Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Tad the Tadpole
Tad the Tadpole is designed to demonstrate how pollution in various areas affects wildlife in their native habitats. The lesson is designed to stress the importance of conservation for animals and their surrounding environment. Upon...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Father's Life at Russell Cave
In this lesson, 4th graders will learn about a father's life at Russell Cave and learn about different writing genres. This lesson plan is made possible through the ALEX and the U.S. National Park Service Partnership.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Little River Canyon's Carnivorous Green Pitcher Plants
A digital slide program introduces the Green Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia oreophila) to the students. Students use a model of the Green Pitcher Plant and plastic insects to role play. They will tell the story of habitat adaptation and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Creating a Prehistoric World
In the lesson plan, students will research, create, and present knowledge gained about Prehistoric and Historic Native Americans in Alabama. This lesson plan is made possible through the ALEX and the U.S. National Park Service Partnership.
US National Archives
Our Documents: A National Initiative on American History, Civics, and Service
Our Documents is home to one hundred milestone documents that influenced that course of American history and American democracy. Includes full-page scans of each document, transcriptions, background information on their significance, and...
Curated OER
Ogden May 10th, 1919. Courtesy National Park Service.
An article from the Utah Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1, by George Kraus, recounts the decision to use Chinese laborers in building the Central Pacific Railroad. Many original documents.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Environmental Preservation Progressive Era
This collection uses primary sources to environmental preservation in the Progressive Era.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Great War & Jazz Age (1914 1928)
This Library of Congress time-line series surveys World War I and the Jazz Age. When World War I broke out in Europe, many changes were going on in the United States. Women were voting for the first time and African-American culture was...
Other
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Office of Management and Budget
Contains the text of the statement of regulatory and deregulatory priorities of the Department of the Interior.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Uss the Sullivans
Excellent example of a Fletcher class destroyer; saw service in World War II and Korea; now in the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park.