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A Press Conference With Abraham Lincoln
Fifth graders hold a press conference with Abraham Lincoln.
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Field Trips Can Inspire Students to Write Creatively
Fieldtrips can lead to a variety of writing experiences for students.
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Am I Really Free?
Fourth graders write about slavery and freedom. In this freed slaves lesson, 4th graders read historical information about free blacks during slavery and explore books, objects and slave narratives to learn more. Students...
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State Facts A Right Angle Puzzle
In this geometry activity, students create words making a right angles each time. There are 50 questions to be solved with an answer key.
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Celebrating Cinco de Mayo Without Stereotypes
Put more meaning into your Cinco de Mayo party with geography lessons, literature, and more!
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U.S. History
In this U.S. history worksheet, 5th graders complete multiple choice questions about important events in U.S. history. Students complete 5 multiple choice questions.
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President William McKinley
In this US history worksheet, students read a biography about President William McKinley and answer 6 multiple choice questions.
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Mother's Day
Students construct Mother's Day cards. In this holiday lesson, students use art supplies to create Mother's Day cards. Students may include an acrostic poem about their mother or a coupon book for their mother.
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Archaeology For Kids Quiz 101
In this archaeology for kids quiz 101 learning exercise, students interactively answer 12 multiple choice questions as part of an online magazine, then click to check their answers.
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Eighth Grade Social Studies Quiz
For this Georgia social studies assessment worksheet, 8th graders respond to fifteen multiple choice questions based on eighth grade social studies skills.
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Act of Sabotage?
Learners examine animal cruelty laws in Great Britain. In this health lesson, students visit selected websites to research animal cruelty laws as they consider animal rights and hunting rights.
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National Park Service: Cwsac: Civil War Battle Summaries: Lower Seaboard Theater and Gulf
Here you will find a listing of all the engagements in the Lower Seaboard Theater and Gulf Approach campaigns in the Civil War. Hyperlinks take you to descriptions of the individual engagements.
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Pennsylvania Heritage Society: Pennsylvania Civil War 150
The sidebar of this site reads "Understand the War Through People Then and Now." That is the mission of the site, and when you click on each word or phrase, you open up a world of information about the Civil War. Compiled resources help...
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Bonps: Nashville, Decisive Battle of the Civil War [Pdf]
This brochure, from the Battle of Nashville Preservation Society (BONPS), offers a detailed map of the Nashville battlefield, complete with a full description of the Civil War engagement.
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Georgia Info: Georgia in the Civil War
Links to many sites that deal with Georgia in the Civil War including information on the politics in Georgia, battles fought there, and Georgia regiments who fought in the war. Compiled by the Digital Library of Georgia.
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Illinois Historical Digitization Projects: Illinois During the Civil War
What a find! Watch videos, read essays, and find first-person accounts of the Civil War in relation to Illinois. Although no battles were fought there, the state contributed many regiments.
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History News Network: How the Telegraph Helped Lincoln Win the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln participated in battle strategy in real time thanks to the telegraph. Read the fascinating story of how Abraham Lincoln was intimately involved in the course of the Civil War due to the increased use of the telegraph.
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Common Lit: Text Sets: The Civil War
This is a collection of 29 Grade-Leveled texts (6-12)on the topic The Civil War. The American Civil War lasted for only 5 years but divided the country along bitter lines as the North fought to keep southern states from seceding from the...
American Battlefield Trust
American Battlefield Trust: Civil War: Animated Map: Fort Sumter
Animated map tells the story of the events that led up to the first shots of the Civil War fired at Fort Sumter. [7:31]
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National Park Service: Cwsac: Civil War Battle Summaries: Battle of Antietam
This site, which is provided for by the National Park Service, gives a brief overview of the events at the Civil War Battle of Antietam.
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American Battlefield Trust: Civil War: Trigger Events of the Civil War
A list with descriptions of the major events that led up to the outbreak of the Civil War.
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The Civil War Home Page
Anything that one might need to research or understand the American Civil War can be found on this huge web site! Photo and text database, official records and maps, battles, research pages, and much more can be found in this expansive...
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Old Courthouse: A Photographic Tour of Civil War Vicksburg
Incredible historic photos of Vicksburg during the siege provide a view of the Civil War.
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Home of the American Civil War: Battle of the Ironclads
A description of the first battle of iron-clad ships during the Civil War. Includes great primary source documents from officers involved.