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Britain Express

Britain Express: Prehistoric Britain: The Neolithic Era (C. 4000 2000 Bce)

For Students 9th - 10th
This article looks at the Neolithic period in England, hallmarked by the rise of farming, stable communities, and domesticating animals.
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California Digital Library

The Jack London Story and the Beauty Ranch Interviews

For Students 9th - 10th
This unique site offers biographical information about Jack London and interviews the grandson of London's step-sister, who now manages the ranch.
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Memory: Montana

For Students 3rd - 5th
Who were the first white explorers to "set foot in Montana?" Find out more about the Native American population living in Montana. Draw on the experience of the Native American population.
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National Academy of Engineering

Greatest Achievements: Agricultural Mechanization

For Students 9th - 10th
This page details the mechanization of agriculture from the late 1800's to the late 1900's.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: American Indian Culture of the Southeast

For Students 6th - 8th
The Southeast Indian tribes were known for their agricultural success. Examine their farming practices, pottery, mound building traditions, and societal structure in the following summary. Also included are pictures, maps, critical...
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Sharecropping

For Students 9th - 10th
Features numerous facts about the history and events of sharecropping, a system of working land owned by others for a share of the yield.
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Nicodemus National Historic Site

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the National Park Service provides the history of Nidodemus, Kansas, first western town planned by and for African-Americans. Settled by exodusters, the town served as a symbol as a land of opportunity for blacks escaping...
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Curated OER

History Place: Pol Pot in Cambodia

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot and his attempt to form a Communist peasant farming society in Cambodia that resulted in the deaths of 25 percent of the country's population from starvation, overwork, and executions.
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Curated OER

History Place: Pol Pot in Cambodia

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot and his attempt to form a Communist peasant farming society in Cambodia that resulted in the deaths of 25 percent of the country's population from starvation, overwork, and executions.
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BBC

Bbc: Egyptians: The Story of the Nile

For Students 9th - 10th
Obviously instrumental in Egypt's growth as a magnificent civilization, the Nile's annual inundation provided Egyptians with food and transportation. Archived.
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Homesteading: Dreams and Realities

For Students 11th - 12th
After reading this section from a chapter on "Westward Expansion", students will be able to identify the challenges that farmers faced as they settled west of the Mississippi River and describe the unique experiences of women who...
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Website
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: American Indian Culture of the Southwest

For Students 6th - 8th
We can thank the Indian tribes from the Southwest for introducing us to corn. Corn was seen as a spiritual gift in Pueblo societies. Study more of the cultural characteristics of these tribes such as their irrigation system which allowed...
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Website
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: American Indian Culture of the West

For Students 6th - 8th
The Western Indian tribes hit the lottery with the abundant natural resources in their area. The tribes that called this area home had diverse cultures depending on the geography of their specific location. Delve into these cultures and...
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Other

Mr. Palm: Economic Activities Used by Early American Indians

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief overview of three ways early Native Americans engaged in economic activities. These included farming, trading goods, and hunting.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Gallery: Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
Over the course of many years, humans evolved to abandon foraging and took up farming for their food needs. Scientists are still not sure why humans abandoned foraging and took up farming in several places around the world at about the...
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Other

Fruit From Washington: Crop Harvests at Home in America in World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is filled with posters from World War II, the Great Depression, and World War I which encouraged using food wisely, growing victory gardens, and helping harvest the crops on commercial farms.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Social Status, Power, and Human Burials

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity provides you with an opportunity to start thinking about the impact that farming can have on the way humans live and relate to each other. It will also allow you to think about the kinds of questions archaeologists and...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Neolithic Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
During the Neolithic period, people settle down and begin to live in one place, year after year. This leads to massive changes in art. Neolithic sculpture became bigger, in part, because people didn't have to carry it around anymore;...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Native American Culture of the Southwest

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the Ancestral Pueblo people who lived in the southwestern region of the modern United States; they constructed elaborate buildings and began the American farming tradition.
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Graphic
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Threshold Card: Threshold 7: Rise of Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
An infographic about how human civilization changed as they moved away from forging for food to farming.
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Curated OER

Presione Aqui Para Ver Una Imagen Mas Grande Click to View

For Students 9th - 10th
Dual-language site containing images and documents that show the role Mexican Americans have played in the history and development of Arizona.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Documenting America: Tenant Farmers

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource on America during the Great Depression contains photographs of tenant farmers and their communities during the 1930's, taken by photographer Arthur Rothstein. Also includes information on the time period.
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PBS

Pbs: Guns Germs, & Steel

For Students 9th - 10th
Although the video of the PBS offering of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, is no longer available on line, the transcripts of all three episodes are. Diamond addresses the question of global inequality...
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Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Discover Georgia's Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Georgia at this informative site that contains information about state, from the arts to land to resources.

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