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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Colonial Williamsburg: Mathematics With a Mob Cap

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This hands-on multidisciplinary activity, combines math and social studies. Students will discover how 18th Century fashion, and culture impacted Colonial Life.
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Object of History: Lincoln Keckley Dress (Mrs. Lincoln and Her Dressmaker)

For Students 9th - 10th
Written and audio overview of the purple dress worn by Mary Todd Lincoln and the dressmaker who created it for her. Explore how fashion was an important part of her role as "First Lady."
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Flappers

For Students 5th - 8th
The liberation of women as expressed by the flappers of the 1920s was in stark contrast to the actions of women in the Victorian Age. Read about how flappers expressed their freedom in fashion, employment, and leisure activities.
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Powerhouse Museum: Electronic Swatchbook of Fashionable Fabrics, 1830 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
Powerhouse Museum has collected swatchbooks containing swatches of fabric from the early 1800s through 1923. Click through the swatches to see how fabrics changed over the years.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
The 19th century love for feather adornments led to a hue and cry by conservationists against the wholesale killing of birds. This site details the time, the feather trade, and the move to curtail it.
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Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum: Dating Old Photographs From Clothes Worn: 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographs and fashion illustrations of clothing typically worn in 1920's America and Europe.
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La Couturiere Parisienne: 1700s: Rococo

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides lots of information on Rococo fashion of the 18th century. Includes articles on the history and evolution of Rococ fashion, images, and instructions on how to make clothing, hairdos, and cosmetics.
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Lone Star College Kingwood: American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive look at life in the twentieth century complete with timelines and photos. Decades are broken down by art and architecture, books and literature, educational movements, fads and fashion, historic events and technology,...
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Handout
Vroma Project

V Roma Project: Roman Clothing

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource outlines the different styles of clothing worn by the people of ancient Rome. Pictures, diagrams, and explanations are provided for a detailed account of ancient fashions. Go on to "Roman Clothing, Part II" for more about...
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Kingwood Library: American Cultural History: 1880 1889

For Students 9th - 10th
The 1880's in America were chock full of new architecture, technologies, businesses, modern conveniences such as gas and electric, operas, fashions, and much more as featured in this resource.
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US National Archives

Herbert Hoover Library: The Eagle and the Dragon

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history of China: their beliefs, arts, philosophies, medicine, and political evolution.
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Nations Online Project

Nations Online: Bangladesh Country Profile

For Students 9th - 10th
Features a country profile of Bangladesh, background details, and numerous links to comprehensive information on the nation's culture, history, geography, economy, environment, population, news, government, maps, and much more tourism...
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Memorial Hall Museum: Turns of the Century

For Students 9th - 10th
Turns of the Century chronicles three centuries, in side-by-side fashion, of American family life, of Native Americans, of African Americans, of newcomers to America, and of the American landscape.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the introduction to a unit on Victorian Literature, a period describing the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) as prudish and old fashioned, but is considered by some as a second English Renaissance, a time of wealth, power, and...
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Bata Shoe Museum: All About Shoes: Suffragettes, Sports, and Smoky Nightclubs

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated entry in a history-of-shoes exhibit underscores the link between the style of women's footwear and their growing emancipation in 1920s America.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Southeastern Pocket Gopher

For Students 4th - 8th
Equipped for a subterranean life, the Southeastern Pocket Gopher's muscular front legs, thick-set front body, massive claws on its front feet, small eyes and ears, and incisors protruding beyond the lips are obvious adaptations to life...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Wearable Computing

For Students 9th - 10th
Take an academic look at wearable computing with this site from MIT. Check out the research currently going on at the institution, including "fashion shows" of various devices. Also contains "A Brief History of Wearable Computing Timeline".
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Origins of Ballet

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you imagine a party where every movement and every visual detail were governed by a complex system of rules and procedures? For centuries, such rituals were commonplace for European nobility. And while they've gone out of fashion, we...
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Other

Eras of Elegance: The Victorian Era (1837 1901)

For Students 3rd - 8th
Gives an overview of the Victorian era, and information on what distinguishes it from other periods in history. Covers religion and spirituality, advances in science and technology, the arts, fashion, food, sports, and leisure pastimes....
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Middlel Ages: Clothing

For Students 3rd - 8th
Clear and concise overview of the kinds of clothing worn during the medieval period by different classes of persons: peasants, royalty, clerics.
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Memorial Hall Museum: Dress Up: Clothing From the Past

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Have you ever wondered what people from the 1700's through the 1900's had to wear? With this interactive you have the opportunity to find out!
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Open Door Team

Open Door Web Site: Chronology of the Development of Steam Power 1696 1839

For Students 9th - 10th
This complete chronology of steam power is designed in time line fashion. Next to each year is a detailed description of the invention. Another useful aspect of this site is the "Link to the decades," found at the top of the page. Each...
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Coco Chanel: Innovator and Icon

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Coco Chanel (1883-1971 CE) that details the history of her work as well as her life. Provides pictures of her designs.
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Other

The Roman Makeover

For Students 9th - 10th
A unique page created by an expert in ancient cosmetics and beauty. Shows what a Roman matron would have gone through to prepare her skin and face to be a fashionable lady.

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