In this lesson, students will share their work with their classmates and celebrate their accomplishments.
Get the facts about the Evening Grosbeak. Besides finding a detailed physical description of this member of the finch family, you?ll also learn about some of this bird's unique facts and characteristics. Also included in this Bird Fact Sheet on the Evening Grosbeak is information on its habitat and habits, range, feeding, breeding, and conservation efforts. A list of resources completes the fact sheet.
This history of the Great Depression looks at its effect on American citizens, including the changes to women's societal roles. Includes photographs.
This 1998 interview of Osama bin Laden took place in Afghanistan. It's an extensive and enlightening look at bin Laden's history and beliefs.
This site from ibiblio.org gives extensive biographical information on Herbert Hoover based on the collection in the Herbert Hoover Museum.
This extensive collection from the University of Texas Library Online of detailed maps of many regions of the Earth.
[Free Registration/Login Required] Ira Berlin delivers a lecture featuring the premise of his book, Generations in Captivity: Slavery in America. From the early establishment of the settlements in the New World slavery made its presence in the United States. The 13th Amendment put an end to slavery, but racism evolved. Today, racism can still be seen throughout parts of the nation. Berlin addresses slavery and racism from a historical perspective. [43:31]
Students explore the story of the Erie Canal and learn how the creation of the Erie Canal represented a large-scale effort by people to change their environment to be more advantageous to them.
Describes the changing nature of historical writing during the later Colonial period in America.
Biographical portraits of African Americans involved in the struggle for civil rights and equality, from the time of Frederick Douglass forward. Learn about the contributions of Edmonia Lewis, Sojourner Truth, Edward Bannister, Octavius Catto, James Baldwin, Stokley Carmichael, and others whose actions led to to the eventual expansion of freedoms in America.
This sample "exhibit" from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art offers a short biography of colonial painter and portrait artist John Singleton Copley. Includes links to six different paintings, each with an informative caption.
Roughly half the Muslims in the United States are African American and the other half are immigrants and their American- born children. This video from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly explores the relationship between these two communities. [3:22]
You can link to the anatomy of El Nino, chasing El Nino, and El Nino's reach. There is a resource page and a search page.
Lesson plans and curriculum including https://www.nga.gov/education/teachers/lessons-activities/uncovering-america.html Uncovering America-What does it mean to be American?
Discover compelling stories of creativity, struggle, and resilience in this new set of resources for K–12 educators featuring works of art that reflect the richness and diversity of the people, places, and cultures of the United States. Encourage creative, critical, and historical thinking in your students as you examine works of art from the country’s creation to the present day.
Thematic modules contain:
Introductory essays
Downloadable high-resolution image sets featuring background information
Essential questions for students
Classroom activities
Selected additional resources
What’s your American story? Share with #AmericanStoriesNGA or send your stories to classroom@nga.gov
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Essay answers the question, "Why did so many Catholics come to the United States at this time?" The potato famine, urban industrialization, chance for a new life, are among some of the answers.
Article provides an overview discussion of an ethnic and religious pluralistic society explaining distinguishing factors of religious life in North America. Includes guideance for student discussion, scholar debate and links to related sources.
Five documents representing the full range of Indian-European antagonisms, struggles for power, and outright warfare among the Spanish, Pueblo, Wampanoag, English, and French in New Spain, New France, New Mexico, and New England.
Four maps examining the hunt for a Northwest Passage and three English accounts detailing the curiosity, greed and optimism that fueled English exploration of North America.
A political cartoon depicting a Union and a Confederate veteran united in support for the Spanish-American War. A painting entitled Twelve-Inch Gun depicting elegant officers and ladies aboard a battle ship, civilizing gentility and the fire power needed to enforce it. It is accompanied by a poem of the same title, written from the perspective of a twelve-inch gun, warning about unleashing its deadly power.