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02: The New South | How the Monuments Came Down
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02: The New South | How the Monuments Came Down
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Learn how enslaved African Americans in Richmond, Virginia, established what a historian in this clip calls “quasi-free communities, where they etched out lives for themselves, that paved the way forward.”  This resource is part of the How the Monuments Came Down collection.

Subject:
History/Social Sciences
American History
Virginia History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Visual Media
Author:
Trish Reed
Date Added:
09/24/2021
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08: Caricatures of African Americans | How the Monuments Came Down
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08: Caricatures of African Americans | How the Monuments Came Down
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Learn why blackface minstrelsy in the early 20th century sought to “parody and caricature Black ambition and achievement,” as explained by historians in this clip. Note to Teachers: The video clip, Caricatures of African Americans, includes depictions of blackface; in an effort to provide authentic and transparent resources about the historical experiences of Black Americans, these moments were not censored. 

Subject:
History/Social Sciences
American History
Virginia History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Visual Media
Author:
Trish Reed
Date Added:
09/24/2021
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09: Interstate 95 and the Destruction of Jackson Ward | How the Monuments Came Down
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09: Interstate 95 and the Destruction of Jackson Ward | How the Monuments Came Down
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Learn about Jackson Ward, a historic African American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia, and why white city leaders supported the construction of an interstate highway through its center in the 1950s. 

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History/Social Sciences
American History
Virginia History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Visual Media
Author:
Trish Reed
Date Added:
09/24/2021
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10: Crusade for Voters | How the Monuments Came Down
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10: Crusade for Voters | How the Monuments Came Down
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Discover the motivations, strategies, and success of the Crusade for Voters, a pathbreaking initiative that made possible the election of the first majority-Black city council in Richmond, Virginia, in 1977. 

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History/Social Sciences
American History
Virginia History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Visual Media
Author:
Trish Reed
Date Added:
09/24/2021
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11: First Majority-Black City Council | How the Monuments Came Down
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11: First Majority-Black City Council | How the Monuments Came Down
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Learn why the first majority-Black city council in Richmond, Virginia, in the late 1970s, avoided discussion of the city’s Confederate monuments while attending to urgent crises of housing and education.  

Subject:
History/Social Sciences
American History
Virginia History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Visual Media
Author:
Trish Reed
Date Added:
09/24/2021
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12: Arthur Ashe | How the Monuments Came Down
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12: Arthur Ashe | How the Monuments Came Down
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Learn about tennis champion Arthur Ashe, whose death spurred residents of his hometown of Richmond, Virginia, to honor him with a statue along a grand boulevard that had previously only featured statues of Confederates

Subject:
History/Social Sciences
American History
Virginia History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Visual Media
Author:
Trish Reed
Date Added:
09/24/2021
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13: African American Monuments | How the Monuments Came Down
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13: African American Monuments | How the Monuments Came Down
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Learn how activists in Richmond, Virginia, are working to honor the lives of free and enslaved African Americans, in a city where the most prominent monuments had long celebrated Confederates. 

Subject:
History/Social Sciences
American History
Virginia History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Visual Media
Author:
Trish Reed
Date Added:
09/24/2021
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14: Maggie L. Walker Statue | How the Monuments Came Down
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14: Maggie L. Walker Statue | How the Monuments Came Down
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See how descendants, community groups, and a National Park Service site worked together to establish a monument to Maggie L. Walker, an African American leader from Richmond, Virginia. 

Subject:
History/Social Sciences
American History
Virginia History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Visual Media
Author:
Trish Reed
Date Added:
09/24/2021
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15: Monument Avenue Commission | How the Monuments Came Down
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15: Monument Avenue Commission | How the Monuments Came Down
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Learn how a mayoral commission attempted to reckon with Confederate monuments in Richmond, Virginia—and how political scandal and electoral change helped reshape the city’s statuary landscape. Note to Teachers:Some of these video clips include depictions of blackface; in an effort to provide authentic and transparent resources about the historical experiences of Black Americans, these moments were not censored. Sensitive: This resource contains material that may be sensitive for some students. Teachers should exercise discretion in evaluating whether this resource is suitable for their class.

