This resource reviews the accomplishments of James Baldwin, an African American who was a major figure in both American literature and the civil rights movement. He explored the issue of race in his writings.

Students will examine two pairs of banners from the woman suffrage movement and then write a banner to match one banner that is missing its pair.

Students can learn about how people from the Pacific region have been represented on stamps over the history of the United States. This is a resource from the Smithsonian Postal Museum and it addresses the culture of the United States.

Students can take the role of a Tuskegee Airmen who has to protect a set of bombers. It also discusses the issues of discrimination which the airmen faced.

Students can learn about American Sports figures that have been represented on stamps over the history of the United States. This is a resource from the Smithsonian Postal Museum and it addresses the culture of the United States.

In this resource, students can learn about America’s key symbols and holidays through short videos, mini-activities, and practice questions in this segment of Preparing for the Oath: U.S. History and Civics for Citizenship. The seven questions included in this segment cover topics such as national holidays, the American flag, the national anthem, and the Statue of Liberty. This site was designed with the needs of recent immigrants in mind. It is written at a “low-intermediate” ESL level.

Students will understand who fought the War of Independence and how their lives and the lives of their families were affected by the war. This lesson focuses on the leadership skills of George Washington.

In this resource, students will understand who fought the War of Independence and how their lives
and the lives of their families were affected by the war.

Students can learn about real people who lived in internment camps, and then create baseball cards to tell their stories. Part of an OurStory module entitled Life in a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp, this activity includes instructions, discussion prompts, links, and background information. OurStory is designed to help children and adults explore history together through the use of children's literature, museum collections, and hands-on activities.

Children will watch a short silent film recorded in 1930 and get a sense of a Harlem club during the Jazz Age. Part of an OurStory module entitled Duke Ellington and Jazz, this activity includes a link to a newsreel video from the Smithsonian Archives Center, discussion prompts, and background information.

Students will explore the web to answer their questions about Robert Smalls and the Civil War. Then they will assemble a digital slideshow of their findings.

In this resource, students can explore jazz through listening activities, interviews with musicians, and background information on SmithsonianJazz.org. Students can also hone their skills at analyzing oral histories with a collection of over fifty recordings of jazz composers, arrangers, and performers.

Students will locate, explore, and photograph evidence of maritime activities affecting them and/or their community, write a detailed description about the effect of the activities, and share both photographs and descriptions online.

Students will play the role of newspaper reporters in order to research, write, and publish an article about the history of the Star-Spangled Banner. This is connected with the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC.

After reading their Wonders anchor text, “They Don’t Mean It!”, students will be asked to collaborate using a Nearpod on Chinese Cultures. During the Nearpod students will further investigate the Chinese culture and celebrations. Afterwards students will use  knowledge learned from the anchor text and the nearpod and Makey Makeys to create  interactive poster board characters from the story. The characters they create will share important information about their beliefs, foods, and any other important cultural features that students feel are necessary to share out based on the characters they read about. The poster will be enhanced by Makey Makey coding and audio recordings.  Students will complete a gallery walk to learn more about the characters by the other groups.

Students will identify and analyze the historical data found within two newspapers reporting on Robert Smalls and the CSS Planter.

This curriculum focuses on eight quilters, their communities, and their individual quilt stories.

In this unit, students will be introduced the first major clash in the Civil War the Battle of Bull Run and encourage students to consider the perspectives of ordinary citizens of the North and the South and the impact of this battle on their lives.

Students and teachers can review ths resource to learn about the life of Native Americans who were in the Chesapeake Region of the United States.

Students learn about the political, economic, and geographic regional differences that led to conflict in the United States through map sketches, primary sources, problem-solving and points of view.