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- YMCA Camp Thunderbird
- Provides environmental education programs to North and South Carolina K-12 students in bird study, fish dissection, orienteering and forest ecology.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly
- Learn about the wildlife of the mountains and practice using a compass at this conference center located outside of Asheville, NC.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- YMCA Camp Hanes
- Offers hands-on classes in environmental education which "encourages cooperation, teamwork, and understanding of ones own abilities and potential."
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Elisha Mitchell and his mountain
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 7.4
- Elisha Mitchell, a professor at the University of North Carolina, demonstrated that the mountain in the Black Mountain range that now bears his name was the tallest in eastern North America. Thomas Clingman disagreed, and the two men waged a battle in newspapers. After Mitchell's death, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed his discovery.
- Format: article
- Vietnam waterways: Ecology and conservation
- In this interdisciplinary lesson for grades 6-8, students will examine the relationship between the physical environment and cultural characteristics of the Mekong River valley in Vietnam. Students will evaluate the current conditions of the Mekong River and suggest long-range solutions for improving, restoring, or preserving the quality of the river.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Information Skills, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
