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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRosa Parks
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Rosa Parks and her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. A classroom ac...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOn The Line: 1908-1945
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: World History, Economics, History-Social Science, GeographyThis PBS Teacher s Guide accompanies the On the Line segment of their People s Century series. This program focuses on the dev...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCharles Darwin
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: World History, History-Social ScienceThis resource from HyperHistory Online is a brief biography of Charles Darwin. His work in natural selection and development of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPresident Starts Recovery Program, Signs Bank, Rail, and Industry Bills; Wheat Growers Will Get $150,000,000
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, American DemocracyThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, appeared on June 16, 1933, and reported that President Roosev...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRace for the Superbomb
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Film & Video, Chemistry, Life Sciences, Science and 4 additional..At the dawn of the Cold War, the United States initiated a top secret program in New Mexico to build a weapon even more powerful...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentAmerica on the Move Classroom Activity Guide - Unit 3: 1930's & 40's Highways - Mapping the Big Idea
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this classroom activity from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, students will work with a historical map ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGreat War to Jazz Age: The Golden Age of Radio
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis Web page, part of the Jump Back in Time section of the America s Story Web site, describes how, in February 1922, Preside...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDuking It Out: Exploring Duke Ellington and Jazz Along with Other Composers and Musical Styles
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts, Music and 4 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students read and discuss "Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra: Mixing Treas...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPowers of Persuasion: FDR's Four Freedoms Speech
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, American DemocracyFind background information on Franklin D. Roosevelt s famous Four Freedoms speech, including an audio clip of the speech and ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJapanese Surrender Okinawa
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: World History, United States History, History-Social Science, GeographyThis 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 / HyperLinkThe New Deal: North Carolina's Reconstruction?
Grades: 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 3 additional..This Library of Congress lesson plan is a guide for teachers that will result in imaginary Works Progress Administration (WPA) i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThe Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900) offers documents and images for learning about Bell's patent for the...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNonviolence and Racial Justice
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Psychology, ElectivesThis article, from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, is based on King s experience during the Montgomery bus boycott. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJ. Robert Oppenheimer
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: World History, Science, History-Social Science, PhysicsThis resource from HyperHistory Online is a brief biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. His work as director of the atomic bomb pr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProgressive Era: Her Truth Is Marching On
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts, Music, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History and 2 additional..This Web page, part of the Jump Back in Time section of the America s Story Web site, describes how, in 1908, Julia Ward Howe ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDuke Ellington
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Reading Comprehension, MusicThis PBS biography of Duke Ellington features audio samples of Ellington s jazz compositions as well as audio files from NPR s ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkComparing Health Care Systems
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American DemocracyThis resource, from the Context Institute, features an article titled Comparing Health Care Systems, What makes sense for the U...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFree at Last: The Civil Rights Movement in the United States
Grades: 3 to 6Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis ThinkQuest offers a collection of informational pages on the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Students can find ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPrisoner in One's Own Home: An Examination of the Internment of Japanese-Americans During World War II
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, United States History, History-Social Science, American DemocracyIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students examine the causes and effects of the internment of 120,000 J...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLiving with the Bomb
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, GeographyThis National Geographic Magazine feature focuses on nuclear weapons. There is an excerpt from an August 2005 article about the ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0