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Pbs: p.o.v. Flag Wars (Economic Competition Between Two Social Classes)

For Students 9th - 10th
A case study in different points of view about the process of gentrification. Explore what happens when new residents move into an older African-American neighborhood. Where realtors and buyers see run-down homes in need of...
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: Ap Us History Study Guide, Period 6: 1865 1898

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] AP U.S. History study guide on the social, cultural, economic and political changes that occurred during the period of American expansion, industrialization, and urban migration, 1865-1898. Learning...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Classify Facts and Opinions [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Students will find three lessons about facts and opinions in this learning module. The following topics are linked in the module: contrast and evaluate fact and opinion; classify facts and opinions; and locate and classify facts.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Settlement Houses in the Progressive Era

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore settlement houses during the Progressive Era.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Electrifying America

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection of primary sources explores the introduction of electric power to the United States.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The New Woman

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the New Woman ideal.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Patronage/populism: Politics of Gilded Age

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the politics of the Gilded Age.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Great Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Great Migration.
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Pbs Learning Media: When Miners Strike: West Virginia Coal Mining Labor History

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore coal mining and labor in West Virginia.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Panama Canal

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection uses primary sources to explore the construction of the Panama Canal.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Populist Movement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Populist Movement.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Homestead Strike

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Homestead Strike.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Homestead Acts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Homestead Acts.
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US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: What Interests You?

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the Bureau of Labor Statistics find out about possible careers in your future by selecting a job based on what school subject you like.
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Human Environmental Interactions [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Inspired by Hemispheres' 2004 Teachers' Summer Institute, People and Place: Human-Geographic Relations, this curriculum unit was designed to address human adaptation to and modification of the environment. How have humans adjusted to...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Communities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines the various types of communities and ties into the book The Little House by Virginia Burton. It features pictures from Google Earth and questions for Activotes.

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