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Lessons & Activities
Students will learn about the personal experiences of Japanese American incarcerees during World War II and will practice communicating information concisely by developing an original comic.
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Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
In this activity, children will examine pictures of a Congressional Gold Medal for Japanese American soldiers, investigate the symbols on both sides, and design their own medal for kids who lived in the camps. Part of an OurStory module from entitled Life in a WWII Japanese American Internmen
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Interactives & Media, Worksheets
In this episode of the History Explorer podcast series, Curator Shannon Perich discusses how portraiture can be used in historical research. Shannon presents three historical portraits (including Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother), describing the historical context of each, while also providin
Resource Type(s):
Interactives & Media
For elementary school students to practice thinking routines by carefully observing museum objects and artifacts. Each video has an accompanying lesson plan with activities for students to do in the class or home. Find them in the description section of each individual video. Each video is 5 minutes
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Primary Sources, Interactives & Media
Lydia Minturn Post, a Long Island patriot, expresses her fear that the American Revolution will fail. Ms. Post discusses the disparities between the British and Colonial forces and the true meaning behind the colonists will to fight.
This video is part of the Price of Freedom learning reso
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Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
Discuss the story of the Dust Bowl through images from photographer Arthur Rothstein, through song with Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl ballads, and through text writings from President Roosevelt and farmer Caroline Henderson. Then, challenge students to consider modern environmental issues with
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Reference Materials, Primary Sources
The National Museum of American History's online transportation collection includes more than a thousand artifacts and photographs. Browse the collection by selecting multiple categories, eras, and regions. This collection object search is included in the online exhibition entitled America on
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Reference Materials
Students can learn about the history of the sugarcane industry in Hawaii by exploring how the Olomana, a plantation locomotive, was used to serve the fields. This reference page is included in the online exhibition entitled America on the Move, which focuses on transportation in
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Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
In this set of classroom activities developed for the exhibition America on the Move, students will use visual, analytical, and interpretive skills to examine primary sources including historical maps to answer questions about farming, transportation, immigration, and racism in
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Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
In these classroom activities developed for the exhibition America on the Move, students will use visual, analytical, and interpretive skills to examine primary sources including historical maps and answer questions about them to learn more about railroads, transportation, raci
Reading Level:
Pre-School,Early Elementary School
A traveling book about an adventurous young woman, Alice Ramsay, who drives across the country in 1909. Despite facing natural and manmade obstacles - including poor roads and a lack of traffic signs - Alice's westward voyage ends triumphantly in San Francisco, making this a charming tale of a gi
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
Get to know Aaron Copland, great American composer of the 20th-century in this richly illustrated biography.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
A fictionalized account of an incident in the life of a seventeen-year-old girl who tends her family's lighthouse during a fierce storm on the coast of Maine in the winter of 1856.
Reading Level:
Pre-School,Early Elementary School
Anna Howard Shaw was a pioneer in the fight for woman suffrage. Her childhood on the frontier influenced her belief in woman's equality with men.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
A chronological telling of Sojourner Truth's life.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
An informational guide about the daily life of pioneers
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
A child searches for hope and kindness to draw for her art class in the Topaz Internment Camp
Reading Level:
Middle School,High School,Adult
The novel is appropriately grim and conveys the hopes and disillusionments of families migrating to California during the Depression. Van Raven's descriptions of such things as the labor of orange picking or the emptiness of the dusty and forlorn great plains are on target as is his telling of th
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
A brief account of the life and accomplishments of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Reading Level:
Pre-School,Early Elementary School
A picture book about the life of Florence Nightingale, a nurse who was dedicated to making hospitals clean and efficient. Through her life's work, she helped to make nursing an important and respected profession.
