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World History Project: Cuneiform
Read a brief history of cuneiform, the most widely used and historically significant writing system of the ancient Middle East. Also learn about how cuneiform spread from one ancient culture to another.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Writing Native American Style
In this activity students will reinforce their knowledge about Native Americans and their culture. They will also be introduced to Native American writing. The students will read The Legend of The Indian Paintbrush by Tomie de Paolo to...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Orange Trees, Olive Trees: Graphs
Tomas and Luna are farmers. See how many oranges and olives they have collected!
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Tally and Bar Charts
Lots of good materials for teaching about tally marks and bar graphs.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Make a Living Bar Graph
Student use simple data to line up in a living bar graph activity when they respond to simple questions in this lesson plan. They physically and visually represent the data. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a...
Curated OER
Photograph: Native Pictographs From British Columbia
European diseases had a catastrophic impact on native culture decimating their population. On this easy to read page, an Ojibwa legend is recalled.
Library of Congress
Loc: Global Gateway: Cuneiform Tablets
View clay tablets, cones, and brick fragments inscribed using the ancient Sumerian pictographic writing system known as cuneiform and read about the ancient writing system.