Workshop Links

Evaluating and Using Online Resources in the Classroom

Classroom Connect
http://www.classroom.com/
Classroom Connect offers print and online resources for using the Internet in the classroom. There is a fee for most services.

Curriculum Ideas from CyberBee
http://www.cyberbee.com/intclass.html
This page contains examples of using the Internet in the classroom.

Evaluation Rubrics for Websites
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/tbarcalow/490NET/EvalRubric.htm
This page provides links to Web site evaluation forms for primary, intermediate, and secondary students to use.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Teacher Helpers: Critical Evaluation Information
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
DiscoverySchool.com hosts this compendium of information on Web site evaluation specifically for educators, including evaluation forms and a tutorial for students (complete with Spanish translation), links to many articles, and sites to use for demonstrating critical evaluation.

LEARN NC
http://www.learnnc.org/
A program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, this Web site offers quality resources for K-12 classroom instruction (including lots of lesson plans) and teacher professional development (including online courses), all tied to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

The Learning Page
http://learning.loc.gov/learn/index.html
The Library of Congress provides lesson plans, activities, and more for teachers.

net.TUTOR: Evaluation of Web Sites
http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/les1/
This page offers a tutorial on evaluating Web sites.

Teachers.net Chatboard
http://www.teachers.net/chatboard/
Teachers around the world exchange ideas and experiences in this chatroom.

Teachnet.com: Smart Tools for Busy Teachers
http://www.teachnet.com/
This site offers a little of everything for teachers of all grade levels and subjects.

Geography through Current Events

Five Themes of Geography and Current Events (lesson plan)
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sst/sst168.txt

How to Apply Geography to Interpret the Present and Plan for the Future
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/standards/18/index.html

Maps101
http://www.maps101.com/

NIE Online.com: Geography in the News
http://nieonline.com/mapper.cfm

Weekly Reader: Current Events (for students)
http://www.weeklyreader.com/teachers/current_events

Where In The World Is Yugoslavia? (for parents)
http://familyfun.go.com/parenting/learn/activities/feature/ famf199609_famf96news1/famf199609_famf96news14.html

Geography through Literature and Creative Writing

"I Like Calling North Carolina My Home": Poems Created by 4th Graders
http://www8.chatham.k12.nc.us/project/rj/nchome.html

ERIC Digest: Using Literature To Teach Geography in High Schools
http://www.ericdigests.org/1996-4/high.htm

Reading the Landscape in Children's Literature (lesson plan)
http://www.iupui.edu/~geni/lsort/readlandlit.html

Teaching geography through other subjects

African American Population Shifts (lesson plan)
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/tpl-anyplacebuthere/

Art, Geography, Literature, and History: A Cross Curricular unit on Russia and Eastern Europe
http://international.ucla.edu/euro/teachers/article.asp?parentid=23592

ERIC Digest: Geography in History: A Necessary Connection in the School Curriculum
http://www.ericdigests.org/1993/history.htm

ERIC Digest: Teaching about the Built Environment
http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-9217/built.htm

ERIC Digest: Teaching with Historic Places
http://www.ericdigests.org/1994/places.htm

Exploring Geography and Music: A Rock Around the World Adventure
http://www.ndgeographic.org/lesson02.htm

Geography Action! Culture Resources
http://ngsednet.org/community/resources_category.cfm?community_id=7&category_id=143

Geography Action! Habitats: Home Sweet Home
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction/habitats/

Geography and Travel Problems (math lesson plans)
http://mathforum.org/library/problems/sets/travel_problems.html

Geography through Film and Literature
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2003/1/

Go West, Young Artist! (for students)
http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/play/gowest/

Mapping the Beat: A History and Geography through Music Curriculum
http://artsbridge.ucsd.edu/Mappingthebeat/default.html

National Humanities Center: TeacherServe
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/nattrans/nattrans.htm

The Sense of Place (geography through sound)
http://pebble.nationalgeographic.com/studentatlas/viewandcustomize.html?poilayers= sound%3A%3AT&ext=-178.216553,18.925478,-68,71.35144

Introduction to Geography and North Carolina Geography

General Geography

Geography Center
http://www.education-world.com/soc_sci/geography/index.shtml

Geography: The Lost World
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2496427.stm

The Lesson Plan Library: Geography
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/geog.html

The Nature of Geographic Literacy
http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-925/nature.htm

National Council for Geographic Education
http://www.ncge.org/

National Geographic Xpeditions: Lesson Plans
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/index.html

