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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWould You Have Helped Out?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: United States History, Philosophy, Geography, History-Social ScienceIn 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 / HyperLinkUnderground Railroad Classroom Ideas
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Psychology, Geography, History-Social Science, Earth & Space Science and 4 additional..These classroom ideas from National Geographic are designed to help teachers use the Underground Railroad online feature in thei...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTraveling the Road to Freedom Through Research and Historical Fiction
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, United States History and 2 additional..In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read historical fiction to gain an understanding of an important period in American hist...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, Literary Analysis, History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 2 additional..This collection of images, from the book of the same title and presented by The New York Public Library Digital Gallery, depicts...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, Narrating the Hardships, Hair-breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: United States History, English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, History-Social ScienceThis collection of images, from the book of the same title and presented by The New York Public Library Digital Gallery, depicts...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Underground Railroad
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, United States History, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceNational Geographic Online presents this feature on The Underground Railroad. This simulation allows the user to imagine escapin...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: ImageThe North Star: Frederick Douglass' Newspaper
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Career & Technical Ed, Arts, Media, & Entertainment, United States History, History-Social ScienceAfter escaping slavery, Frederick Douglass fought tirelessly for emancipation and full citizenship for African-Americans. Despit...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis resource, offered by the Library of Congress American Memory Web site, presents the papers of Frederick Douglass, the 19th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Amistad Case
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Psychology, Electives, United States History, History-Social ScienceIn February of 1839, Portuguese slave hunters abducted a large group of Africans and shipped them to Havana, Cuba. This abductio...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeacher's Guide to Independence National Historical Park
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States, United States History, Geography, History-Social ScienceTeacher's Guide to Independence National Historical Park helps teachers plan a trip to see Independence Hall, Congress Hall, Old...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStrategic Reading and Writing: Summarizing Antislavery Biographies
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, United States History and 2 additional..In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students practice writing effective summaries using biographies. They first read selections from ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSpirituals
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Music, Visual Arts, History-Social Science, 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 / 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 / HyperLinkSlaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: The Civil War & Reconstruction, United States History, 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: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States History, 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 Abolition
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: The Civil War & Reconstruction, United States History, 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 / HyperLinkQuilting: The Story of the Underground Railroad
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: United States History, Geography, History-Social ScienceIn 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 / HyperLinkPBS: Harriet Tubman
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, United States History, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceThis Web page, from PBS, features a description of the life of Harriet Tubman. There is information about Tubman s early life as...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: United States History, English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from the Library of Congress s American Memory Project, provides the table of contents for an online electronic v...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNarrative of Sojourner Truth
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis resource, found on the American Studies at the University of Virginia Web site, provides an account of the life of Sojourne...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0