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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUS Mint History in Your Pocket Kids Page
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This website, from the United States Mint, is a collection of resources and interactive activities aimed at educating elementa...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChildren Write to the President
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.What would you say if you wrote a letter to the President? In this activity, students will analyze primary source letters that w...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFinal Farewells: Signing a Yearbook on the Eve of the Civil War
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In lesson from the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies, students examine a primary source that might seem both f...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGuidelines for Discussion about 9/11
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This guide from the National September 11 Memorial and Museum offers suggestions for teachers on how to prepare for and structur...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInstituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Este sitio de web del instituto que trabaja para la preservaci n de la cultura puertorrique a contiene mucha informaci n sobre e...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPlena Drum
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This large, hand-held drum, known in Puerto Rico as a pandereta, is an essential instrument in the musical genre known as plena....Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSoldier's Pocket Bible
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Religion has an essential role in military history, which is reflected in military material. Steel-covered New Testaments were p...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTempleton Reid, 5 Dollars, 1830
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Before the famous California gold rush, several important strikes were made in the East: in North Carolina, South Carolina, and ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Curator's Challenge: Life in a Post-September 11 World
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this lesson, students will learn the story of September 11 and the process for building a collection at the Museum by listeni...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkConstellation Maker
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Make your own constellation commemorating an American woman, like Maria Mitchell. Many cultures have used constellations to reme...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreate Your Own Bubbles
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.People have been turning kitchens into bubble labs for hundreds of years. Benjamin Franklin and his mentor James Logan studied t...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDefining the Presidency
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students will learn about the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the election of our first president, Geor...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDust Bowl Stories
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Discuss the story of the Dust Bowl through images from photographer Arthur Rothstein, through song with Woody Guthrie's Dust Bow...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGrand Army of the Republic Medal and Ribbon Device
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Badge from the Pennsylvania GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) veterans group s semiannual encampment on the 25th anniversary of t...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJapanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Resources
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This page provides links to all of the resources included in the online exhibition A More Perfect Union, and serves as an invalu...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMarch on Washington Handbill
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The March on Washington, August 28, 1963, was the largest civil rights demonstration the nation had ever witnessed. One hundred ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLouisville Slugger Baseball Bat
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.St. Louis Cardinal Stan The Man Musial (b. 1920) used this Louisville Slugger to collect his 3,000th hit on May 13, 1958, in C...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMajor Lemuel Montgomery's Pistol
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.One of a pair of flintlock pistols Andrew Jackson presented to Major Lemuel P. Montgomery following the battle of Talladega. Mon...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSend a Lincoln Letter
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Writing and receiving letters is fun! In 1860, Grace Bedell wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln and took it to her local post offi...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTelescopes and Observatories
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Watch a video to take a trip to a special place: The United States Naval Observatory. Find out about one of its telescopes and t...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0