Quinto de Primaria Historia

Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA — Historia

From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook on history (mostly Mexican history), including timelines, text, visuals, questionnaires, self-evaluation. Intermediate through advanced students and native-speaking students.

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Dirección General de Culturas Populares

La diversidad cultural de México

From the Dirección General de Culturas Populares, this site contains a wealth of factual information about the multitude of indigenous cultures of Mexico and their wider significance. Intermediate through advanced students.

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Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean

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Related Lesson Plans: 
On This Day With Lewis and Clark
Related Links: 
Journals of Lewis and Clark Expedition
Discovering Lewis and Clark
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U.S. State and Territory Online Encyclopedias

This collection of free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of some of the states and the territories.

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On Being (formerly Speaking of Faith)

With NEH funding, the long running NPR program On Being (formerly called Speaking of Faith) has produced a series of biographical programs of influential 20th-century historic figures: Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, Takanka Iyotaka (Sitting Bull), Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Joshua Heschel, and Reinhold Niebuhr. These portraits focus on their lives and thought, their spiritual development, the effect of their work on others, and their impact in contemporary society — bringing special attention to their religious context and milieu.

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Constitution Day

Educational Games and Interactive Modules

Constitution Day Interactive Bill of RightsChallenge your  students with some fun games from the Bill of Rights Institute: the newest one  "Constitutional Duel" asks them to answer 15 multiple choice questions to defend their constitutional honor.

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Reading the Constitution

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What better way to celebrate this important document, its place within our society and throughout our history, than to closely investigate the words and ideas contained in it. Unlike more recent constitutions, the document is written in the language of ordinary people and is only a few pages.

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American Icons: A Radio Series from Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

A radio series which focuses on the fundamental works in American cultural history featuring one-hour programs that span our history: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Edith Wharton's novel The House of Mirth, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, I Love Lucy, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

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300 Sioux Indians are killed by U.S. troops at Wounded Knee, South Dakota

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On the morning of December 29, 1890, the Sioux chief Big Foot and some 350 of his followers camped on the banks of Wounded Knee creek. Surrounding their camp was a force of U.S. troops charged with the responsibility of arresting Big Foot and disarming his warriors. The scene was tense. Trouble had been brewing for months.

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Related Lesson Plans: 
Life on the Great Plains
Native American Cultures Across the U.S.
Not "Indians," Many Tribes: Native American Diversity
Traditions and Languages of Three Native Cultures: Tlingit, Lakota, & Cherokee
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We Shall Remain Episode 5: Wounded Knee
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