Curated OER
History Place: Pol Pot in Cambodia
An overview of the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot and his attempt to form a Communist peasant farming society in Cambodia that resulted in the deaths of 25 percent of the country's population from starvation, overwork, and executions.
Curated OER
History Place: Pol Pot in Cambodia
An overview of the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot and his attempt to form a Communist peasant farming society in Cambodia that resulted in the deaths of 25 percent of the country's population from starvation, overwork, and executions.
BBC
Bbc: Egyptians: The Story of the Nile
Obviously instrumental in Egypt's growth as a magnificent civilization, the Nile's annual inundation provided Egyptians with food and transportation. Archived.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
After reading this section from a chapter on "Westward Expansion", students will be able to identify the challenges that farmers faced as they settled west of the Mississippi River and describe the unique experiences of women who...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: American Indian Culture of the Southwest
We can thank the Indian tribes from the Southwest for introducing us to corn. Corn was seen as a spiritual gift in Pueblo societies. Study more of the cultural characteristics of these tribes such as their irrigation system which allowed...
Other
Mr. Palm: Economic Activities Used by Early American Indians
A brief overview of three ways early Native Americans engaged in economic activities. These included farming, trading goods, and hunting.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Gallery: Agriculture
Over the course of many years, humans evolved to abandon foraging and took up farming for their food needs. Scientists are still not sure why humans abandoned foraging and took up farming in several places around the world at about the...
Other
Fruit From Washington: Crop Harvests at Home in America in World War Ii
This site is filled with posters from World War II, the Great Depression, and World War I which encouraged using food wisely, growing victory gardens, and helping harvest the crops on commercial farms.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Social Status, Power, and Human Burials
This activity provides you with an opportunity to start thinking about the impact that farming can have on the way humans live and relate to each other. It will also allow you to think about the kinds of questions archaeologists and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Neolithic Revolution
During the Neolithic period, people settle down and begin to live in one place, year after year. This leads to massive changes in art. Neolithic sculpture became bigger, in part, because people didn't have to carry it around anymore;...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Native American Culture of the Southwest
This article discusses the Ancestral Pueblo people who lived in the southwestern region of the modern United States; they constructed elaborate buildings and began the American farming tradition.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Threshold Card: Threshold 7: Rise of Agriculture
An infographic about how human civilization changed as they moved away from forging for food to farming.
Curated OER
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Dual-language site containing images and documents that show the role Mexican Americans have played in the history and development of Arizona.
Library of Congress
Loc: Documenting America: Tenant Farmers
This resource on America during the Great Depression contains photographs of tenant farmers and their communities during the 1930's, taken by photographer Arthur Rothstein. Also includes information on the time period.
PBS
Pbs: Guns Germs, & Steel
Although the video of the PBS offering of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, is no longer available on line, the transcripts of all three episodes are. Diamond addresses the question of global inequality...
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.
New Georgia Encyclopedia: Discover Georgia's Stories
Learn about Georgia at this informative site that contains information about state, from the arts to land to resources.
California Digital Library
Loc: The Chinese in California 1850 1925
Excellent overview of the Chinese experience in California complete with historical photos and primary documents. Site provides information on San Francisco's Chinatown, the anti-Chinese Movement, and Chinese laborers.
Agriculture in the Classroom
U.s. Department of Agriculture: Agriculture in the Classroom
Information about agriculture and agricultural practice in America. You can explore specific states or issues that are national in scope. The "Growing a Nation" page helps you understand the role of the American farm in westward expansion.
Bullock Texas State History Museum
Bullock Museum: Chapter Ten: Resources and Climates [Pdf]
A teacher guide designed to support a visit to the Bullock Museum, but can be used on its own using available resources. Includes information, discussion questions, activities, and worksheets. This module looks at the challenges Texans...
University of Chicago
Encyclopedia Romana: Wine and Rome
This article from the Encyclopedia Romana contains an extensive discussion on the development of wine cultivation in the Roman Republic. The information is very in-depth and informative, with links to additional information. This is...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Hawaiian Economics: Barter for Fish & Poi
In ancient Hawaii, chiefs managed the economy by creating a land division system, the Ahupua'a, which divided the islands into pie slice shapes. Each Ahupua'a covered the three main regions of the islands: the mountains, the valleys, and...
Other
Phmc: Keith C. Wolensky: Child Labor in Pennsylvania
A detailed leaflet descibing the history of child labor in Pennsylvania. Across the state it was never uncommon to find children working difficult and dangerous jobs in factories restaurants, on railways, in mines, as well as on farms....
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Does It Grow? Hydroponic Spinach
How do leafy greens like spinach grow even in the dead of winter? One way is hydroponics- an ancient technique that could be the future of farming. [4:51]
Read Works
Read Works: Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas the Mayans
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Mayan civilization. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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