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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkColonization
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: World History, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis exhibit, from the Library of Congress, explores the colonization movement to send free African-Americans to Africa as an al...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGettysburg Address (1863)
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social Science, Literary AnalysisThis resource, from Our Documents, features an interactive image of Abraham Lincoln s draft of the Gettysburg Address. Informati...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLost Hero: Starting a Government from Scratch
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students look at the role of President as defined in the Articles of C...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThurmond: A Town Born from Coal Mines and Railroads
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geography, United States History, United States, History-Social ScienceThurmond: A Town Born from Coal Mines and Railroads recounts the story of the New River Gorge area in West Virginia. It is moun...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkManassas Battlefield History
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geography, United States History, United States, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionManassas Battlefield History recounts two Civil War battles fought in Manassas, Virginia. The first battle marked the first clas...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJohn Marshall, Marbury v Madison and Judical Review—How the Court Became Supreme
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis lesson is designed to help students understand John Marshall's strategy in issuing his decision on Marbury v. Madison, the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBattle of Stones River: The Soldiers' Story
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionBattle of Stones River: The Soldiers' Story provides readings, maps, and visual representations of this battle near Murfreesboro...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Avalon Project: The Bill of Rights
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis page from the Yale Law School s Avalon Project provides the full text of the United States Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rig...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTally of the 1824 Electoral College Vote
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, English-Language Arts, United States History, Writing Strategies, History-Social ScienceThis lesson, from the National Archives and Records Administration, relates to the role of the Electoral College in the election...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: The Constitution Lives! How It Protects Your Rights Today (1987)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.Online issue to aid educators in teaching the Constitution by bridging the gap between the document and the students’ own world.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLewis W. Hine Photographs
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Types of Media, Visual Arts, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis web page, part of the George Eastman House Web site, presents photographs of immigrants being processed at Ellis Island in ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSalmon P. Chase
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis page, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, focuses on significant events in American history and culture associ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCheerful Hearts and Willing Feet
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, Dance, TheatreThis lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, encourages students to explore various methods Louisa May Alcott uses to de...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Courage to Freedom
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social Science, LiteratureIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students read Frederick Douglass's 1845 slave narrative, "Narrative of...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Candle and the Mirror
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, United States History, Writing Strategies and 2 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, encourages students to examine author Louisa May Alcott as a pioneer, deepl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThomas A. Edison Papers
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThe Thomas A. Edison Papers Web site, an EDSITEment-reviewed Blue Ribbon resource, is hosted by Rutgers University. The site con...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJohn Brown and the Underground Railroad
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geography, United States History, History-Social ScienceIn 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 / HyperLinkThe Embargo of 1807
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: World History, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis page, from the University of Houston s Digital History Web site, provides an overview of U.S. foreign policy in the years...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Rockefellers
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Economics, Geography, History-Social ScienceThis PBS Teacher s Guide accompanies their The Rockefellers film and Web site. The film and Web site offer insights into Ameri...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOld Courthouse in St. Louis
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geography, United States History, United States, History-Social Science, Immigration and MigrationOld Courthouse in St. Louis is exhibit about a place which, throughout the 19th century, served not only as a house of justice, ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0