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Illinois State Museum: At Home in the Heartland Online

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibit about family life in Illinois from 1700 to the present lets visitors experience the kinds of changes that an environment can undergo over several hundred years. Uses historical narratives, images of objects, timelines, maps, and...
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University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Alberta Airphoto Collection, 1922 1956

For Students 9th - 10th
The Alberta Airphoto Collection consists of around 30,000 public domain images from the University of Calgary Library's collection of airphotos. The images cover urban areas at various scales and years between 1924 and 1952. These...
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Bucks County Community College: Visual Organizers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site walks you through the benefits of visual organizers, and focuses on a variety of types: tables, charts, graphs, timelines, flowcharts, diagrams, and webs.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Manifest Destiny

For Students 9th - 10th
From twentieth-century posters, monuments, and letters to nineteenth-century maps, biographies, and paintings, this set allows students to gain a greater understanding of how perceptions of manifest destiny have changed over time.
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Renaissance Day: Discovering the 'Lost World'

For Students 7th - 9th
Gain knowledge of how exploration, mapping, and voyages of the Renaissance period shaped and changed our understanding of the modern world.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Summer Monsoon in India, 1910

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1910 of the Indian subcontinent and the Central Asia region showing the typical rainfall distribution patterns during the summer monsoons, keyed to show areas of rainfall ranging from very light to, according to this text, the...
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Curated OER

Cbc: The Great Human Odyssey: Homo Sapiens: Child of the Ice Age

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating look at where humans came from. The interactive journey begins in Ethiopia over four million years ago with our ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus. It continues at intervals along a timeline up to the present. The journey is...