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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

The South Part of Virginia: Nicholas Comberford's 1657 map, The South Part of Virginia Now the North Part of Carolina. The east coast of North Carolina is drawn along the bottom edge of the map. The map extends south as far as Cape Fear and north as far as what appears to...; Format: image/map

Sound Recording Analysis Worksheet: Worksheet for students to use when analyzing a sound recording. The worksheet assumes historical recordings produced in the United States, but could easily be adapted for other purposes. It may be used directly on the computer as a; Format: document/worksheet

Waves and erosion: In Evidence of rising sea level: Coastal erosion and plant community changes, page 5; Figure 4 shows that rising sea level brings the eroding power of waves to the sound side of barrier islands as well as to the ocean side. Here we see the steep and collapsing face of an old beach ridge along the Roosevelt Nature Trail on the sound side of...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Fishing for beginning sounds: This lesson introduces the beginning sounds for picture words.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts); By Deborah Kirby.

Masonboro Sound at dusk: This is Masonboro Sound at dusk. The nearby Masonboro Island is a pristine barrier island that can be reached only by boat. It is one of the four sites of the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve.; Format: image/photograph

Our class band: In this lesson students will play percussion instruments that have been divided into four groups: Drums, Woods, Metals and Shakers/Scrapers. They will perform a song sung to the tune of 'Old MacDonald had a Farm' and perform the instruments of these groups.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Music Education); By Barbara Tilton.

The five senses: Hearing: We hear through movement of the ear drum which is tightly stretched across the ear canal and vibrates when air waves push it.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science); By Wicky Porch.

Sensing the world around us: Students will review the five senses and listen to an Ezra Jack Keats' story in which a blind man uses his senses of hearing and smelling to learn about his neighbors. Students will then experience the difficulty of using only one sense to identify different sounds.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Science); By Libby Oxenfeld.

Sound properties and careers in music: In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 3.8; This lesson for grade six uses a hands-on lab to help students understand key concepts in the properties of sound, and how they can be applied to careers in music.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Music Education and Science); By April Galloway and Christine Scott.Edited by Julie McCann.

Let's hear it for sound!: This lesson will help students build an understanding of the concepts of sound (vibration, pitch) through participation in a variety of hands-on experiments. By observing, predicting, and analyzing results, students can actively investigate the science of sound.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science); By Carol Helms.

The long and short of it!: This lesson will assist children in recognizing and discriminating short and long vowel sounds.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)

Magic E: Decoding/encoding with CVC & CVCE: Students will participate in two activities involving the consonant-vowel-consonant-silent e (CVCE) pattern: a decoding activity involving attaching a clothes pin with the letter e printed on it to consonant-vowel-consonant words (CVC) and sounding the new CVCE words; and an encoding activity involving dictation of CVC and CVCE words from the first activity which students are to write using auditory and tactile strategies. These activities require that students have prior knowledge of consonant and long and short vowel sounds as well as blending of these sounds in CVC pattern words.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Julia Huff Jerome.

1738 map of North Carolina: James Wimble's 1738 map shows the sounds and inlets of coastal North Carolina.; Format: image/map

Vowel, consonant, vowel your way to better reading: This is a lesson for Secondary Special Education Teachers who teach exceptional children who are reading at the second grade level. Students will learn decoding patterns using vowels and consonants to divide words into syllables in order to sound out the word.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts); By Julie Wilson.

Painting the alphabet: After working on numerous letter names and sounds, the children will use a paint program to draw a picture and write the word to name the picture. The pictures will be printed out to make a class book or alphabet page.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts); By Jackie White, Kathy Moore, Kelley Turner, and Mike Christopher.

Letter recognition with Alphabet Band and Express: This activity will reinforce letter recognition along with letter order. Students will watch a video, listen to stories and play CD games on the computer to aid in recognition of alphabet letters, sounds and order.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts); By Levrah Hall.

Animal movements: Students will move like the animal they hear described in the music.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Dance Arts Education and Music Education); By Jo James.

War on the Outer Banks: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 3.2; Article describes action along the coast of North Carolina during the Burnside Expedition, 1862.; Format: article

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