Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter B

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, students will play with words as they use alliteration. Students will press buttons to generate adjectives, verbs, and nouns that begin with the letter "B" in them. Students will continue to generate letter "B" words...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Ball

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson focuses on the sound of the letter B. It includes a basketball poem, things beginning with the letter B and how to form the letter B.
Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Letters From Frontier: Primary Documents

For Teachers 9th - 10th
George Catlin made extensive observations on the various native peoples that he encountered on his travels in the West. He recorded his experiences in letters and notes. These documents provide us with critical information on the culture...
Primary
Patrick McSherry

Spanish American War Centennial: Amaziah B Morrison of the Rough Riders Writes Home

For Students 9th - 10th
Letter written by 40 year old Amaziah B. Morrison, enlistee of the 1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalry, "Rough Riders," while they were preparing to depart for the front during the Spanish-American War.the Rough Riders.
Activity
BBC

Bbc: Algebra Revision Bite Solving Equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
BBC Schools offers a test review ("revision") of several aspects of solving equations. Content includes solving simple equations, solving equations with brackets, simplifying letters in equations, plus much more. After working through...
Website
The History Place

The History Place: Abraham Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides an extensive timeline of the life and work of Abraham Lincoln. Throughout the timeline there are photos that can be enlarged and many, many links to speeches, papers, letters of Lincoln's. The site is very easy to...
Primary
University of Chicago

The Founders' Constitution: Alexander Hamilton to James Duane

For Students 9th - 10th
The original text from the University of Chicago Press of a 1780 letter from Alexander Hamilton to James Duane, who later became a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, on the weaknesses of the existing U.S. government under the...
Primary
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Battle of San Jacinto: Mrs. Henrietta Lamar to Mc Ardle, May, 1891

For Students 9th - 10th
Mirabeau Larmar's widow writes a letter replying to artist Henry McArdle, the painter of "The Battle of San Jacinto." Part of McArdle's extensive research for the painting. This site includes images of the handwritten letter, typed...
Primary
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Battle of San Jacinto: Mrs. Henrietta Lamar to Mc Ardle, December 1, 1890

For Students 9th - 10th
Mirabeau Lamar's wife, Henrietta, writes about her late husband in a letter to Henry McArdle, the artist behind "The Battle of San Jacinto." Handwritten letter is accompanied by typed transcription for easier reading and is part of...
Primary
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Battle of San Jacinto: Mrs. Lola Lamar Calder to Mc Ardle, November 22, 1891

For Students 9th - 10th
Mirabeau Lamar's daughter, Lola Lamar Calder, writes artist Henry McArdle, who did extensive research on Lamar, as well as others, before painting his "The Battle of San Jacinto." This site includes images of the original letter, typed...