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(last updated February 2026)

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Suggested Curriculum Guides

 

UNC Climatopia Lessons & Activities

Instead, you may just want the learning objectives:

  • Students will be able to explain the difference between weather and climate.

  • Students will be able to describe what resilience looks like on an individual and community level.

  • Students will be able to give examples of how to be resilient when faced with climate related challenges.

Climatopia

Tide Talk / Sunny Day Flooding Project

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NCSU Ghost Forest Lessons
ES 400 Products
These are products of group projects as part of the ES 400 capstone course. The student authors appear below.

SPRING 2023
Authors: Arden Lumpkin, Andrew Barfield, Rachel DeChicio, Jordan Strickland 
Shared Canva Pamphlet
Glideshow

FALL 2023
Authors: Tessa Omer, Sara Wall, John Collins, and Isabella Thayer
Ghost Forests Program
Forest Wetland Loss on the Coastal Plain | APNEP
Ghost Forest Lesson

SPRING 2024
Authors: Michael Caldwell, Madison Burnette, Thomas Moore, Lexi Seal, and Madisen Winters
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19VlPtORazuEiVp8wYd_EP-7hcaCs61le?usp=drive_link

FALL 2024
Authors: Chelsea White, Chloe Farrell, Del Baker, Haley Pierce, and Justin Davis
Ghost Forests Video
Finished Products (video, Connections activity, data analysis activity, citizen science slideshow, citizen science database)

Seagrass Restoration Lesson and Activities 2025
UNC-IMS Grant Work

Dr. Joel Fodrie, Heather Bruck, Kamya Bates, and Madeline Payne

What is Seagrass and the Project Overview

Here is some of the data collected from this project:  Science of Seagrass

Lessons and Activities:
Build Your Own Sea Grass Meadow
Seagrass Coloring Sheet for the Meadow 
Seagrass Lesson Pack

Port Light: Saltwater Highways

Port Light captures the rich history of the trade, civic, and kin connections that extended across the sounds of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to mainland ports. From the first tenuous Colonial and piloting settlements to the viable fishing villages of the early to mid-twentieth century, boats were the primary mode of transportation, and key to the development of early America. 

Port Light has been designed as an online resource for classroom use. Lessons written specific for the North Carolina 8th grade social studies curriculum can be used in whole, in part, or adapted for other grade levels. 

Life on the Outer Banks: An Educator's Guide to Core and Shackleford Banks

In collaboration with Cape Lookout National Seashore, Core Sound has helped develop these place-based curriculum guides for classroom exploration of Cape Lookout National Seashore and the extraordinary natural and cultural resources located here. 

This series, Life on the Outer Banks, provides an educator’s guide to both classroom instruction and field trip experiences for experiencing Cape Lookout National Seashore’s history, geology and living heritage as an excellent outdoor classroom for an exciting educational experience.

Kindergarten: Fishing and Whaling Communties, Sea Shells, Barrier Island Geology, Lighthouses and Keepers
4th Grade: Geography, Animal Life, Lighthouse Math and Engineering
6th Grade: Barrier Island Wildlife, Ecology, Research Skills, Whaling
8th Grade: Plants and Animals, Water Quality, Salt March Ecology, Surfmen and Lifesaving Heroes
10th Grade: Salt Marsh Flora and Fauna, Data Collection Skills, Rachel Carson perspectives