History Explorer Results (11)
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This post helps teachers understand how to both memorialize September 11 and contextualize the history of the day through five essential questions. Targeted toward secondary students, the questions can help teachers and students compare aspects of September 11 to other events in American his
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
Lasky's picture-book sketch of naturalist's John Muir focuses on Muir's special love of California's snowy Sierras and Yosemite Valley and his successes in founding Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Club.
Reading Level:
High School,Adult
A biography of Maria Mitchell which includes extensive quotes from Maria Mitchell’s journals and letters.
Reading Level:
Pre-School,Early Elementary School
A picture book biography of Bessie Coleman, a young African American girl who achieved her dream of flying a plane through the sky, despite the difficulties she encountered because of the color of her skin.
Reading Level:
Pre-School,Early Elementary School
Hopkinson chronicles the construction of the Empire State building through the eyes of a young boy.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
A collection of Iroquois creation tales.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
A lyrical story of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers
Reading Level:
Pre-School,Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School,Middle School
A lyrical reminiscence for the time before electrical illumination made the natural beauty of the night sky so hard to see.
Reading Level:
High School,Adult
A historical fiction story of love between two teenagers in an Emergency Refugee Shelter during World War II.
Reading Level:
Pre-School,Early Elementary School
This collection of brightly illustrated constellations makes a great introduction to astronomy.
