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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Students will learn about Dr. Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson through viewing primary sources and participating in reading and visual arts activities while working collaboratively. Students will be required to showcase their learning through a pictorial representation of Dr. Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson.
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
Introducing kindergarteners to their new classroom community
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Inquiring Minds Institute
This lesson plan helps students analyze historical images and documents. Students explore the town and history of Buxton, Iowa. Buxton existed only for about 20 years but boasted a population of African-American former sharecroppers and Swedish immigrants who enjoyed economic prosperity and racial equality in this unique Iowa town during the early 1900s.
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State Historical Society of Iowa
By investigating primary sources displaying the American flag, we will explore the various ways people use the flag to show characteristics such as pride, loyalty, and unity for the nation.
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KidCitizen
Too often we look back at the way people lived and evaluate the past in terms of the technology that dominates our lives today. We ask: Imagine life without automobiles or electric lights or running water. No refrigerators, washing machines, radio, television, or movies? No computers, CDs, cell phones or credit cards? How did they survive? If that is how you want to approach the past, ask yourself this: what invention do we not have that will make Iowans of the future look back and wonder how made it through the day?
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State Historical Society of Iowa
This collection of resources includes free K-12 civic education lessons, activities, blogs and webinars to help with educating students on the election. Additional topics include fostering civil discourse, fighting fake news, voting rights and debate ideas to keep students informed and engaged.
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AFT Share My Lesson
The importance of community helpers is a building block of civics understanding. In this episode, children investigate who community helpers are and how they have changed over time through exploration of a rich Library of Congress photograph of a man delivering ice to a schoolhouse in 1899.
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KidCitizen
In this lesson, students will learn about the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Students will listen to a brief biography, view photographs of the March on Washington, view a portion of King's "I Have a Dream" speech delivered in August 1963, and discuss what King's words mean to them.
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National Endowment for the Humanities
The physical landscape shapes the food people eat, the homes they build, the way they move around and the environment they live in. Students will investigate environmental history, which involves understanding relationships — and sometimes trade-offs — people make with the landscapes around them. Students also will use the perspectives of a historian, economist, geographer and political scientist to analyze images and documents.
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State Historical Society of Iowa
In the seventh lesson of this unit, students learn about leaders whose actions had a significant societal impact, the activists. Students will first learn about Elizabeth Stanton and her role in the suffragettes movement; and then asked to consider a current issue, the four day school week, by considering all perspectives in making their decision.
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National Constitution Center
This Readers' Theater and Read Aloud Story introduces students to the people who lived and worked at George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation. Students meet members of the Washington family, members of the enslaved community at Mount Vernon, and indentured servants working on the estate.