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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Chicago Legacy: Du Sable [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Chicago Legacy: DuSable" is a one page, biographical passage about Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, the first non-native American to settle in Chicago. He started a trading post around which the city grew. It is followed by questions which...
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A&E Television

History.com: 9/11: How Air Traffic Controllers Managed the Crisis in the Skies

For Students 9th - 10th
September 11, 2001 was not a great day in air traffic control. As the morning progressed, four separate terror attacks unfolded in the skies, with hijackers using commercial aircraft as weapons. Perpetrators deliberately flew three of...
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Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Timeline of Your School

For Students 3rd - 5th
Exercise takes students through the process of creating timelines to show important events that happened at their schools.