Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. North Carolina marine education manual. The guide contains Unit One, a collection of marine oriented materials that focus on geological origins and coastal environmental systems. These materials were designed to supplement the recommended program features of the North Carolina state curriculum guide.
Content focuses specifically on North Carolina but is adaptable to other regions.
The introduction contains a table that relates activities to skills and program features recommended by the North Carolina Department of Education. Skills and features include process skills, manipulative skills, organizational skills, creative skills, communicative skills, and measurement systems. A chart presents instructional goals with related concepts and behavioral objectives. The goals are to present the tectonic origin of North Carolina's geologic structure and the subsequent effect in which erosion and sedimentation shaped the coastal plain and continental shelf and to describe the present coastal environmental features of barrier islands, sounds, and estuaries, and to indicate dynamic processes affecting these features. Topics covered in the guide include plate tectonics, coastal plain sediments, continental shelf geology and hardbottoms, barrier island geology, barrier island ecology, estuarine geology, and estuarine ecology.