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Becoming US

Grade Range:

8-12

Resource Type(s):

Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets

Date Posted:

2/7/2020

Becoming US is a new educational resource for high school teachers and students to learn immigration and migration history in a more accurate and inclusive way. The people of North America came from many cultures and spoke different languages long before the founding of the Uni

Young People Shake Up Elections (History Proves It) Educator Guide

Grade Range:

6-12

Resource Type(s):

Lessons & Activities

Duration:

30 minutes

Date Posted:

2/19/2020

With and without the vote and throughout American history, young people have been a force to be reckoned with as they take action and stand in support of the issues that matter most. In 2020 this legacy will continue; 22 million young people will be eligible to vote in American elections for the

Young People Shake Up Elections (History Proves It) video series

Grade Range:

6-12

Resource Type(s):

Interactives & Media

Duration:

45 minutes

Date Posted:

2/19/2020

Objects of History: Woman Suffrage

Grade Range:

6-12

Resource Type(s):

Interactives & Media

Duration:

30 minutes

Date Posted:

2/24/2020

The videos support the 2019 National Youth Summit where the following question was discussed: Are the tactics used by suffragists to fight for political power still effective? To play all of the videos on YouTube, visit the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bksxsSc1TmQ&list=PLZxSSLX6InCQ7

"1778-1943 Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty" Poster

Grade Range:

5-12

Resource Type(s):

Artifacts, Primary Sources

Date Posted:

2/3/2011

To control the form of war messages, the government created the U.S. Office of War Information in June 1942. OWI sought to review and approve the design and distribution of government posters. Posters such as this one and their messages were seen as "war graphics," combining the sophisticated sty

"Migrant Mother," by Dorothea Lange

Grade Range:

9-12

Resource Type(s):

Artifacts, Primary Sources

Date Posted:

3/22/2012

During the Great Depression, government photographer Dorothea Lange took this picture at a migrant farmworkers' camp near Nipomo, California. Lange's brief caption recorded her impressions of the family's plight: "Destitute pea pickers ... a 32-year-old mother of seven children." F

"Woodsy Owl" Anti-Pollution Poster

Grade Range:

K-12

Resource Type(s):

Artifacts, Primary Sources

Date Posted:

3/10/2015

The U.S.D.A. Forest Service introduced Woodsy Owl in 1971 as an anti-litter and anti-pollution symbol to promote wise use of the environment. The campaign, which continues today, is primarily aimed at school-age children and uses slogans such as “Give a Hoot! Don’t Pollute” and “Lend a Ha

1880s Agricultural Nation Classroom Activity Guide

Grade Range:

5-12

Resource Type(s):

Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets

Date Posted:

1/22/2011

In this set of classroom activities developed for the exhibition America on the Move, students will use visual, analytical, and interpretive skills to examine primary sources including historical maps to answer questions about farming, transportation, immigration, and racism in

1920s Industrial America Classroom Activity Guide

Grade Range:

5-12

Resource Type(s):

Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets

Date Posted:

1/22/2011

In these classroom activities developed for the exhibition America on the Move, students will use visual, analytical, and interpretive skills to examine primary sources including historical maps and answer questions about them to learn more about railroads, transportation, raci

1930s and 1940s Highways Classroom Activity Guide

Grade Range:

5-12

Resource Type(s):

Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets

Date Posted:

1/22/2011

In these classroom activities, developed for the exhibition America on the Move, students will use visual, analytical, and interpretive skills to examine primary sources including a historical map and photography by Dorothea Lange and answer questions about them to learn more a

American Folk

Author:

Charles Sullivan

Reading Level:

Late Elementary School,Middle School

Genre:

Fiction

Collection of American folk stories.

An American Plague The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

Author:

Jim Murphy

Reading Level:

Late Elementary School,Middle School,High School,Adult

Genre:

Non Fiction

History, science, politics, and public health come together in this dramatic account of the disastrous yellow fever epidemic that hit the nation's capital more than 200 years ago. Drawing on firsthand accounts, medical and non-medical, Murphy re-creates the fear and panic in the infected city, th

An American Safari

Author:

Jim Brandenburg

Reading Level:

Late Elementary School

Genre:

Non Fiction

A photographical look at wildlife on the prairie.

And Tango Makes Three

Author:

Justin Richardson

Reading Level:

Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School

Genre:

Fiction

At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches. Based on a true story.

Angelina's Island

Author:

Jeanette Winter

Reading Level:

Early Elementary School,Pre-School

Genre:

Fiction

Every day, Angelina dreams of her home in Jamaica and imagines she is there, until her mother finds a wonderful way to convince her that New York is now their home.

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.

Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring

Author:

Jan Greenberg

Reading Level:

Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School

Genre:

Non Fiction

Take a peek behind the scenes of one of America's modern masterpieces: Appalachian Spring. This book tells the story of the three artists who collaborated to create it.

Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad

Author:

Pamela Duncan Edwards

Reading Level:

Early Elementary School

Genre:

Fiction

The story of a slave's escape on the underground railroad.

Baseball Saved Us

Author:

Ken Mochizuki

Reading Level:

Early Elementary School

Genre:

Fiction

Awards:

Bilingual:

Yes

Told by a Japanese American boy, this story shows how baseball made life in the internment camps more bearable for many Japanese Americans. This first-person narrative candidly exposes the hardships that Japanese Americans experienced before, during, and after internment.

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

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Becoming US

Young People Shake Up Elections (History Proves It) Educator Guide

Young People Shake Up Elections (History Proves It) video series

Objects of History: Woman Suffrage

"1778-1943 Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty" Poster

"Migrant Mother," by Dorothea Lange

"Woodsy Owl" Anti-Pollution Poster

1880s Agricultural Nation Classroom Activity Guide

1920s Industrial America Classroom Activity Guide

1930s and 1940s Highways Classroom Activity Guide

American Folk

An American Plague The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

An American Safari

And Tango Makes Three

Angelina's Island

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

Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring

Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad

Baseball Saved Us

Before the Ever After

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