PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Decolonizing the Map: Creating the Indigenous Mapping Collective
For many Indigenous communities, mapping plays a large role in reclaiming their lands. Mapping is not new to Indigenous peoples, in fact, some of the world's earliest maps can be seen in cave paintings or heard in the stories that have...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Response, American Beginnings: 1492 1690
Five literary responses to exploration and discovery-poems, fictional accounts, a play, and journal entries-that reflect European desire, frustration, and enchantment with the New World.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Whose Land Is This? [Pdf]
A lesson plan, with printable activity sheets, from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US." Designed to help learners examine the anti-immigrant sentiment that led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets: Mythology
This is a collection of 18 Grade-Leveled texts (6-12) on the topic of Mythology. From prehistory to the present, mythology has played an essential role in how humans interact with and understand the world around them. Explore a world of...
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: Code Talkers the Navajo Soldiers of Wwii
This lesson explores the unique role that the Navajo secret codes played in winning WWII.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Molly of Denali: Veggiezilla
Play this game to extend use of informational text, as well as knowledge of Alaska. Players learn about the crops that grow in Alaska and important gardening tips for growing them.
Miami University
Nawpa: Authors' Roundtable
This site covers an informal discussion about Vera Mantuel and Shirley Cheechoo by the leaders of a conference called "Celebration of Native Women Playwrights".
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Jim Thorpe
History for Kids presents an overview of the life story of Jim Thorpe, a Native American from Oklahoma who was a superb athlete competing in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics before moving on to play professional baseball and football.
ESL4kids
The Efl Playhouse: Games for Learning English
Use these adaptations of familiar children's games to help foster language development. Each game has a write up detailing how to play, what materials are needed and what adaptations can be made for non-English speakers.
Other
Oin: 1777: Oneidas & the Birth of the American Nation
A summary of the role the Oneida Indian Nation played in the American Revolution.
Curated OER
Native Wiki: Jim Northrup
Offers much relevant information on noted award winning Anishinaabe poet, columnist, and performer Jim Northrup. Lists many of his writings, books, plays, anthologies, films, videos, and interviews with links to many.
A&E Television
History.com: How Jim Thorpe Became America's First Multi Sport Star
Decades before Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders starred in baseball and football, Jim Thorpe was America's original multi-sport athlete. A two-time college football All-American and charter member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Thorpe...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Want to Trade?
Learners will write about what they would trade for gold and practice inventive spelling in the process. After reading "In 1492", students will discuss how Christopher Columbus traded with the natives and then write what they would trade...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Trail of Tears
This detailed site has middle schoolers recreating what the Native Americans went through during the Trail of Tears. This lesson plan allows for critical thinking, collaboration, acting/role-playing, and writing.
Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Historical Society: Elizabeth and Henry Baird
Elizabeth and Henry Baird played a major role in the settling of Wisoncisn to white settlers in the nineteenth century. Elizabeth had been Henry's pupil and married him at the age of fourteen. With her knowledge of the fur trade and her...
Digital Dialects
Digital Dialects: Welsh Language
Study vocabulary from the unique language native to Wales. Play the games to challenge recognition and understanding.
Digital Dialects
Digital Dialects: Learn Javanese
A language native to the Indonesian isand of Java is presented for beginners to discover. Study a collection of vocabulary and phrases of both the Krama and Njoko forms. Play games for additional practice.
Other
Spanishlistening: #016 Que Deportes Te Gusta Practicar?
In this short video segment [00:45], a native speaker of Spanish talks about the sports she likes to play.
Other
Spanishlistening: #183 Practicaste Deportes en La Secundaria?
In this short video segment [00:54], a native speaker of Spanish talks about the types of sports he used to play in high school.
Other
Weekly South Dakotan: Buffalo of South Dakota: American Indians and the Buffalo
The bison played a very important role in the lives of Native American tribes. This brief, fact based article is easy to read and most appropriate for the younger student. A timeline shows the main events which affected the bison...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Mary Musgrove
Mary Musgrove become a negotiator between English and Native American communities and played an important role in the development of Colonial Georgia.
NSTATE
Texas State Symbols
Here is a complete list of the Texas state symbols, including their year of adoption. Click on one to be taken to a page with more information and a picture.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 4: Pushing Up the Sky
Fourth graders learn that storytelling is a performance art that also transmits knowledge about cultures and life. Through reading different tales from various cultures, 4th graders are able to compare and contrast similar themes,...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Black History: Martin Dihigo
This entry features Martin Dihigo, a professional baseball player who became a national hero in his native Cuba. In addition to playing in the Cuban League, Dihigo played in the leagues of the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Venezuela...