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Sioux Treaty of 1868

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore and research the history of Native Americans in North America.
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Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students use the Archival Research Catalog to complete assignments and activities about Lewis Hines and the National Child Labor Committee.
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Sow the Seeds of Victory!

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners use the National Archives and Records Administration's records to research the history of the U.S. Food Administation.
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Constitutional Issues: Separation of Powers

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Pupils discribe the principle and the history of separation of powers.
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D-Day Message from General Eisenhower to General Marshall

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students use documents in the National Archives of the United States to evaluate the effectiveness of D-Day.
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Memorandum Regarding the

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students use the National Archives to research the memorandum regarding the enlistment of Navajo Indians during World War II.
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Telegram from Senator Joseph McCarthy to President Harry S. Truman

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Pupils research Senator Joseph McCarthy's February 9, 1950 speech, given at Wheeling, West Virginia, in which he claimed more than 200 State Department employees were members of the Communist Party.
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Memorandum of a Conference with President Eisenhower after Sputnik

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students use the National Archives to research how the United States and the Soviet Union south to maintain its supremacy after World War II.
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Court Documents Related to

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students use the National Archives to researcj cout coduments related to Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Family

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate family organization and create a family unit. They decide the relationships, make ID's, and makes a family tree. They introduce their family units to the others in the class while the teacher takes family pictures....
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Who's the Father?

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners analyze gels to determine parentage in this lesson about scientific evidence, investigation, and DNA concepts. The lesson includes a pre-activity worksheet, a final individual assessment, and student handouts for in-class...
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Life and Times, Developing a Chronology

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the career and life of Ernie Pyle as an example of a biography in context. They consider how a chronology maps out the events in the life of an individual in the context of other events that were occurring at the same time.
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Historic Cemetery Project

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use the Virtual Atlas to examine the cemetaries in the state of Washington. In groups, they view photographs of local monuments to celebrate the lives of local members. They choose one to focus on and research. To end the...
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Alex: Can You Curl Your Tongue?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson is adapted from a Connected Mathematics Unit, How Likely is It? This investigation introduces biology as a source of applications for probability. In this lesson, Curling your Tongue, students determine how many students in...
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Pbs Teachers: Written in Stone

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A instructional activity that takes young scholars through the process of examining tombstones as artifacts, identifying information that can be instrumental in investigating a community's past or an individual's genealogy. Students also...
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Teaching Tennessee History: Lesson Plans for the Classroom Volume Vii [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Between 1860 and 1910, America began to see an increase in the number of immigrants coming to America for a better life, religious freedom, and a brighter future for their families. It is estimated that about twenty-three million...
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Volunteer Voices

Volunteer Voices: My Heritage Notebook [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, students will recognize the importance of the family in community situations through personal interviews, creating a personal history with pictures and text.
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Pbs Teachers: Nordic Sagas: Iceland Genes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explain how the isolated and homegeneous population of Iceland makes research in family ancestry simpler than in other cultures. Investigate the work of genealogists, and trace your own heritage as far as you can without extensive research.

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