K12> Presidents' Day, Black History Month, & New Learning Resources (F eb 11, 2004)

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From: "Winters, Kirk" <Kirk.Winters@xxxxxx>
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Subject: Presidents' Day, Black History Month, & New Learning Resources (F eb 
11, 2004)

     TWELVE NEW LEARNING RESOURCES in the arts, science, & social
     studies have been added to FREE.  They're described below.

     A NEW BLACK HISTORY MONTH webpage features...

          Frederick Douglass, Ralph Bunche, Booker T. Washington,
          George Washington Carver, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther
          King, Jr., the 369th Infantry, the Tuskegee Airmen,
          first-person accounts of slavery, the Brown vs. Board of
          Education ruling, the church in Southern African American
          communities, & more.  http://www.ed.gov/free/bhm.html

     PRESIDENTS' DAY resources will be highlighted at FREE February
     12-16.

     FREE -- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence -- aims
     to make it easy for teachers, parents, students, & others to
     find learning resources from 40+ federal organizations.

                    http://www.ed.gov/free

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Arts
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"National Museum of African Art"
     presents images from more than 30 exhibitions -- embroideries,
     textiles, pottery, jewelry, sculptures, palace doors, chairs,
     headrests, pipes, cups, drinking horns, bowls, drums, photos,
     currency, icons, & a range of paintings, including
     contemporary works. (SI)
     http://www.nmafa.si.edu/

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Science
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"Tracking Habitat Change"
     is an electronic field trip to learn about habitat & how
     scientists use technology to understand habitat change.  This
     live satellite event on March 4, 2004, will take students to
     Nevada & New Mexico to join scientists examining factors that
     are changing the habitat of the sage-grouse & prairie chicken.
     (BLM)
     http://www.blm.gov/education/LearningLandscapes/teachers/field
     trip_04/index.html

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Social studies
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"1900 America:  Historical Voices, Poetic Visions -- Lesson,
Learning Page"
     invites students to use life histories, recordings, & other
     primary resources to create their own multi-media epic poems
     about the year 1900.  Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" & Hart
     Crane's "The Bridge" serve as models. (LOC)
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/00/voices/index.html

"America at the Centennial -- Lesson, Learning Page"
     offers images & texts from the Philadelphia Centennial
     Exposition of 1876 to help students learn about America at
     that time.  Students work as historians using primary sources
     to create museum exhibits on issues of the Centennial Era.
     (LOC)
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/00/centen/index.html

"Artifact Road Show -- Lesson, Learning Page"
     outlines a staff development workshop & offers lessons that
     help students see historical events in context & as a part of
     a larger story.  Use of primary resources is the focus --
     where to find them, what they are, how to examine them, & how
     to "construct the context" to tell the whole story. (LOC)
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/road/intro.html

"Baseball: As American as Apple Pie -- Community Center, Learning
Page"
     is an annotated collection of Library of Congress resources
     about America's national pastime.  It includes early baseball
     pictures, baseball songs & stories, baseball cards, the first
     all-professional baseball team (the Cincinnati Red Stockings,
     1869), Cy Young, Ty Cobb, "home run kings," & letters &
     speeches by Jackie Robinson, the first African American to
     play major league baseball. (LOC)
     http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_baseball.php

"The Branding of America -- Collaborative Activity, Learning Page"
     offers thumbnail histories of nearly 30 well-known brand names
     associated with soft drinks, potatoes, cereal, fruit,
     airplanes, buses, pianos, sewing machines, jeans, shoes, &
     other products. (LOC)
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/branding/index.php

"Harry Truman & Independence, Missouri"
     features the home & story of our thirty-third President.  Upon
     returning home after World War I, Truman married his childhood
     sweetheart, started a clothing store that failed, & was
     elected to a judgeship & later the U.S. Senate.  He was Vice
     President 82 days when President Roosevelt died.  As
     President, he used the atomic bomb to end World War II,
     instituted the Marshall Plan, & sent troops to defend South
     Korea when the North invaded. (NPS,TwHP,NRHP)
     www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/103truman/103truman.htm

"Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal -- Lesson, Learning Page"
     draws on photos, texts, & other sources to help students learn
     about the Erie Canal & its impact on the economic & social
     growth of New York & the nation. (LOC)
     http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/00/canal/

"National Parks Associated with African Americans: An Ethnographic
Perspective"
     links from a map to nearly 60 national park sites & resources
     that emphasize the role of African Americans in the
     development of American culture, heritage, & history.  Each
     link describes the importance of that park or resource to
     African American history. (NPS, Archeology & Ethnography
     Program)
     http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/PEOPLES/overview.htm

"The Online Academy"
     highlights artifacts, scholars, collectors, & preservers of
     African American history.  Features include the inventor of
     the "multiple effect vacuum process" for producing sugar, the
     first identified African American toolmaker, the autobiography
     of an African American cowboy, & Zora Neale Hurston's first
     novel. (SI)
     http://anacostia.si.edu/academy.htm

"The Robinson House: A Portrait of African American Heritage"
     pieces together the story of the James Robinson family from
     artifacts found in archaeological excavations around the house
     where they lived for nearly a century.  An African American
     born free in 1799, Robinson worked in a Virginia tavern
     earning nearly $500 to purchase 170 acres of land near Bull
     Run.  There he built a log cabin, & his family turned the land
     into a prosperous farm, making him one of the wealthiest
     African Americans in the Manassas area in the mid-19th
     century. (NPS, Archeology & Ethnography Program)
     http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/robinson/index.htm

  Acronyms
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BLM -- Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior
LOC -- Library of Congress
NPS -- National Park Service
NPS,TwHP,NRHP -- Nat'l Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places,
Nat'l Register of Historic Places
SI -- Smithsonian Institution

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