Handout
Ohio History Central

Ohio History Central: Josiah Harmar

For Students 6th - 8th
A brief biography of Harmar, focusing on his fort-building and military experiences in Ohio.
Study Guide
Ohio Test Prep

Ohio Test Prep: Module 1: Historical Thinking and First Ohioans

For Students 9th - 10th
Test preparation module with materials for students to learn, practice and test their skill on historical thinking and Ohio history. Includes timeline, primary and secondary sources, video, interactive games and a student review guide.
Graphic
Other

Ohio Public Libraries: The Evolution of Ohio

For Students 9th - 10th
Eleven major territories of Ohio are separated and information on economic patterns, population trends, migratory patterns and historical information is provided for each. Site is easily navigated with buttons and links.
Website
Other

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

For Students 9th - 10th
Information regarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Provides many maps, pictures, and historical accounts.
Handout
Ohio History Central

Ohio History Central: Time Line of Ohio History

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive timeline of events in the prehistory and history of Ohio. Hyperlinks to the multitude of specific articles about Ohio's history.
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Other

Ohio History: Virtual First Ohioans

For Students 9th - 10th
This award-winning resource from the Ohio Historical Society presents Ohio's first cultures: PaleoIndian, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian, and Late Prehistoric Period cultures. Click on each period for additional information and great...
Website
Other

48th Ovvi: 48th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete history of the 48th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Find soldiers' letters, pictures of their training camp, information about the battles in which they fought, maps, and lots more. A very extensive, award-winning site.
Article
Other

Planetary Society: Relative and Absolute Ages in Histories of Earth and the Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
A lengthy scholarly article that discusses the geologic time scale, its history of development, age-dating events that occurred in different eras, and how absolute and relative dating are used to assess the ages of the Earth and Moon....
Website
US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Land Use History and Changing Landscapes

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides links that overview the history of land use in the United States. Numerous satellite images of different areas are provided.
Website
Ohio State University

E History: Lynching in America

For Students 9th - 10th
Ohio State University gives a general discussion of lynching with links to numerous newspaper accounts of an 1897 lynching in Urbana, Ohio.
Handout
Other

Suny Albany: Talking History

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
SUNY Albany presents archives of the weekly broadcast/internet radio program, Talking History, begun in 1996 and focusing on all aspects of history. The goal is "to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as...
Activity
University of Groningen

American History: Essays: Western Migration Towards the Interior

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides an essay discussing the migration of American colonists into the Ohio River Valley and the impact on the Native Americans living in the area.
Primary
University of Groningen

American History: Documents: The Northwest Ordinance July 13, 1787

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents the full text of the Northwest Ordinance, "an Ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio", thus creating the Northwest Territory.
Interactive
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Teaching History: Doing History Is Like Solving a Mystery!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this interactive poster to explore how students understand history and find resources about teaching historical thinking to students.
Website
Columbia University

Columbia University: Asia for Educators: The Mongols in World History

For Students 9th - 10th
Coverage of many aspects of Mongol history, from A.D. 1000-1500, including conquests and important figures in Mongol history
Unit Plan
Stanford University

Stanford History Education Group: The Dark Ages

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Primary and secondary source documents, timeline, PowerPoint, and lesson plan reinforcing life during the Dark Ages in Europe. Over several days students will come to understand all aspects of this...
Lesson Plan
Ohio State University

Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two dozen lessons that focus on using political cartoons as primary source resources for teaching American history. Lessons cover a range of topics in U.S. history from the Civil War era forward and are linked to Ohio content standards.
Handout
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: A Forgotten History: The Slave Trade and Slavery in New England

For Students 9th - 10th
Unit explores, through a series of videos from notable scholars, the effects of the trade in slaves and of slavery itself on the new Americans of the time and helps students to understand how history, and the telling of history, affects...
Primary
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Source: Resources for Teaching American History: Primary Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A varied collection of primary resources from American history. They include portraits, banknotes, artifacts, newspaper items, paintings, and illustrations.
Website
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Going Gobi: Hunting for Fossils

For Students 9th - 10th
Travel through the Gobi Desert with two paleontologists, and discover ancient fossils of creatures from long ago.
Unit Plan
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Yearning to Breathe Free Webisode 10

For Students 9th - 10th
This wonderful website, Freedom, a History of US, based on the series by Joy Hakim, presents the tenth webisode, Yearning to be Breathe Free. Through text, photographs, and audio segments you can get a good picture of the state of...
Lesson Plan
University of Maryland

Umbc Center for History Education: Reshaping American Society

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using this history lab, students will examine the impact immigration had on urbanization and the reform movements of the time, as well as the addressing the backlash to immigration by understanding nativism.
Lesson Plan
Ohio State University

Osu History Teaching Institute: African American Slavery

For Teachers 4th - 5th
After an introduction to slavery in the 1800s and the role Ohio played in this issue, students will analyze two primary source documents from two very different people.
Article
A&E Television

History.com: The Nfl's First Playoff Game Was Played Indoors in a Hockey Arena

For Students 9th - 10th
On December 18, 1932, with waist-deep snow and frigid weather plaguing Chicago, the Bears moved their NFL championship game against the Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans from Wrigley Field to the indoor arena of the city's NHL team. The...

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