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Civil War: Daily Life

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore life during the civil war. While viewing selected clips of a movie, students observe the era of slavery, politics in New York during the Civil War. They compare and contrast life in New York today with that of life...
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Boombox Classroom: Migration of Music

For Students 5th - 6th
In this music worksheet, students complete two multiple choice questions about music moving from one culture to another. They write a sentence explaining why slavery is wrong. Students name types of music African-Americans brought with...
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Issues That Divided the Nation: 1800's

For Students 5th
In this history in the 1800's worksheet, students fill in a graphic organizer, listing information about tariffs, jobs, society, slavery and secession in the north and south during the 1800's.
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Susan Brownell Anthony

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students learn what it was like for women in the United States prior to the time they could vote. They identify important facts and the contributions that Susan B. Anthony made to America.
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Library of Congress Learning Page: The Historian's Sources Lesson Overview

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers study techniques for analyzing primary sources. Finally, students apply these techniques to analyze documents about slavery in the United States.
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All Men Are Created Equal Except...

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the line "all men are created equal" in a time of slavery. They discover how equaliy and liberty changed over time in America. Role-playing different scenerios, they analyze the experiences of real-people coming to...
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Social Studies: The Black West

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students assess the influence of African Americans in the western United States from the sixteenth century to the present. They examine the Black-Spanish heritage, slavery and freedom on the frontier, along with African American...
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Economic Influences on the Virginia Colony

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine what life in Virginia was like when it was still a colony. In groups, they read a story and complete a graphic organizer. They explain the importance of agriculture in the colonay and its influence on slavery. They...
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Fighting for Whose Freedom? Black Soldiers in the American Revolution

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students analyze primary sources about black soldiers in the American Revolution. They apply independent conclusions to create a piece of historical fiction. Students come to understand that as soldiers, scouts, or spies,...
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Slaves on a Tobacco Plantation

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this worksheet about slaves on a tobacco plantation, learners look at a picture and "talk about it;" how did slaves get to the New World, what type of work did they do, why is slavery wrong and how would it feel to be a slave? No...
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Reconstruction

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students describe the period of Reconstruction. Then students describe the concept of sharecropping. They complete a vocabulary prediction confirmation activity for the vocabulary words from the passage.
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What Happened to Slaves When Their Owners Died?

For Teachers K - 12th
Students work in groups reading online last s and testaments of slaveowners. They complete worksheets and then participate in a whole class discussion about what happens to slaves after their owners die.
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Zeal for Teaching: Reconstruction in Port Royal, South Carolina

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the story of Port Royal, South Carolina and the enthusiasm about the notion that African Americans be educated. They search a Reconstruction archive to find documents supporting the importance of education for freed slaves.
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Science Biographies: A Poster Approach

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the lives and contributions of five people who have impacted science in the four lessons of this unit. Key facts in the life of the persons are placed on a timeline and a mini-biography is created.
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D'Nile Is Where It's At!

For Teachers 1st
Students travel down the Nile River to survey ancient Egypt in this unit of nine lessons. Data about pharaohs, hieroglyphics, growing crops, pyramids, the geography, and the sacred rituals are explored in this unit.
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Getting To Know an Era

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore the ways which we commemorate the important events in our country's history. They examine the state quarters and discuss events portrayed on the reverse. They design a coin to commemorate an important event in an era...
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Starting a Revolution

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students examine state quarters with images that refer to the Industrial Revolution. They discuss whether or not it is appropriate to commemorate that event. They research the Slater Mill and decide if it should be commemorated.
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Triangular Trade Route

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore The Middle Passage and the Triangular Trade Route. They read their text to explore the treatment of African slaves and their route to America. After observing maps and pictures of slave ships, 8th graders share...
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What makes a Southern Colony a Southern Colony

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders answer questions put to them by the teacher that are intended to help them understand the different lives of slaves and indentured servants in colonial times. They make a list of Aristocrats and Farmers from their text...
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Patriotic Slaves

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders listen to a song and read the lyrics and discuss what patriotism means to them. After viewing pictures of important patriots throughout history, they describe their contribution to society. They write in their journals...
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WEEK TWO

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students research in books and on the Internet on the Underground Railroad. They work on a constructivist project to promote both group collaboration and individual creativity. Students are given an authentic task: to create a museum...
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A Comparison of Indentured Servants and Slaves

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine and compare the lives of slaves and indentured servants using primary sources and the historical fiction books, "Molly Bannaky and Barefoot." They analyze and compare advertisements for runaway slaves. Students...
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VS.7a

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore, analyze and identify the events and differences between northern and southern states that divided Virginians and led to secession, war and the creation on West Virginia. They discuss the conflicts that developed...
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Economy vs. Humanity

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the American Slave Trade.  In this World History lesson, 9th graders analyze photos of the Middle Passage.  Students read an account of a person on one of the Middle Passage voyages. 

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