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

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e-Learning for Educators - Data-Based School Reform for Administrators
Research shows that effective school improvement plans should be based on careful analysis of school data. Review current data-driven decision-making theory; use technology to identify, gather, and analyze data for patterns and trends; examine the role of data in equity reform; and develop action plans in support of their school-based data.
Take this course: Begins February 17.

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The roller skate craze
In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.5
Early motion picture of people roller skating. Includes historical commetnary.
Format: article
Cedarock Historical Farm
Relive the American way of life at this farm which dates back to the 1830s.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Old Burke County Courthouse and Heritage Museum
Students can learn about the history of Burke County and the sessions of the NC Supreme Court held on this site in the mid-19th century when visiting the Old Burke County Courthouse.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Tobacco Farm Life Museum
This history museum provides "an informative insight into early 20th century farm family life."
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Mint Hill Country Doctor's Museum and Country Store
This museum takes the visitor back to the early years of medical practice and the "daily lives and routines of Southern people living in rural areas from the late 1800's to the 1930's."
Format: article/field trip opportunity
A technological tour of the Biltmore Estate
This tour of “America's Castle” explains the technological features George Vanderbilt incorporated into his turn-of-the-century home.
Format: series (multiple pages)
Farmville's choice
In this lesson, students will learn about rural life in North Carolina at the turn of the century. Home demonstration and 4H clubs implemented many programs to help people learn better farming techniques, ways of preserving food, and taking care of the home. Several North Carolina leaders went to great lengths to ensure the success of these programs. In part of this activity, students help the town of Farmville dedicate a monument to one of those people.
Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
Introduction
George Vanderbilt established the first agricultural operations at Biltmore to produce dairy products, meat, poultry, fruits, and vegetables for use in Biltmore House. However, it was his hope that the estate would be self supporting, and by the mid-1890s,...
Format: article
By Sue Clark McKendree.
Blue Ridge Parkway Folk Art Center
Students will enjoy visiting the folk art center and learning about the heritage of the southern Appalachian mountain people.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Ragged Bill
"Ragged Bill" is a turn-of-the-century ragtime composition. Here Henry Reed plays the tune on the fiddle.
Format: audio/music
Migration into and out of North Carolina: Exploring census data
In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 4.2
Just how many people left North Carolina in the first half of the nineteenth century -- and where did they go? To answer questions like this, the best place to turn is census records. The census can't tell us why people moved, but a look at the numbers can give us a sense of the scale of the migration.
Format: activity
By David Walbert.
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
Mystery Hill, Appalachian Heritage Museum and The Native American Artifacts Museum
Visitors will experience strange phenomena which some believe is attributed to a gravitational anomaly known as a vortex, learn about the ancient native people of the area, and see what it would have been like to live at the turn of the century at the Mystery Hill museums.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
The seventh century Shore Temple in Mahabalipuram, India
The seventh century Shore Temple in Mahabalipuram, India
This is the Shore Temple in Mahabalipuram, India, built in the seventh century. It is made from light tan stone. Much of the carving on the stones has deteriorated greatly. On the walls surrounding the temple are large, almost human-sized statues of kneeling...
Format: image/photograph
Hanuman's revenge
In The Ramayana, page 3.11
Hanuman burns Ravana's city in a danced stage performance at held at Prambanan Temple in Java in July 1986. To enact Hanuman's burning of Ravana's city in performance, a bonfire was built behind a columned fence on a stone promontory near the Prabanan temple....
By Lorraine Aragon.
Seventh century Shore Temple in Mahabalipuram, India
Seventh century Shore Temple in Mahabalipuram, India
This is the seventh century Shore Temple in Mahabalipuram, India. It is made from light tan stone. It is constructed of carved tiers that decrease in size from top to bottom until they reach a round, carved finial. Much of the carving on the stones has deteriorated...
Format: image/photograph
4-H Rural Life Center
A great place to experience rural life in Halifax County in the early 1900's.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Camden County Heritage Museum
Visitors to this museum can see historic artifacts of Camden County as well as the preserved county jail.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
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.
Archaeological sites open to the public
A listing of field trip opportunities focusing on Native Americans as well as colonial times in North Carolina. Organized by county.
Format: article