Workshop Contents

• Workshop Introduction
• FAQs
• Bulletin Board
• Participant Background
• Evaluating and Using Online Resources in the Classroom
• Evaluating Web Sites
• Integrating the Internet into Your Curriculum 
• Workshop Handouts
• Special Session 1: Geography Through Current Events
• Special Session 2: Geography Through Literature and Creative Writing
• Special Session 3: Introduction to Geography and NC Geography
• Session 1: Immigration and Migration
• First Immigrants: American Indian settlement of NC 
• Arrivals in the East: Settlement of the Coastal Plain, 1650-1775
• Expanding to the West: Settlement of the Piedmont Region, 1730-1775
• NC's Final Frontier: Settlement of the Mountain Region, 1775 to 1838
• Searching for Greener Pastures: Out-migration in the 1800s and 1900s
• Contemporary Migration in North Carolina
• Related Web Sites
• Assignment 1 
• Session 2: Agriculture, Fishing, Mining, and Forestry
• Agriculture 
• Fishing
• Forestry
• Mining
• Related Links
• Assignment 2 
• Session 3: Manufacturing and Services: A Timeline
• Timeline 
• Related Links
• Assignment 3
• Session 4: Folklife: A Webquest
  • Introduction
  • Folklife and the Five Themes of Geography
  • General Links
  • Assignment 4
• Session 5: North Carolina Places
  • Three Regions
  • North Carolina Counties
  • North Carolina Gazetteer
  • City Nicknames
  • Related Links
  • Assignment 5
    

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