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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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Interactives & Media
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.
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Lessons & Activities
The 101 Questions activity includes reading and responding to the current USCIS Naturalization test, determining a hypothetical 101st question on the exam, and displaying their final product in a classroom or online gallery walk. The activity includes teacher directions and a student worksheet.
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Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
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
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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
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
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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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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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Lessons & Activities
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
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Reference Materials
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
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School,Middle School
This book provides a readable account of the Pilgrim's journey aboard the Mayflower and their first year in New England. The illustrations, by American artist N.C. Wyeth, are taken from his murals of Plymouth Colony commissioned in 1940 by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
Tells the story of Benny Goodman growing up in Chicago, and how his family helped him fufill his dream to play the clarinet.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
This picture book tells a historical fiction story about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League formed during World War II.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
A young pioneer girl plants and nurtures a willow tree near her new prairie home.
Author:
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
Though the narrative of a young Cochiti Pueblo girl, readers learn traditions of the Native American culture including how pottery, instruments and food are created, as well as some traditional folklore.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
The focus of this book is on American feminists from the pre-Revolutionary War period to the present both well-known and obscure. It is presented in loose chronological order with illustrations and time lines.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring, here is a biography of Rachel Carson, the pioneering environmentalist. She wrote Silent Spring to wake people up to the harmful impact humans were having on our planet.
Author:
Susan Taylor Brown
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
Illustrated biography of Robert Smalls.
Author:
First Grade Students of H. Byron Masterson Elementary
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Pre-School
Written and illustrated by first grade students, this book touches very lightly on the events of September 11, 2001, then focuses on the ways that everyday life in America was not changed.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School,Pre-School
On September 11, 2001, two sisters from South Africa find good use for the roses they have grown when the flower show in New York City is canceled due to the attack on the World Trade Center.
