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University of North Carolina

Univ. Of North Carolina: Azoria Project: Excavation of an Early Iron Age Town

For Students 9th - 10th
This site records an excavation of an Early Iron Age and Archaic (ca. 1200-480 B.C.) site on the island of Crete in the Greek Aegean. The project examines how this urban settlement developed from the Bronze Age until its establishment as...
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Curated OER

Map: Imperialism and the Balance of Power

For Students 9th - 10th
World maps of the Colonial Empires of 1914 as well as their revenues during that time period. There are also maps depicting urban growth, type of government, wars and atrocities, and living conditions of the world in 1900.
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Curated OER

Map: Imperialism and the Balance of Power

For Students 9th - 10th
World maps of the Colonial Empires of 1914 as well as their revenues during that time period. There are also maps depicting urban growth, type of government, wars and atrocities, and living conditions of the world in 1900.
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Curated OER

Unesco: Italy: Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the System of the Palazzi Dei Rolli

For Students 9th - 10th
The Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli in Genoa’s historic centre date from the late 16th and early 17th centuries when the Republic of Genoa was at the height of its financial and seafaring power. The site represents...
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C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Geography, Humans, and Environment

For Teachers K - 1st
A learning module on how humans change and shape their local environment. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include...
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Mr. Palm: Texas Oil and Gas Industry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A teacher's class notes on the development and impact of the oil and gas industry on the industrialization and urbanization in Texas in the early twentieth century.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Summers by the Lake: The History of Grimsby Park

For Students 9th - 10th
The development of Grimsby Park, Ontario is profiled. It started as the home of early United Empire Loyalists,then temperance camps, and later to an amusement park and beach. The era ended as the town became part of big city urban...
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Milwaukee Public Television: The Making of Milwaukee: Historical Figures

For Students 9th - 10th
Some of the men and women who have been important figures in the history of Milwaukee are profiled here. Read about early political leaders, individuals who helped develop Milwaukee's urban infrastructures and businesses, and women who...
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Birth of the Environmental Protection Agency (Epa)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
By the late 1960s, issues of unchecked land development, urban decay, and air, noise, and water pollution came to Americans' attention. In November 1971, the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a large-scale...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: 'Sewer Rats' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Sewer Rats by Sigmund Brouwer is an adventure tale. A group of kids secretly play paintball games in urban underground drainage tunnels. Then one of them gets lost in the tunnels just as a heavy rainstorm begins. This teacher's guide...
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School Wires: The Commerical North [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The Northern colonies developed a predominantly urban society, based on commerce and trade.
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Fusion for Energy: What Is Fusion

For Students 9th - 10th
The greatest increase in demand for energy is envisaged to come from developing countries where, with rapid urbanization, large-scale electricity generation will be required. With environmental requirements for zero or low CO2 emission...
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Angelfire.com: The Neolithic Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Read one man's perspective of the Neolithic Revolution, or the development of mankind from hunter-gatherer to a more urbanized civilization.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Victorian Values in a New Age

For Students 5th - 8th
See the tension between Victorian morality and new ideas as America became urbanized. Read about the Comstock Law, and find out about the first woman to run for president,
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: M. Carl Holman

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features M. Carl Holman, an American civil rights leader, president of the National Urban Coalition (1971-88), who promoted the need for a mutual partnership between industry and government to...
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Unesco: Netherlands: Seventeenth Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam

For Students 9th - 10th
The historic urban ensemble of the canal district of Amsterdam was a project for a new 'port city’ built at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. It comprises a network of canals to the west and south of the historic...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Spain: Aranjuez Cultural Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of complex relationships: between nature and human activity, between sinuous watercourses and geometric landscape design, between the rural and the urban, between forest landscape and the...
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Unesco: Russian Federation: Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl

For Students 9th - 10th
Situated at the confluence of the Volga and Kotorosl Rivers some 250 km north-east of Moscow, the historic city of Yaroslavl developed into a major commercial centre from the 11th century. It is renowned for its numerous 17th-century...
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Unesco: Uk: Historic Town of St George & Related Fortifications, Bermuda

For Students 9th - 10th
The Town of St George, founded in 1612, is an outstanding example of the earliest English urban settlement in the New World. Its associated fortifications graphically illustrate the development of English military engineering from the...
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Unesco: France: Episcopal City of Albi

For Students 9th - 10th
On the banks of the Tarn river in south-west France, the old city of Albi reflects the culmination of a medieval architectural and urban ensemble. Today the Old Bridge (Pont-Vieux), the Saint-Salvi quarter and its church are testimony to...
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Unesco: Mexico: Historic Centre of Morelia

For Students 9th - 10th
Built in the 16th century, Morelia is an outstanding example of urban planning which combines the ideas of the Spanish Renaissance with the Mesoamerican experience. Well-adapted to the slopes of the hill site, its streets still follow...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Germany: Berlin Modernism Housing Estates

For Students 9th - 10th
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. The property consists of six housing estates that testify to innovative housing policies from 1910 to 1933, especially during the Weimar Republic, when the city of Berlin was particularly progressive...
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Unesco: Brazil: Historic Centre of the Town of Goias

For Students 9th - 10th
Goias testifies to the occupation and colonization of the lands of central Brazil in the 18th and 19th centuries. The urban layout is an example of the organic development of a mining town, adapted to the conditions of the site. Although...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar

For Students 9th - 10th
The historic town of Mostar, spanning a deep valley of the Neretva River, developed in the 15th and 16th centuries as an Ottoman frontier town and during the Austro-Hungarian period in the 19th and 20th centuries. Mostar has long been...