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Archaeology: Quiz 57

For Students 5th - 8th
In this archaeology worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions about kings, silk, and more. Students complete 4 questions total.
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ABBA - Lesson 2

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify and notate the musical device known as a "hook". They notate and perform rhythmic and melodic patterns in the ABBA song "Mamma Mia".
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The Human Organism

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners discuss human emotions and mental health. In this mental and emotional health instructional activity, students write a short story regarding the "think and share" choice. Learners include emotion, the connection between...
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The Four Freedoms

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders consider the freedoms they hold dear. In this historical perspectives lesson plan, 7th graders identify 4 freedoms that they have and then compare them to the listed freedoms in Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms"...
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Tools: Science Stations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore technology by completing engineering activities in class. In this simple tools lesson plan, students utilize three science stations to perform tasks using a nutcracker, bottle openers, hammers and other tools. Students...
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Breaking News English: Levi's to Make iPod Jeans

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English learning exercise, students read "Levi's to Make iPod Jeans," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Dig Magazine Archeology Quiz #58

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Dig Magazine archeology quiz, students answer 4 multiple choice questions complementing the May 2006 issue. Page contains answer and additional resources link.
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Marconi: Whisper in the Air

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore Guglielmo Marconi, the genius who invented the wireless and helped change our planet into a global village.
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Opposition to the AK Native Claims Settlement Act

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars research the ANCSA and report from small groups about what they read.
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Mexican Masks

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the Mexican mask-making tradition and create maks that tell stories. They desribe how art tells stories and examine early Mexican culture in California.
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Social Studies: How Did Native Americans Live?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine Edward Curtis' photographs and Robert Griffing's paintings to analyze Native American culture. They present research information on specific tribes, using the photos and paintings to uncover information about the...
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Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum: Chronology of Fashion

For Students 9th - 10th
A chronology of the styles of clothing worn by men and women in Europe over three centuries (between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries). Serves to illustrate changing ideals regarding personal adornment, beauty, masculinity, and...
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Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville: History of Costume

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital scans of the illustrations from a nineteenth-century publication about historic costumes constitutes a pictorial survey of changing modes of dress from ancient times to the mid-1800s. Five hundred designs in all.
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Glamour Daze: A Short History of Women's Fashion 1900 to 1969

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of women's clothing and fashion spanning the years from 1900 through 1969.
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Glamour Daze: A Brief History of 1940s Vintage Makeup

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of how vintage makeup was used in the American 1940s. Also includes an extensive image gallery.
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Bata Shoe Museum: History of Western Footwear Fashions

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history of Western fashion from this online exhibition of footwear that traces the development of shoes from ancient times through the twentieth century.
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Encyclopedia of Fashion

For Students 9th - 10th
An encyclopedia of fashion and clothing throughout the ages, from prehistoric to modern times. To find something, click on a letter of the alphabet, a time period, or type a search term.
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Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria & Albert Museum: Introduction to 20th Century Fashion

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history of clothing in the 1900's. Includes images, a discussion of prominent designers and the impact of cultural events upon fashion.
Article
Victoria and Albert Museum

Victorian & Albert Museum: Introduction to 18th Century Fashion

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the trends that came to define men's and women's fashion in the 1700's. Includes images and a discussion of popular fabrics and women's hairstyles.
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Central Washington University: Costume History

For Students 9th - 10th
Focuses on the history of costumes and fashion from Egyptian times to the 1990s. Thumbnail links may no longer work as this is an older site. However, the 'Fads in Fashion Slides' page has many large images organized by time periods....
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Powerhouse Museum: Electronic Swatchbook of Fashionable Fabrics, 1830 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
Powerhouse Museum has collected swatchbooks containing swatches of fabric from the early 1800s through 1923. Click through the swatches to see how fabrics changed over the years.
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Vintage Vixen: 20th Century Fashion History

For Students 9th - 10th
A descriptive history of female fashion in the twentieth century, decade-by-decade.
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Kyoto Costume Institute

Kyoto Costume Institute: Kci Digital Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
Highlights of Western styles of clothing, in timeline format, inspire us with the vastness and novelty of human creation. Examples span 250 years of changing styles in fashion, with the earliest articles dating from the eighteenth century.
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Ohio History Central

Ohio History Connection: Ohio History Central: Ohio's Prehistoric Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Ohio's history of human habitation goes back more than 12,000 years! Explore the prehistory in a logical fashion by clicking on the timeline and tracing people from Paleoindian, 13,000 BC to Historic Indians, 1650 AD. It's interesting to...