Subject:
History/Social Sciences
American History
Virginia History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Visual Media
Author:
Trish Reed
Date Added:
09/24/2021
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17: Removal of Monuments | How the Monuments Came Down
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17: Removal of Monuments | How the Monuments Came Down
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See the removal of Confederate monuments in Richmond, Virginia—first, through direct action by protestors, and then by city-ordered cranes—amid summer 2020 protests against systemic racism following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. 

Subject:
History/Social Sciences
American History
Virginia History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Visual Media
Author:
Trish Reed
Date Added:
09/24/2021
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18: Marcus-David Peters and Systemic Racism | How the Monuments Came Down
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18: Marcus-David Peters and Systemic Racism | How the Monuments Came Down
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Learn about Marcus-David Peters, a teacher in Richmond, Virginia, who was killed by police while having a mental health crisis, and why activists there see his death as one of many examples of how white supremacy endures in the city even as Confederate statues have been removed. 

Subject:
History/Social Sciences
American History
Virginia History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Visual Media
Author:
Trish Reed
Date Added:
09/24/2021
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19: How the Monuments Came Down Additional Resources
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19: How the Monuments Came Down Additional Resources
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How the Monuments Came Down explores the complex history of Richmond, Virginia through the lens of Confederate monuments, supported by an extensive visual record never before presented in a single work.Through personal stories from descendants and history-makers, the film uncovers how Confederate monuments came to shape Richmond’s landscape and why protestors demanded they come down.How the Monuments Came Down is a production of Field Studio, in association with VPM.

Subject:
History/Social Sciences
American History
Virginia History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Primary Source
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Trish Reed
Date Added:
09/24/2021
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7th Grade Life Science at the Observatory: Life Throughout the Universe
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7th Grade Life Science at the Observatory: Life Throughout the Universe
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This classroom activity will show students that there is a lot we don't know about science, for example life throughout the universe. It will hopefully encourage students to question what we know and don't know, and exploration and study of the unknown.

Subject:
Earth and Space Systems
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Brad Snyder
Date Added:
05/29/2019
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Access the Professional Learning Materials
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Access the Professional Learning Materials
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To support key instructional shifts in the Next Generation Science Standards, we have developed professional learning materials to accompany the instructional materials. These materials take into consideration important findings of best practices in supporting teacher learning (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2015; National Research Council, 2015). All OpenSciEd materials are open educational resources (OER) licensed to be free for anyone to use, share, redistribute, adapt, transform, and build upon for any purpose, even commercially.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
OpenSciEd
Date Added:
03/20/2020
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Advanced Placement U.S. History Lessons
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Advanced Placement U.S. History Lessons
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EDSITEment brings online humanities resources directly to the classroom through exemplary lesson plans and student activities. EDSITEment develops AP level lessons based on primary source documents that cover the most frequently taught topics and themes in American history. Many of these lessons were developed by teachers and scholars associated with the City University of New York and Ashland University.

Subject:
History/Social Sciences
American History
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Provider Set:
EDSITEments
Date Added:
10/22/2019
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Algebra Explorations, Pre-K through Grade 7
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Algebra Explorations, Pre-K through Grade 7
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CK-12 Algebra Explorations is a hands-on series of activities that guides students from Pre-K to Grade 7 through algebraic concepts.

Subject:
Algebra I & II
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
CK-12 Foundation
Provider Set:
CK-12 FlexBook
Author:
Carol ­ Findell, Mary ­Cavanagh, Carole ­Greenes
Date Added:
02/23/2012
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Arabic Conversations
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Arabic Conversations
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This webpage displays a common conversation between three friends. The structure and topics of the conversation are purposefully general so as to be helpful to students' ability to create and sustain conversations of their own. The conversation includes Arabic text, transliteration, and translation.

Subject:
Modern (Non-Roman Alphabet)
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Wikibooks
Date Added:
04/01/2019
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