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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
Watch and discuss a 22-minute video of a Museum theater presentation. During the presentation, a fictional composite character from 1960 is conducting a training session for people interested in joining a student sit-in to protest racial segregation. The student speaks about the recent protests i
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Lessons & Activities
Watch and discuss a 12-minute video of a theater presentation about the Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired the National Anthem. During the presentation, Mary Pickersgill (a historical figure with a fictional monologue) is working on a garrison flag to fly over Baltimore's Fort McHenry.
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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
Students will understand the importance of maritime activity throughout the United States' history. Objects from the Museum's collections, audio and video clips, oral histories and narrative accounts provide a unique look into the maritime history of the United States. An interactive collections
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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
With the right resources, learners of any age can engage with the topics of nonviolence and civil rights. This webpage is a gateway to lesson plans, videos, family activities, and instructional media related to the nonviolent civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The content within these
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Primary Sources, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
This resource includes an introductory essay entitled Looking at Artifacts, Thinking about History, 6 sections that each focus on an object from the collections of the Museum, an archive of curator commentary, and an online tool with which students can create virtual exhibits. Also inclu
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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 teacher's resource challenges students to think about the short-handled hoe and its connection to agriculture and the organizing of Latino farm workers after World War II. It includes a preliminary activity intended to introduce students to doing history with objects and 3 les
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
A photo-essay of the Kennedy children's lives in the White House.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
A picture book that tells the story of Marian Anderson, including the successes and challenges she found in the United States and abroad.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
Baylor uses prose-poetry to tell the story behind the broken clay pots scattered across the southwestern hillsides.
Reading Level:
Pre-School,Early Elementary School
A family's cross-country communication changes during the development and demise of the Pony Express. Told in rhyme.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
An African-American family moves to Kansas after the Civil War to create a new life.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
Story of a Japanese American girl and a Native American boy who become friends in an internment camp on a reservation
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
Learn about Puerto Rican Carnival with Ramon, who longs to masquerade along with the older boys, the vejigantes, in the month-long celebration in Puerto Rico.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
This poetic children's book explores the Washington D.C. subway and familiar sights and sounds of the city.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
Torn between his love of all things American and the traditional ways of his parents and grandparents, a young Japanese American comes of age during the political upheaval of WWII.