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Some lesson plans are only available in Adobe Acrobat format. Get the reader. Abraham Lincoln: The Face of a War (Grades 4–12) WWII on the Home Front: Civic Responsibility (Grades 4–12) Native American Dolls (Grades 3–8) Stories of the Wrights' Flight (Grades 3–8) Every Picture Has a Story (Grades 3–8) Revolutionary Money (Grades 3–8) Lewis and Clark (Grades 3–8) Establishing Borders: The Expansion of the U.S., 1846-1848 (Grades 3–8) Decoding the Past: The Work of Archaeologists (Grades 3–8) From Carbons to Computers: The Changing American Office (Grades 6–12) Japan: Images of a People (Grades 3–8) Teaching from Objects and Stories: Learning from the Bering Sea Eskimo People (Grades 3–8) What Is Currency? Lessons from Historic Africa (Grades 3–8) Winning the Vote: How Americans Elect Their President (Grades 3–8) Letters from the Japanese American Internment (Grades 3–8) 200 Years and Counting: How the U.S. Census Tracks Social Trends (Grades 4–12) A Ticket to Philly—In 1769: Thinking about Cities, Then and Now (Grades K–8) Africa Behind and Beyond the Headlines (Grades 4–12) Small Worlds: Stamps as Storytellers (Grades 4–8) Stamps as Storytellers (And the Story of Stamps) (Grades 4–8) Once Upon a Real Time (Telling the Stories the Past Tells Us) (Grades 4–8) Celebrating the Smithsonian’s Birthday (Grades PreK–3) Playing Historical Detective: Great Grandmother’s Dress and Other Clues to the Life of Annie Steel (Grades PreK–8) Blacks in the Westward Movement (Grades PreK–8) Building Bridges: Living in a Diverse Society (Grades PreK–3) Celebration! (Grades PreK–3) In the Playtime of Others: Child Labor in the Early 20th Century (Grades 4–8) “Give It Your Best!”: Civilian Contributions to the Home Front (Grades 4–8) Perfectly Suited: Clothing and Social Change in America (Grades 4–8) Of Kayaks and Ulus: The Bearing Sea Eskimo Collection of Edward W. Nelson (Grades 4–8) The Constitution Lives! How It Protects Your Rights Today (Grades 4–8) Ethnic Folklore in Your Classroom: Traditions, Tales, and Treasures from Tijuana to Timbuktu (Grades PreK–12) Great Explorations: To the Ends of the Earth—and Beyond (Grades 4–8) Nineteenth-Century Family Portraits: Looking into Home, Sweet Home (Grades 4–8) "Hello, America!” Radio Broadcasting in the Years Before Television (Grades 4–8) History Close to Home: Creating Your Own Special Museum (Grades PreK–12) India—Where Remarkable Differences Are Ordinary (Grades PreK–3) In or Out? Make Up Your Mind! (Grades PreK–3) Life in the “Promised Land”: African-American Migrants in Northern Cities, 1916-1940 (Grades 4–8) Old Photographs: Windows to the Past (Grades 4–8) Washington's Head-Quarters 1780. At Newburgh, on the Hudson, by an unknown artist, after 1876. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr., and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson. This image is from the lesson plan Revolutionary Money.