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- Early-stage forest
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 8
- Figure 7 shows an earlier and more problematic stage of maritime forest development on Bear Island. Here we see a live oak on which all the seaward branches have been stunted by salt-laden wind off the ocean, leaving only those on the lee side of the trunk...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Weather watchers
- This is a week long activity during which the students record the weather, track weather changes, and make predictions about future weather patterns.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills, Information Skills, and Science)
- By Virginia Shaddix.
- Project Groundhog
- The students will determine the groundhog prediction of either six more weeks of winter or an early spring and see if the prediction was accurate by recording daily weather data for six weeks. Over that six week period the students will be comparing their weekly data with schools around the USA and Canada using the Project Groundhog website.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics and Science)
- By Jane Diamond.
- Fort Macon State Park
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 13
- Figure 12 shows the dunefield at Fort Macon State Park on Bogue Banks. This is a typical setting for maritime shrub and forest development. Note the large and well vegetated dunes. These raised mounds of sand are called hummocky dunes — a...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Watching the weather
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.5
- In this lesson for grade seven, students discuss the work that meteorologists do and brainstorm ways to collect data about the weather without using instruments. Students collect weather data over a two-week period.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- By Emma Couch.Adapted by Mitzi Talbert.
- State Climate Office of North Carolina
- Students of all ages will enjoy learning about North Carolina's climate, whether on a field trip or in their classroom. Topics include extreme weather records, drought, tornadoes, El Nino and La Nina, hurricanes and North Carolina, and much more.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Robeson Planetarium/Science and Technology Center
- A part of the public schools of Robeson County, this planetarium and science center specializes in programs geared to 3rd through 8th grade science.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Fascinate-U Children's Museum
- Through touch and play young students learn about health and science topics at this children's museum.
- 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
- Camp Don Lee
- Check out the programs available to classroom students at this beautiful camp located near Arapahoe, North Carolina.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Simplicity: A literature-based Paideia seminar
- Students will apply their knowledge of how developments in the history of the United States, as well as the world, can impact the lives of people today. The lesson is based on the picture book entitled The Simple People, written by Tedd Arnold and illustrated by Andrew Shachat. (Summary: The simple people enjoy the simple life until one of the character's inventions is used to make life more complicated. As a result, everyone forgets the simple things in life.) After a Paideia seminar discussing the book, students will select a modern invention, research the history of its development and how it impacts society, and create a multi-media presentation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Krista Hannah.
- First Year at New Garden Boarding School
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 5.11
- Memoir of a girl's experience at New Garden Boarding School (now Guilford College) in 1837. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: essay
- Where am I? Mapping a New World
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.2
- Early European travelers to the Americas reported bits and pieces of information back to Europe. Over the centuries, mapmakers assembled these reports into maps. As time went by, explorers and mapmakers compiled an increasingly accurate understanding of the Americas and of the world. To do so, they had to invent new tools for mapmaking, embrace radical new ideas about the shape of the world, and discard cherished beliefs.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Two paths to knowledge
- For students who who always finish their class work early or want more information than you have time to give, try curriculum compacting.
- By Waverly Harrell.
- "Where Am I?" Reading guide and activities
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 3.3
- This lesson for grade 8 will help students to understand the article "Where Am I? Mapping a New World" through the use of a graphic organizer and a reading guide.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The Colored State Normal Schools
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 4.6
- Excerpt from the catalog of the North Carolina Colored State Normal Schools (now Winston-Salem State University, Fayetteville State University, and Elizabeth City State University), 1906. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- 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.
- Science students get their hands dirty
- Enter Carol Swink's classroom where students become scientists by conducting hands-on, inquiry-based investigations. By saving the textbook reading and lectures for last and doing experiments first, students master not only science content but math content too.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Waverly Harrell.
- The Buncombe Turnpike
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 7.6
- The Buncombe Turnpike began in the early nineteenth century as the Drover's Road through western North Carolina, used to drive livestock to market. The Turnpike brought trade and increased prosperity to the region and especially to Asheville. After the Civil War, economic recession and the rise of railroads led to its decline.
- Format: article
- The village farmers
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.5
- North Carolina sat on a crossroads by AD 1000. Cultural ideas from other places breezed through it and around it: how to decorate pottery, how to orient political and social life, how to honor the dead, how to structure towns.
