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Resource Type(s):
Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
In this interactive game, students explore the changes in America transportation over time as they match a variety of vehicles with their destinations and time periods. This interactive is included in the online exhibition entitled America on the Move, which focuses on transportation in
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials
In this post, students will discover the history of electric car technology over the course of the last century. In the early 20th century, motorists had a choice of electric, steam, or gasoline cars, and it wasn’t clear that any one type would dominate the market. Electricity was beginnin
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
A fictionalized account of an incident in the life of a seventeen-year-old girl who tends her family's lighthouse during a fierce storm on the coast of Maine in the winter of 1856.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
Inspired by the stories of real 19th-century lighthouse heroines, this atmospheric book uses a diary format to shape a portrait of a brave and likable girl.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
A children's book that contrasts the serenity of the country with the hustle of automobiles.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
A historical account of the impact of the automobile on society.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
Author Russel Freedman draws on the best of the personal stories and historical accounts of the leaders and ordinary heroes of the Montgomery Bus Boycott to provide a dramatic overview of the how the 381-day resistance to segregated buses spearheaded the civil rights movement.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
This brief autobiography introduces readers to Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott.
Reading Level:
Pre-School,Early Elementary School
This powerfully illustrated picture book looks at legendary engineer Casey Jones through the eyes of a fictional black child who toils in a cotton field near the railroad tracks.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
A little girl and her grandmother take a flying journey to visit the Caribbean island where the grandmother grew up.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
Ride a train with a friendly conductor who teaches a young boy how to talk like a railroader.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself.