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A Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic?
 2 Yes
No
A Trip to Wonderland: The Nursery 'Alice'
 2-3 No
No
Aesop and Ananse: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales
 2 No
No
African-American Soldiers After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
 3-4 Yes
No
Allegory in Painting
 2 No
No
Angkor What? Angkor Wat!
 2 Yes
No
Animals of the Chinese Zodiac
 3-4 Yes
No
Anishinabe/Ojibwe/Chippewa: Culture of an Indian Nation
 3 No
No
Australian Aboriginal Art and Storytelling
 2 Yes
No
Aztecs Find a Home: The Eagle Has Landed
 5 Yes
No
Benjamin Franklin's Many "Hats"
 3 Yes
No
Birth of a Nation, the NAACP, and the Balancing of Rights
 2 Yes
No
Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures
 3 No
No
Childhood Through the Looking-Glass
 1-3 Yes
No
Cinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Character
 2-3 Yes
No
Cinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Plot and Setting
 2-4 Yes
No
Common Visions, Common Voices
 2 No
No
Composition and Content in the Visual Arts
 1-2 No
No
Couriers in the Inca Empire: Getting Your Message Across
 3-4 No
No
Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible"
 10-12 Yes
No
Dust Bowl Days
 5-7 No
No
Early Multi-National Influences in the United States
 4 No
No
Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad: From Painting to Poem
 3-6 Yes
No
Egypt's Pyramids: Monuments with a Message
 2-3 Yes
No
Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Hieroglyphs
 2 No
No
Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Scroll Paintings
 2 No
No
Exploring Arthurian Legend
 4-7 No
No
Fables and Trickster Tales Around the World
 3-5 No
No
Fairy Tales Around the World
 13-15 Yes
No
Family and Friendship in Quilts
 4 No
No
Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
 7-8 Yes
No
Folktales and Ecology: Animals and Humans in Cooperation and Conflict
 3 Yes
No
Following the Great Wall of China
 1-2 Yes
No
Genre in the Visual Arts: Portraits, Pears, and Perfect Landscapes
 3-5 Yes
No
Hamlet Meets Chushingura: Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy
 8-10 No
No
Hammurabi's Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia?
 3 Yes
No
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
 11-14 Yes
No
Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and karma in the Jataka Tales
 2 No
No
Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore
 3 Yes
No
History in Quilts
 3 Yes
No
Homer's Civil War Veteran: Battlefield to Wheat Field
 2-3 Yes
No
In Depth with the Full Spectrum
 1-2 Yes
No
In My Other Life
 2 No
No
In Old Pompeii
 3 No
No
Investigating Jack London's White Fang: Nature and Culture Detectives
 3-4 Yes
No
It Came From Greek Mythology
 4 Yes
No
Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Removing the Mask
 2-3 Yes
No
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, A Catalyst for Victory
 2 Yes
No
Lascaux: La Vie en Caverne!
 4 No
No
Learning the Blues
 4 No
No
Leonardo da Vinci: Creative Genius
 4-7 Yes
Yes
Lesson 1: Color Me Happy: Color, Mood, and Tone
 1 Yes
Yes
Lesson 1: Composition Basics
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 1: How Did Surnames Come to Be?
 2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 1: How Was the White House Designed?
 2 No
Yes
Lesson 1: On the Road with Marco Polo: A Boy in 13th Century Venice
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 1: The Phoenicians and the Beginnings of the Alphabet
 3-4 No
Yes
Lesson 1: Trekking to Timbuktu: The Geography of Mali (Teacher Version)
 1 No
Yes
Lesson 1: Trekking to Timbuktu: The Geography of Mali--Student Version
 1 No
Yes
Lesson 1: What Is the Purpose of the White House?
 1 Yes
Yes
Lesson 2: How and Why Has the White House Changed?
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 2: On the Road with Marco Polo: From Venice to Hormuz
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 2: Symmetry and Balance
 1 No
Yes
Lesson 2: The Greek Alphabet: more familiar than you think!
 4-5 Yes
Yes
Lesson 2: Trekking to Timbuktu: Trade in Ancient West Africa (Teacher Version)
 1 No
Yes
Lesson 2: Trekking to Timbuktu: Trade in Ancient West Africa--Student Version
 2 No
Yes
Lesson 2: What Has Happened in the White House?
