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1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions -- Lesson, Learning Page is a lesson plan in which students create their own multi-media epic poems about the year 1900. Walt Whitman’s "Song of Myself" and Hart Crane’s "The Bridge" serve as artistic models for students, who also draw on life histories, sound recordings, and other primary resources. (Library of Congress)

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America at the Centennial -– Lesson, Learning Page uses images and texts from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 to help students learn what the Exposition said about America at that time. Students work as historians using primary sources to create museum exhibits on issues of the Centennial Era. (Library of Congress)

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America Dreams—Lesson, Learning Page investigates what the American Dream has meant over the years to poets, politicians, comedians, musicians, photographers, lawyers, reporters, and others. Students may contribute to the Student Gallery and post their dreams on a Wall of Dreams. (Library of Congress)

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American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940—American Memory presents 2,900 life histories from 300 writers from 24 states. These histories describe individuals' families, incomes, occupations, political views, religions, diets, and observations. (Library of Congress)

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American Memory presents the photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures that are part of the historical Americana holdings at the Library of Congress. The learning section contains research tools, lesson plans, and activities for students. (Library of Congress)

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An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera—American Memory comprises 28,000 primary source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and encompasses key events and eras in American history. Items include a variety of posters, notices, advertisements, proclamations, leaflets, propaganda, manifestos, and business cards. They capture the experience of the American Revolution, slavery, the western land rush, the Civil War, woman suffrage, and the Industrial Revolution from the viewpoint of those who lived through those events. (Library of Congress)

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Artifact Road Show -- Lesson, Learning Page outlines a staff development workshop and offers lessons designed to help students put historical events in context and see them as a part of a larger story. Use of primary resources is the focus -- where to find them, what they are, how to examine them, and how to "construct the context" to tell the whole story. (Library of Congress)

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At Home in the Heartland explores family life in Illinois from 1700 to the present and examines contributions of various cultural groups to the state. It includes maps, timelines, historical artifacts, and lesson plans for teachers Grades 3-12. (Illinois State Museum, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities)

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Between the Lions is based on the PBS children's TV series, and presents a new story each week with related interactive games and activities for kids 4-7. It also recommends books for each episode and offers more than 300 tips and resources for helping kids learn to read. (WGBH, supported by Department of Education)

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Bringing Water to a Lesotho Village invites students to conduct research and then simulate a Lesotho village water committee that is designing a water supply system to improve living and health conditions. (Peace Corps)

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Campfire Stories with George Catlin: An Encounter of Two Cultures takes students on a virtual journey with the artist and ethnologist to meet Native Americans of the 1830s. His portraits, scenes of American Indian life, and writings depict cultures prior to U.S. expansion into tribal territories. The site is designed to enrich the study of U.S. history, geography, and environmental conservation, as well as leadership and character development. (Smithsonian Institution)

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The Capital and the Bay—American Memory consists of 139 books—first-person narratives, early histories, historical biographies, promotional brochures, and photograph collections that capture this distinctive region as it developed between the onset of European settlement and the first quarter of the 20th Century. (Library of Congress)

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Celebrating Our Connections Through Water explains to students how they can collect data about the role of water in celebrations around the world, organize it in a retrieval chart, and use the information to create learning stations for a Water Day Celebration. (Peace Corps)

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Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) generates and disseminates theoretical, empirical, and practical solutions to persistent problems in the learning and teaching of beginning reading. (University of Michigan School of Education, supported by Department of Education)

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A Child Becomes a Reader tells what parents can do to help children (ages 0-4 and 5-8) become readers. It includes suggestions about what to look for in day care centers and preschools, and a summary of scientific research on how children learn to read and write. (National Institute for Literacy, supported by Multiple Agencies)

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The Civil War through a Child's Eye -- Lesson, The Learning Page is a lesson plan that uses historical fiction and primary sources to expand students' perceptions of the Civil War era. Photos, non-fiction, and literature (Paul Fleischman's "Bull Run") help students see this era from a child's perspective. (Library of Congress)

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Copyright on the Web—Activity, Learning Page answers 11 questions students, teachers, & parents may have about using web images, sound recordings, and text in papers, presentations, and web projects. (Library of Congress)

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Creating French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliothéque nationale de France—Exhibit traces the history of this relationship from Charlemagne to Charles de Gaulle, through the prism of more than 200 magnificent "treasures" on loan from the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. The choice of items was dictated as much by their historical importance as by their artistic value in the hope that they will provide insight into, and spark curiosity about, the complex history of the United States' oldest ally. (Library of Congress)

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Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative represents efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators, and historians of science to make available the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3200 B.C., until the end of the third millennium. (Multiple Agencies)

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The Digital Classroom encourages teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents and to teach with primary source materials from the National Archives. The site offers discussions on how primary documents give form to history, instructions on building a school archive, and templates for document analysis worksheets. (National Archives and Records Administration)

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