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\n\"Settlement\n\n
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\nSettlement Exploration: Then and Now\n

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\nNASA has crafted an imaginative and memorable series of lessons, \"NASA and Jamestown Education Module.\" This lesson plan is one of the five components. In it, middle schoolers connect history and science by comparing the settlement of...\n
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\n\"Pre-Columbian\n\n
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\nPre-Columbian America\n

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\nWhat was life like in America before Christopher Columbus discovered the New World? Scholars investigate life in the Americas through the eyes of Native Americans in the first lesson of a 22-part series covering America's history. Using...\n
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\n\"Oklahoma!\n\n
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\nOklahoma! The Cultural Myth of America\n

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\nLearners explore cultural myths in America by collecting images and characteristics of stereotypical Americans. They read a primary source document, discussing the views of the author in class. Next, they compare the terms used to...\n
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\nJazz in America Lesson Plan 8\n

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\nStudents explore the present and juture of jazz. They identify terms associated with jazz and listen to contemporary recordings. They participate in a class discussion regarding jazz's contribution to and reflection of American culture...\n
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\nRun/Walk Across America\n

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\nWalk, jog, or run across America. Maps of individual states, visual progress, competition, and rewards, seem to be great motivational ideas. Make sure that the distances that each class has to walk or run are the same, because getting...\n
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\nRead Across America\n

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\nCelebrate the whimsical world of Dr. Seuss on Read Across America Day with a collection of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics activities, each linked to a popular Dr. Seuss story. \n
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\nThe Growth of America's Production System\n

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\nStudents, assessing a variety of sources, explore the growth of inventions that were brought about by the Industrial Revolution. They analyze labor practices and philosophies within the history of the United States. A timeline is set in...\n
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\nAmerica's History in the Making: Classroom Applications Three\n

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\nHow can primary sources bring history to life? Scholars create detailed lesson plans on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in American history. The 17th installment of a 22-part program exploring American history examines...\n
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\nJazz in America Lesson Plan 7\n

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\nThe student will explore free jazz, fusion, and contemporary jazz. They will listen to avant garde, fusion, and pop recordings. In addition, they participate in a class discussion regarding jazz's contribution to and reflection of...\n
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\nManners and Mores of Washington's America\n

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\nYoung scholars explore the social policies of early America. In this etiquette lesson, students read George Washington's \"110 Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation.\" Young scholars identify expectations for...\n
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\nJazz in America Lesson Plan 6\n

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\nStudents survey bebop, cool jazz, and hard bop. They explore how bebop, cool jazz, and hard bop reflected American culture and society in the 1940s and 1950s.\n
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\nJazz in America Lesson Plan 7\n

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\nStudents survey free jazz and fusion. They explore how free jazz and fusion reflected American culture and society in the 1960s and 1970s.\n
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\nJazz in America Lesson Plan 2\n

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\nYoung scholars explore jazz's primary elements. They identify the basic definitions of terms associated with jazz. In addition, they listen to Song for My Father.\n
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\nA House Dividing: The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum America\n

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\nHigh schoolers explore the debates over American slavery and the power of the American federal government for the first half of the 19th century and how the regional economies and political events produced a widening split between the...\n
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\nJacksonian America and the Indian Removal Act of 1830\n

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\nStudents utilize primary sources to explore the national climate concerning Native American Indians during the Andrew Jackson administration. They are presented with opinions for and against the Indian Removial Act of 1830 as they...\n
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\nAmerica Established Because of Protest\n

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\nStudents explore events and causes that led to American Revolution and examine popular pro-Patriot renderings and texts of these issues created both at that time and in later years. Students then prepare and deliver oral presentations...\n
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\nThe Age of Early European Explorations & Conquests\n

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\nYour students' world will literally take shape in this presentation, which chronicles the growing edges of the (flat) earth during European Exploration of New Worlds. Dias, da Gama, Magellean, and Columbus are key players in this game of...\n
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\nThe New West: Interactive Map | A Biography of America\n

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\nUsing this interactive map activity, from A Biography of America, explore how the \"New West\" evolved during the late 20th century, transforming from the wild, untamed Old Rocky Mountain West into a smaller, more accessible \"New West.\"...\n
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\nComing of Age Readings: Experiences in Korea and by Asians in America\n

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\nBring multi-cultural experiences and literature into your language arts class with this lesson. Here, young readers explore the points of view of first and second-generation Asian immigrants with a list of various fiction and nonfiction...\n
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\nMeet Hannah the Weaver\n

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\nStudents analyze primary and secondary sources to explore slavery and emancipation, and write letter or diary entry from point of view of slave Hannah Harris or plantation owner Robert Carter. Students then dramatize their creative...\n
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\nBranching Out – Exploring Dendrochronology\n

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\nTree rings from North America give a continuous history of El Nino intensity over the last 1,100 years. Scholars learn how scientists use tree rings to create timelines demonstrating variations in weather patterns. The cumulative...\n
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\nIndustrializing America\n

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\nImagine an eight year old spindle boy working barefoot in a factory in the late 1800s. Scholars research the industrial period in American history in the 14th lesson of a 22-part series that explores the country's background. Groups...\n
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\nAmerica Moves Out!\n

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\nFirst graders analyze the events of early American exploration. This is a unit resource for teachers in which there are six lessons about the American Western exploration and expansion. Within each lesson there are objectives, materials,...\n
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\nOh, California\n

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\nStudents begin this instructional activity by charting information about the relationship between the Spanish missionaries and Native Americans at a California mission. Then, students identify the dynamics of those relationships that...\n
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