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Join fellow American history and social studies teachers to share resources and best practices to help students get excited about the past! Hosted by educators from the National Museum of American History’s History Explorer project.

Owned by: NaomiAtAmericanHistory

Tags: social_studies, history, american_history, artifacts, smithsonian, us_history, primary_sources, u.s._history, historical_thinking, document_based_questions, object_based_learning, museum_education

Group Type: Open

Created: Oct 4, 2010

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Carrie, Jenny, and Naomi are all educators at the National Museum of American History.  We manage the museum's Web site for teachers, History Explorer, and are looking forward to talking with history teachers through this site!  If you want to know more about us, you can find more on our Web site or follow us on Twitter @explorehistory!

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May 22, 2012 Life in a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp Homepage
In this OurStory module entitled Life in a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp, students will learn about the lives of Japanese American children who were forced to leave their homes and move to internment camps during World War II. The module...
Sep 6, 2011 Exploring Perception and Reality in the Story of the Hawaiian Islands
Uncover the story of the Hawaiian Islands through artifacts, images, audio, and text from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. This page features a short introductory essay, audio clips related to specific museum artifacts, and an...
Sep 13, 2011 Brown v. Board of Education Electronic Field Trips
In these electronic field trips produced by the National Museum of American History, viewers are given a 20 minute tour by the curators of the exhibition Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education, followed by a 30 minute videotaped question and...
May 14, 2012 The Price of Freedom: Learning Resources
This collection of learning resources was developed in conjunction with the exhibition The Price of Freedom: Americans at War Teacher's Manual.  Included in this set of materials is "Who Am I? A History Mystery", an interactive...

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