eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Little Dorothy and Toto" by L. Frank Baum

For Students 4th - 8th
Text of the short story "Little Dorothy and Toto" by L. Frank Baum. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Little Lizzie" by T. S. Arthur

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "Little Lizzie" by T. S. Arthur. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "A Little Local Colour" by O. Henry

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "A Little Local Colour" by O. Henry. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Little Lucy Rose" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "Little Lucy Rose" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "A Little of Chickamauga" by Ambrose Bierce

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "A Little of Chickamauga" by Ambrose Bierce. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "A Little Talk About Mobs" by O. Henry

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "A Little Talk About Mobs" by O. Henry. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Ozma and the Little Wizard" by L. Frank Baum

For Students 3rd - 5th
Text of a short story for young people by L. Frank Baum called "Ozma and the Little Wizard." (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Little Rock Nine

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the history of the Little Rock Nine on this site. Site discusses how African-American students who fought to end segregation by attending an all-white high school.
eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers And How They Grew has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Five Little Peppers Midway

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers Midway has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
Website
American Indian Heritage Foundation

American Indian Heritage Foundation: Crazy Horse: Tashunkewitko

For Students 9th - 10th
A beautiful and touching biography of Crazy Horse told by Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa), a Sioux scholar.
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Maxfield Parrish

For Students 9th - 10th
Maxfield Parrish is profiled at this site in a format that begins with a brief biographical sketch of his life. His works are then listed by appearance in the museum's database. Each work is presented in thumbnail format with brief...
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: African American Odyssey: Part 1 of the Civil Rights Era: Desegregation

For Students 9th - 10th
Photos, cartoons and text sum up the post war period and efforts to fight segregation in the military by President Truman.
Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Langston Hughes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource focuses on the works of famous African-American author, Langston Hughes.
Article
A&E Television

History.com: 6 Little Known Pioneers of Aviation

For Students 9th - 10th
From an early glider experimenter to the first man to fly solo around the world, here are six lesser-known pilots and inventors who made their mark on aviation.
Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Wishram

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn a little about the Wishram tribe which lived in Oregon & Washington.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Louisa May Alcott: Transcendentalism

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the impact of transcendentalism on the life of Louisa May Alcott and American society in this video [4:00] from the American Masters film Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women.' Emphasizing self-reliance, civil...
Handout
Other

University of Arkansas Libraries: Land of (Un)equal Opportunity

For Students 9th - 10th
A vast collection of records and photographs that documents the struggle for equality in Arkansas by African Americans, women, and Japanese Americans. Timeline, lesson plans, and similar resources available for added depth.
Handout
Other

Lumen Learning: Encroachment and Resistance

For Students 9th - 10th
In the latter part of the 1800s, settlers began to ignore treaties when expanding westward. The government followed suit by declaring they would no longer negotiate new treaties, that they had the power to enforce laws on reservation...
Primary
NASA

Nasa: This New Ocean

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA contains the text of the book "This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury" by Loyd S. Swenson Jr., James M. Grimwood, and Charles C. Alexander.
Interactive
Other

Montana Tribes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A superb website with a wealth of information on native tribes in Montana. The site has an extensive digital archives with hundreds of videos, all categorized by Essential Understandings. There are lesson plans, historical and current...
Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: South American Rainfall, 1901

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1901 showing mean annual rainfall in South America. The map shows the equatorial rain belt in July and in January, the direction of prevailing winds and their effect on rainfall patterns. The map shows regions ranging from...
Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: South American Heat Belts, 1901

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1901 of the Heat Belts in South America showing the Heat Equator in July, regions where it is always hot, regions of temperate winters and hot summers, and regions where it is always temperate. "There is comparatively little...
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Chihuahuan Pocket Mouse

For Students 4th - 8th
The Chihuahuan Pocket Mouse differs only slightly in appearance from the Desert Pocket Mouse (Chaetodipus penicillatus) but there is little overlap in their geographic ranges. The Chihuahuan Pocket Mouse is a bit larger and lighter than...