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Abandoned woodworking plant in Waynesville, North Carolina: This is an abandoned woodworking plant in Waynesville, North Carolina. The building was recently destroyed.; Format: image/photograph

Draw knife and shaving horse: Historical woodworking demonstration, showing a man using a drawknife and shaving horse.; Format: video/video

Homegrown Handmade: Culture and agriculture come together on these unique “agri-cultural” trails which can be found in 72 North Carolina counties.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

A man cutting out inlay, Mysore, India: A man from Mysore, India, cuts out wooden inlay for a project. He has the wood braced on the edge of a table, and he holds it carefully with one hand while cutting with a coping saw with the other. He hunches in concentration over it. Other pieces of wood...; Format: image/photograph

Cowan Museum: A trip through Cowan Museum is a hands-on learning and entertaining experience for all ages.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

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

North Carolina Homespun Museum: Visit the North Carolina Homespun Museum and see crafts, photographs and other memorabilia from the Biltmore Industries of yesteryear.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

John C. Campbell Folk School: The Folk School offers visitors a chance to experience a special blend of history, art, and natural beauty in the mountains of Western North Carolina.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

The Old Depot Association: The museum provides exhibits that honor the local and mountain heritage and crafts. A photographic exhibit in the Caboose Museum shows the pictures of the history of the depot and has railroad memorabilia and music of the era.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

The Shelton House Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts: Housed in a historic home in Waynesville, NC, the Museum of NC Handicrafts displays 19th century crafts, musical instruments, and Native American artifacts.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

North Carolina Maritime Museum: Students will learn about the rich maritime history of the North Carolina coast as well as the coastal environment and barrier island ecology.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

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

Coastal Plain cultures graphic organizer: In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.5; As students read the article "Peoples of the Coastal Plain," this graphic organizer will help them develop an understanding of the cultures that existed in North Carolina's Coastal Plain hundreds of years ago.; Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Rhyming with Jack and Jill: In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 4; In this kindergarten lesson plan, students develop phonemic awareness by completing rhyming riddles.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Healthful Living); By Lisa Wright.

Radial symmetry design: Students will study the carving of 18th century America and create a rosette design using radial symmetry.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education); By Lisa Mitchell.

Shadows of North Carolina's past: In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.2; Students will infer past Native American lifeways based on observation, construct a timeline of four major culture periods in Native American history, and compare these lifeways and discuss how they are different and alike.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)

The Mint Museum: Access to digitized images from special exhibitions and the permanent collections of the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC, along with activities for kids.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Peoples of the Coastal Plain: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.6; When Europeans arrived in the late 1500s, North Carolina’s northern Coastal Plain was home to two different cultures. Speakers of Algonkian languages lived closest to the Atlantic edge, in the Outer Coastal Plain or Tidewater. Iroquoian speakers lived more inland, on the Inner Coastal Plain. Based on the distinctive items each group left, archaeologists call the Algonkian speakers Colington and the Iroquoian speakers Cashie.; Format: article

The pottery makers: In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.4; Archaeologists do a bit of shrugging when asked about the Woodland—that time and lifeway tucked between 1000 BC and AD 1000. Some things they readily understand, but others leave them wondering.

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.

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