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Salem, Massachusetts: Salem Witch Trials Chronology

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore a timeline of events in the Salem witch trials. Contains quotations from trial participants and a photograph of the tombstone of Sarah Good, convicted and executed as a witch.
Activity
University of Missouri

Famous Trials: Salem Witch Trials Chronology of Events

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a detailed chronology of the events related to the Salem Witch Trials, beginning with the settling of Salem (1629) and the adoption of the English law (1641) making witchcraft a capital crime. It covers all the major...
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Georgetown University

Pdba: Costa Rica, Chronology of Presidents

For Students 9th - 10th
This page, maintained by the Political Science Department of Georgetown University, shows the chronology of Presidents of Costa Rica, from 1944 to this day.
Primary
ibiblio

Ibiblio: The Stabilizing of the National Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
Original document, 1942. Roosevelt places in effect emergency orders to control prices, inflation and domestic economics during war time.
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Washington State University

Washington State University: Order of Operations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Washington State University provides a short lesson concerning which operations to execute first in solving an equation. The site provides the answers with an example.
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Other

U.s. Office of Government Ethics: General Principles

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource describes ethical conduct or non-performance of employee duties for those that are employed in the Executive Branch of the United States Government. Two Executive Orders signed by the President are linked; provides detailed...
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Other

Us flag.org: Evolution of the United States Flag

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a guide to the evolution of the United States flag. It contains a timeline from 1777 when the Continental Congress passed the first Flag Act to the Executive Order of President Eisenhower in 1959.
Article
BBC

Bbc News: Guantanamo Inmates to Be Sent to Illinois Prison

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of President Obama's order that the federal government buy a prison in Illinois to hold inmates from the soon to close Guantanamo Bay Detention camp. A video clip of the Illinois prison's extreme security is included....
Article
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Obama Goes It Alone

For Students 9th - 10th
Article reports on President Obama's executive order on immigration. Contains a video of Obama's full speech on the order.
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: Theodore Roosevelt Papers

For Students 9th - 10th
The Theodore Roosevelt Papers from the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress constitute one of the Library's largest Presidential collections, numbering approximately 250,000 items. The collection includes diaries, letter books,...
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Other

Equal Employment Opportunities and Affirmative Action

For Students 9th - 10th
This St. Norbert College offers a research presentation that provides brief overviews of the equal employment laws, executive order 11246, and hiring processes.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Today in History: January 5: Harry S. Truman

For Students 9th - 10th
Find President Truman's State of the Union message on January 5, 1949, after his stunning victory over Thomas Dewey in November 1948, where he outlines his plans for a "Fair Deal" for Americans. In addition, there are links to other...
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US National Archives

National Archives: Confronting Work Place Discrimination on the Wwii Homefront

For Teachers 11th - 12th
African Americans were not able to take advantage of the booming industries as Americans were mobilizing for WWII. The FEPC was established to make sure Roosevelt's executive order providing for equal opportunities in defense industries...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lord of the Crumbs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Cookie Monster is Gobble in Lord of the Crumbs! Hone those executive functioning skills by practicing patience and strategies when you have to wait for something. Stop and think about what comes next in patterns and sort objects by color.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Hungry Games

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Cookieness Evereat needs your help to win The Hungry Games. Hone those executive functioning skills by practicing patience and strategies when you have to wait for something. Stop and think about what comes next in patterns and sort...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Cookies of the Caribbean

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Go on a pirate adventure with Cookie Monster! Hone those executive functioning skills by practicing patience and strategies when you have to wait for something. Stop and think about what comes next in patterns and sort objects by color.
Handout
Digital History

Digital History: The Second Red Scare

For Students 9th - 10th
Senator Joseph McCarthy did not create the national obsession with communist subversion. It had arisen in the late 1930s, years before McCarthy had come to public notice. Angry that they had been barred from the corridors of power for 20...
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University of California: Jarda: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital gateway to numerous archives of primary source material on the Japanese American internment during World War II.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Interactive Strategy Workbook

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Read two poems and reflect on the numerous teaching strategies featured in Teaching Multicultural Literature . Choose strategies to explore, and consider how you might adapt them for these poems and your students. Then compile and print...
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CNN

Cnn en Espanol: Plan Inmigratorio: "Esto No Es Una Amnistia"

For Students 9th - 10th
In Spanish. Article outlines the key components of President Obama's recent action plan on immigration.
Lesson Plan
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Constitution on Trial: Internment of Japanese in Wwii

For Teachers 11th
In this lesson, 11th graders look at what happened to the Japanese who were living in the United States during World War II and examine their experiences of internment. They will also consider the constitutionality of removing some civil...
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibition tells stories of everyday lives in Japanese Internment camps during World War II.
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Other

National Council for the Social Studies: Fear, Panic, and Injustice

For Teachers 4th - 6th
What did it feel like to have to leave your home and possessions to live in a camp during WWII because you were a Japanese-American? Students will understand the climate of fear during this time and develop empathy toward the families...
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University of Missouri

Famous Trials: The Dakota Conflict Trials of 1862

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers an in-depth study of the 1862 Sioux uprising. The framed web pages offer a chronology of the uprising , a cartoon history, pages of maps, biographies of key figures, accounts of the trials and the execution, an...