History Explorer Results (106)
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Reference Materials, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
Railroads have moved people and cargo around America for more than 180 years. By using this OurStory module, children and adults can enjoy exploring the history of trains in America. Focused on actively reading Jingle the Brass, a historical fiction picture book about a ride on a steam l
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
For more than a century, women in the United States struggled to obtain the right to vote. In 1920, the suffrage movement finally achieved victory with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. By using this OurStory module, children and adults can enjoy exploring
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Reference Materials, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
Robert Smalls was born a slave in South Carolina, but made a daring escape to freedom on the ship CSS Planter and joined the Union in fighting to end slavery in America. By using this OurStory module, children and adults can enjoy exploring one aspect of the Civil War. Focused on actively reading
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Lessons & Activities
Architects design the buildings we use every day. Their designs solve problems, like how to make a sturdy building, and reflect their ideas about beauty and history. By using this OurStory module from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, children and adults can learn about archi
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities
In 1943, Martha Graham, Aaron Copland, and Isamu Noguchi created Appalachian Spring, a ballet that told the story of an American pioneer community. By using this OurStory module, children and adults can enjoy exploring this history through children's literature, museum objects, and hands
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
Almost all Americans have family histories that trace back to other countries. By using this OurStory module, children and adults can enjoy exploring the experiences of immigrants who came to America and the ways that immigration has changed life in America through children's literature, museum o
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities
Children and adults can enjoy exploring the story behind one of America’s pioneers of jazz music, Duke Ellington, through children's literature, museum collections, and hands-on activities. Focused around Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, a picture book biography of t
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities
September 11, 2001 was a shocking day in American history. By using this OurStory module from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, children and adults can start discussing the events of that day through children's literature, museum objects, and hands-on activities. Focused arou
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Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
Take a trip or conduct a phone interview with a member of the League of Women Voters. The League of Women Voters was created in 1920 to help organize women voters and encourage their active participation in civic life. Part of an OurStory module entitled Winning the Vote for Women, this activity
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Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
Field trips to memorials are great ways to learn about how communities remember important events. In this activity, students will do a digital field trip to learn more about the Pentagon’s memorial for September 11,2001, and then visit a local memorial. Part of an OurStory module en
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
Learn about the modern way of Pueblo life.
Author:
Jacqueline Woodson
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
Two young girls form a friendship despite racial barriers.
Author:
Walter Dean Edmonds
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
In 1756 New York state was still a British colony and the French and Indians were still a threat to those living there. This story is the tale of a young man's challenges when left home to protect his family.
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:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
This book features brief, lively biographies of the women who have helped to shape the face of our nation--from Martha Dandridge Custis Washington to Hillary Rodham Clinton to the first First Lady of the new millennium.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
Navajo folktale of the Spider Woman.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
Explore the story of September 11, 2001 through the windows of St. Paul's Chapel in New York City. St. Paul's Chapel served as a hub for rescue and recovery workers in the days after the attacks.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
A little boy becomes part of a Chinese-American community as he works to restore an old Chinese dragon.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
The legend of how Teddy Roosevelt's refusal to shoot a cornered bear inspired the name of a popular children's toy.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
A young boys experience of working on the Transcontinental Railroad. (Part of the My Name Is America series)