 1 Yes
Yes
Lesson 2: What's In A Name? British Surnames Derived from Places
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 3: A President's Home and the President's House
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 3: British Surnames Derived from Occupations or Professions
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 3: On the Road with Marco Polo: From Hormuz to Kashgar
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 3: Repetition in the Visual Arts
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 3: The Roman Alphabet is our Alphabet
 3 No
Yes
Lesson 3: Trekking to Timbuktu: Timbuktu: A Center of Trade (Teacher Version)
 2 No
Yes
Lesson 3: Trekking to Timbuktu: Timbuktu: A Center of Trade--Student Version
 2 No
Yes
Lesson 3: What Happens in the White House? A Timeline
 1 Yes
Yes
Lesson 4: Line in the Visual Arts
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 4: Non-British Surnames
 1-2 Yes
Yes
Lesson 4: On the Road with Marco Polo: Crossing the Deserts of China
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 4: The Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Romans, and Us
 2-3 No
Yes
Lesson 4: Trekking to Timbuktu: Mansa Musa Takes a Trip (Student Version)
 2 No
Yes
Lesson 4: Trekking to Timbuktu: Mansa Musa Takes a Trip--Teacher Version
 2 No
Yes
Lesson 5: On the Road with Marco Polo: Marco Polo in China
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 5: Trekking to Timbuktu: Timbuktu's Golden Age of Scholarship (Student Version)
 2 No
Yes
Lesson 5: Trekking to Timbuktu: Timbuktu's Golden Age of Scholarship--Teacher Version
 2 No
Yes
Lesson 6: On the Road with Marco Polo: Sea Voyage to India
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 6: Trekking to Timbuktu: The Search for Timbuktu (Student Version)
 2 No
Yes
Lesson 6: Trekking to Timbuktu: The Search for Timbuktu--Teacher Version
 2 No
Yes
Lesson 7: On the Road with Marco Polo: From Hormuz to Venice
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 7: Trekking to Timbuktu: Restoring the Past (Student Version)
 2 No
Yes
Lesson 7: Trekking to Timbuktu: Restoring the Past--Teacher Version
 2 No
Yes
Lesson 8: On the Road with Marco Polo: Homecoming
 1-2 No
Yes
Lesson 8: Trekking to Timbuktu: Assessment of Lessons 1–7 (Student Version)
 2 No
Yes
Lesson 8: Trekking to Timbuktu: Assessment of Lessons 1–7 (Teacher Version)
 1 No
No
Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
 3 Yes
No
Lessons of the Indian Epics: The Ramayana: Showing your Dharma
 1 Yes
No
Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant Class in Edo Period Japan
 2-3 Yes
No
Lions, Dragons, and Nian: Animals of the Chinese New Year
 4 No
No
Live from Ancient Olympia!
 2 Yes
No
Lu Shih—The Couplets of T’ang
 3-4 Yes
No
Mapping the Past
 2 No
No
Marco Polo Takes A Trip
 9-12 Yes
No
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence
 2 No
No
Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
 3 Yes
No
Mexican Culture and History through Its National Holidays
 1-2 No
No
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción and the Spanish Mission in the New World
 1 No
No
Morality "Tails" East and West: European Fables and Buddhist Jataka Tales
 2 Yes
No
Music from Across America
 2-3 Yes
No
My Piece of History
 4 Yes
No
Native American Cultures Across the U.S.
 2 Yes
No
Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech—Know It When You See It
 3-4 Yes
No
Not "Indians," Many Tribes: Native American Diversity
 5 Yes
No
Not Everyone Lived in Castles During the Middle Ages
 6-8 Yes
No
Picture Lincoln
 2-3 Yes
No
Picturing First Families
 2-4 No
No
Picturing Freedom: Selma-to-Montgomery March, 1965
 3-4 Yes
No
Poems of Tennyson and Noyes: Pictures in Words
 5 Yes
No
Portrait of a Hero
 2-3 Yes
No
Portraits: I've Just Seen a Face
 4 Yes
No
Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic in the One-Room Schoolhouse
 4-6 No
No
Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts
 4-5 No
No
Romare Bearden's "The Dove"—A Meeting of Vision and Sound
 2-3 Yes
No
Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Fact and Fiction
 2-3 Yes
No
Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Words and Pictures
 2-3 Yes
No
Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
 4-6 No
No
Seeing Sense in Photographs & Poems
 1-3 Yes
No
Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources
 3 Yes
No
Socrates and the Law: Argument in an Athenian Jail
 1 No
No
Sophocles' Antigone: Ancient Greek Theatre, Live From Antiquity!
 2-3 No
No
Spirituals
 1-2 No
No
Stars and Stripes Forever: Flag Facts for Flag Day
 2 No
No
Stories in Quilts
 4 No
No
Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
 3-4 Yes
No
Tales of King Arthur
 7-9 Yes
No
Tales of the Supernatural
 UNKNOWN No
No
The Aztecs — Mighty Warriors of Mexico
 5-7 Yes
No
The Beauty of Anglo-Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to Beowulf
 2-3 Yes
No
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
 4-5 No
No
The Magical World of Russian Fairy Tales
 2-5 Yes
No
The Massachusetts 54th Regiment: Honoring the Heroes
 2-3 Yes
No
The Meaning Behind the Mask
 3 No
No
The Olympic Medal: It's All Greek to Us!
 2-3 Yes
No
The Royal Art of Benin
 3 No
No
The Statue of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol
 4-6 Yes
No
The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport
 2 Yes
No
The World of Haiku
 3-4 No
No
Thomas Hart Benton — The Sources of Country Music
 3-4 Yes
No
Traces: Historic Archaeology
 2 No
No
Traditions and Languages of Three Native Cultures: Tlingit, Lakota, & Cherokee
 8-9 Yes
No
Under the Deep Blue Sea
 4-6 No
No
Unicorns, Dragons, and Other Magical Creatures
 5-6 No
No
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
 3-4 Yes
No
What Masks Reveal
 2 No
No
What Presidential Portraits Reveal
 2-3 No
No
What Should a House Do?
 6 No
No
What's in a Picture? An Introduction to Subject in the Visual Arts
 3 Yes

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