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Smithsonian Institution

Black Diamond

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Score a home run with this packet of information on the very first player of the Negro League to be elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame — cultural groundbreaker and sports legend Satchel Paige. These worksheets include a...
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Penn Museum

Africa

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Mask wearing is not just for Halloween! This attractive and informative set of worksheets discusses this important African cultural tradition, as well as a variety of other significant cultural attributes to ancient civilizations, such...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: African Americans

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The students will learn about the history and the culture of African Americans.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: African Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of African Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: South African Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of South African Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: American Isolates

For Students 9th - 10th
The students will learn about the culture and the people of American Isolates that live in the rural south of the United States.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Sierra Leonean Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Sierra Leonean Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Cape Verdean Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Cape Verdean Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Eritrean Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Eritrean Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Ethiopian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Ethiopian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Ghanaian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Ghanaian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Haitian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Haitian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Jamaican Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Jamaican Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Kenyan Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Kenyan Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Liberian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Liberian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Nigerian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Nigerian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Ugandan Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Ugandan Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Slavery & the Making of America

For Students 9th - 10th
Using primary documents, oral histories, and other historical resources, discover how the arts of Africa, Europe, and pre-Civil War America influenced the culture of enslaved African Americans.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: American Culture in the 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
The First World War had a crippling effect on any notions of positivity in the artists, writers, and intellectuals of that time and they became known as the Lost Generation. This page discusses this group of people, the emergence of jazz...
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Other

African, Oceanic, and New World Cultures

For Students 9th - 10th
Link to Pre-Columbian Art through this resource. You can find information regarding their culture and specific works of art.
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: South Carolina

For Students 3rd - 5th
Explore how South Carolina moved from a "plantation culture" in 1670 to a "growing research center and banking state" today. South Carolina played a major role in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.
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Other

Amistad Digital Resource: Harlem Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Harlem Renaissance, the 1920s rebirth of African American arts centered in the Harlem neighborhood in New York City.
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: North Carolina

For Students 3rd - 5th
Help discover more about "the story of the lost colony of Roanoke Island." Why did the Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk? Learn more about North Carolina from the Library of Congress website.
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PBS

Pbs: Africans in America: Slavery and the Origins of the Civil War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An article by Columbia University historian Eric Foner that discusses how long-standing views of the role of slavery in America began to be challenged during the civil rights era of the 1960s by a new generation of historians, whose work...