Smithsonian Education presents "Every Picture Has a Story". Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students examine some of the millions of photographs in the Smithsonian. This amazing teaching package comes...

The goal of Interactive Story Retelling: Encouraging Retelling with Picture Supports is to build early comprehension skills and promote oral expression by having young scholars sequence the events in a story using pictures and then...

PBS explores one of the world's oldest religions, Hinduism, with a highlight of Agni the god of fire. Known as one of the deities most often found in hymns of the "Rig Veda." Describes Agni's physical features, his life story, and his...

A learning module that begins with Herman Melville's literary text "Excerpt from "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be...

The "Telling Their Stories" lesson plan guides students through the era of enslavement through the lens of those who chose to flee as a form of resistance. Using the Freedom on the Move database of runaway ads, this lesson centers on the...

This lesson plan utilizes students' desire to read scary stories and uses this as a motivational tool in the classroom. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.

A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Beautiful Stories about Children by Charles Dickens, a book of stories for children.

A scanned copy of the 1853 publication of Uncle Frank's Home Stories by Francis Channing Woodworth, book of stories for children.

A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of The Story of a Persian Cat by Jennie Chappell, a fiction book for children.

A scanned copy of the 1898 publication The Story of the Rhinegold by Anna Alice Chapin, a fiction book for children.

A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Jacob & the Raven, with Other Stories for Children by Frances Mary Peard, a fiction book for children.

A scanned copy of the 1897 publication The Story of Aaron by Joel Chandler Harris, a fiction for children.

A scanned copy of the 1897 publication of The Story of Exploration and Adventure in Africa by Prescott Holmes, a nonfiction for children.

A scanned copy of the 1897 publication of The Story of Marco Polo by Marco Polo, an autobiography for children.

A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Stories for Children, a fiction book for children.

A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Thrilling Stories of the Ocean by Marmaduke Park, a nonfiction book for children.

A scanned copy of the 1850 publication of Malleville, a Franconia Story by Jacob Abbott, a fiction book for children.

A scanned copy of the 1850 publication of A Picture Story Book by Josiah Westley, a nonfiction book for children.

A scanned copy of the 1853 publication of The Story of an Apple by Pamela Campbell, a fiction book for children.

Under the heading, "Story of Stellar Birth" this site examines specific details of an image displaying the apparent life cycles of young stars in the Cepheus constellation.

This video by Yoni Goodman and the Global Health Media Project tells the story of cholera in one village. [4:29]

In this short film, Welcome to Canada, learn about a Syrian refugee's story, Mohammed Alsaleh, who fled violence and imprisonment by the Assad regime during Syria's Civil War. Mohammed was granted asylum and now lives in Canada where he...

A scanned copy of the 1853 publication of A Book for All Little Girls and Boys by Mrs. Coleman, a book of stories and poems for children.

Understand how events of the Civil War helps tell America's story.