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African American Daily ConditionsThese photos depict typical daily activities of African Americans before the Civil Rights era. |
6-12 |
Image |
African American Daily LifeThese photos depict typical daily activities of African Americans before the Civil Rights era. |
K-5 |
Image |
Aiming For the Basketball Hall of Fame
In this video segment from TV 411, two Atlanta Hawks players plan a driving route to reach the Basketball Hall of Fame. They use map scales to estimate their travel distances. |
5-8 |
Video |
American FlagThis Building Block video shows a close-up of an American flag billowing in breeze. The camera pulls out to reveal the shadow of an eagle statue in the foreground. |
Pre-K-12 |
Video |
Building the Erie CanalIn this video segment adapted from American Experience, learn about the construction of the Erie Canal, the biggest public works project of its time. |
5-12 |
Video |
Capitol FountainIn this Building Block video, an American flag flaps in a strong breeze next to the Capitol Dome. As framed by two plumes of water from the Senate Garage Fountain, this clip first focuses on the fountains, then switches focus to the building and the flag. |
Pre-K-12 |
Video |
A Case for the Separation of PowersThis video segment adapted from American Experience introduces how John Adams called for the separation of powers in the Massachusetts Constitution into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. |
5-12 |
Video |
Choctaw Dances This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, presents aspects of traditional Mississippi Choctaw activities.
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4-6 |
Video |
The Civil Rights Movement in America, 1945-1975This interactive timeline provides a chronological and geographic view of the events of the Civil Rights era and its aftermath. |
K-12 |
Interactive |
Colonial HouseIn this segment from Colonial House, Colonists and the Passamaquoddy people encounter each other for the first time. |
6-12 |
Video |
Debating SlaveryIn this video segment adapted from Africans in America, learn how the issue of slavery shaped the debate at the U.S. Constitutional Convention. |
5-12 |
Video |
Declaring Freedom...But For Whom?In this video segment adapted from Africans in America, consider the American view of freedom that was defined by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. |
5-12 |
Video |
DesertsNot all deserts are the same. This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features views of different deserts around the world. |
K-8 |
Image |
Dutch West India Company (1621)This segment from Dutch New York describes the formation of the Dutch West India Company, which established some of the earliest settlements in North America.
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6-12 |
Video |
FDR and the Court In this video from The Supreme Court, the Court reverses its practice of protectionism for big business to protect the worker. |
9-12 |
Video |
Final SpeechesIn this segment from Independent Lens, three candidates for class monitor make a final speech to grab the win. |
6-12 |
Video |
The Fourteenth Amendment - Part I This video segment from The Supreme Court introduces viewers to the Fourteenth amendment. |
7-12 |
Video |
The Fourteenth Amendment - Part IIIn this video segment from The Supreme Court, learn about the 1883 Supreme Court decision that marked the end of federal protections for individuals in states and the beginning of Jim Crow segregation. |
7-12 |
Video |
Harriet Beecher StoweIn this video from ThinkTV Dayton, learn about Harriet Beecher Stowe and the basis of her famous book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that documented racial injustice before the Civil War. |
6-12 |
Video |
Hyde County School BoycottThis slide show tells the story of a yearlong boycott to protest the closing of historically black schools in Hyde County, North Carolina. |
3-12 |
Image |
The Journey of the Jewish AmericansThis segment from The Jewish Americans shows how in the 19th century Jews and other groups were sometimes not welcomed when they immigrated to the United States. |
6-12 |
Video |
Ku Klux Klan FlyersThis flyer advertises a 1963 white supremacist Ku Klux Klan meeting; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. |
6-12 |
Document |
Little Rock NineThis collection of photos shows scenes from the controversial desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. |
6-12 |
Image |
Living With the LandThis video segment adapted from American Experience tells the story of how some Native American tribes once migrated the length of the North American continent to find the resources they needed. |
5-12 |
Video |
Mannahatta 1609Learn about the rich and diverse ecosystem of early Manhattan in this video from Dutch New York.
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3-12 |
Video |
March on Washington FlyersThese 1963 flyers announce the speakers and issues for the March on Washington; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. |
3-12 |
Document |
A New Kind of Justice Explore the creation, intention and language of the Fourteenth Amendment in this video from The Supreme Court. |
9-12 |
Video |
New Netherland: The Early YearsIn this lesson students identify the economic, political and social roots of Dutch New York. |
6-8 |
Lesson Plan |
Observe Images of Different Climate ZonesInteract with this world map from McDougal Littell/TERC to highlight different climate zones and see a photograph of each one. Ten climate zones are represented, including tundra, desert, humid subtropical, and others. |
6-12 |
Interactive |
Rosa ParksIn this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, legendary civil rights activist Rosa Parks recalls her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
3-12 |
Video |
Segregated Schooling in AlabamaThis scrapbook documents conditions in Birmingham's segregated schools in 1963, as well as white resistance to integration. |
3-5 |
Image |
The Sinking of the U.S.S. IndianapolisThrough flashback, L.D.Cox tells how he survived the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis during World War II in this segment from History Detectives. |
6-12 |
Video |
Trade and Commerce In this segment from Dutch New York, learn about the fur trade in New Netherland as well as the purchase of Manhattan Island. |
6-12 |
Video |
Who Owns the Water of the Great Lakes?In this video segment from Planet H20: Water World, experts and teens inside and outside the Great Lakes watershed provide different perspectives on sharing the water from one of the largest bodies of fresh water in the world. |
5-12 |
Video |