U.S. Department of Education Office: Helping Your Child Learn Geography
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Geography/index.html

USGS: Geography
http://geography.usgs.gov/

Maps

Library of Congress: Geography and Maps: An Illustrated Guide
http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/guide/

Library of Congress: Geography and Map Reading Room
http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/

North Carolina Specific

Geography of North Carolina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_North_Carolina

The North Carolina Atlas Revisited
http://www.ncatlasrevisited.org/

North Carolina Demographic and Statistical Data Sources on the Web
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/iss/ncdataresources.html

North Carolina Geographic Alliance
http://www.ngsednet.org/community/index.cfm?community_id=180

The North Carolina Geographic Data Clearinghouse
http://www.cgia.state.nc.us/

North Carolina State Data Center
http://sdc.state.nc.us/

North Carolina State Demographics
http://www.demog.state.nc.us/

ProTeacher! United States Lesson Plans for Elementary School Teachers: North Carolina
http://www.proteacher.com/090135.shtml

U.S. Census: North Carolina QuickFacts
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/37000.html

Maps

Documenting the American South: Maps
http://docsouth.unc.edu/global/result.html?tgm=Maps.&projid=6

Library of Congress: Old Maps: North Carolina
http://gis.enr.state.nc.us/sid/bin/index.plx?client=zReference,Library_of_Congress&site=9A1M

NC OneMap
http://www.demog.state.nc.us/

North Carolina Maps
http://www.geology.enr.state.nc.us/maps/ncgs_main_maps_page.html

Settlement and Migration

ERIC Digest: Geography in History: A Necessary Connection in the School Curriculum
http://www.ericdigests.org/1993/history.htm

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/fora/

History of Old Salem
http://www.oldsalem.org/index.php?id=48

The North Carolina Atlas Revisited: Population
http://www.ncatlasrevisited.org/population/poptitle.html

North Carolina Census Information
http://census.state.nc.us/

North Carolina State Demographics: County/State Population Projections
http://www.demog.state.nc.us/projections.html

The Schomburg Center for research in Black Culture Presents: In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm

Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plans: The Trail of Tears: The Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/118trail/118trail.htm

Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/town/town.htm

The Way We Lived in North Carolina
http://www.waywelivednc.com/

U.S. Census Bureau: North Carolina QuickFacts
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/37000.html

Agriculture, Fishing, Forestry, and Mining

Documenting the American South: Board of Agriculture: North Carolina and Its Resources
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/state/menu.html

Gold in North Carolina
http://www.geology.enr.state.nc.us/Gold%20brochure/Gold%20Brochure%2012222000.htm

Harvesting the Hardwoods: Logging, Lumbering, and Forestry in Southern Appalachia
http://www.etsu.edu/cass/Archives/Subjects/Hardwoods/intro.htm

History of Forestry
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/index.html

Horne Creek Farm State Historic Site
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/horne/horne.htm

Industrial Minerals: Geography of N.C.
http://www.geology.enr.state.nc.us/NCIndustrialMineralsForum/pages/geologyofnc.htm

North Carolina Atlas: Agriculture
http://www.ncatlasrevisited.org/homefrm.html (click on Agriculture)

North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
http://www.ncagr.com/

North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services: N.C. Seafood
http://www.ncagr.com/markets/seafood/index.htm

North Carolina Farm Bureau: Ag in the Classroom
http://www.ncfb.com/aitc/homeindex.htm

Reed Gold Mine State Historic Site
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/reed/reed.htm

Tobacco Farm Life Museum
http://www.tobaccofarmlifemuseum.org/

Manufacturing and Service Industries

Duke Homestead State Historic Site
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/duke/duke.htm

The North Carolina Atlas
http://www.ncatlasrevisited.org/homefrm.html (click on Manufacturing; Retail Trade, Banking, and Tourism; and The Economy)

North Carolina Business History
http://www.historync.org/index.htm

The North Carolina Experience: Beginnings to 1940: Topical Access to Economics & Business
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/econ.html

North Carolina in the Global Economy
http://www.soc.duke.edu/NC_GlobalEconomy/index.html

North Carolina Progress Board
http://www.ncprogress.org/

North Carolina Tobacco Timeline
http://www.unctv.org/ncdependence/history.html

Old West Durham Neighborhood Association: Southern Cotton Mills
http://www.owdna.org/History/history15.htm

