68.77.89 is designed for students in grades 9-12. It provides a set of 12 learning activities in 4 modules that meet Common Core, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate standards. The activities can be used as a set designed to be used together, or in single modules as free-standing lessons.Students will read excerpts of relevant literature, listen and watch excerpts of oral histories, view excerpts of media of the time, and respond to compelling questions to stimulate deep class discussion.
Students will be challenged to apply the lessons from the experiences of Czechs and Slovaks to better understand issues of democracy today and their responsibility for preserving democracy for the future.

This set is a compilation of maps by time period and theme for teaching AP U.S. History. It also contains a list of instructional strategies and a DBQ organizer for students.

This poem by Phillis Wheatley demonstrates how enslaved and free black people saw the American Revolution as an opportunity to end the systematic oppression of black people in the colonies. This resource comes from Women & the American Story (wams.nyhistory.org), a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society that connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women's contributions to the American past.

These objects were handmade by women to raise consciousness about and money for the abolition of slavery. This resource comes from Women & the American Story (wams.nyhistory.org), a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society that connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women’s contributions to the American past.

This video segment adapted from First Light explains why the highest peak in the Pacific, Mauna Kea, is an ideal site for astronomical observations. Featured are new telescope technologies that allow astronomers to explore the universe in more depth.

A sculpture created by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage for the 1939 World's Fair. This resource comes from Women & the American Story (wams.nyhistory.org), a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society that connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women's contributions to the American past.

Finches on the Galapagos Islands have evolved to exploit almost every possible niche. This diagram shows the range of food sources available on the island and the different beak shapes adapted to exploit each of them.

An advertisement that demonstrates the immediate popularity and reach of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s masterwork. This resource comes from Women & the American Story (wams.nyhistory.org), a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society that connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women’s contributions to the American past.

In this lesson, students will analyze the breadth of visual qualities -- including medium, color, shape, and other attributes -- of Thornton Dial’s Lost Cows and apply them to a broader understanding of hardship and perseverance in the Post-Civil Rights era South. They will learn about the life and career of Thornton Dial and consider whyand howthe visual arts can broaden understanding of the importance of material culture as a form of communication, record-keeping, and creative expression for African Americans in the rural South.

This online database of our African Ethnographic collection includes artifacts that were found throughout the continent of Africa, from The Gambia to Madagascar, from Algeria to South Africa. The database allows you to see all artifacts for a country by clicking on a map or list of country names, search by object type, culture, and keyword find out what items are currently on display, and learn about recently acquired artifacts. There are two ways to search the collection as a picture-only gallery, or as a catalog that describes each artifact's provenance (country, locale, culture), materials, dimensions, and year of acquisition.

First of two lessons on agriculatural tends in America. This one looks at the number of farms, average farm size, and amount of land in farms from 1850 through 2012.

Second of two lessons on agriculatural tends in America. This one uses ArcGIS online that follows simple step-by-step directions to create a web map. Students will learn how farm size, average farm output, and type of farming vary across the U.S.

A video reenactment of a speech given by Black activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper at the Eleventh National Women’s Rights Convention in 1866. This resource comes from Women & the American Story (wams.nyhistory.org), a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society that connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women’s contributions to the American past.

These images from the Smithsonian Institution depict Nancy Knowlton's work with snapping shrimp in Panama. Knowlton found that the closing of the isthmus -- dividing the Pacific Ocean from the Caribbean -- resulted in new species of shrimp.

Be an informed consumer. Understand the costs and benefits of various alternative financial services, such as payday loans, pawn shops, car title loans, rent-to-own, and refund anticipation checks. Compare these to more traditional financial services provided through banks and credit unions.

Activity for students to examine primary sources from the Spanish-American War and draw conclusions about propaganda's impact on public opinion of events that occurred during the war.

The maps in this map set were created predominantly by Euro-American cartographers, and published by government agencies or commercial profit-seeking companies. They promote Euro-American culture and perpetuate certain interpretations of history. Considering the inherent power dynamics helps us understand that this was at the expense of other points of view – especially of Indigenous peoples, those that were enslaved, and immigrant laborers, among many others. It is important to bear in mind how these documents reveal or conceal the ways people and communities were dispossessed, exploited, and annihilated. Unseen here but equally vital are stories of heroic resilience, resistance, and cultural preservation. The purpose of the following exercise is to examine the perspective of colonial maps and their influence on our understanding of history. Students will view maps and captions from the America Transformed: Mapping the 19th Century exhibit and their corresponding Native viewpoints.

America @ Worship; How social media is – and isn't – changing American religion.

Two photographs documenting the anti-war activists who visited Hanoi during the Vietnam War. This resource comes from Women & the American Story (wams.nyhistory.org), a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society that connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women’s contributions to the American past.

The goal of this preparatory textbook is to give students a chance to familiarize with some terms and some basic concepts they will find in an Anatomy and Physiology course. Organization and functioning of the human organism are generally presented starting from the simplest building blocks, and then moving into levels of increasing complexity. This textbook follows the same presentation. It starts introducing the concept of homeostasis, then covers the chemical level, and later on a basic introduction to cellular level, organ level, and organ system levels. This second edition incorporates a module on protein synthesis, and a complementary base pairing learning objective as requested by many students. This edition also adds audio for all learning objectives. Audio Icon by Kieselli form Pixabay. The textbook is organized in five UNITS, divided into sixteen MODULES covering a total of fifty-two Learning Objectives. There is a short self-assessment at the end of each learning objective.