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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWe Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThe focus for this six-lesson EDSITEment unit is on the address given by Abraham Lincoln at his first inauguration as U.S. Presi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBalancing Three Branches at Once: Our System of Checks and Balances
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, U.S. Constitution, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science and 2 additional..In this unit of four EDSITEment lessons, students use primary source documents to investigate of how the three branches of the A...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWould You Have Helped Out?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Geography, Philosophy, History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this lesson, from Xpeditions, students investigate the dangers faced by escaping slaves and their helpers on the Underground ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkQuilting: The Story of the Underground Railroad
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this lesson, from Xpeditions, students use the Internet to research the dangers that escaping slaves faced along the Undergro...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJohn Brown and the Underground Railroad
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this lesson, from Xpeditions, students analyze John Brown's attitudes and actions against slavery. They then compare Brown's ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, LiteratureIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students research narratives from the Federal Writers' Project and describe the lives of former...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFactory vs. Plantation in the North and South
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Economics, History-Social Science, United States History, Visual ArtsThis lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, focuses on the differences in the economic systems of the North and South...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe President's Roles and Responsibilities: Communicating with the President
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, American DemocracyThis collection of two lessons, from EDSITEment, encourages students to consider the roles and responsibilities of the U.S. pres...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Constitutional Convention: Four Founding Fathers You May Never Have Met
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, U.S. Constitution, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science and 2 additional..This lesson, from EDSITEment, contains four activities for students to examine the contributions and perspectives of some of the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThomas Edison's Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From "New" to You!
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Science, Technology, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis four-lesson unit, from EDSITEment, aims to help students understand Edison's influence on life and technology, both around ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVoices of the American Revolution
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students are taught how to make informed analyses of primary documents illustrating the diversi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWas There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New Technology, New Consumers
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Technology, History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students learn about changes that occurred in the United States during the period of industrial...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWas There an Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work before the Civil War
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Technology, History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students learn about changes that occurred in the United States during the period of industrial...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Federalist Debates: Balancing Power Between State and Federal Governments
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, American DemocracyThis lesson, from EDSITEment, introduces students to one of the most hotly debated issues during the formation of the American g...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWalt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Visual Arts, LiteratureIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students read the poetry of Walt Whitman to determine how he attempts to combine universal them...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWalt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Visual Arts, LiteratureIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students explore the idea of "democratic poetry" by reading Whitman's words in a variety of med...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, World History, American Democracy and 2 additional..In this lesson from EDSITEment, students research working conditions in the Age of Industrialization and examine worker response...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons and Captains of Industry
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, World History, American Democracy and 2 additional..In this EDSITEment lesson, students research several industrialists and financiers to attempt to establish a distinction between...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkConstitution Costs
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Economics, U.S. Constitution, History-Social Science, American DemocracyThis lesson, from EconEdLink, helps students understand the basic services provided for Americans in the United States Constitut...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVoting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, American DemocracyIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students research archival material to examine nineteenth and early-twentieth-century argument...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0