On the Job in North Carolina
http://workingfilms.org/article.php?list=type&type=3

Tourism—A Service of the North Carolina Department of Commerce
http://www.nccommerce.com/tourism/

From Field to Factory to Market

Furniture Value Chains
http://www.soc.duke.edu/NC_GlobalEconomy/furniture/value.shtml

Hog Farming Value Chain
http://www.soc.duke.edu/NC_GlobalEconomy/hog/value.shtml

Textiles and Apparel Value Chains
http://www.soc.duke.edu/NC_GlobalEconomy/textiles/value.shtml

Tobacco Value Chains
http://www.soc.duke.edu/NC_GlobalEconomy/tobacco/value.shtml

Folklife

General

North Carolina Arts Council
http://www.ncarts.org/index.cfm

UNC University Library: Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/

John C. Campbell Folk School
http://www.folkschool.org/

The Museum of the Native American Resource Center
http://www.uncp.edu/nativemuseum/

North Carolina Folklore Society
http://www.ncfolkloresociety.org/

Charlotte Folk Society
http://www.folksociety.org/index.shtml

El Pueblo
http://www.elpueblo.org/

Storytelling/folklore

Storytelling of the North Carolina Native Americans
http://www.ibiblio.org/storytelling/

The Moonlit Road
http://www.themoonlitroad.com/

Sea Grant of N.C.: Coastal Storytellers Spin Fish House Tales and Other Whoppers
http://www.ncseagrant.org/home/coastwatch/coastwatch-articles?task=showArticle&id=546

Ghost Stories of North Carolina
http://www.ibiblio.org/ghosts/toc.html

Food

North Carolina's Soups and Stews
http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/workshops/geography/soup.htm

Our Immigrant and Native Ancestors: Southern food evolved from many ethnic influences
http://www.uwf.edu/tprewitt/sofood/past.htm

Me Three: My North Carolina Family: A Family Meal as Bucolic Art
http://www.methree.net/contents/Story2.html

Key Ingredients: America by Food: 500 Years of American Food
http://www.keyingredients.org/001_timeline/001_timeline_01.asp

NorthCarolina.com: North Carolina Barbecue
http://www.northcarolinatravels.com/food/barbecue/index.htm

Language

Linguistics at NC State: The North Carolina Language and Life Project
http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/ncllp/

International Dialects of English: Dialects of North Carolina
http://www.ku.edu/~idea/northamerica/usa/northcarolina/northcarolina.htm

PBS: Do You Speak American? American Varieties
http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/ (click on A Prefixing, Lumbee, R-ful Southern, and Smoky Mountains)

NationalGeographic.com: Appalachians Are Finding Pride in Mountain Twang
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0502_050502_twang.html

Craft

Southern Highland Craft Guild
http://www.southernhighlandguild.org/

UNC-TV Online: Folkways: The Potters of Seagrove
http://www.unctv.org/folkways/sgpotters/index.html

UNC-TV Online: North Carolina Treasures
http://www.unctv.org/nctreasures/index.html

Discover Craft North Carolina
http://www.discovercraftnc.org/index.html

Music

Carolina Music Ways: History
http://www.carolinamusicways.org/history.html

NC Arts: Jazz
http://www.ncarts.org/newsletter/win01pgs/ketch.html

UNC-TV Online: Folkways
http://www.unctv.org/folkways/episodes.html (click on The Banjo, The Fiddle, The Guitar, Piedmont Blues, Old-Time Fiddlers Convention, and Music from the Hills)

Community Activism

ibiblio- Activism at Home
http://www.ibiblio.org/index.old/index.jan2003.html

Arts North Carolina: Advocacy
http://www.artsnc.org/advocacy/

Grassroots Partners of the Center for Participatory Change
http://www.cpcwnc.org/grassroots.html

North Carolina Places

America’s Byways: North Carolina
http://www.byways.org/browse/states/NC/

National Park Guide: North Carolina
http://data2.itc.nps.gov/parksearch/state.cfm?st=nc

North Carolina–City Populations
http://www.citypopulation.de/USA-NorthCarolina.html

The North Carolina Collection (UNC-Chapel Hill): North Carolina County Collection
http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/01counties.html

North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources: Historic Sites
http://www.nchistoricsites.org/

The State Library of North Carolina Encyclopedia: County Histories
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/NC/CNTYOUT/CTYCOVER.HTM

University of Virginia Library: Geostat Center: County and City Data Books
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/ccdb/