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History and Human Rights: A Process for Analyzing Events
Learners analyze various American History topics which concern human rights. They research the topics and analyze the sources for bias or stereotype. They decide and discuss whether or not any human right were violated in each...
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Where In the World is the Dominican Republic?
Students begin the lesson by discussing how where they live affects how they live. As a class, they add examples to each category such as home types, clothing, jobs and food. Using those categories, they write about their life in the...
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The French in Texas
Fourth graders examine early French exploration and settlement in Texas. They read handouts, explore Internet websites and take notes, and create an illustrated journal with written entries.
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Reading Comprehension: Louisiana
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a 2-page article regarding Louisiana and respond to 10 true or false questions regarding the selection about the state.
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National Museum of Australia: Voyaging With a Needle: Embroidered Maps
Hand-embroidered map samplers, the work of women needle workers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, convey what was known of the world at the time and traces the routes of explorers, such as James Cook, who were then active....
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Trans Pacific Project: Transpacific Migrations
What an incredible resource that looks at Transpacific migrations peopling the Western Hemisphere, the Pacific islands, and the Chinese diaspora. Included is information about genetic research that traces DNA patterns across the world....
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Western Hemisphere, Detail of Universalis Cosmographia, 1507
English, Spanish, and Portuguese maps and letters about exploration and impressions of the Western hemisphere in the early 1500s. T
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Colonial Africa, 1904
A map of Africa shortly after the Berlin Conference of 1885, which established the European colonial territory claims on the continent. These European and independent boundaries include Algeria and the Saharan Sphere of French Influence,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Pre Colonial Africa, 1872
A map of Africa showing the continent prior to the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish their colonial borders at the start of...
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Etc: Maps Etc: European Possessions of Africa, 1906
A map of Africa after the Berlin Conference of 1885, which established the European colonial territory claims on the continent. This map shows the Belgian, British, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish claims, and the Turkish...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: British Isles, 1906
A map of the British Isles from 1906, showing the terrain, rivers, and coastal features of Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales. Major cities are shown, and the map includes an inset map of the Shetland and Orkney Islands, a locator map...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: British Isles, 1902
A map of the British Isles in 1902, showing Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales. The map shows cities, towns, and ports, primary and secondary railways, canals, heads of navigation on major rivers, isotherms of averaged annual...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Sketch From the Frankfort Globe, 1520
Region of the Western Hemisphere depicted on the Frankfort Globe.
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Gutierrez, Map of the Western Hemisphere, 1562, Detail
Eleven documents and two maps detailing the almost two hundred year struggle between England and Spain for hegemony in the Caribbean.
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Class Flow: Global Knowledge Where in the World Am I?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains the division of the hemispheres, northern and southern, and eastern and western. The Equator and Prime Meridian are defined, as well as latitude and longitude. Students are given...