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Unit Plan
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: America on the Move [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how transportation has helped people immigrate and migrate over the years.
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Unit Plan
University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Migration & Sex: Trafficked Humans or Sex Workers?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource includes a handbook and report related to contemporary debates about women migrants and sex. The goal for this debate is to complicate stereotypes that depict women migrants whom engage in sex as either victims or agents.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Migrations: Negro Migration During War

For Students 9th - 10th
An analysis of the reasons why blacks moved north around the time of World War I. An article by Emmett J. Scott (1873-1957), who for a time served as Booker T. Washington's personal secretary, is linked to this resource.
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Unit Plan
Columbia University

Columbia University: East Asia in Geographic Perspective: Standard 9

For Students 9th - 10th
The characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on earth's surface
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Chicago Riots

For Students 9th - 10th
An analysis of the 1919 Chicago race riot and a description of African American life in Chicago. One analysis is provided by Charles Johnson, editor of the Urban League's magazine Opportunity, describing the problems that beset black...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Old Timers, Newcomers

For Students 9th - 10th
An editorial cartoon and a newspaper article illustrating the tensions between members of established African American communities in the North and Southern migrants. Links to both resources are provided within this site.
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Website
US Department of State

U.s. Dept. Of State: Trafficking in Persons 2006 Report

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete report in which the practice of human trafficking is reviewed both here in this country and around the world. The report acknowledges that progress is being made in ending human slavery but that is still continues.
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Unit Plan
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Active Science Modules: Humans and Animals Worksheets

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Activities to accompany the Active science learning modules.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Africa, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographs and an address that illustrate the role Africa played in black identity in the late-nineteenth century. This article compares Rev. Henry McNeal Turner's "back to Africa" campaign with the Exoduster migration to Kansas led by...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Critical Thinking Community: Remodeling Lessons Grades 6 9

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Learn to re-model your lesson plans to include room for critical thought and higher levels of learning. Re-modeled lessons cite specific critical thinking strategies. Wonderful examples include "Human Migration," "Integrated Grammar,"...
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Interactive
National Museums Liverpool

Liverpool Museums: Leaving From Liverpool

For Students 3rd - 8th
Narrative that follows a family's journey from Liverpool in 1858 as they emigrate to Australia. Help the family make decisions as they set sail, view sketches, and hear their personal stories.
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Graphic
Other

Pdn and Kodak Professional: Migrations: Humanity in Transition

For Students 9th - 10th
Displays images by photojournalist, Sebastian Salgado, on immigrants in motion "seeking survival and a better life - one individual at a time, one family at a time, from field to town to city, and across national boundaries"....
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Documents Relating to the Mormon Migration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Primary documents related to the promotion of and resistance to the expansion of Mormonism.
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Handout
Other

Mitochondrial Dna Adaptations in Human Population (2004)

For Students 9th - 10th
Hawks's research involves the use of mtDNA studies to hypothesize the ability to survive in certain climatic zones.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Detainees

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the conditions that have caused some Zimbabweans to leave their homeland for Botswana.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Charles W. Chesnutt, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
A short story that explores the influence of the Southern plantation past on African American efforts to create new urban identities and the predicaments of post-emancipation life.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Emancipation: Liberia, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary resource provides letters, statements, and photographs of free and enslaved African Americans who journeyed to Liberia to establish new lives and identities. Also includes questions for class discussion.
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Unit Plan
Geographypods

Geographypods: Theme 1: Population and Settlement

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich collection of highly engaging learning modules on topics related to population and settlement. Covers six main areas - population growth, population change, population migration, land use, settlement characteristics and patterns,...
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Website
US Census Bureau

Us Census Bureau: International Data Base

For Students 9th - 10th
Statistical data on the population and demographics of 228 countries, including change, sex ratios, life expectancy, and percent with HIV/AIDS. There are also detailed explanations of the means of producing these statistics. It is...
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Website
Other

Serengeti National Park

For Students 9th - 10th
The beautiful, official site for the Serengeti National Park provides extensive information about the Serengeti ecosystem, physical features, wildlife, and taking a safari through the region. As an added bonus, learn some Swahili.
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Handout
Archaeological Institute of America

Early Homo Erectus Tools in China

For Students 9th - 10th
An article which describes a fossil site in eastern China where evidence has been found that Home erectus may have been active in eastern China some 400,000 years earlier than scientists believed. The authors also summarize the debate...
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Handout
Other

Encyclopedia Virginia: Clovis and Pre Clovis Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
The evidence found at excavations at Cactus Hill in Virginia are pushing back the dates of the appearance of humans in the Western Hemisphere. Read about what has been found and the theories of how man reached the east coast of America...
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Handout
Travel Document Systems

Tds: Equatorial Guinea: History

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting article about the history of Equatorial Guinea. Read about the political and human rights problems that have beset the country since its independence. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Global Oneness Project: A Refugee's Story (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners watch a 19-minute documentary that tells the story of Mohammed Alsaleh, a young Syrian refugee granted asylum in Canada in 2014, who is now counseling newly arrived refugees. In this lesson, students explore through classroom...

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