Displaying 321-340 of 526 resources
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTVA: Electricity for All
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Sociology, History-Social Science, Electives, American Democracy and 2 additional..This teaching resource, from Columbia University, investigates Depression-era reactions to the Tennessee Valley Authority. TVA w...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe National Labor Union
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis 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 / HyperLinkPhotographs of the 369th Infantry and African Americans During World War I
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts and 4 additional..This lesson, provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, relates to the powers of Congress to raise and suppor...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBoomtime: 1945-1973
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, World History, Geography, Economics, United States HistoryThis PBS Teacher s Guide accompanies the Boomtime segment of their People s Century series. This program focuses on post-World...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFreedom by the Fireside: The Legacy of FDR's "Four Freedoms" Speech
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States History, U.S. ConstitutionIn this EDSITEment lesson, students become familiar with the substance, context, subtext, and significance of the most famous po...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSoviet Espionage in America
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, World History, American Democracy, United States HistoryIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students use recently declassified FBI documents to learn about the tr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentAmerica on the Move Classroom Activity Guide - Unit 2: 1920's Industrial Nation - What about Your Ne
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this classroom activity from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, students will conduct research and answer...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBillie Holiday
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Music, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsThis page, from the ReadWriteThink-reviewed American Masters Web site from PBS, offers a collection of information about singe...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow "Grand" and "Allied" Was the Grand Alliance?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, World History, American Democracy, United States HistoryIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students explore the nature of what Winston Churchill called the Grand...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTragic Fire Sparked Sweatshop Change
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThe fire blazed out of control for just under two hours. But in that time, more than 140 employees of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, World History, United States HistoryThis resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, features motion pictures of the Spanish-American War and the Phi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJazz Kids
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Music, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsThis animated cartoon jazz page, from the PBS Web site, includes jazz artist biographies, a history of jazz timeline, an improvi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkKorean War FAQ
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, World History, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryThis page, from Centurychina.com, offers an FAQ about the Korean War. It addresses topics including China s and the United State...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVeterans History Project: D-Day: On the Beach
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, World History, United States HistoryThe Library of Congress Veterans History Project presents this collection of war stories and memories about the experience of t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlabama Police Use Gas and Clubs to Rout Negroes
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how Alabama state troopers and volunteer officers o...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWestern Expansion and Reform: The Fight for Women's Rights
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, American DemocracyThis Web page, part of the Jump Back in Time section of the America s Story Web site, describes the proceedings of the Senec...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerican Experience: Monkey Trial
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Science, Religion, Life Sciences and 5 additional..This ReadWriteThink-reviewed Web site, developed by PBS, features detailed information about the Scopes Trial, or Monkey Trial...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMexican Laborer
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, World History, United States History, GeographyThis page, from the EDSITEment-reviewed PBS Web site, features a Mexican laborer whose family lives in Mexico while he works as ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Great Depression and the 1990s
Grades: 11Subjects: Oral Presentations, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts and 5 additional..This Library of Congress unit of three lessons uses the American Memory s American Life Histories, 1936-1940 documents, personal...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkConstitutional Issues: Watergate and the Constitution
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryWhen Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal, it was only the second time in our history that impeac...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0