Educational Materials
Lesson Plans
Coming soon...
- A House for a Hermit Crab (grades PreK-4)
- Ocean Movements (grades K-3)
- Water Babies (grades 1-4)
- Exploring the estuary (grades 1-5)
- Fish Forms (grades 2-6)
- Salt Marsh Players (grades 3-6)
- Water,Water Everywhere (grades 3-5)
- Cool Crabs (grades 4-8)
- Estuary Keeper (grades 4-10)
- Marsh Myster Water (grades 4-12)
- Fishing for Red Drum (grades 5-8)
- Fiddle Facts (grades 5-12)
- Tides of Time (grades 6-12)
- Shore Profiles (grades 8-12)
Activity Booklets
Coming Soon...
- Exploring an Estuary
- Maritime Forests
Videos
Coming soon...Waters of Life
Field Guide
A field guide to the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve and other sites of the North Carolina Coastal Reserve:
Rachel Carson Trail Guide: A brochure detailing the trail on the Rachel Carson site (pdf).
Checklist of the Fishes Documented from the Zeke's Island and Masonboro Island Components of the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve (pdf).
Research Materials
Site Profile
Phragmites australis removal project at Currituck Banks
Management Plan...coming soon
- Table of Contents/Acknowledgments/Acronyms/Executive Summary
- Reserve Goals Figure
- Introduction
- Administration Plan
- Education Plan
- Research and Monitoring Plan
- Stewardship Plan
- Land acquisition and Boundary Expansion
- Appendices – available upon request