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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStories of the Wrights Flight
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Lesson plan includes firsthand accounts of the Wright brothers first flights on December 17, 1903, which students compare to a s...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSteam Engines
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Physics, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Science, Technology, History-Social ScienceThe purpose of this lesson, from Science NetLinks, is to use the Internet to explore the Industrial Revolution. They learn that ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStateside Slavery: Addressing Slavery's Past on This Side of the Atlantic
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, World History, Reading Comprehension, United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students learn about President Bush's July 8, 2003 speech on slavery o...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStar Politics: Examining the Advantages of Celebrity Status in the Political Arena
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Arts, Media, & Entertainment, English-Language Arts, Career & Technical Ed and 4 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students consider their opinions about celebrities in politics. They t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSpirituals
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Music, Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension and 2 additional..This lesson, from EDSITEment, introduces students to the role that spirituals played in African American history and religion. T...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSow the Seeds of Victory! Posters from the Food Administration During World War I
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Visual Arts and 3 additional..This lesson relates to Article II, Section 2.1 , of the U.S. Constitution, which establishes the president as commander in chief...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSojourner Truth: "Narrative of Sojourner Truth"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, United States History, English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is part of their Documenting the American South (DocSouth) ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian in Your Classroom: Abraham Lincoln: The Face of a War
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: United States History, The Civil War & Reconstruction, History-Social ScienceLessons in which Smithsonian portraits of Lincoln introduce a study of the Civil War. Analysis of the portraits—the famous “crac...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSmithsonian in Your Classroom: Lewis and Clark and the Language of Discovery
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Lesson plans focus on Lewis and Clark as keepers of journals.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlaves of a South Carolina Plantation
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, United States History, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, History-Social ScienceThis resource, offered by PBS Online in conjuction with their site Africans in America, provides a historical photograph of sl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, The Civil War & Reconstruction, History-Social ScienceSlaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 presents over 100 books and pamphlets on experiences of African and African-American slaves in ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlavery's Opponents and Defenders
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, American Democracy, English-Language Arts, U.S. Constitution and 2 additional..In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students explore the wide-ranging debate over American slavery by pres...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlavery and the American Founding: The “Inconsistency not to be excused”
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis lesson focuses on the views of the founders expressed in primary documents from their own time and in their own words showi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlavery and Abolition
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, The Civil War & Reconstruction, History-Social ScienceSlavery and Abolition presents two dozen publications written in the 19th century about slavery in America. It includes first-p...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlave Ownership in the Shenandoah Valley
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Psychology, American Democracy, Arts, Media, & Entertainment, English-Language Arts and 5 additional..In this activity, from The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War Project, University of Virginia, stud...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social ScienceIn 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 / HyperLinkSiege of Port Hudson: Forty Days and Nights in the Wilderness of Death
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, The Civil War & Reconstruction, History-Social ScienceSiege of Port Hudson: Forty Days and Nights in the Wilderness of Death describes the struggle for control of the vital Mississip...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSeries of Photographic Documents of Social Conditions, 1905-1939
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Types of Media, Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts and 3 additional..This collection of images, presented by The New York Public Library Digital Gallery, depicts early 20th-century American immigra...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSelected Essays by Thoreau
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, Philosophy, English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, History-Social ScienceThe University of Virginia s American Studies department presents this electronic text from its collection of hypertext projects...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSelected Civil War Photographs
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Types of Media, Visual Arts, United States History, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, offers 1,118 photographs from the Civil War era. Most of the ima...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0