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Bringing History Home: Communities Long Ago

For Teachers K - 1st

This Grade 1 unit explores U.S. communities in a historical context. By exploring their own community's buildings and services of both long ago and today, children in non-Native American communities are introduced to concepts of change,...

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Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum: Herbert Hoover: Gram's Trunk

For Teachers K - 1st

A lesson in how to conduct historical research using family photos and doing interviews, and newspaper stories from the past. The second part of the lesson is a photo analysis exercise using a photo of children and a cow.

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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies

For Teachers 9th - 10th

This site provides lesson plans that explore the First Ladies. Covers many aspects of the images and duties expected of the First Ladies. Provides numerous links to photos and other sites with extensive biographical information.

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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Bull's Eye Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th

Bull's Eye by Sarah N. Harvey is about a girl's discovery that her aunt was really her birth mother. She runs away to learn the truth about her family history and has many experiences, both good and bad. In the end, she and the aunt who...

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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 3: The Stories Julian Tells

For Teachers 3rd Standards

Third graders learn that stories and books are important for learning about themselves and others. This unit allows students to learn how storytelling can be a way to learn about other cultures, pass on family history and traditions, and...

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Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Recreation Yesterday and Today

For Teachers 9th - 10th

Primary texts from the 1920s and 1930s launch an exploration of entertainment and recreation popular during that time in America's history. Learners will research rural and nationwide experiences from this time and, in turn, make...

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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Why Is It Important to Educate Girls?: Pbs News Hour

For Teachers 9th - 10th

When girls are allowed to go to school, they have a significant impact on their family and community. Students learn and think critically about the variety of reasons why it is in everyone's best interest to ensure that all girls, across...

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Library of Congress

Loc: Classroom Materials: Who's That Lady?

For Teachers 9th - 10th

This site was designed as a video conference with the national First Ladies Library. It is an entire lesson that culminates in a competition where students try to identify recent first ladies based on their research.

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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Lets Net: Ellis Island Unit

For Teachers 9th - 10th

The Ellis Island Unit focuses on immigration, ethnicity, and cultural backgrounds. It will provide learners opportunity to explore their individual heritage through primary and secondary research techniques and share the results of their...

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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: What's in a Name?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th

In this Curriculum Unit, young scholars will consider "What's In A Name?" in 4 Lessons. The unit also includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Battle to the Death: Adding Integers

For Teachers 6th - 8th

The goal of this lesson is for middle schoolers to use manipulatives to add integers, creating concepts rather than memorizing rules. This lesson will be related to the 300 Spartans who battled the invading Persians at the Battle of...

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