Many textbooks for grades 3 through 8 do not include the story of the War of 1812. Using this classroom activity, students will be able to cite the origins and outcome of the War of 1812 and be able to place the creation of the Star-Spangled Banner in a chronological framework. The activity includes a narrative about the war of 1812 and the history of the Star-Spangled Banner, vocabulary, discussion questions and extension activities. It is included in the online exhibition from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History entitled "The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem".
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contains images and transcriptions of the various drafts of the famous document as well as translations into 28 languages.
offers primary documents illustrating how this groundbreaking African American baseball player advocated for civil rights. It incorporates the material into lessons on civil rights history, character education, and civic responsibility.
provides a lesson that uses primary documents such as the Emancipation Proclamation. This lesson correlates to the National History Standards and the National Standards for Civics and Government. It also has cross-curricular connections with history, government, and language arts.
Learn the influences of Billy Wilder as a means to deconstruct film as an art form, understand the underlying social and moral messages of film and analyze stereotypes in media. Understand the post WWII America social climate and movies.
Describe the era in which Bob Dylan grew up, and examine the cultural and musical influences that shaped his style. Analyze lyrics of Bob Dylan songs for content and meaning.
Explore and describe the political climate of Woody Guthrie's time and how people aligned themselves in order to make sense of the Depression, the Labor Movement of the 1930's and events in Europe. Examine how Guthrie's music reflected his times.
provides eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the Vikings in Canada (1000) to the diaries of mountain men (1800). Read the words of ship captains, fur traders, Indians, missionaries, and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. Highlights include Christopher Columbus stepping ashore (1492), Indians' first resistance (1493), Pilgrims landing in Plymouth (1620), and Pocahontas rescuing John Smith (1607).
follows two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through their experiences in the American Civil War. This hypermedia archive contains thousands of sources from before, during and after the Civil War in Virginia and Pennsylvania including newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census and military records. Students can write their own histories, reconstructing the lives of those who lived during the period.
(9-12) provides an opportunity for students to examine first-hand accounts of Civil War battles as they also examine Crane's style of writing and the realism it conveys about the war.