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Curated OER

Boston Massachusetts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An image of Boston, Massachusetts .
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Graphic
Curated OER

Boston Massachusetts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An image of Boston, Massachusetts .
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Massachusetts Mcas Middle School Practice Exam Grade 8 Sci

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students can use this LearningCheck item bank to prepare for the MCAS exam.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Massachusetts Mcas Practice Exams Physics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - Physics exam
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Massachusetts Mcas Practice Exams Science Biology & Chemistry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - Biology and Chemistry
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Website
Massachusetts Historical Society

Masshist: Massachusetts Historical Society

For Students 9th - 10th
Site devoted to teaching the history of the state of Masssachusetts.
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Primary
University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts: Phillip Deere Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of a speech made by Phillip Deere that exemplifies his spiritual beliefs and is a call for the respect of all Native Americans. In this inspirational speech he advocates freedom of all Native Americans.
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eBook
University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Goose With the Golden Eggs"

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Two retellings of Aesop's Fable "The Goose with the Golden Eggs." Both stories illustrate the same moral, "Greed often overreaches itself." The first is a traditional retelling of the original fable. The second is a modern retelling with...
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Activity
University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Lion and the Mouse"

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Read this traditional fable of "The Lion and the Mouse" to learn that even little friends can do great things. Two illustrated versions are provided. Both include the same text, but one has traditional illustrations while the other has...
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Activity
University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Man and the Satyr"

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Read and view illustrations for a traditional and then a modern-day retelling of Aesop's fable "The Man and the Satyr."
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eBook
University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Wind and the Sun"

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Learn about the power of kindness while reading this illustrated fable "The Wind and the Sun." Then read the same story with different illustrations to provide a new point of view.
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Handout
University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts: History of Migration and Immigration Laws in the Us

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a brief history of the migration and immigration laws starting in 1790, with brief descriptions of each law. Includes court decisions.
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Handout
University of Massachusetts

Beavers in Massachusetts

For Students 9th - 10th
Physical characteristics, distribution, food, life cycle, and dam and lodge building are the topics featured in this effective beaver site.
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Article
Other

History of Massachusetts: Henry Thoreau Arrested for Nonpayment of Poll Tax

For Students 9th - 10th
Henry Thoreau left a legacy for people to listen to and defend their consciences. He felt strongly against taxes and avoided as many as possible, but could not escape the poll tax. This is a concise publication identifying Thoreau's...
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Activity
Other

Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities: Lucy Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
This well-written biography describes Lucy Stones life as a reformer, leader and orator in both the abolitionist and suffrage movements.
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Website
Other

Salem, Massachusetts: Salem Witch Trials Chronology

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore a timeline of events in the Salem witch trials. Contains quotations from trial participants and a photograph of the tombstone of Sarah Good, convicted and executed as a witch.
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Lesson Plan
Other

General George Washington in Massachusetts, 1775 76 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A thematic unit using primary sources to tell the life and military career of George Washington.
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Yale University

Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents

For Students 9th - 10th
Scroll to Massachusetts and link to the colonial documents establishing the colonies' earliest forms of government and laying the foundation for self-governing and eventual independence from England. Beginning with The Charter of England...
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Raid of Deerfield

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover facts about the raid at Deerfield, Massachusetts. This feature describes the attach of the colony, as well as the ally relationship between the French and Native Americans. Provides three pages of information, as well as an...
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Lesson Plan
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Religious Dissent [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th
This instructional activity supplements one on the "Settlement of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies of New England." It looks at religious dissent and intolerance among the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Students...
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Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Colonizing the Bay

For Students 9th - 10th
John Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" was delivered as a sermon aboard the Arabella, as the Puritans approached their destination of Massachusetts Bay in 1630. The speech spells out his vision of the society they hoped to create...
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Website
Other

Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704

For Students 9th - 10th
This award-winning resource draws the reader into a consideration of history as witnessed from multiple perspectives. Discover the mystery of the French and Indian raid on colonial Deerfield, Massachusetts where five cultures clashed in...
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Website
Other

Winthrop Society

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online home of the Winthrop Society find information on the early settlers of Massachusetts, the ships that brought them to America, the documents that the colonists lived by, and the Great Migration of Puritans to the New World.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Electricity and Magnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers a free and open educational resource for educators, students and self-learners. The university's physics OpenCourseWare includes a large section on electricity and magnetism. Numerous...

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