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Coal Flowers
Young scholars create coal flowers. In this mining lesson, students discuss the importance of coal during the 1800s and use ingredients to make coal flowers. Young scholars determine the effect temperature has on crystal formation.
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Performance Standards/Competencies
Students research how children dressed during Colonial times. Students design and create life-sized likenesses of themselves, dressing the paper dolls in colonial dress.
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Property?
Students complete a list of seven items that they own with an appropriate value attached. They understand the principle of property and write an essay on why people owned slaves.
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Down on the Farm
Students are introduced to a map of an Illinois farm. They determine whether the map is of the past, present, or future by looking at features on the map. They also use the map to make a three-dimensional model.
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The Mystery of History - Original Sources
Students examine and discuss the differences between primary and secondary sources. They brainstorm examples of each, locate examples of primary and secondary sources on the Internet, and identify three primary sources from home.
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Artifacts We Don't Dig Up
Students play a game of artifact show and tell using household items.
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Read Martin's Big Words
Students read Martin's Big Words. In this social studies lesson, students read and discuss the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: My Toy Abc
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of My Toy ABC, an alphabet book with the theme of toys.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Sleeping Beauty: Pantomime Toy Book by Mc Loughlin Bros.
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's novel Sleeping Beauty Pantomime Toy Book by McLoughlin Bros. [1870], the fairy tale of "Sleeping Beauty" in verse.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Live Toys or Anecdotes of Our Four Legged Pets by E. Davenport
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Live Toys, or, Anecdotes of Our Four-Legged and Other Pets by Emma Davenport (1864), a collection of stories about pets.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Victoria Toy Book
A scanned copy of the 1897 publication of Victoria Toy Book, a book of children's fiction.
Other
Toys and Games for Kids in Colonial Maryland
Use this site to learn the many different ways that Colonial children entertained themselves. Find out about the games they played, toys they had, and how they even made some chores into games.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Missouri: Field House
This was the home of attorney Roswell Field, who represented slave Dred Scott in the U.S. Supreme Court case Scott v. Sandford (1857). Also the birthplace of Field's son, author Eugene Field, the house is currently known as the Eugene...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Aunt Louisa: Hector the Dog by Laura Valentine
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books: Hector the Dog by Laura Valentine [1870], a long poem with illustrations.
Other
D Marie: On This Day in History
A fun site from a scrapbook company that offers headlines for a specific date in time. They currently have data from 1800 through 2002. You can also choose a quick "Time capsule," to unearth prices of common items, people born, academy...
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Bringing History Home: Children Long Ago
This Kindergarten unit introduces students to the concept of change over time by examining the historic counterparts of objects in children's daily lives, e.g., toys, food, cars, music, telephones, and toothbrushes. This develops an...
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Virginia
This site is provided for by the Library of Congress. Do you know when "the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English colony at Jamestown?" Do you know what the capital of the Confederacy was? Explore the history of Virginia...