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Curated OER

Making Elisir

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars examine the technical language used by musicians and music lovers. They study the contemporary relevance of 19th Century Italian opera and understand how it is translated into electronic media.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ship of Gold

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students research the events that were taking place in the U.S. during the time period when the SS Central America sank, and explore the adventurous, innovative, and individualistic traits that often define the American spirit.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Roughing It in the Backwoods

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss the differences between living during the mid-19th century and today and then debate which would be better.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

African Americans and the Move West

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the phases of westward migration in the United States during the 19th century focusing on the incentives that led many African Americans to make the move.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Push and Pull Factors: Tug O' War

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners analyze the factors that led to migration in the 19th century including the forces that drew people to resettle as well as to return a place where they previously lived.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Engineer a Solution

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students start by considering the numerous problems facing New York City during the first half of the 19th century, including fire, epidemics, and crime. In addition, they explore how New York's citizens and government tried to solve...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: World His: Industrial Revolution, Nationalism, Imperialism

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive unit covering 19th Century Industrial Revolution, Nationalism, and Imperialism. Multi-media resources, assignments, activities and assessment.
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Website
Purdue University

Woman Artists of the American West: Women in Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
A site by Peter Palmquist on Women photographers and the American Indian. There are biographies and images from thirteen women who were active during the latter part of the 19th century.
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Handout
Northern Virginia Community College

Introduction to Theatre: Realism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from a college course and it goes into detail with realism. It examines background, the emergence of realism, beginnings, the writers, and others. It is very in-depth and full of good information.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: What Makes the Writer Write?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan engages students in reading and research related to the Victorian Era. Students will analyze this time period's influence on the writings of Charles Dickens. Then students will analyze how today's authors incorporate...
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Regional Realism: Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography features Mark Twain as a regional realist author, world renown for his ability to portray real Americans in the late nineteenth century. Click "Mark Twain Activities" for artifacts and activities.
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Interactive
Other

National Museum of Australia: Oscar's Sketchbook

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive museum exhibit, flip through the pages of this aboriginal man's sketchbook from Queensland, Australia in the 1880s.
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Handout
Other

University of Michigan: Susan B. Anthony House: Susan B. Anthony

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource divides her life into the following parts: abolitionist, educational reformer, labor activist, temperance worker, suffragist, and women's rights campaigner.
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Website
Other

Reynolda House, Museum of American Art

For Students 9th - 10th
The Reynolda House, Museum of American Art site, offers collections of Artworks, Costumes, and Decorative Arts from the 18th thru the 20th century.
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Website
Ministry of Education and Employment of Spain

Si Spain: The 19th Century

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a medium length article detailing the 19th century from the angle of its relation to Spain.
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Unit Plan
Georgetown University

Georgetown University: Susanna Haswell Rowson

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource offers critical review of Susanna Rowson's "Charlotte Temple" designed for teachers but helpful to students.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic History Mystery: Women's Rights: Bloomers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery item, bloomers.
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Website
The Wharton Group

Discover France: Rococo Style

For Students 9th - 10th
This website gives the history of the Rococo, a style of decoration in Europe and France in the 18th century. It applies to other forms of art, but not architecture. Provides related links.
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Home Sweet Home Life in 19th Century Ohio

For Students 9th - 10th
This site uses historically significant documents to paint a picture of family life in 19th century Ohio. Music plays a large role in this picture.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: Market Revolution: Society and Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
A quick comprehension check over the society and culture of the market revolution in the early 1800s.
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Website
Other

Si Spain: La Perdida De Las Colonias

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about Spanish history. In 1889 Spain looses its last colonies, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philipines.
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Website
Other

Si Spain: El Siglo Xix

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource gives a chronology of the 19th century. The information that is provided is somewhat brief, but factual, and worth checking out on the subject.
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Handout
Other

Clara Schumann Biography and Quick Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
General information on Clara Wieck Shumann.
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Website
Ministry of Education and Employment of Spain

Si Spain: Loss of the Colonies

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides brief information about the loss of the colonies in 1889 when Spain looses its last colonies, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philipines.