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Primary Sources, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
This collection of learning resources was developed in conjunction with the exhibition The Price of Freedom: Americans at War Teacher's Manual. Included in this set of materials is "Who Am I? A History Mystery", an interactive game in which students select a mystery c
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Reference Materials, Primary Sources, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
This website provides online access to a collection of oral histories, photos, documents, and objects related to bracero history. Students can browse the archive, use social bookmarking tools to share resources, add their own notes and make a poster using items from the archive, and con
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Reference Materials, Primary Sources, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
This website provides online access to this collection of oral histories, photos, documents, and objects related to bracero history. Students can browse the archive, use social bookmarking tools to share resources, add their own notes and make a poster using items from the archive, and
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Reference Materials
In this online exhibition, students will learn how racism, social attitudes and policies such as Jim Crow laws and poll taxes led to the Plessy v. Ferguson case which legalized segregation. Segregated America is the first section of the online exhibition entitled
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Primary Sources, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
This teacher resource challenges students to think about the Jefferson desk and the Declaration of Independence as objects that are valuable sources of historical information. It includes a preliminary activity intended to introduce students to doing history with objects a
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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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Primary Sources, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
This teacher's resource challenges students to think about the Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counter and it's importance to the Civil Rights movement. It includes a preliminary activity intended to introduce students to doing history with objects and 3 lesson plans focused on s
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Primary Sources, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
This activity challenges students to think about the 1898 Standard Voting Machine and the democratization of the voting process in the United States. It includes a preliminary activity intended to introduce students to doing history with objects and three lesson plans focused on th
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities
This teacher tip-sheet includes information about how the Collect Stars activity can be used in a classroom. It will help students cite the origins and outcome of the War of 1812 and be able to place the creation and preservation of the Star-Spangled Banner in a chronologi
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
This manual, included in the online exhibition Invention at Play, from the Lemelson Center, will provide an array of activities, resources, and approaches that will underscore the role of play in the inventive spirit in all of us. Through play we develop certain "habits of
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
Informative children's book about the underground railroad.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
A 14 year old boy witnesses the attack on Pearl Harbor and helps with the resuce efforts while searching for his father, who served on the U.S.S. Arizona
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
A 14 year old boy moves with his family to California after his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor
Author:
Freddi Williams Evans
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
A story based on real events of a community that works together to gain civil rights.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
In this story about Japan, tradition prohibits Kimiko from flying a carp flag on Children's Day like her brother, but her parents surprise her with a gift of her own.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
Loosely based on real events, the story of Teddy Roosevelt's son's efforts to have a Christmas tree in the White House.
Reading Level:
High School,Middle School
Drawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, A Different Mirror for Young People brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems. Like Zinn's A Peopl
Reading Level:
Middle School,High School,Adult
Japanese Americans reflect on their years spent in internment camps as children or young adults. They discuss the process of being forced from their homes, and their ability to make the prisons more livable despite oppressive conditions.
Reading Level:
Middle School
An account of immigration from the 1600s to present.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
A brief account of the life and accomplishments of Eleanor Roosevelt.