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Biographies for Kids,Famous Leaders for Young Readers, biographies of famous people written for elementary age children

This is a great site that offers so much information about many people in our history. Students can look up famous people and learn about who they were and more.

Curriculum related to places in Minnesota developed by students in a K-8 teacher licensure program at Bemidji State University.

Curriculum related to places in Minnesota developed by students in a K-8 teacher licensure program at Bemidji State University.

"There is no single objective way to describe why an artifact is significant to a culture. Objects are important to different people for different reasons. To make this idea personal, students will be invited to bring to class important cultural artifacts from their own lives. Each object will be "interpreted" by a student anthropologist who will make hypotheses regarding the importance of this object. The student anthropologist will also determine what this artifact says about the culture of the owner. The owner of the artifact will get a chance to tell their actual story."

Scholastic's Global Trek is a way for students to travel around the world without ever having to leave their classroom. When students arrive in the country of their choice they are supplied with a suggested travel itinerary. This itinerary offers them links to background information and a chance to read about the country's people.

Students will analyze how the 50 State Quarters Program represents both the diversity and unity of the United States. They will identify human and physical geographic characteristics of Roman culture from Roman coins and examine how Roman emperors used coins to help unify their empire.

This site offers great lesson plans, games, projects and many other neat tools for teachers to use in the classroom and for students to explore on their own.

A site that is full of fun information and activities for elementary students when working on a unit about Colonial times.

Nice visuals and narrative line to weave these facts about colonial life together!

The actual document that sent almost 120,000 people of Japanese decent to camps in the U.S.

Photos and information on how the earths surface is changing.

How rivers change and how they change landforms.

List of sites of how rivers change land forms and how we use rivers.

A very good and credible media source that tells the tale of how women across the country took charge and led. Also a very accurate deconstruction of the myth behind the character.

Great geography and earth science connection materials for 7-8 students.

Awesome site for geogrpahy...maps, demographics, printables and more!

This is a great list that represents how our countries popular leaders actually became all-around leaders WWII

Shares a short biography of select labor heros of the 1850's to the 1990's, such as Mother Jones, Cesar Chavez, and Lucy Parsons.

The Town That Was is a documentary film of Centralia, Pennsylvania, a once thriving mining town until 1962 when the ming caught fire and continued burning until the mid 1980s.

I thought this was a great documentary. They talk about the governments lack of help with the town's mine fire. Instead of the fire being put out soon, it lasted for many, many years destroying the town in the meantime.

Great lesson plan on Landforms. Includes great resources and rubrics too!

This site is created by National Geographic. It contains lesson plans, activities, atlases, etc. It links to U.S. national geography standards. Nice resource.