Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Out Where the West Begins

For Students 7th - 8th
A learning module that begins with the poem "Out Where the West Begins" by Arthur Chapman, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Menachem Begin Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from ibiblio.org gives a detailed biography on Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel until 1983.
Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Beginnings of the American Red Cross

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary set uses photographs, letters, posters, and publications to explore the beginnings of the American Red Cross under the initial leadership of Clara Barton. Includes teaching guide.
Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Beginnings of the Telescope

For Students 9th - 10th
This animated essay from the NOVA Web site examines the design of Galileo's refracting telescope and Sir Isaac Newton's reflecting telescope.
Handout
Other

Saudi Aramco World: Beginning of the End for Hunter Gatherers

For Students 9th - 10th
Article details the remarkable archaeological discoveries in a region of Turkey where excavations at a Neolithic site point to a society in transition, from nomadic to agricultural.
Article
Other

Medium: Why Every Kindergarten and First Grade School Day Should Begin With...

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article was written to validate and be a voice for like-minded educators and families who want their children to have more time during the school day for inquiry and imaginative play. This article includes a list of articles, blogs,...
Primary
Brigham Young University

Byu: Wwi Document Archive: Trench Warfare Begins on the Aisne

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an interesting dispatch from British General Headquarters, September 18, 1914, describing the implementation of trench warfare along the Aisne River.
Unit Plan
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna From the Beginning: Concept 4: Some Genes Are Dominant

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive resource discussing the details of Gregor Mendel's research of genetics. Based on experiments he conducted he recognized that some genes are dominant over others. Find a variety of learning tools to enhance study.
Website
Other

Usa Swimming: History: Swimming From the Beginning

For Students 9th - 10th
This document provides a history of swimming. Content discussed includes the origins of the crawl, dog stroke, backstroke, and breaststroke, how the American Indians influenced the art of swimming, the first swimming competitions, the...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Ancient City of Petra: A Nomadic Beginning

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks reading from the American Museum of Natural Anthropology's website called OLogy provides a brief history of the city of Petra and its connection to Arabian nomads. A paired passage, a...
Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Menachem Begin

For Students 9th - 10th
Quick biography of the Egyptian Prime Minister.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Contact, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Thirty one primary sources including historical documents, literary texts, and visual images from which to explore European reactions to the land and the people of the New World and the Natives' responses to European contact and conquest.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Response, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Five literary responses to exploration and discovery-poems, fictional accounts, a play, and journal entries-that reflect European desire, frustration, and enchantment with the New World.
Article
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Exploration, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Thirty two primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the expectations and the realities of European exploration of the New World.
Article
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Northwest Passage, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Four maps examining the hunt for a Northwest Passage and three English accounts detailing the curiosity, greed and optimism that fueled English exploration of North America.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The English, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Six poems written by navigators and included by George Peckham, and Richard Hakluyt's argument to promote British settlement in North America. Both documents were directed to Queen Elizabeth I in an effort to promote British involvement...
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Failed Colonies, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Three European accounts of the disappointments, challenges, and outright failures to establish early successful colonial outposts in North America.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Settlement, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Thirty primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore motivations, visions, patterns, goals, challenges, and relationships with indigenous peoples offered by Europeans in their settlement of the New...
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Hardships, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Three English, a French, and a Spanish primary account of the staggering losses, misery, and deprivation that characterized early European settlement as well as the resilience needed to overcome those challenges.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Questions & Answers, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibition of images of European settlement to accompany two English, a French, and a Dutch set of promotional accounts that offer advice, encouragement, and occasional warning to prospective immigrants to newly settled areas...
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Go Ahead, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
A Spanish, an English, and a French account of the enormous challenges in maintaining a colonial presence in North America and of the potential national loss-of pride, wealth, and possibility for expansion-if nations abandoned these...
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Permanence, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Forty-two primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the complex and interrelated factors that led to a permanent European presence in the New World.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Cities & Towns, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Four accounts of the visits to and growth of colonial cities in Spanish, British, and French New World settlements that demonstrate why certain communities developed successfully.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Rule, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Three documents reflecting official views of how to rule and regulate a successful colony in New France, Jamaica, and the Spanish Indies. Includes teacher reasources for framing discussion.

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