while they explore rocks.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics and Science); By Debbie Hansman.

Site robbers: In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.6; Students will use an interview with a Native American to write a newspaper article or letter that expresses concern about robbing archaeological sites.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

The Mexican Day of the Dead: In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 1.1; Slideshow View a slideshow of photographs from Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico and the United States....; Format: article

Theories of migration: In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.1; In this lesson, students will read about and evaluate differing theories about the migration of the first people to the Americas.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

The natural history of North Carolina: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 1.2; If the five billion years of the earth's history were condensed into a single day, humans would have arrived in North Carolina just two tenths of a second before midnight! This article summarizes the major biological and geological events in North Carolina's history and explains how the land and environment of today came to be.; Format: article; By David Walbert.

Resources on the web

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Visitors to this museum site can explore online exhibits, adventures, and search for resources. Information about special events, lectures, and touring the museum are offered on this site. (Learn more); Format: website/general; Provided by: