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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

Social Studies Online playlist

Grade Range:

6-12

Resource Type(s):

Interactives & Media

Duration:

60 minutes

Date Posted:

12/29/2020

Join the National Museum of American History's for an online exploration into key social studies topics, highlighting museum resources from the Smithsonian. This series features museum educators and curators from different Smithsonian museums. Each video is about 30-60 minutes.

Convince Me!

Grade Range:

4-6

Resource Type(s):

Lessons & Activities, Worksheets

Duration:

20 minutes

Date Posted:

9/24/2012

Examine examples of persuasive writing from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, then composepersuasive statements about an environmental cause. Part of an OurStory module entitled Discover and Protect Nature, this activity includes student handouts and background information. OurStory is de

Discover and Protect Nature

Grade Range:

K-4

Resource Type(s):

Lessons & Activities

Duration:

120 minutes

Date Posted:

9/24/2012

In 1962, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring changed the way people thought about their relationship to nature. Warning readers of the impact of man-made pesticides on birds, insects, and other wildlife, Carson’s book caused a firestorm of public responses and is considered by some experts

Outdoor Survey

Grade Range:

1-4

Resource Type(s):

Lessons & Activities

Duration:

20 minutes

Date Posted:

9/24/2012

Lookout for plants and animals, and the ways that people have changed the natural environment. Part of an OurStory module entitled Discover and Protect Nature, this activity includes step-by-step directions, a tally sheet, and background information. OurStory is designed to help children and adul

Photos of Nature

Grade Range:

K-4

Resource Type(s):

Lessons & Activities

Duration:

20 minutes

Date Posted:

9/24/2012

Explore the outdoors with a digital camera! Part of an OurStory module entitled Discover and Protect Nature, this activity includes step-by-step directions, suggestions for familiarizing your child with the camera, and tips for what to look for during your trip. OurStory is designed to help child

Reading Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World

Grade Range:

K-4

Resource Type(s):

Lessons & Activities

Duration:

30 minutes

Date Posted:

9/24/2012

Actively read Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World using the suggested reading strategies. Part of an OurStory module entitled Discover and Protect Nature, this activity includes a list of challenge words, active reading suggestions, and background information. OurStory is d

Sketch From Nature

Grade Range:

K-4

Resource Type(s):

Lessons & Activities

Duration:

15 minutes

Date Posted:

9/24/2012

Look closely at something from nature and make a sketch of what you see. Part of an OurStory module entitled Discover and Protect Nature, this activity includes step-by-step directions and background information. OurStory is designed to help children and adults explore history together through th

On Time: How America Has Learned to Live By the Clock

Grade Range:

5-12

Resource Type(s):

Reference Materials

Date Posted:

8/9/2011

On Time explores the changing ways we have measured, used, and thought about time over the past three hundred years. With this online resource, students will learn how improvements in time keeping technology have led to the increased importance of efficiency, punctuality and regimentatio

Full Steam to Freedom

Grade Range:

K-6

Resource Type(s):

Reference Materials, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities

Duration:

160 minutes

Date Posted:

3/18/2011

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

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

Social Studies Online playlist

Convince Me!

Discover and Protect Nature

Outdoor Survey

Photos of Nature

Reading Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World

Sketch From Nature

On Time: How America Has Learned to Live By the Clock

Full Steam to Freedom

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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