Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Chicago Race Riots
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students deliberate the origins of the Chicago race riots by exploring five documents that...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Peg + Cat: Games: Race Car
In this game, pick a car, fill up the tank with fuel using two units at a time, race your car, and see who wins.
The Newberry Library
Newberry: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: Slavery and Race in the Atlantic World
Newberry Library lesson using digitized primary source explores how Aphra Behn's novel, Oroonoko, compares to other representations of race, slavery, and colonialism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Questions to consider are...
Other
The Space Race
Although the space race was originally a competition between two Cold War foes,it ultimately resulted in many benefits for the people of the Earth. Find information on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, and Soviet space programs,...
The Guardian
Guardian: Race v Ethnicity: Curious Case of Rachel Dolezal, Explained
Rachel Dolezal was an NAACP chapter president who was discovered to be white while claiming to be black. This article tells the story of her downfall, and looks at the possible motivations for her deceit. It discusses the controversy...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Space Race Is Over
A learning module that begins with "The Space Race Is Over" by Paul Kingsnorth, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "After the Race" by James Joyce
"After the Race" is a short story by the Irish author James Joyce. In it, we see the themes of money, status, class, politics, and paralysis.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of Does the Race of Man Love
This site provides the complete etext for Mark Twain's story, Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
The History Place
The History Place: The Nuremberg Race Laws
This site from The History Place provides a short explanation of the Nuremberg Laws during Hitler's reign. Site shows a chart issued by the Nazis to help distinguish Jews from Germans of mixed race.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Robot Races
This lesson plan allows students to explore proportional relationships using information from robot races.
Greek Gods
Greek Gods: Deucalion's Flood and the Creation of the New Human Race
Read this Greek Mythology story of the destruction of the earth by flood. Try comparing it to the story of Noah's Ark from the Bible.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Nascar: List of Race Tracks
All about NASCAR race tracks. List of tracks used on the racing circuit.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Race for Number One" by Jack London
Text of the short story "The Race for Number One" by Jack London. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Girl and the Wild Race by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Read the full text of the short story "The Girl and the Wild Race" by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Biography: Nascar Race Car Driver
Kids learn about Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s biography and his racing career. Fun facts about the NASCAR driver.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Jimmie Johnson: Nascar Race Car Driver
Learn about Jimmie Johnson and his NASCAR race car driving career. Five-time Sprint Cup Series champion.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Race for Life: Plant Adaptations
This is an outdoors, hands-on activity. Create a short race course to engage students in physical activity while drawing comparisons to the plant kingdom. This activity serves as an introductory to the impact small changes can have on...
University of Richmond
Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet: 1894 1909
This curation, transcription, and interpretation of the Richmond Planet opens a window into fundamental issues of race, equity, justice, violence, and power that still stir the nation today. Thirteen formerly enslaved men formed the...
iCivics
I Civics: Race to Ratify
This simulation game set in the 1780s focuses on the ratification of the Constitution.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Word Race
In this activity for grades 1 and 2, students practice examining, copying out, and reading words that are written in the classroom.
Tufts University
Perseus Digital Library: Ancient Olympic Running
This site from the Perseus Digital Library of the Tufts University provides information on the four types of running races are described. The stadion race was the oldest of these events. The different lengths of the race are provided.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Nascar: Learn All About the Sport of Nascar
Learn about NASCAR race cars and racetracks. Also racing terms and glossary.
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Circus Maximus
History for Kids teaches us about the history of Circus Maximus, built for chariot races in ancient Rome and used as model for other stadiums built across the Roman Empire.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Proper Noun Race
During this lesson, students will review nouns and identify common and proper nouns in context. A short story will be written using both types of nouns. An interactive Internet site will be used to reinforce the lesson.
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