Along with the rest of the world, the United States experienced a boom-and-bust period during the 1920s and 1930s. In the United States, this situation led to significant government intervention to stimulate the economy. Other countries did not follow...

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

New Technologies during WWII
New Technologies during WWII

Document

Students will use the hyperlink provided in the document, and watch the Generation of Heroes videos to research and learn about new technologies used during World War 2. **Click here for Hyperlink...
Girl Bill of Rights - Handout
Girl Bill of Rights - Handout

Document

This is an excellent video viewing document for Episode 1 of Sisterhood: SC Suffrage (Thee Grimke Sisters through the Civil War – Part 1). While viewing the video clip students can reflect and write...
Japanese Internment Camps
Japanese Internment Camps

Lesson

Students will discover what it was like to live in internment camps through reading personal accounts of those who lived during that time.

The Grimké Sisters Through The Civil War
Episode 4

Video

After the burning of Pennsylvania Hall, in Philadelphia, the Welds, along with Sarah Grimké, retreated to a farm in Belleville, New Jersey, where in 1839, the three produced a compendium on American...
The Grimké Sisters Through The Civil War
Episode 3

Video

The pastoral letters, meant to crack down on the Grimké sisters’ activities, had the opposite effect. The Grimkés continued to grow in popularity, and their letters on women’s rights were among the...
The Grimké Sisters Through The Civil War
Episode 2

Video

The Grimké sisters ran afoul of the Quakers as they embraced abolition and engaged in anti-slavery activities without permission. Angelina Grimké wrote a letter to abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison...
The Grimké Sisters Through The Civil War
Episode 1

Video

Sarah and Angelina Grimké worked tirelessly for both abolition, and women’s suffrage. The Grimké sisters were the first to say, in print, that women deserved to live alongside men with an equal...