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Tes: Henry v 2015 Teacher Pack for Primary Schools
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a Royal Shakespeare Company resource for Shakespeare's Henry V to be used with younger students. It includes activities such as the story in pictures, exploring characters, and staging war as...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: History Through Primary Sources
This site from the Medieval Sourcebook answers the question: Why Study History Through Primary Sources? It provides complete information, a list of review questions, and bibliography information.
US National Archives
Docsteach: The School Lunch Program and the Federal Government
Students will draw upon the visual and textual data presented in photographs and documents to gain an understanding of how the federal school lunch program is a direct result of the Great Depression, how it became a permanent part of the...
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The Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Research Pages
This is the home page to an extensive site dedicated to the Carlisle School. The site contains primary and secondary source materials. Contains a history of the school, biographies of students, and of the school's most famous student -...
Yale University
Yale Law School: First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Text of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Inaugural address. In this speech, he outlines the world crisis facing the country in 1933. He also outlines the aims of government programs and his primary goal, which was to relieve unemployment by...
Science & Plants for Schools
Science & Plants for Schools: Teaching Resources
A collection of teaching resources to help students explore plants! Resources investigate anatomy of plants, reproduction and life cycles, fruits, seeds, classification, photosynthesis, factors that affect plant growth, and respiration....
Library of Congress
Loc: The Civil Rights Era: A Civil Rights Act of 1964 Pamphlet
From the archives of the Library of Congress read the pamphlet that explained the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in plain language. Find out all the different issues the law addressed and what one could do if the law wasn't being followed. A...
State Library-Florida
Florida Memory: Mary Mc Leod Bethune, Educator
A photo history of Mary McLeod Bethune who was an unofficial advisor to FDR on civil rights issues. Includes primary documents, photos and lesson plans for Grades 4-5.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Resources: Robert Kennedy on Civil Rights
[Free Registration/Login Required] After reading the background information about Attorney General Robert Kennedy's report on civil rights enforcement activities of the Department of Justice in 1962, read the full transcript of the...
University of California
History Project: Lincoln and the Outbreak of War, 1861
Using primary source documents, this middle school lesson plan focuses on Lincoln's role in the outbreak of the Civil War, specifically his actions as President during his first six weeks in office.
University of California
History Project: Chicago Race Riot, 1919
This lesson for high school students explores the race riot in Chicago in the summer of 1919. Students are asked to explain the reasons for the riot and address the questions in the lesson. Included are excerpts from 26 primary source...
University of California
History Project: The Removal of the Cherokee Nation
Middle school lesson plan attempts to answer the question of the government's Indian policy and its relationship to the Cherokee. Middle schoolers will use sections from 26 primary source documents to aid in the research.
University of California
History Project: Political Issues Behind the Trial of President Andrew Johnson
High school instructional activity provides the background for the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson over the conflict between Congress and the President over Reconstruction of the South. Students are to use sections from 15...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Voices From the Lodz Ghetto
The dire conditions children lived in during the German invasion of Poland are hard to imagine. These primary sources try to bring to life what they went through living in a Polish ghetto so we can understand the unimaginable. Sources...
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Physicians and Surgeons
This resource contains information about medical careers, like physicians and surgeons.
University of California
History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement
This middle school lesson focuses on the women's suffrage movement. Provided is detailed background information followed by excerpts from eleven early twentieth-century primary source documents, along with questions to help young...
University of California
History Project: The Homestead Strike of 1892
This high school lesson focuses on the Homestead Strike of 1892. Students are asked to write an essay explaining why the strike occurred and how the Carnegie Company went about winning the strike. Included are twenty-seven primary source...
University of California
History Project: The Bonus Army in Washington
In this high school lesson plan, students will analyze twenty-two primary source documents then answer questions pertaining to the "bonus marchers" in Washington in the summer of 1932.
University of California
History Project: The Antinomian Controversy
Using ten primary source documents, high school students will write a 2 1/2 page interpretive history of Puritan Society focusing on the antinomian controversy in Massachusetts.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 9.18 Importance of Insects
Understand the ecological importance of insects, and why they are important to humans.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 3.6 Rna
Learn about the structure and function of RNA in the body.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 2.20 Cell Cycle
Understand the life cycle of a eukaryotic cell.