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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: The Conquest of America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Consider these resources while illustrating the natives' response to Europeans settling into the Americas.
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Mapping Initial Encounters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Columbus' arrival laid the basis for encounters between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans. This unit examines how these contacts altered the way of life of peoples around the globe.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Picturing America

For Students 9th - 10th
In this gallery you will encounter art of America in a completely new fashion. Taking a look at various paintings, sculpture, architecture, fine crafts, and photography provides an inside look at our nation's character and ideals. Learn...
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Other

American Journeys: The Children of Eric the Red Explore the West [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lengthy lesson plan about the Norse encounters with indigenous people of North America by examining two sets of stories handed down through history by Vikings. [pdf]
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Dance Across the United States of America [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
These activities will allow students to become explorers and travel across the United States to encounter a variety of land forms. Students will create a story about their trek and then create choreography to match the sequence generated...
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University of Groningen

American History: Essays: Pattern of Exploraiton and Annihilation

For Students 9th - 10th
Poignant account of the decimation of indigenous peoples in both South and North America during the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Weather: Collection: Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms

For Teachers K - 1st
Get up close to a variety of weather conditions, encounter local weather patterns through spectacular imagery, and learn how to observe and describe different weather conditions with the beloved characters from PEEP and the Big Wide...
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: English I, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Portraits of early New Englanders as well as four buildings from seventeenth-century New England that accompany accounts in those British colonies of struggles, Indian hostilities, and economic success.
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Optical Society

Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Diffraction Between Wax Blocks

For Students 3rd - 8th
An activity to demonstrate how light behaves when encountering an obstacle, in this case, wax blocks placed in a ripple tank. Includes an explanation of the diffraction that occurs.
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Curated OER

Leni Lenape Indians, 1654

For Students 9th - 10th
One modern historical assessment and several original accounts of the mistrust, negotiations, alliances, trading, and disease transmission between European colonizers and native peoples in North America.