The curated resources linked below are an initial sample of the resources coming from a collaborative and rigorous review process with the EAD Content Curation Task Force.
In this interactive episode, KidCitizen uses a historic panoramic map as an object for active inquiry to engage children in wondering about this representation of a place where people live. Students closely observe the geographic features, like rivers, shorelines, and farmland along with its plant life, animal life, and man-made structures. Students collect clues in the researcher journal and use them throughout the adventure. There are a number of pathways for inquiry. Students may apply their geographic and historical thinking strategies to wonder about movement of people or reflect on the unique qualities of the area that define it as a place.

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KidCitizen

This lesson helps dispel prevailing stereotypes and generalizing cultural representations of American Indians by providing culturally-specific information about the contemporary as well as historical cultures of distinct tribes and communities within the United States.

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National Endowment for the Humanities

This resource set contains best practices for teaching about Native people in your classroom and sample maps with Native viewpoints and inquiry questions to use in your classroom.

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Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center

Ths primary source set focuses on material culture produced about and by American Indians. The information and materials in the set can be used as a jumping off point for teachers looking to access resources provided by the Library of Congress related to the topic.

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Emerging America - Collaborative for Educational Services

Students will examine and analyze photographs of, poems by, and documents about American Indians experiences as European Americans migrated across the United States. They will use the knowledge gained through their analysis to write their own songs, poems, and letters. While the unit is intended to take three class periods, it is possible to complete the material in a shorter time frame. For example, you can set up three document centers around the classroom. After being introduced to the necessary analytical skills, the students can be split into three groups and sent to a document center to complete the activities there, switching to a new document center after a designated period of time. This will shorten the three-day unit to two days.

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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

This lesson explores the role of the judiciary in relation to the legislative and executive branches to help students know how judicial independence has evolved since the founding.

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Annenberg Classroom

This resource engages students in the history, location, and past and present culture of the Anishinabe, and American Indian Nation. The focus on one Indigenous nation allows students to acquire a differentiated and accurate understanding of one of the many diverse peoples and cultures living throughout the lands that are now referred to as North and South America, in addition to recognizing elements of a common history of conquest and displacement by Europeans that affected all Native American peoples.

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National Endowment for the Humanities

In 1898, the U.S. officially annexed Hawaii—but did Hawaiians support this? In this lesson, students read two newspaper articles, both hosted on the website Chronicling America, which make very different arguments about Hawaiians' support for—or opposition to—annexation. Students focus on sourcing as they investigate the motivations and perspectives of both papers and why they make very different claims.

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Stanford History Education Group

Students explore the connection between art and activism by analyzing a sculpture from the Autry Museum about a desert community. Students are also invited to participate in activism by creating their own sculpture using materials from nature and around the home.

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Autry Museum of the American West

Students explore the connection between art and activism by analyzing a painting about the Gold Rush from the Autry Museum. Students are also invited to participate in activism by creating their own painting.

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Autry Museum of the American West

In the decades following the Civil War, the US military clashed with Native Americans in the West. The Battle of Little Bighorn was one of the Native Americans' most famous victories. In this lesson, students explore causes of the battle by comparing two primary documents with a textbook account.

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Stanford History Education Group

Maps, truth, and belief have a complicated relationship with one another. Every map is a representation of reality, and every representation, no matter how accurate and honest, involves simplification, symbolization, and selective attention.

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Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
