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Pbs Learning Media: First Ladies' Service

For Students 9th - 10th
The First Ladies of the United States have a history of being philanthropical towards their passions. Whatever they advocate for, they have committed many years of service throughout the years. Find out some outreach that a few of these...
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Blue Fountain Media: The Impact of Covid 19 on the Future of Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
The way we live has changed immeasurably since COVID-19 began spreading rapidly throughout the United States. The importance of technology in our lives has never been more apparent. The virus will have a tremendous long-term impact on...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Reconstruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This wonderful unit from Annenberg Media examines Reconstruction through three themes: reintegrating the former Confederate states in to the Union; the freedom of blacks and what that entailed socially and economically; and the economic...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Growing Global Power

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive teaching unit on the emergence of the United States as a global power after World War I. Learn about America's drive for expansion, first by the military, then by businesses. Contains video and text materials, web...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Antebellum Reform

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Nineteenth century United States saw the creation of reform movements: temperance, abolition, school and prison reform, as well as others. This unit traces the emergence of reform movements instigated by the Second Great Awakening and...
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Broward Education Foundation: News Is Knowledge! [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The project provides teachers with ideas to create literacy centers for use in their own classrooms using student-friendly newspapers from various curricular areas. We will provide plans that can be used to adapt the materials each week....
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Us History: 1920s, the Great Depression, & World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
AP U.S. History learning module on 20th Century eras and events including the 1920s, Great Depression, and World War II. Comprehensive multi-media lesson materials.
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Pbs Learning Media: Collection: Anti Asian Racism: Connections in History

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of educational resources will help students make sense of anti-Asian racism today by connecting it with history. Americans of Asian descent have lived and contributed to the development of the United States. The first...
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: Native American History

For Students 9th - 10th
These six extensive collections provide first-person historical accounts, audio clips of music and thousands of photographs from Native American cultures. Audio requires Windows Media Player for PCs, and QuickTime for Mac.
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Pbs Learning Media: Election Central 2016: Elections Throughout History

For Students 9th - 10th
This link from the Election Central 2016 website focuses on elections throughout history with the use of primary source documents such as campaign posters, newspaper headlines, and video clips from various Presidential elections...
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Pbs Learning Media: Election Central 2016: Inaugural Addresses

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the Election Central 2016 website that provides information about the 2016 Presidential candidates and election. The link Inaugural Addresses provides information about the history of inaugural addresses and videos of several...
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Pbs Learning Media: Brand New Flag Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson, based on the 11-minute animated story "Brand New Flag" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children use captions to access and convey meaning in informational texts. After Molly learns about the history of...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Us History Map Assessment: Test Your Skills

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test how much you know about major U.S geographic features, Indian tribes, states and regions, European colonists and territorial expansion. View your correct and incorrect answers, and print out your assessment.
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Pbs Learning Media: Writing in u.s. History: 1968: A Time of Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how the events and cultural and political changes that occurred in 1968 came to represent the upheaval and dramatic changes in American life during the 1960s. In this interactive lesson from WGBH, students develop a written...
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Stonewall and the Gay Liberation Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection which uses primary sources to explore the impact of Stonewall on the gay liberation movement.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Equal Rights Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The American Indian Movement, 1968 1978

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the American Indian Movement between 1968 and 1978.
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Pbs Learning Media: Writing in u.s. History: Shaping the Postwar World

For Students 9th - 10th
Consider how U.S. foreign policy changed in the aftermath of WWII, and analyze the philosophical, geopolitical, and economic factors that influenced these changes. In this interactive lesson from WGBH, students develop a written argument...
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Act Up and the Aids Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore AIDS activism during the 1980s.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: There Is No Cure for Polio

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the polio epidemic and vaccine.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Invisible Man written by Ralph Ellison.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Golden Age of Broadway

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the golden age of musical theater on Broadway.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Things They Carried by Tim O'brien

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Tim O'Brien's novel, The Things They Carried.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Immigration Americanization, 1880 1930

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore immigration to the US and immigrant Americanization between 1880 and 1930.