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Resource Type: Website / HyperLink1492: An Ongoing Voyage
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Early Explorers1492: An Ongoing Voyage examines the rich mix of societies coexisting in the New World before Europeans arrived. It looks at wh...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Brief Biography of Sequoyah
Grades: K to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Electives, Foreign LanguagesThis page, from the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, provides a biography of Sequoyah, the inventor of the Cherokee writing system. S...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Letter From George Washington
Grades: K to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, American DemocracyThe letter on display in this gallery reveals George Washington's active engagement in shaping the nation during the critical pe...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Lewis and Clark Festival
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Electives and 6 additional..This lesson plan, from the National Park Service, has students share their knowledge of Lewis and Clark with classmates, parents...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA President's Home and the President's House
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Engineering & Design, American Democracy, Visual ArtsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students take virtual tours of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home in ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAbolition
Grades: K to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, American Democracy, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual ArtsThis exhibit of abolitionist publications, from the Library of Congress, demonstrates the extent of public support for and oppos...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAcross the Plains in 1844
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Geography, Literary Analysis and 2 additional..Across the Plains is a first-hand account by Catherine Sager Pringle of the migration from Missouri to Oregon in the 19th cent...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAfrican American Odyssey
Grades: K to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, features links to online collections of materials related to Afr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAll About The Oregon Trail
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, GeographyIdaho State University s The Oregon Trail Web site tells the story of the great westward migration of the 19th century. This p...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerica as a Religious Refuge: The Seventeenth Century
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from the Library of Congress, features a site from its Religion and the Founding of the American Republic proje...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerica: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, World HistoryThis 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: DocumentAmerica on the Move Classroom Activity Guide - Unit 2: 1920's Industrial Nation - Image Cards
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this classroom activity from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, students will use visual, analytical, and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerica Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Music, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, The Civil War & ReconstructionAmerica Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets provides "song sheets" (lyrics without music) for 4000 songs that were popular b...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerican Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, Geography, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students explore daily life and its influences in the late 1700s for two families in different ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerican Indians of the Pacific Northwest
Grades: K to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Electives, Types of Media and 2 additional..This resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, features more than 2300 photographs and more than 7000 pages of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerican Memory: Words and Deeds in American History - Petition for Bail from Accused Witches, ca. 1692
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Electives, Sociology, PsychologyThis Web page, part of the Words and Deeds in American History collection, is found on the American Memory Web site created by...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerica's Founding Fathers
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, U.S. Constitution, American DemocracyAmerica's Founding Fathers features biographies of delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in May 1787. The ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnishinabe - Ojibwe - Chippewa: Culture of an Indian Nation
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryThis lesson, from EDSITEment, provides information and activities about one American Indian nation, the Anishinabe, called Ojibw...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt to Zoo: Talking Houses—What They Can Tell You about the People They Shelter (1987)
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: No subjects selected.In this issue, students look closely at houses from other cultures and find intriguing clues about the people who built them. In...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBalancing Three Branches at Once: Our System of Checks and Balances
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, U.S. Constitution and 2 additional..In this unit of four EDSITEment lessons, students use primary source documents to investigate of how the three branches of the A...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0