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ClassFlow

Class Flow: African Heritage: Frederick Douglass

For Students Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart aims to help students understand how Frederick Douglass's writing painted a powerfully negative portrait of life on southern plantations. It uses video as well as text to inform students.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Asian Heritage: The Effects of Communism in Korea

For Students Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides some basic information and offers a structure for considering the role of Communism in Korea.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Holidays for Kids: Kwanzaa

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about Kwanzaa. The history and facts about this holiday which celebrates African American heritage.
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: New Hampshire

For Students 3rd - 5th
New Hampshire is called the "'Granite State' because of its numerous granite quarries." It has a long history as one of the original 13 colonies. Come and find out more about New Hampshire.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: First Nations Contributions

For Students 9th - 10th
First Nations Contributions edukit looks at the accomplishments and backgrounds of many First Nations people, past and present. Select historical figures, such as Alex Decoteau, Pakan, and Star Blanket, are found in the biographies...
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Iowa

For Students 3rd - 5th
This America's Story entry fro Iowa from the Library of Congress tells you facts and lore about the state suitable for a great paper and citable resource.
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Other

Amc Hispanic Publications Network

For Students 9th - 10th
Site provides demographics for the Hispanic American consumer market. The article "Hispanics, Latinos, Persons of Color" is also informative.
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Other

Latino Cultures & History: Hispanic Threads in America

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a general overview of Latino involvement in American history.
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Latino Cultures & History

For Students 9th - 10th
Listing of recommended links for research into the arts, history, culture, famous Latinos, and cooking of Latin American countries.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Odalie" by Alice Dunbar

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "Odalie" by Alice Dunbar, an American author with a mixed-race heritage. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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PBS

Pbs Lesson Plan (Affluenza): Small World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson focusing on over-consumption where students are challenged to consider the impact of the American lifestyle on the environment. Using an apple as a model, this lesson offers students a visual explanation of arable land and...
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Country Studies US

Country Studies: Conservatism and Ronald Reagan

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by Country Studies. By 1980, many Americans were ready for a change. Within the Republican party, the New Right emerged which brought along with it a new conservatism and a winning presidential candidate in...
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US Navy

Naval History and Heritage: Survivors of the Uss Maine

For Students 9th - 10th
List of crewmen who survived the explosion on board the USS Maine.
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Other

New Netherland Project: Fort Christina

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the story of the settlement of Fort Christina by Swedes led by the Dutch Peter Minuit. Find out what contribution the Swedes made to American colonial life.
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New Netherland Institute: Peter Minuit (1580 1638): Director of New Netherland

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of Peter Minuit who is usually credited with negotiating the purchase of Manhattan from the Native Americans in 1626.
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The Georgia Sea Island Singers

For Students 9th - 10th
The Georgia Sea Island Singers are carrying on the tradition of their ancestors by performing chants, work songs, and gospel songs all over the world.
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Stephen Byrne

History for Kids: Pueblo Tribe

For Students 1st - 6th
History for Kids gives an overview of the history of the Pueblo tribe which lived for thousands of years in the Southwest region of the U.S.
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New Netherland Institute: Early Descriptions of New Netherland

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpts from Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664, published in 1909, and available for free from Google Books. The first excerpt is from a 1644 account of Henry Hudson's descriptions of the new land he saw on his 1609 voyage. The...
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American Indian Heritage Foundation

American Indian Heritage Foundation: Aztec Creation

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief story describing the creation of the world according to Aztec belief called Coatlique.
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Curated OER

Unesco: Canada: Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump

For Students 9th - 10th
In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom practised by aboriginal peoples of the...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Canada: Rideau Canal

For Students 9th - 10th
The Rideau Canal, a monumental early 19th-century construction covering 202 km of the Rideau and Cataraqui rivers from Ottawa south to Kingston Harbour on Lake Ontario, was built primarily for strategic military purposes at a time when...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Mexico: El Tajin, Pre Hispanic City

For Students 9th - 10th
Located in the state of Veracruz, El Tajin was at its height from the early 9th to the early 13th century. It became the most important centre in north-east Mesoamerica after the fall of the Teotihuacan Empire. Its cultural influence...
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Curated OER

Unesco: El Salvador: Joya De Ceren Archaeological Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Joya de Ceren was a pre-Hispanic farming community that, like Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy, was buried under an eruption of the Laguna Caldera volcano c. AD 600. Because of the exceptional condition of the remains, they provide an...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Usa: La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico

For Students 9th - 10th
Between the 15th and 19th centuries, a series of defensive structures was built at this strategic point in the Caribbean Sea to protect the city and the Bay of San Juan. They represent a fine display of European military architecture...

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