History Explorer Results (135)
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Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
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
People around the world have studied the stars and shared stories through constellations and astrology. By using this OurStory module, children and adults can enjoy exploring history together through children's literature, everyday objects, and hands-on activities. Focused around Maria's Come
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Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
Protest signs are a powerful and important way for people to express their feelings. In this activity children will compare two protest signs from the civil rights movement and then create their own expressive chalk art or poster. It is included in an OurStory module entitled Student
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities
Jingle the Brass is a book about a young boy who learns words used by railroad workers of the steam-engine era while on an exciting train trip. Part of an OurStory module entitled All Aboard the Train!, this activity includes strategies that will help adults and children activel
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities
In this OurStory module entitled Life in a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp, students will learn about the lives of Japanese American children who were forced to leave their homes and move to internment camps during World War II. The module includes links to hands-on activities, pertinent w
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Reference Materials, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
Learn more about First Lady Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, wife of President Lyndon Baines Johnson and her work to protect the environment and bring beauty to every community. This module from the OurStory program includes active reading suggestions and discussion questions for the illustrated biog
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Reference Materials, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
See one of America's earliest steam locomotives, the John Bull, come to life while riding the rails. Part of an OurStory module entitled All Aboard the Train!, this activity includes strategies that will help adults and children actively view a 4-minute video of the John Bull in
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Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie is a work of children's literature about a young heroine who runs her family's lighthouse during a fierce storm. Included in an OurStory module entitled Life on the Water, this activity includes four strategies that will help adults and ch
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Lessons & Activities
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
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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
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.
