shares Ruby Bridge’s unique story with students, and shows them what life was like for African American children in the segregated South of the 1950s. Through slide shows, an interactive magazine from Scholastic News, and a student-created video, students gain a fuller understanding of Ruby’s pivotal role in the civil rights struggle.

Students will learn that archaeologists use historic photographs to interpret archaeological sites and artifacts. They will use observation, inference, and comparing skills to interpret a historic photograph.

The lesson looks more closely at how scientific and technological innovations have changed the way people meet their needs in communities. Robert Fulton is used as an example of an innovator in this lesson that focuses on changes in transportation.

Students track how Edison's inventions changed everyday life and imagine a world without lightbulbs or sound recordings.

This site provides a listing of United States presidents and timelines relevant to their era. A photograph of each president, stories, and a brief biography are also included.

Students will analyze images of tools that were used on rice plantations to determine each tool's purpose. These objects can tell us a great deal about slavery and the lives of the slaves who worked on rice plantations.

Students will study what are the qualities of a hero, what historical figures do students consider to be heroes, and what contemporary or local figures do students consider to be heroes.

In this activity, students use art supplies to create a 3-D game to highlight notable women in sports, science, politics, and other fields.

In this lesson, students develop a list of women of honor and create placemats to celebrate their accomplishments in the style of Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party."

Students will review one or more compositions by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., identify meaningful words and phrases, and create word art using the Wordle Web site.