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Reconstruction | Elementary Curriculum

Elementary Curriculum: Reconstruction Find lesson plans, student activity sheets, interactive resources, classroom videos, and free professional development resources to expand your knowledge of Reconstruction. Image: Frederick Dielman, “Celebration...

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Colonial America | Elementary Curriculum

Elementary Curriculum: Colonial America Find lesson plans, student activity sheets, interactive resources, classroom videos, and free professional development resources to expand your knowledge of colonial America. Image: Catawba deerskin map...

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American Revolution | Elementary Curriculum

Elementary Curriculum: American Revolution Find lesson plans, student activity sheets, interactive resources, classroom videos, and free professional development resources to expand your knowledge of the American Revolution. Image Source: A detail...

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US Constitution | Elementary Curriculum

Elementary Curriculum: US Constitution Find lesson plans, student activity sheets, interactive resources, classroom videos, and free professional development resources to expand your knowledge of the US Constitution. Image: Junius Brutus Stearns,...

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Westward Migration | Elementary Curriculum

Elementary Curriculum: Westward Migration Find lesson plans, student activity sheets, interactive resources, classroom videos, and free professional development resources to expand your knowledge of westward migration. Source: John Senex, A Map of...

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American Indians in a Changing World | Elementary Curriculum

Elementary Curriculum: American Indians in a Changing World Find lesson plans, student activity sheets, interactive resources, classroom videos, and free professional development resources to expand your knowledge of American Indian history. Image:...

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Colonial Pennsylvania and the Paxton Massacre, 1763

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

About this Lesson Plan Unit The four lessons in this unit explore a massacre in colonial Pennsylvania in which the Paxton Boys—immigrants from Ulster, Northern Ireland—murdered twenty Conestoga people. Students will examine...

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The Mexican-American War: Arguments for and against Going to War

Geography, Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

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Lesson Plan

Theodore Roosevelt and the Trusts

Economics, Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12

Background Thick dark smoke billowing out of smokestacks several stories high proliferated across city skylines, heralding America's rise to world prominence and industrial supremacy. After the Civil War, Americans embraced the smog...

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"Citizen 13660" by Miné Okubo, an illustrated memoir of Japanese incarceration during World War II, 1946

9, 10, 11, 12

Click the images to enlarge them. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, resulting in the incarceration of all people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. The order was issued in...