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From: Janet Isserlis <Janet_Isserlis@Brown.edu>
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Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9904] history resources
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dear all,
Apologies to those of you who may already receive this mailing.
fyi - while not all are geared to ESL learners, many look useful,
interesting and/or adaptable
From: "Winters, Kirk" <Kirk.Winters@ed.gov>
To: "Information from & about the U.S. Department of Education
publications & more ." <edinfo@inet.ed.gov>
Subject: Presidents' Day, Black History Month, & New Learning Resources (F
eb 11, 2004)
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:47:07 -0500
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TWELVE NEW LEARNING RESOURCES in the arts, science, & social
studies have been added to FREE. They're described below.
A NEW BLACK HISTORY MONTH webpage features...
Frederick Douglass, Ralph Bunche, Booker T. Washington,
George Washington Carver, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther
King, Jr., the 369th Infantry, the Tuskegee Airmen,
first-person accounts of slavery, the Brown vs. Board of
Education ruling, the church in Southern African American
communities, & more. http://www.ed.gov/free/bhm.html
PRESIDENTS' DAY resources will be highlighted at FREE February
12-16.
FREE -- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence -- aims
to make it easy for teachers, parents, students, & others to
find learning resources from 40+ federal organizations.
http://www.ed.gov/free
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Arts
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"National Museum of African Art"
presents images from more than 30 exhibitions -- embroideries,
textiles, pottery, jewelry, sculptures, palace doors, chairs,
headrests, pipes, cups, drinking horns, bowls, drums, photos,
currency, icons, & a range of paintings, including
contemporary works. (SI)
http://www.nmafa.si.edu/
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Science
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"Tracking Habitat Change"
is an electronic field trip to learn about habitat & how
scientists use technology to understand habitat change. This
live satellite event on March 4, 2004, will take students to
Nevada & New Mexico to join scientists examining factors that
are changing the habitat of the sage-grouse & prairie chicken.
(BLM)
http://www.blm.gov/education/LearningLandscapes/teachers/field
trip_04/index.html
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Social studies
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"1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions -- Lesson,
Learning Page"
invites students to use life histories, recordings, & other
primary resources to create their own multi-media epic poems
about the year 1900. Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" & Hart
Crane's "The Bridge" serve as models. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/00/voices/index.html
"America at the Centennial -- Lesson, Learning Page"
offers images & texts from the Philadelphia Centennial
Exposition of 1876 to help students learn about America at
that time. Students work as historians using primary sources
to create museum exhibits on issues of the Centennial Era.
(LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/00/centen/index.html
"Artifact Road Show -- Lesson, Learning Page"
outlines a staff development workshop & offers lessons that
help students see historical events in context & as a part of
a larger story. Use of primary resources is the focus --
where to find them, what they are, how to examine them, & how
to "construct the context" to tell the whole story. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/road/intro.html
"Baseball: As American as Apple Pie -- Community Center, Learning
Page"
is an annotated collection of Library of Congress resources
about America's national pastime. It includes early baseball
pictures, baseball songs & stories, baseball cards, the first
all-professional baseball team (the Cincinnati Red Stockings,
1869), Cy Young, Ty Cobb, "home run kings," & letters &
speeches by Jackie Robinson, the first African American to
play major league baseball. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_baseball.php
"The Branding of America -- Collaborative Activity, Learning Page"
offers thumbnail histories of nearly 30 well-known brand names
associated with soft drinks, potatoes, cereal, fruit,
airplanes, buses, pianos, sewing machines, jeans, shoes, &
other products. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/branding/index.php
"Harry Truman & Independence, Missouri"
features the home & story of our thirty-third President. Upon
returning home after World War I, Truman married his childhood
sweetheart, started a clothing store that failed, & was
elected to a judgeship & later the U.S. Senate. He was Vice
President 82 days when President Roosevelt died. As
President, he used the atomic bomb to end World War II,
instituted the Marshall Plan, & sent troops to defend South
Korea when the North invaded. (NPS,TwHP,NRHP)
www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/103truman/103truman.htm
"Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal -- Lesson, Learning Page"
draws on photos, texts, & other sources to help students learn
about the Erie Canal & its impact on the economic & social
growth of New York & the nation. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/00/canal/
"National Parks Associated with African Americans: An Ethnographic
Perspective"
links from a map to nearly 60 national park sites & resources
that emphasize the role of African Americans in the
development of American culture, heritage, & history. Each
link describes the importance of that park or resource to
African American history. (NPS, Archeology & Ethnography
Program)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/PEOPLES/overview.htm
"The Online Academy"
highlights artifacts, scholars, collectors, & preservers of
African American history. Features include the inventor of
the "multiple effect vacuum process" for producing sugar, the
first identified African American toolmaker, the autobiography
of an African American cowboy, & Zora Neale Hurston's first
novel. (SI)
http://anacostia.si.edu/academy.htm
"The Robinson House: A Portrait of African American Heritage"
pieces together the story of the James Robinson family from
artifacts found in archaeological excavations around the house
where they lived for nearly a century. An African American
born free in 1799, Robinson worked in a Virginia tavern
earning nearly $500 to purchase 170 acres of land near Bull
Run. There he built a log cabin, & his family turned the land
into a prosperous farm, making him one of the wealthiest
African Americans in the Manassas area in the mid-19th
century. (NPS, Archeology & Ethnography Program)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/robinson/index.htm
Acronyms
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BLM -- Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior
LOC -- Library of Congress
NPS -- National Park Service
NPS,TwHP,NRHP -- Nat'l Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places,
Nat'l Register of Historic Places
SI -- Smithsonian Institution
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