Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Teach Your Way: December Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a collection of materials from Teach Your Way: December including an December Planning calendar. This Collection includes: Video (15), Interactive (1), Media Gallery (13), Document (10), Webpage (1) for Grades PreK-K, K-2, 3-5 ,...
Primary
PBS

Pbs Liberty!: Congress Adds a Bill of Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
Informative site recounting the events of December 15, 1791, when the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution. Learn about the Bill of Rights and the freedoms it was designed to protect!
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Battle of Nashville, December 1864

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Nashville and the surrounding region, site of the Battle of Nashville. This map shows Union and Confederate positions on December 15-16, 1864.
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H. Mikuz Image of 109 P Exposed on 1992 December 15

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a detailed overview of the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Content includes discovery information, images, and historical highlights.
Article
CNN

Cnn: Study Links Lupus to Epstein Barr Virus

For Students 9th - 10th
This article, published by CNN (December 15, 1997), talks about a link that may have been discovered between the Epstein-Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis, and lupus.
Website
Other

Unfccc: Un Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about the Copenhagen conference held in December 2009. Highlights include essential background, documents on the adopted decisions, meetings archive, and the COP 15 closing press briefing.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Robert Augustus Toombs

For Students 9th - 10th
Robert Augustus Toombs (July 2, 1810 - December 15, 1885) was an American political leader, Secretary of State of the Confederacy, and a Confederate general in the Civil War.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Whitelaw Reid

For Students 9th - 10th
Whitelaw Reid (October 27, 1837 - December 15, 1912) was a U.S. politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of a popular history of Ohio in the Civil War.
Website
PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Rebuilding New Orleans' Levees

For Students 9th - 10th
A conversation with the coordinator for Gulf Coast recovery. He discusses what the federal government is doing to rebuild the levee system of New Orleans. Video, audio and a transcript are available for this report from December, 2005.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Sherman's March to the Sea, 1864

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina showing the routes of Union General Sherman's 'March to the Sea’ from Atlanta to Savannah (November 15 to December 21, 1864), and his march to Raleigh. The map shows state capitals,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Sherman's March to the Sea, 1864

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina showing the routes of Union General Sherman's 'March to the Sea’ from Atlanta to Savannah (November 15 to December 21, 1864), and his march to Raleigh. The map shows the area to the...
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Etc: The United States Secession, 1860 1861

For Students 9th - 10th
A map showing the secession of the Confederate States from the Union, from the secession of South Carolina (December 20, 1860) to the secession of Tennessee (June 8, 1861). The map is color-coded to show the Federal States and territory...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Admiral Silas H. Stringham

For Students 9th - 10th
Rear admiral Stringham, born in Middletown, Orange County, N. Y., November 7th, 1798; died in brooklyn, N. Y., February 7th, 1876. He entered the Navy as a midshipman, November 15, 1809, and was in continuous service up to the breaking...