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State of Arkansas: Constitution of the State of Arkansas [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A .pdf file of the Constitution of the State of Arkansas.
Lesson Plan
Social Science Education Consortium

Ssec: Health Care: Who Should Pay the Cost? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this investigation, students explore issues around the provision of health care in the United States. They look at how it is financed, why the costs are growing so rapidly, whether it is a public or private good, and possible...
Handout
US Census Bureau

United States Census Bureau: Poverty in the Us [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The US census report on poverty published in 2001.
Primary
Curated OER

National Park Service: National Historic Landmark Nomination: Bonanza Farm [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
On this site you will find the application to the National Park Service to include the Bagg Bonanza Farm as a National Landmark. The first part describes what is found on the land now, but if you'll scroll through the history of...
Handout
State Energy Conservation Office-Texas

State Energy Conservation Office: Roping the Texas Breezes [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 6th
Looks at the state of wind energy production in Texas.
Handout
State Energy Conservation Office-Texas

State Energy Conservation Office: Renewable Energy and Electric Utilities [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the state of renewable energy production in Texas, which opened the market to competition, set minimum standards for the production of renewable energy, and established a system of Renewable Energy Credits. These factors...
Professional Doc
Other

New Jersey Dept. Of Ed: Teacher Practices for Kindergarten Ccss for Ela [Pdf]

For Teachers K
These teacher practices correlate with the Common Core English Language ArtsLiteracy State Standards for Kindergarten and are intended to give teachers guidance as they carefully, and systematically plan for language arts literacy...
Primary
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Truman Library: Telegram, George Kennan to George Marshall [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
See the "long telegram" sent by George Kennan to Secretary of State George Marshall in which he expressed his unflattering view of the USSR.
Activity
Cato Institute

Cato Institute: Congress, the Courts, and the Constitution [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
An analysis of the conflicting views on the fundamental role of the government of the United States, specifically on the relationship between the different branches of the federal government, and what the Cato Institute regards as their...
Primary
Other

Senate Armed Svcs Commitee: Posture Statement of General Richard B. Myers [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Although lengthy (33 pages), this statement by General Richard B. Myers to the United States Senate provides a clear, concise analysis of the War in Iraq and Operation Iraqi Freedom from the perspective of one of the Bush...
PPT
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Vietnam War [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A presentation covering the history of the Vietnam War beginning with the war for independence from France when it was a French colony. Covers the Geneva Accord and the war between the North and the South and how America became involved....
Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: States of Matter [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will move and generate choreography to understand different states of matter.
eBook
University of Notre Dame

Und: Properties of a Pure Substance [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
Often we find that different phases of pure substances can exist in equilibrium with one another. Let us consider an important gedankenexperiment (Latin-German for "thought experiment") in which we boil water. Ordinary water boiling is...
Lesson Plan
US Mint

U.s. Mint: One Cent Program: Story Hour With Lincoln [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A three-part lesson introducing young learners to the major accomplishments of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.[PDF]
Unit Plan
Other

Kean: Weather Systems [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
No scientific phenomena concern us as much as the daily evolution of weather systems. We live in a culture where weather, the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place,helps us define regional cultural variations. States such as...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Whose Land Is This? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: We Shall Overcome: A Party on Potus [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that directs students in a role-playing dramatization involving past presidents of the United States and activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Henry...
Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Dance Across the United States of America [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
These activities will allow students to become explorers and travel across the United States to encounter a variety of land forms. Students will create a story about their trek and then create choreography to match the sequence generated...
Website
Digital History

Digital History: Hamilton, Jefferson, First National Bank of the Us [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
As with so many other ideas, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were on opposite sides of the formation of a national bank. Read why Hamilton thought it was a great idea, why Jefferson opposed it, and what they each wrote to...
Website
Digital History

Digital History: How the Us Obtained the Panama Canal [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The story behind building a canal through the isthmus of Panama is one of incompetence and corruption on the part of the French, who first attempted the feat. Many of the actions of the United States in acquiring the land through which...
Lesson Plan
US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Teaching About and Using Coordinate Systems [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Provides lessons and activities for teaching about the different types of coordinate systems including the Cartesian coordinate system, the Geographic Coordinate System, the Universal Transverse Mercator grid, and the State Plane...
Handout
Other

Public Awareness & Strategic Planning Workbook [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
These forms and suggestions form the foundation for a strategic planning session for an individual library or an entire school system. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Us History: The American Transportation System

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and study the sources about the American transportation system in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As you read the four sources, think about how the development of the transportation system in the United States...
Article
US National Archives

Nara: u.s. Response to 1960 1962 Berlin Crisis [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A transcript from the U.S. Army Center for Military History regarding the United States' response to the 1960-62 Berlin Crisis.