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Grades 5-8
Grades 9-12
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Grades K-4

Building a Better Home for the Three Little Pigs
Choosing the Lincoln Statue
Civil War Battle Cubes
Civil War: Matthew Brady Photos
Exploring and Comparing Other Communities
Exploring the Columbian Exposition
Finding Our Place in the Community
Food Time Line
Fools Crow Assignment Resources
Geography Grid
Great Questions
How Did the Immigrants Get to the United States?
If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island
Immigration to the United States
Map Directions and the United States
Patchwork Quilts
People and Their Place in the Community
Primary and Secondary Sources
Primary and Secondary Sources: Lesson 1
Primary Sources: Introduction
Primary Sources: Lesson 1, Artifacts
Primary Sources: Lesson 2, Artifacts
Primary Sources: Lesson 3, TDC Site
Primary Sources: Lesson 4, Photos, Maps, Letters, and Newspapers
Primary Sources: Lesson 5, Personal Shoebox
Primary Sources: Lesson 6, Celebration
Rendezvous
School Museum
Sequencing Using Folktales
Settling in the Midwest
Urban Treasure Hunt
Using a Calculator to Explore Special Quotients
Using a Computer to Make a Graph

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Grades 5-8

Abraham Lincoln's Presidency: Trials and Triumphs
African Architecture South of the Sahara
African Folk Tales
African Novel Study
Age of Enlightenment
An Acquaintance with Darkness, a Civil War Novel
Ancient Americas
Architecture the Wright Way
As the World Spins
Asian Civilizations
Aztec, Inca and Maya
B. F. Harris - Creative Writing Assignment
Bloomingotn Star Diary and DSD Advertisements
East Asian Architecture
European Architecture
European Explorers
Exploring Adlai E. Stevenson II
Ghana Artifacts
Illinois History Fair
Incan Artifacts - Clay Pottery Lesson
Inventions Multimedia Timeline
Map Skills
McLean Train - Brochure
North African and Southwest Asian Architecture
Renaissance: Rebirth to Revolution
Russian and Eurasian Architecture
South American Architecture
South Asian Architecture
Southeast Asian Architecture
Studying the Great Depression through Novels
Transportation - A Student's Historical Explanation
Understanding Civilizations through Art
What's That Relic
Why do we call him Uncle Sam?

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Grades 9-12

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Digital Cultural Heritage Community Curriculum Units

Third Grade:

How we learn about communities

American communities in history

Communities and their geography

World Environments

Celebrations and Festivals

Governing ourselves

Fourth Grade:

French in Illinois

Prehistoric Indians of Illinois

Government in Illinois

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