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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
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities
Discover the beauty in nature in your neighborhood or a local botanical garden in this activity related to First Lady Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson and her work to protect the environment and bring beauty to every community. This activity guide includes tips for finding local botanical gardens, sug
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities
Explore environmentalism, the role of the first lady, and biography by reading Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers together! Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers is a work of children's literature that tells the story of First Lady Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, wife of President Lyndon Baines J
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities
Students will learn about slavery, slave life and the Underground Railroad in this OurStory module. OurStory is a series of modules designed by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to help children and adults enjoy exploring history together through the use of objects from the Mu
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Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
Scientists have had to record their observations in different ways throughout time. Use Google Sky to explore the sky, then share your observations through sketches and figurative language. Included in an OurStory module from Smithsonian's National Museum of American History entitled Ex
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Lessons & Activities
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
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities
Seven Miles to Freedom is a book about Robert Smalls, a man who 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. Part of an OurStory module entitled Full Steam to Freedom,
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities
Students Sit for Civil Rights is an OurStory module that includes activities based on reading Freedom on the Menu, a work of children's literature about the Greensboro sit-ins that played an important role during the civil rights movement. OurStory is a series
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Lessons & Activities
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
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
Plant a seed and track its growth in this activity related to First Lady Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson and her work to protect the environment and bring beauty to every community. This activity guide includes tips for investigating native species, instructions on how to start a container garden, an
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
A look at plantation life and its use of slavery.
Reading Level:
Middle School,High School
A photographic and textual account of life of southern sharecroppers during the depression era.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
Lemonade in Winter: a Book About Two Kids Counting Money tells the story of Pauline and John-John, who decide to spend a snowy winter’s day setting up a lemonade stand and selling cups to their friends and neighbors. As the siblings spend and make money, you will learn how to
Author:
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
Bartoletti highlights the roles that children and young adults played in American labor strikes during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
A documentary of child labor from the photographs of Lewis Hine.
Author:
Celeste Davidson Mannis
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
This picture book tells the story of American architect Julia Morgan's life, education, and work.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
The story of the Gettysburg Address, illustrated with watercolors and archival photographs.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
Lasky's picture-book sketch of naturalist's John Muir focuses on Muir's special love of California's snowy Sierras and Yosemite Valley and his successes in founding Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Club.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
Joey was a ginger cat who really did go to sea with Alan Villiers on the ship Joseph Conrad.
