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Hunting Buffalo

Grade Range:

K-12

Resource Type(s):

Artifacts

Date Posted:

11/1/2016

Shave Head uses a two-level drawing shows a buffalo hunt with four wounded animals, and a separate hunt and the wounding of an elk. The Cheyenne warriors wear full headdress and four of the five also wear their mountain lion bow and quiver, symbolically powerful pieces of hunting gear.

Picturing the Civil Rights Movement: Photographs by Charles Moore

Grade Range:

6-12

Resource Type(s):

Reference Materials, Primary Sources, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities

Duration:

60 minutes

Date Posted:

10/13/2016

This learner resource includes a 26 minute documentary where Charles Moore explains the context of many of his most famous civil rights images. Then, students examine the images and think about the importance of photojournalism to the civil rights movement. Finally, students are presented with An

History Explorer Podcast: Discovering Slack Key Guitar History

Grade Range:

6-12

Resource Type(s):

Interactives & Media, Worksheets

Duration:

12 minutes

Date Posted:

5/10/2013

What do British cattle and Mexican cowboys have to do with the history of Hawaiian folk music? A lot, as it turns out. Slack Key guitar master Reverend Dennis Kamakahi explains in this episode of the History Explorer podcast series. The episode features songs Rev. Kamakahi played during a ceremon

History Explorer Podcast: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings

Grade Range:

6-8

Resource Type(s):

Interactives & Media, Worksheets

Duration:

11 minutes

Date Posted:

11/20/2012

In this episode of the History Explorer Podcast, curator Rayna Green discusses what we can learn from seemingly simple line drawings about the lives and memories of Plains Indians who lived over 130 years ago. The resources include a teacher guide and related image.

Ambrotype of Mea-to-sa-bi-tchi-a, or Smutty Bear

Grade Range:

K-12

Resource Type(s):

Artifacts

Date Posted:

11/7/2012

This ambrotype portrait of Mea-to-sa-bi-tchi-a, or Smutty Bear, a Yankton Dakota, is among the first photographic images of Native Americans. Smutty Bear was part of a large Native American delegation that came to Washington, D.C., during the winter of 1857–58. Under duress, members of the dele

Dust Bowl Stories

Grade Range:

9-12

Resource Type(s):

Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities

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 students to consider modern environmental issues with

History Explorer Podcast: The Jazz Oral History Project

Grade Range:

5-8

Resource Type(s):

Interactives & Media

Duration:

9 minutes

Date Posted:

6/18/2012

In this episode of the History Explorer podcast series, Ken Kimery, executive director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, discusses the importance of the Jazz Oral History Project. Ken explains the history of the program and its importance, as well as gives some tips about how to cond

History Explorer Podcast: The Richmond Hoard

Grade Range:

6-12

Resource Type(s):

Interactives & Media, Worksheets

Date Posted:

4/15/2011

In this episode of the History Explorer podcast series, Richard Doty, senior curator of the National Numismatics Collection, shares the story of the "Richmond Hoard," an enormous collection of Confederate currency obtained by the museum and explains what currency meant to life in the South a

Keeping History: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings Homepage

Grade Range:

2-12

Resource Type(s):

Reference Materials, Primary Sources

Date Posted:

11/30/2009

The drawings included in this online exhibition are first-person records of military conflicts, cultural life, and "Americanization." The website shares an American Indian perspective on westward expansion through primary sources. In the late 19th century, life was changing rapidly for the N

Smithsonian Education Online Conference: Climate Change

Grade Range:

K-12

Resource Type(s):

Reference Materials

Date Posted:

9/22/2009

Students and teachers can deepen their understanding of the challenge of climate change through this archived online conference. An excellent professional development resource, the homepage for the online conference provides the conference schedule and speakers, as well as gen

A Time of Troubles

Author:

Pieter Van Raven

Reading Level:

Middle School,High School,Adult

Genre:

Fiction

Awards:

The novel is appropriately grim and conveys the hopes and disillusionments of families migrating to California during the Depression. Van Raven's descriptions of such things as the labor of orange picking or the emptiness of the dusty and forlorn great plains are on target as is his telling of th

Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains

Author:

Deborah Hopkinson

Reading Level:

Pre-School,Early Elementary School

Genre:

Fiction

Awards:

Description of a family's journey from Iowa to Oregon in the 1800s and their transport of plants and seedlings and the requisite hardships they experience on the Oregon Trail.

Before the Ever After

Author:

Jacqueline Woodson

Reading Level:

Middle School

Genre:

Awards:

For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remem

Daily Life in a Plains Indian Village: 1868

Author:

Michael Bad Hand Terry

Reading Level:

Late Elementary School

Genre:

Non Fiction

A photographic look at life in a Plains Indian Village during the 19th century.

Dakota Dugout

Author:

Ann Turner

Reading Level:

Early Elementary School

Genre:

Fiction

A story of life on the prairie.

Juneteenth for Mazie

Author:

Floyd Cooper

Reading Level:

Late Elementary School

Genre:

Fiction

Little Mazie wants the freedom to stay up late, but her father explains what freedom really means in the story of Juneteenth, and how her ancestors celebrated their true freedom.

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Author:

Patricia MacLachlan

Reading Level:

Late Elementary School,Middle School

Genre:

Fiction

Awards:

19th century tale of a widowed farmer with two children who advertises for a wife. The answer to his ad is Sarah, who arrives from Maine. The tale gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love.

The Buffalo Are Back

Author:

Jean Craighead George

Reading Level:

Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School

Genre:

Fiction

This picture book is a hybrid of nonfiction and fiction, as George tells the story of how the buffalo made a comeback in the American Midwest after being nearly decimated in the late 1800s.

The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century

Author:

Jon Grinspan

Reading Level:

High School,Middle School

Genre:

There was a time when young people were the most passionate participants in American democracy. In the second half of the nineteenth century--as voter turnout reached unprecedented peaks--young people led the way, hollering, fighting, and flirting at massive midnight rallies. Paren

Wagon Wheels

Author:

Barbara Brenner

Reading Level:

Late Elementary School

Genre:

Fiction

An African-American family moves to Kansas after the Civil War to create a new life.

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Hunting Buffalo

Picturing the Civil Rights Movement: Photographs by Charles Moore

History Explorer Podcast: Discovering Slack Key Guitar History

History Explorer Podcast: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings

Ambrotype of Mea-to-sa-bi-tchi-a, or Smutty Bear

Dust Bowl Stories

History Explorer Podcast: The Jazz Oral History Project

History Explorer Podcast: The Richmond Hoard

Keeping History: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings Homepage

Smithsonian Education Online Conference: Climate Change

A Time of Troubles

Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains

Before the Ever After

Daily Life in a Plains Indian Village: 1868

Dakota Dugout

Juneteenth for Mazie

Sarah, Plain and Tall

The Buffalo Are Back

The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century

Wagon Wheels

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