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.
This is a fourth grade resource that guides students through the diverse experiences of immigrants that traveled to New York in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century. Students will use primary sources to form an argument to answer the question: Did the American Dream come true for immigrants in New York?

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C3 Teachers

Why did Germans immigrate to the Upper Midwest in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century? What contributions did they make to the region's cultural heritage? Students use Library of Congress photographs and documents to answer these questions and others while strengthening their German language skills.
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Library of Congress
Students will investigate the time period of the Great Depression through a variety of primary and secondary sources. They will use the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) to generate questions and then investigate primary and secondary sources to gain an understanding of how people, including the government, dealt with the devastation of The Dust Bowl. Students will analyze sources, evaluate information, gather evidence and make claims about the ideas of scarcity, the New Deal, poverty and how farmers dealt with the environmental changes.

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State Historical Society of Iowa

Students play a game modeled on the classic ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ economic theory to explore the problem of collective action in managing the Earth’s resources. They reflect on the way their short-term self-interest clashes with the long-term interest of the collective. Students identify strategies that will help them to act in the collective interest of the human race and the planet.

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High Resolves

This DBQuest will walk you through the primary sources that illustrate the interplay between Congress and the executive branch during the negotiation of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

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iCivics, Inc.

Many people in Central Florida came from somewhere else. Students first analyze life histories from American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 to learn oral history techniques. They then interview and photograph these "transplants" and collect their life stories. In the process, students strengthen their communication skills and learn of the diverse experiences of people who now call Central Florida home.

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The Library of Congress

The following lesson plan and resources are designed to cover part of the 5th grade content standards for the New Deal. It addresses the successes and failures of the Tennessee Valley Authority. This lesson plan does not address the causes and impact of the Great Depression, which will need to be covered prior to this lesson. It also does not cover all the New Deal policies, which will also need to be covered either before or after this lesson.

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Tennessee State Library and Archives

The Living History of the Myaamia provides educators with a curriculum for teaching Myaamia (Miami Tribe) history.

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The Myaami Center

This unit helps students learn how archaeologists investigate the ways people lived in the past. The investigation begins by introducing the mystery of ancient seeds that were found by archaeologists. This leads to a study of how archaeologists investigated the mounds found near Minneapolis, Kansas. Students learn what questions the archaeologists asked. They conduct their own investigation of prehistoric agriculture in Kansas. They will practice sorting images found in the student magazine into various categories and reach conclusions about what people ate and the tools they used 5,000 years ago as hunters-gatherers.

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Kansas Historical Society

This lesson begins with the mystery of the bone tool. From this evidence students use primary sources to draw their own conclusions, evaluating the results of in-depth research by archaeologists, historians, ethnographers, and descendants of native peoples. Students are introduced to Virgil Swift, a descendent of the Wichita people. The unit takes students through the step-by-step construction of a grass house, how such a structure was built, from what materials, and by whom. Students complete the unit by learning about the market economy: starting a local business, the benefits and costs of local materials, and building demand through marketing.

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Kansas Historical Society

In this exercise, students will have the opportunity to examine artworks that are more than a century and a half old, approaching them not only as an artist’s perspective, but also as primary, historical documents that reveal clues about the time period of U.S.-Indian treaties in the Pacific Northwest.
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Washington State Historical Society
In this lesson plan, students will examine how factors like time and distance played into successful railroad planning. They will examine the problem of time and how inexact measuring could lead to problems, sometime fatal, with the running of the railroad.