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Catch-22

Martinek, Joseph

Activity
9-12
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Anti-War, Isolationism, Pacifism, Peace, United States, World War II

Causes of the Civil War

Michelle, Keith

Unit
6-8
Civics and Government, Economics, History
PA State
1860 Presidential Election, Abraham, Breckinridge, Civil War, Democratic Party, Douglas, Harriet, John Bell, Lincoln, North America, Political Map 1800s, Republican Party, Slavery, Tubman, United States

Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers

Adams, Lucy

Lesson Plan
Pre K-2
Cultural Studies, History
VA State
Boycott, Cesar Chavez, United Farm Workers

Challenges for Immigrants

Carlier, Jon; Poland, Jason

Unit
6-8
English/Language Arts, Geography, History
PA State
Angel Island, Ellis Island, Immigrants, Immigration, Nativism, Pull Factors, Push Factors, Urbanization

Challenges: Education for African Americans After the Civil War

Obrochta, William

PD Plan
Any Grade
History
Common Core, VA State
African American, Civil Rights, Civil War, Education, Equality, Freedman, Jim Croq, Race, Reconstruction, Segregation, Sharecropper

Change-Gin For The Better?

Wheeler-Toppin, Jodi

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Cotton Gin, Innovation, Inquiry, Technology, Whitney

Child Labor During the Industrial Revolution

Samler, B

Lesson Plan
6-8
History
Conditions, Employment, Industrial Revolution, Labor

Child Labor in America

Slaughter, Patricia

Lesson Plan
3-5
History
NCSS, PA State
Bobbin Girl, Child Labor, Factory, Industrial Revolution, Textile

Child Labor in Rhode Island

Polucha, Joyce

Lesson Plan
9-12
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Child Labor, Factory, Industrial Revolution, Lewis Hine, Photographs, Reform , Rhode Island

Child Labor Laws Rights and Responsibilities

Nicole Morrow

Primary Source Set
Any Grade
History
Child, Edcuation, Federal, Industrial, Labor, Law, Rights, Work Force

Children for Change

Schaefer, Kameron; Wise, Sue

Unit
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, PA State
Change, Children, Communication, Civic Engagement, Equality, Individuals, Rights

Children for Hire: What’s Wrong with This Picture?

Taylor, Priscilla

Primary Source Set
Any Grade
History
Child, Federal, Industrial, Labor, Law , Rights, Strike, Work Force, Protection

Children of the Dust Bowl

Mellen, Lisa

Activity
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Children, Drought, Dust Bowl, Farm, Great Depression, Migrant, Migrate, Okies, Prejudice, West

Children's Lives at the Turn of the 20th Century

McNece, Emily

Unit
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, PA State
20th Century, Childhood, Children, Education, Games, Lives, Personal Hygiene, Poetry

Children's Lives Then (late 1800s) and Now

Barnard, Tara

Unit
Pre K-2
Economics, English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, PA State
Childhood, Children, Chores, Daily Life, Food , Nutrition, Play, Toys

Chocolate by Hershey

Antonic, Emily

Activity
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Chocolate, Confectioner, Great Depression, Hershey, Mennonite, Monument, Orphan, Philanthropist

Citing Evidence to Support Claims with Sources from the Library of Congress

Miller, Grant

PD Plan
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, IL State
Claim, Evidence, Source

Citizenship

Sivavec, Moriah; Marchetti, Becky

Unit
Pre K-2
Civics and Government, History
Common Core, PA State
Citizenship, Civics, Community, Government, Kennedy, President

City as a Primary Source

University of the Arts

External link
Activity
Any Grade
Arts and Music, Cultural Studies, Science and Technology
Common Core
Architecture, Change, Design, Map, Neighborhood, Urban

Civil Rights Connection

Bucks, Robert

Lesson Plan
3-5
Cultural Studies, History
NCSS, PA State
Bullying, Civil Rights Movement, March on Washington, Martin Luther King, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Parks

Civil Rights Movement

de Steuben, Marcia

PD Plan
3-5
Cultural Studies, English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
African American, Civil Rights Movement, Discrimination, Equality, Segregation, Struggle

Civil Rights Movement in the Courts and Congress

Hughes, Noelle

Unit
9-12
Civics and Government, English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, PA State
Civil Rights, Discrimination, Inequality, Legislation, Segregation

Civil War Recruitment in the Mid-Atlantic Region

Dahlstrom, Susan

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Civil War, Draft, Enlist, Lincoln, Recruitment, Mid-Atlantic, Poster, Region, Slavery, Soldier, War

Clara Barton

Williams, Virginia

Lesson Plan
3-5
History
NCSS
Barton, Gender, Red Cross, Stereotypes, Women's History

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