Grade Range: K-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
Date Posted: 10/22/2008
This online exhibition provides information that will help students learn the origins of the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), how it was been celebrated traditionally and how it is being celebrated now. The exhibition includes links to online...
Grade Range: 6-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities, Primary Source, Worksheets
Duration: 11 Minutes
Date Posted: 4/2/2012
Samuel Kelly was an English sailor, who recorded his experience of a voyage to Philadelphia in 1787. Listen to a dramatic reading of his narrative, and then study the supporting primary sources to answer the discussion questions. This resour...
Grade Range: 9-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Primary Source, Interactives & Media
Date Posted: 11/5/2009
This teacher resource challenges students to think about the Jefferson desk and the Declaration of Independence as objects that are valuable sources of historical information. It includes a preliminary activity...
Grade Range: 5-8
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media
Date Posted: 7/7/2008
In this interactive game, students use a virtual time machine to explore modes of transportation during four different eras and create a photo album of their trip using period photographs. This interactive is included in the online exhibition enti...
Grade Range: 4-12
Resource Type(s): Reference Materials, Interactives & Media, Primary Source
Date Posted: 6/4/2009
Through brief biographies of the composers, primary source documents, and media clips, students will learn about the collaboration of these two great jazz composers and the process involved in writing and recording two of the most celebrated jazz ...
Grade Range: 9-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Interactives & Media
Date Posted: 8/31/2012
Discuss the story of the Dust Bowl through images from photographer Arthur Rothstein, through song with Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl ballads, and through text writings from President Roosevelt and farmer Caroline Henderson. Then, challenge stud...
Grade Range: 5-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Reference Materials
Date Posted: 7/7/2008
Con este mapa interactivo, los estudiantes pueden investigar la isla y la cultura de Puerto Rico por los objetos e imágenes. Este recurso es parte del sitio titulado Una Visión de Puerto Rico: La Colección de Teodoro Vidal...
Grade Range: 5-12
Resource Type(s): Reference Materials, Interactives & Media
Date Posted: 7/7/2008
Con este cronograma interactivo, los estudiantes pueden estudiar la historia y la cultura de Puerto Rico. Este recurso es parte del sitio titulado Una Visión de Puerto Rico: La Colección de Teodoro Vidal.
Grade Range: 5-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Primary Source
Date Posted: 5/11/2012
Este recurso ofrece muestras de audio de la música de Celia Cruz, y los clips de vídeo de su vida y actuaciones. Además de la salsa, Celia Cruz interpró muchos géneros de las canciones afro-caribeños, entr...
Grade Range: 9-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media
Duration: 5 Minutes
Date Posted: 5/26/2010
Newsreel video footage from 1944 and 1945, showing the Allies prepare and carry out the invasion of Normandy, the liberation of Paris, Battle of the Bulge and the eventual fall of the Third Reich and surrender of Germany. This video is part o...