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America in Class: America in the 1920s: Divisions: Black & White
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Black & White. Even as racial pride advanced in the modern world, racial hatred escalated to new extremes. Here we explore the black-white division through commentary, political cartoons, visual art, and musical drama.

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Social Studies
Material Type:
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Primary Source
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National Humanities Center
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America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: Modern City
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Modern City. A collection of writings, commentaries, and newsreels from the 1920s on what made a city modern.

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Social Studies
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Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Provider:
National Humanities Center
Provider Set:
America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: Modern Faith
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Modern Faith. In its myriad forms, the search for "modern faith" in the Twenties reflected two concurrent drives - the need to affirm human goodness, hope, and salvation after the apocalyptic world war, and the struggle to accommodate modernity with traditional and revered belief systems. Presents a collection of commentaries on this topic from 1919-1929.

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Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Provider:
National Humanities Center
Provider Set:
America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: Prosperity: Business
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Business. Looks at how 'Business' was a critical element of America's economic success. Presents commentaries and a literary excerpt.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Provider:
National Humanities Center
Provider Set:
America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: Prosperity: Crash
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Crash. Here we examine commentary and political cartoons that illustrate the pivotal moment in American history when the stock market crashed in 1929.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Provider:
National Humanities Center
Provider Set:
America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Divisions
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Collection of primary resources includes historical documents, film, literary texts, and works of art with notes and discussion questions on the conflict and divisions characterizing the 1920s.

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Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Provider:
National Humanities Center
Provider Set:
America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Modernity
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Primary resources from 1920s period offers a sense of cultural, social, political and economic thought during that time period. Includes notes, questions for discussion, and links to supplemental material.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Provider:
National Humanities Center
Provider Set:
America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Prosperity
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Collection of six sections with primary resource material on the prosperity achieved during the 1920s explores consumerism, labor, and business. Includes notes, discussion questions and links to supplemental sources.

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Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Provider:
National Humanities Center
Provider Set:
America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: The Age
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A collection of primary source material from the modern age, explores the 1920s and how it relates to today. Section includes introductory notes, classroom discussion questions, and supplemental links to related resources.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Provider:
National Humanities Center
Provider Set:
America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: Citizen Leadership in the Young Republic
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Lesson on citizen leadership explores the point of view of John Adams on essential qualities of leadership and a new nation. Lesson content includes background, text analysis and Close Reading questions, vocabularyand teacher's notes. Student and teacher versions.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Humanities Center
Provider Set:
America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: James Madison Debates the Bill of Rights
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Lesson from the National Humanities Center explores the doubts, concerns, and misgivings surrounding the development of the Bill of Rights. Primary or secondary sources, text analysis and Close reading strategies, background notes, and vocabulary section.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Humanities Center
Provider Set:
America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
American Diplomacy in World War II
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This four-lesson curriculum unit will examine the nature of what Winston Churchill called the "Grand Alliance" between the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union in opposition to the aggression of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

Subject:
History
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Provider Set:
EDSITEment!
Date Added:
11/19/2020
The American Standard of Living - For Better or Worse
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This lesson addresses the distribution of income. Some believe that income distribution is becoming more unequal. This lesson explores that question. The site includes links to articles and questions.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
EconEdLink
Date Added:
08/07/2023
Analyzing Informational Text
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In this lesson students use the Informational Text Analysis Tool to deconstruct the essential elements of informational text. Informational text is more important to teachers than ever before, especially with the rise of the new Core standards. The Library of Congress is an excellent resource for finding and using texts to build students' reading skills.Through a diverse array of classic and contemporary literature as well as challenging informational and primary source texts, students build knowledge, gain insights, explore possibilities, and broaden their perspective.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Reading Informational Text
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Utah Education Network
Date Added:
02/16/2021
And Now, the News!
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In this activity, students will examine newspaper clippings from the Dayton Forum, an African-American newspaper available on Chronicling America, to explore the first African-American exhibit held at a World’s Fair in the United States. They will consider what role they had in creating the exhibit, what their intentions were, and what their participation at the World’s Fair can tell us about American race relations on the eve of World War II. This lesson plan may also serve as a jumping off point for National History Day and the 2021 contest theme of Communication in History: The Key to Understanding.

Subject:
English Language Arts
History
Ohio in the United States
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Provider:
Ohio History Connection
Provider Set:
Ohio Memory
Date Added:
05/18/2022
Android Acceleration
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Students prepare for the associated activity in which they investigate acceleration by collecting acceleration vs. time data using the accelerometer of a sliding Android device. Based on the experimental set-up for the activity, students form hypotheses about the acceleration of the device. Students will investigate how the force on the device changes according to Newton's Second Law. Different types of acceleration, including average, instantaneous and constant acceleration, are introduced. Acceleration and force is described mathematically and in terms of processes and applications.

Subject:
Engineering
Physics
Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Brian Sandall
Scott Burns
Date Added:
09/18/2014
Android Acceleration Application
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In the first of two sequential lessons, students create mobile apps that collect data from an Android device's accelerometer and then store that data to a database. This lesson provides practice with MIT's App Inventor software and culminates with students writing their own apps for measuring acceleration. In the second lesson, students are given an app for an Android device, which measures acceleration. They investigate acceleration by collecting acceleration vs. time data using the accelerometer of a sliding Android device. Then they use the data to create velocity vs. time graphs and approximate the maximum velocity of the device.

Subject:
Computer Science
Engineering
Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Unit of Study
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Brian Sandall
Scott Burns
Date Added:
09/18/2014
Animals and Engineering
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Students are introduced to the classification of animals and animal interactions. Students also learn why engineers need to know about animals and how they use that knowledge to design technologies that help other animals and/or humans. This lesson is part of a series of six lessons in which students use their growing understanding of various environments and the engineering design process, to design and create their own model biodome ecosystems.

Subject:
Engineering
Life Science
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Denise Carlson
Katherine Beggs
Malinda Schaefer Zarske
Date Added:
09/18/2014