Phenomenon Description: Variations in water quality in the Neuse River Basin
Location: Wake County, Raleigh
Grade Level or Course: 8th grade
Question: Why does water quality vary along the Neuse River from Raleigh to New Bern?
Crosscutting Concepts: Energy and Matter: Flows, Cycles and Conservation
Other related questions about the phenomenon: How do human activities affect water quality? What are bioindicators?
Topics Related to Grade 8
Phenomenon Description: Unusual orange growth on an Eastern Red Cedar.
Location: North Carolina
Grade Level or Course: 8
Question: What is that strange orange growth on this tree?
Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect
Science Domain: Life Science
NC Standard: LS.8.1 - Understand the hazards caused by agents of diseases that affect living organisms.