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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Latvian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Latvian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Lithuanian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Lithuanian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Luxembourger Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Luxembourger Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Macedonian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Macedonian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Maltese Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Maltese Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Norwegian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Norwegian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Welsh Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Welsh Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Amish

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Amish. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Other

Bike About the Mediterranean

For Students 9th - 10th
The creators of this site biked through many countries in the Mediterranean region from 1997 to 1998 and describe here their journey. Along the way, they visited many cultural sites and schools and reported here about their experiences....
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Steven Kreis, PhD

The History Guide: Age of Anxiety: Europe in the 1920's

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides text from a lecture that looks at European culture after WWI. Looks at the literary and artistic developments during and as a result of the war. With links to several biographical websites on authors and philosophers...
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Californio to American: A Study in Cultural Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site has a lesson about the ranching industry, creation of California towns and the changes over time. Contains information, inquiry question, historical context, maps, readings, and images.
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Other

Trail Tribes: Traditional and Contemporary Native Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource on the tribal groups located along the trails followed by explorers Lewis and Clark. Each group has a section devoted to its modern and historical cultures, as well as the tribe's relationship with the United States...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: English Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of English Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Other

Puertorico Guide: Puerto Rico Culture

For Students 6th - 8th
Diverse cultures and peoples have contributed to the culture of Puerto Rico, ranging from the early Taino indigenous tribe to the slave trade and the coming of the Europeans, to immigrants from around the world.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Looking Back, Looking Forward

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Lesson reviews what students have learned in the unit on European cultural and physical landscape. Students compare maps, questions and ideas from the beginning of the unit and identify new questions for research.
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Other

Evidence! Europe Reflected in Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
Digitized manifestations of European culture in archival documents whith presentations made by city archives and other local archives in 7 cities of culture for the year 2000.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Afrikaners

For Students 9th - 10th
The Afrikaners are descendants, to a great extent, of Dutch, German, and French Huguenot settlers, and, to a lesser extent, of English, Scottish, Irish, and other settlers of South Africa. The Dutch language of the first White settlers...
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Houston Institute for Culture: Early Texas History: Spanish Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Cabeza de Vaca, one of the first Europeans to extensively explore Texas after an accidental landing at Galveston Island.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Jews of Iran

For Students 9th - 10th
Until mass emigration began in 1948, Jews constituted one of the largest and longest-settled non-Muslim populations in Iran. Dispersed in every city and town in the country, Iranian Jews were almost always a minority except in a few...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Copts

For Students 9th - 10th
The Copts of Egypt are a religious minority (numbering about 6 million in Egypt) whose church they believe to have been founded by Saint Mark the Evangelist. The Coptic church is the ancient church of Egypt. Outside of Egypt, Coptic...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Nyakyusa and Ngonde

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nyakyusa of southwestern Tanzania are known from missionary and traveler's records since the beginning of European contact with the East African interior in the 1870s. The Nyakyusa are especially noted for their system of "age...
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Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Teaching History: The New World: A Stage for Cultural Interaction

For Students 9th - 10th
During European colonization, how did the French, Spanish, and Dutch view the Native Americans and how did their interaction differ? What affect did their interaction have on colonization?
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Other

Early Cultures: Pre European Peoples of Wisconsin: Woodland Tradition

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative site gives a great description of the life of the Indians of the Woodland tradition. Read about their hunting tools, food, pottery, and the mounds they built. There is a good pdf chart that consolidates all this...
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Other

Early Cultures: Pre European Peoples of Wisconsin: Archaic Tradition

For Students 9th - 10th
The Indians in the Archaic period changed somewhat from the Paleo-Indians before them. Find out about the game they hunted, and the changes in the tools they used. Find a handy chart that consolidates the information about the Archaic...