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Center for History Education

Should the Colonists Have Revolted Against Great Britain?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Should the Americans have taken the plunge and revolted against Great Britain? Using documents, including the famed Common Sense and a Loyalist response, pupils conduct a lengthy investigation of the question. The interesting resource...
Primary
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Accommodating Students With Dyslexia [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This five page PDF resource guide provides great information on accommodating students who have dyslexia in all classroom settings. Accommodations on materials, instruction, and student performance are included.
Primary
Other

Teachers First: The Raven: An Interactive Study Resource

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource for teaching Poe's "The Raven" marks his use of literary devices and vocabulary. As students cursor over highlighted words, vocabulary is defined and the uses of assonance, alliteration, and internal rhyme are pointed out....
Primary
Other

New York State Library: Student Activity: Primary Versus Secondary Sources

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Read about the Railroad Strike of 1877 using three excerpts from textbooks and three original newspaper articles. Compare and contrast the information in the primary and secondary sources.
Primary
Thomson Reuters

Find Law: u.s. Supreme Court: Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource includes information on the Supreme Court case, Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier. The case involves the First Amendment rights of high school students and the publishing of their high school newspaper.
Primary
Other

Rss Ideas for Educators [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Trying to make sense of RSS technology and wondering how to use it in your classroom? This research paper clearly explains the basics behind XML feeds and aggregators and how educators can use this new tool to share great resources with...
Primary
University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Sixties Project: A Veteran Speaks Against the War

For Students 9th - 10th
This site by the Sixties Project gives the text of the speech given by Bob Muller, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, to a meeting of the Student Assembly of Columbia University on July 23, 1971.
Primary
Wyzant

Wyzant: History and Politics Out Loud

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A searchable archive of politically significant audio materials for scholars, teachers, and students.
Primary
American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention:federal Guidance on Early Intervening Service

For Teachers K - 1st
On July 28, 2008 the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) released guidance on the appropriate use of IDEA-Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS) funding. This guidance is intended to provide states with information...
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Voter Registration Training Tool

For Students 9th - 10th
Students at Miles College in Birmingham developed this "crib sheet" and questionnaire to help black citizens become registered voters and to document racial discrimination in the voting process in the 1950s.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Road to Revolution: 1763 1776

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of primary sources helps students explore the events that led up to the American Revolutionary War.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: 19th Century Schools for the Deaf, Blind

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the development of schools for deaf and blind students in the nineteenth century.
Primary
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: Colonization and Settlement

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An overview of all the materials that are available to students to explore the colonization and settlement of the Americas.
Primary
Wyzant

Wyzant: History and Politics Outloud: Famous Speeches

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Featured is a searchable archive of politically significant audio materials for scholars, teachers, and students. All audio is relevant to American history and politics and is searchable by title, speaker, date, or subject.
Primary
US Army Center

U.s. Army Center of Military History: The Whirlwind War

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, provided by the U.S. Army, contains the hyperlinked text of The Whirlwind War, an extensive history of the Army's role in the Persian Gulf War. This is the whole book, so there is an abundance of resources here, including...
Primary
National Archives (UK)

The National Archives: Focus on Film

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Should students believe everything they see on tv? The National Archives provides this resource for students to examine cinemas as an accurate source of history. Links to archived videos and activities are provided. RI.11-12.7 Eval...
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Predicaments of Early Republican Life

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Primary resource material focusses on predicaments in early American history. Students read primary source text to answer questions surrounding the nature of society following the American Revolution, learning about the hopes and fears...
Primary
New Deal Network

New Deal Network: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute: Dear Mrs. Roosevelt

For Students 9th - 10th
Resources and lesson plans concerning the thousands of letters Mrs. Roosevelt received from young people asking for help during the Depression. Students learn how to use primary source documents.
Primary
PBS

Nova: Missing in Mi G Alley: All About G Forces

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about G forces. The resource discusses gravity forces, fainting in the air, acceleration, and zero G?s.
Primary
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Federalist No. 78

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource from Khan Academy includes the full text of Alexander Hamilton's Federalist No. 78, one of the Federalist Papers. This lesson is intended for students taking high school or college level American Government and Civics...
Primary
Other

Lib.ru: Classic Russian Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
Great resource for finding online text for classic Russian literature in Russian. Features the most popular writers and their works. Valuable resource for students studying Russian. Russian-speaking ELL students might translate passages...
Primary
Rice University

Rice University: Focus on Your Community

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A resource page for teachers and students with lesson plans and varied resources to study your local community.
Primary
George Mason University

Chnm: Children & Youth History

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
"Children & Youth in History is a world history resource that provides teachers and students with access to sources about young people from the past to the present."
Primary
George Washington University

National Security Administration: Cuban Missile Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
This is from the National Security Administration's Website. It has information on the operations involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Difficult for an Elementary student to understand, but a great resource for Elementary teachers.

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