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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Chicago Race Riots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[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...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Peg + Cat: Games: Race Car

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
Unit Plan
The Newberry Library

Newberry: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: Slavery and Race in the Atlantic World

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Website
Other

The Space Race

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
Article
The Guardian

Guardian: Race v Ethnicity: Curious Case of Rachel Dolezal, Explained

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: The Space Race Is Over

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "After the Race" by James Joyce

For Students 9th - 10th
"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.
eBook
World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of Does the Race of Man Love

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext for Mark Twain's story, Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
Website
The History Place

The History Place: The Nuremberg Race Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Robot Races

For Teachers 7th
This lesson plan allows students to explore proportional relationships using information from robot races.
Primary
Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Deucalion's Flood and the Creation of the New Human Race

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Nascar: List of Race Tracks

For Students 1st - 9th
All about NASCAR race tracks. List of tracks used on the racing circuit.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Race for Number One" by Jack London

For Students 9th - 10th
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.)
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Girl and the Wild Race by Lucy Maud Montgomery

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the short story "The Girl and the Wild Race" by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Biography: Nascar Race Car Driver

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s biography and his racing career. Fun facts about the NASCAR driver.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Jimmie Johnson: Nascar Race Car Driver

For Students 1st - 9th
Learn about Jimmie Johnson and his NASCAR race car driving career. Five-time Sprint Cup Series champion.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Race for Life: Plant Adaptations

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
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...
Primary
University of Richmond

Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet: 1894 1909

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Interactive
iCivics

I Civics: Race to Ratify

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation game set in the 1780s focuses on the ratification of the Constitution.
Handout
Can Teach

Can Teach: Word Race

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this activity for grades 1 and 2, students practice examining, copying out, and reading words that are written in the classroom.
Website
Tufts University

Perseus Digital Library: Ancient Olympic Running

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Nascar: Learn All About the Sport of Nascar

For Students 1st - 9th
Learn about NASCAR race cars and racetracks. Also racing terms and glossary.
Handout
Stephen Byrne

History for Kids: Circus Maximus

For Students 2nd - 7th
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.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Proper Noun Race

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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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